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Klappentext This contributory volume emphasises the archaeological significance of historical method and philosophy. Zusammenfassung This contributory volume emphasises the archaeological significance of historical method and philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The historical approach in archaeology: 1. The contribution of the long term Ian Hodder; 2. Art history, archaeology and idealism: the German tradition James Whitley; Part II. Continuity and change: the very long term: 3. Selective depictions. A study of 3,500 years of rock carvings from Arctic Norway and their relationship to the Sarni drums Knut Helskog; 4. Pipes and parakeets: constructing meaning in an Early Iroquoian context Alexander von Gernet and Peter Timmins; Part III. Continuity and change: the past active in the present: 5. Staddle stones and silage-pits: successional use in an agricultural community Jacqueline Nowakowski; 6. Reordering residues of the past Paul Lane; 7. The perpetual reconstruction of the past Elisabeth Vestergaard; 8. Shifting cultivation in the Raimahal Hills of India Ajay Pratap; Part IV. Acculturation, diffusion and migration as social-symbolic processes: 9. Problems in the analysis of social change: an example from the Marakwet Henrietta Moore; 10. A contribution to the study of migrations in the archaeological record: the Ngom and Kololo migrations as a case study David Collett; 11. Gothic material culture Kevin Greene.
