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Beyond the surface: comments on Hodder's ‘reflexive excavation methodology’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Fekri A. Hassan*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England

Extract

Comment is offered on the ‘post-processual’ approach to excavation in the field advocated in the September Antiquity.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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