文档介绍：”A stimulating source of ideas, and a conspectus of how broadly and deeply many
archaeologists are thinking about the way their discipline relates to the modern world”
Times Higher Education Supplement
“This book is anized and the material presented in a fair and often innovative
manner.”
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
“This volume presents a refreshingly wide set of topics, covered by an impressive and
authoritative array of authors. This is archaeology understood in its broadest terms.
Theory and method, ethics and practice, distant ages and recent moments, links to other
disciplines, are all explored in this impressive and accessible collection.”
Ian Hodder, Stanford University
“Bintliff has assembled a broad array of talented archaeologists, who present us with a
rich portrait of contemporary archaeology. Technical yet easily accessible, this important
book offers a thought-provoking analysis of many of archaeology’s most pressing
controversies. Both students and interested laypeople will find this a satisfying journey
though plexities of a rapidly changing, increasingly multidisciplinary
archaeological world.”
Brian Fagan, University of California Santa Barbara
John Bintliff is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden
University. His previous publications include: Natural Environment and Human Settlement
in Prehistoric Greece (1977); Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments and munities in
the Eastern Mediterranean in Later Prehistory (with W. van Zeist, 1982); European Social
Evolution: Archaeological Perspectives (1984); Archaeology at the Interface: Studies in
Archaeology‘s Relationships with History, Geography, Biology and Physical Science (with .
Gaffney, 1986); Conceptual Issues in Environmental Archaeology (with and E.
Grant, 1988); Extracting Meaningfrom the Past (1988); The Annales School and Archaeology
(1991); Europe Between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (with H. Hamer