This examination of the history of archaelogy from the Middle Ages to the present day, seen in a world-wide perspective, has been reprinted and is available in paperback. The second edition is further updated, and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. The reduced price paperback i[...]

In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At [...]

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the remnants of the material objects they made and used. In recent decades this incontrovertible fact has encouraged partisan approaches to the history and me[...]