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Historicism, chronology and straw men: situating Hawkes' ‘Ladder of inference’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher Evans
Christopher Evans*
Affiliation:
Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England
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Abstract

Christopher Hawkes was one of the leading British archaeological theorists in the middle decades of this century. Much underrated, Hawkes is reassessed here in the broader development of processual archaeology in Britain.

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inferenceHawkesNew ArchaeologyBritish archaeologyhistoricism
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998 , pp. 398 - 404
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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