Controversies in archaeology
By: Alice Beck Kehoe.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781598740615; 9781598740622
Subjects: Archaeology -- Social aspects; Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Archaeology -- Methodology; Archaeology -- Case studies; Prehistoric peoples; Antiquities
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The past is today; title: Scientific method; title: Popular archaeology; title: America's first nations and archaeology; title: Finding diversity; title: Religion and archaeology; title: "Diffusion" versus independent invention; title: What people before us could do : earlier technologies; title: Neandertals, farmers, warriors, and cannibals : bringing in biological data; title: Competing theories of cultural development.