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The ‘new archeology’ of the 1960s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard A. Watson
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In the United States, prehistoric archeologyas distinct from Classical Archaeology-has been taught primarily in Departments of Anthropology. A predictable outcome of this is that students so trained have attempted to give archeology-often minimally characterized as mere excavation technique-a strong anthropological orientation. This movement culminated in the 1960s. The following brief review of books published in that decade that illustrate the viewpoint of the ‘ew archeology’ is not meant so much to be critical of as introductory to a literature.

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Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 183 , September 1972 , pp. 210 - 215
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1972

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