Reconsidering archaeological fieldwork : exploring on-site relationships between theory and practice / Hannah Cobb ... [et al.], editors. - New York : Springer, c2012. - x, 183 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Outgrowth of two conference sessions in 2007: the European Association of Archaeologists meeting in Zadar, Croatia; and the Theoretical Archaeology Group (England) conference in York, England. Cf. acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconsidering fieldwork, an introduction : confronting tensions in fieldwork and theory / How to archaeologize with a hammer / Often fun, usually messy : fieldwork, recording and higher orders of things / Where the rubber hits the road : a critical analysis of archaeological decision making on highways projects in Ireland / An archaeology of many steps / Stepping into comfortable old shoes : 'the consequence of archaeological comfortability' / Walking the line between past and present : 'doing' phenomenology on historic battlefields / The struggle within : challenging the subject/object relationship on a shoestring / Through many eyes : a non-hierarchical approach to interpreting a site in New Brunswick, New Jersey / The archaeology of the aesthetic / Commentary / Hannah Cobb ... [et al.] -- Geoff Carver -- Reuben Thorpe -- Brendon Wilkins -- Marianne Lönn -- Cara Jones and Philip Richardson -- John Carman and Patricia Carman -- members of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project -- Rebecca Yamin -- Mark Leone ... [et al.] -- Sarah May.

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Archaeology--Fieldwork--Congresses.
Archaeology--Philosophy--Congresses
Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology)--Methodology--Congresses.

Social sciences. Humanities. Archaeology. Cultural Heritage.

CC76 / .R43 2012

930.1072/3