Deconstructing Context: A Critical Approach to Archaeological PracticeDemetra Papaconstantinou The importance of context has been extensively discussed in recent years. This volume attempts to address the fragmentation and misconceptions that have developed around context in archaeology, highlighting the common threads that link together varying contextual perspectives. The first part of the book examines the concept of archaeological context by offering a critical assessment of its 'historical' development. The second section presents a number of case studies, and the third section discusses the management of archaeological material. Finally, part four takes the discussion on context further, setting the content of the book in a wider perspective. |
Contents
CONTEXT AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL | 1 |
Ethnoarchaeology and Contextual studies | 22 |
The contribution of lithic studies as analytical | 50 |
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7th millennium BC abandonment activities American Antiquity animal bone approach archaeological context archaeological practice archaeological record architectural areas artefacts assemblages associated Barrett behaviour Binford blades Bronze Age Cambridge University Press Çatalhöyük cattle Çayönü chipped stone complex contextual analysis contextual archaeology contextual information curated Cypriot Aceramic Cyprus debitage depositional context discard domestic Early Neolithic ethnoarchaeological evaluation evidence excavation faunal field fieldwork floor formation processes Frankel functional Hodder House I.1 household interpretation Khirokitia knapped stone Kotsakis layers lithic London longhouse Lower South Slope Makriyalos Marciniak Marki material culture meaning Minoan Neolithic objects occupation Oxford particular past patterns Peltenburg phase pits post-processual archaeology potential pottery PPNB Prehistoric Prehistoric Britain present production querns reconstructions refuse rubbers samples Schiffer sequence settlement sherds Shillourokambos social space spatial stone tools strategies stratigraphic structures surface symbolic taphonomy Tenta Tringham types understanding Webb zooarchaeology