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Excavation as theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Tilley
Christopher Tilley*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
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Extract

Everyone who has dug up anything knows the excitement of bringing an ancient object to its first light for centuries. Everyone who has directed an archaeological excavation knows the excitement of finding sense in the pattern of many ancient objects revealed. Why is it, then, that the publication of that pattern in a site report is a more wearisome business when—if ever—it take place? Is that just the nature of the business, or is there more to be revealed?

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 275 - 280
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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