Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology
Subtitle: An Introductory Guide
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780759123403
Subjects: Archaeology, methodology; Archaeology, study and teaching
Description: Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology stands out as the most thorough and practical guide to the essential critical reading and writing skills that all students, instructors, and practitioners should have. It provides priceless insight for the here and now of the Theory and Methods of Archaeology classes and for a lifetime of reading, learning, teaching, and writing. Chapters focus on rigorous reasoning skills, types of argument, the main research orientations in archaeology, the basic procedural framework that underlies all schools of archaeology, and issues in archaeology raised by skeptical postmodernists.