num_pages: 192
description: A European Neolithic burial. A large stone Venus. Nothing unusual about itexcept that it was found on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Archaeologist Hannah Green and her shovelbum nephew find themselves in a tangled web of competing interests avaricious land owners hungry media and a cult of goddess worshippers while investigating one of the finds of the century. In untangling the mystery of the Washington Venus Hannah and Sean have to confront questions of archaeological evidence of ethics of conflicting interpretation of data and of the very nature of archaeological truths. Helping them are a cadre of disdainful graduate students who propose various theories processualist marxist feminist postmodernist to explain the bizarre events. Teach your students archaeological theory in a fashion they'll enjoy while they solve the mystery in Adrian Praetzellis's delightful textbook-as-novel.
language: English
title: Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory
publisher: AltaMira Press