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On the historiographical orientation of Chinese archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lothar von Falkenhausen
Lothar von Falkenhausen*
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Art History Department, Dickson Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA 90024, USA
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This year, as it seems every year, news comes from China of another spectacular archaeological discovery. What is the framework of ideas and research that studies these treasures? And how does the special character of Chinese history, with its long, near-continuous record of dynasties, written sources and encyclopaedic texts, give archaeology a different place, whether higher or lower, among the other historical and social sciences?

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 257 , December 1993 , pp. 839 - 849
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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