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Seeing Things

Perception, Experience and the Constraints of Excavation

Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK

Recent attempts to problematize archaeological fieldwork have been concerned with excavation at the expense of surface survey, and with questions of procedure more than interpretations of the past. In fact these two kinds of fieldwork offer quite different possibilities and suffer from different constraints. Thought must be given to ways in which they can be combined if they are to make a real contribution to social archaeology. The argument is illustrated by a project carried out at a megalithic cemetery in Scotland.

Key Words: Bronze Age • excavation • field survey • fieldwork • megalithic tomb • Neolithic • phenomenology • Scotland

Journal of Social Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 151-168 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1469605303003002002


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