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Archaeology's ‘People’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2018

Reinhard Bernbeck*
Affiliation:
Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Fabeckstrasse 23–25, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Susan Pollock
Affiliation:
Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Fabeckstrasse 23–25, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
*
*Author for correspondence (Email: rbernbec@zedat.fu-berlin.de)

Extract

We commend González-Ruibal et al. (above) for their well-formulated challenge to a widely held view in Anglophone archaeology. Their insistence that archaeologists must rethink their position in a radically changed political context is highly apposite, although we do not agree entirely with all of their arguments. Here, we address three principal issues.

Type
Debate
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018 

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