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Author: Guy Gibbon
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Imprint: AltaMira Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9780759123403
ISBN 10: 0759123403
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 12 September 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 to 22 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This little book packs a punch! We have come to expect clear argument and cogent logic from Gibbon's works, but here he not only employs but gives us the tools to evaluate the clarity, validity, and cogency of archaeological literature. It is a book that should be required reading for any archaeologist. I am certain it will become a well-thumbed volume on my bookshelf. -- Peter Peregrine Ph.D, Lawrence University, Lawrence University
This little book packs a punch! We have come to expect clear argument and cogent logic from Gibbon's works, but here he not only employs but gives us the tools to evaluate the clarity, validity, and cogency of archaeological literature. It is a book that should be required reading for any archaeologist. I am certain it will become a well-thumbed volume on my bookshelf. -- Peter Peregrine, Lawrence University The most invaluable lesson I learned at university was to be skeptical of what I read and to think for myself. Guy Gibbon's stimulating book, Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology, encourages its readers to read critically and to challenge arguments, and not accept things at face value, and it is to be applauded and welcomed for doing so. Our discipline will only progress through the rebuttal of fixed ideas, entrenched views and erroneous dogmas, of which there are many in Archaeology. -- Paul G. Bahn
This little book packs a punch! We have come to expect clear argument and cogent logic from Gibbon's works, but here he not only employs but gives us the tools to evaluate the clarity, validity, and cogency of archaeological literature. It is a book that should be required reading for any archaeologist. I am certain it will become a well-thumbed volume on my bookshelf. -- Peter Peregrine, Lawrence University The most invaluable lesson I learned at university was to be skeptical of what I read and to think for myself. Guy Gibbon's stimulating book, Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology, encourages its readers to read critically and to challenge arguments, and not accept things at face value, and it is to be applauded and welcomed for doing so. Our discipline will only progress through the rebuttal of fixed ideas, entrenched views and erroneous dogmas, of which there are many in Archaeology. -- Paul G. Bahn, co-author, Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice
Author Information
Gibbon is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of a number of books, including Anthropological Archaeology, Explanation in Archaeology, and The Sioux.
