Death of Prehistory

This volume provides authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories-accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.

About the author

Peter Schmidt is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. He has engaged historical archaeology and the archaeology of ancient times in Africa for the last 45 years and his interests range across many theoretical issues and fields of practice, including ethnoarchaeology, symbolic studies, the social construction of technology, and historical representation.

Stephen Mrozowski is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he also serves as Director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research. He has carried out archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Eastern North America, Alaska, Northern Britain, Iceland and Barbados

Summary

This volume provides authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.

Product details

• Authors: Peter R. (Professor of Anthropology and A Schmidt, Peter R. Mrozowski Schmidt
• Assisted by: Stephen A. Mrozowski (Editor), Stephen A. (Director Mrozowski (Editor), Mrozowski Stephen A. (Editor), Peter R. Schmidt (Editor), Peter R. (Professor of Anthropology and African Studies Schmidt (Editor), Schmidt Peter R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199684595
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968459-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Prehistoric archaeology, Archaeological Theory