Polity Press 1987

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Sometimes known as "the red book", with ReConstructing Archaeology as the "black book" (after Kristian Kristiansen's article on us in the journal Antiquity).

Chris and I saw our project as one of building an intellectual tool kit for a social archaeology that could produce sophisticated knowledge of prehistoric societies.

We also thought that archaeologists should account for what they do and not justify their work as knowledge for its own sake. Some saw us therefore as political pamphleteers rather than academic scholars.


Here are the chapters of the book in editable PDF (this means that there are a few mistakes as a result of OCR)

Document IconTitles.pdf

Document IconContents.pdf

Document IconPreface.pdf

Document Icon01-Theory-and-Method.pdf

Document Icon02-Social-Archaeology.pdf

Document Icon03-The-Individual-and-the-Social.pdf

Document Icon04-Material-Culture.pdf

Document Icon05-Time.pdf

Document Icon06-Social-Evolution.pdf

Document Icon07-Politics-of-Theory.pdf

Document IconFurther-Reading.pdf

Document IconReferences.pdf

Document IconIndex.pdf

Document IconSynopsis.pdf