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Understanding the archaeological record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jeremy A. Sabloff ,
Lewis R. Binford  and
Patricia A. McAnany
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Lewis R. Binford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Patricia A. McAnany
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45211, USA
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Next year will mark the twentieth birthday of the ‘New Archaeology’, whose founding texts – Binford & Binford's New perspectives in archaeology in the USA and Clarke's Analytical archaeologyin Britain – both appeared in 1968. Nearly two decades on, some fundamentals are not yet resolved, which may indicate – as Lester Embree argued in the last number of ANTIQUITY – that archaeology is a harder science than most.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 232 , July 1987 , pp. 203 - 209
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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