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Making Archaeology Happen
Martin Carver
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Description for Making Archaeology Happen
Paperback. Who wants archaeology? Who should pay for it? Who should do it? And how? Making Archaeology Happen is an attempt to answer these questions campaigning for a more liberated, imaginative and productive field profession." Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, maps, fig. BIC Classification: HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
‘Archaeology is for people’ is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs special methods and creative freedom, not repetitive responses. Carver argues that commercial procedures and academic theory are both suffocating creativity in fieldwork. He’d like to see us bring much more diversity and technical ingenuity to every opportunity, and maintains this is more a matter of getting ourselves free of dogma than needing more time and money. ... Read more
‘Archaeology is for people’ is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs special methods and creative freedom, not repetitive responses. Carver argues that commercial procedures and academic theory are both suffocating creativity in fieldwork. He’d like to see us bring much more diversity and technical ingenuity to every opportunity, and maintains this is more a matter of getting ourselves free of dogma than needing more time and money. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Walnut Creek, United States
ISBN
9781611320251
SKU
V9781611320251
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99-20
About Martin Carver
Martin Carver is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, editor of the journal Antiquity, and the author of Archaeological Investigation (Routledge, 2009). He has undertaken or advised on field projects in England, Scotland, Sweden, France, Italy, and Algeria, including numerous commercial projects and major research campaigns at Sutton Hoo and Portmahomack.
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