Title:	A Companion to Social Archaeology
Authors:	Meskell, Lynn Robert W. Preucel Robert W. Preucel
Keywords:	Social archaeology
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Description:	Archaeology has been defined as the discipline that uniquely provides a world history extending humanity back into prerecorded time. It gives primary evidence for the three ‘‘rites of passage’’ in the human career, namely the emergence of anatomically modern humans, the origins of agriculture/first settled villages, and the rise of civilizations. The resulting narrative is a linear and processual story of technological progress and cultural evolution. Archaeology has also been described as the discipline that reveals the details of past human existence, including how people made their living, how they organized themselves into social groups, how they worshiped their gods, how they mourned their dead. In this case, the resulting account is a description of an individual’s, family’s or group’s lived experience at a particular point in time. There is, therefore, for archaeology, even more so than for history, a natural tension between the individual and society, agency and structure, event and process that must be mediated by social theory as it articulates with the special characteristics of the archaeological record.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52064
ISBN:	978-0-631-22578-2
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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