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Art and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2019

Michael Squire
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Change is what keeps the study of classical art and archaeology in business. The stories that we tell of ancient material culture – about form, function, and modes of response – are premised on the continuities that we trace, no less than on our evidence for rift or rupture. In each case, historical analyses of how things developed coalesce with critical attempts to explain why they did so. Answers shuffle and shift. But the project of describing and interpreting change remains constant.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , April 2019 , pp. 143 - 151
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2019 

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