Methods in the Mediterranean: Historical and Archaeological Views on Texts and Archaeology (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) - Hardcover

Small, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004095810 ISBN 13: 9789004095816

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1994

Synopsis

This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean.
After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts.
This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.

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About the Author

David B. Small, Ph.D. (1983) in Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Archaeology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University. He has published most recently on social evolution in ancient Greece, and theoretical issues of archaeological interpretation.

Review

'My general recommendation: get your library to buy the book if it can afford to; get it on interlibrary loan if it can't.'
Martin Kilmer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 9004095810
• ISBN 13: 9789004095816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 294