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Retrospective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Philip Rahtz
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Abstract

Philip Rahtz, one of Britain’s finest excavators and first Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, offers his perception of the development of theory, practice – and, especially, of medieval archaeology.

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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 300 , June 2004 , pp. 426 - 437
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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