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The deconstruction of intentionality in archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Whitney Davis
Whitney Davis*
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Department of Art History, Northwestern University, Kresge Centennial Hall, Room 254, 1859 Sheridan Road, Evanston II. 60208-2208, USA
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All (or almost all) archaeology seeks to know the things that were by the evidence of the things that are, as battered and fragmented by centuries of collapse, decay, wear and breaking. And from the things that were, all (or almost all) archaeology seeks to know the people who were, to grasp the human meanings that were held in those things. The unthinking assumptions, common to old and new programmes for good archaeology, that go with this common framework are explored.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 251 , June 1992 , pp. 334 - 347
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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