Reconstructing Archaeology - Tapa dura

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In "Re-Constructing Archaeology", Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the "new" archaeology. It aims to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as practice in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as objects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It is a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.