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Reflections from a darkened room

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Clive Gamble*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK

Extract

A conference on Interpretive Archaeologies was held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge in September 1991. It sought to explore alternatives; to share rather than impose a programme for interpreting the past. Here is one reaction.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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