| Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and Chesapeake Contributor(s): Hall, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415229669 ISBN-13: 9780415229661 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: Focusing on the Chesapeake (Virginia and Maryland) and the Cape region of Africa, this study compares how people in these areas created and used the material around them. It is these comparisons that the author uses as a measure for evaluating the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 968.702 |
| LCCN: 00032317 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.73 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Archaeology and the Modern World advances a new controversial theory of historical archaeology. Using new case studies, Martin Hall evaluates the major theoretical traditions in historical archaeology while contributing significantly to the debate. In this study the author places an emphasis on material culture and the recent past to bring to light a picture of an unstable and violent early colonial world in which material culture played a crucial mediating role. |