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Expanding middle-range theory

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Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies Archaeological and Geological Studies

Abstract

The obscure and ugly language of theoretical archaeology conceals as well as reveals fundamentals that no real practice of archaeology can actually escape. In this paper, revised from a plenary address at the TAG conference at Bradford last year, one of the cannier of the old hands puts some of those fundamentals into proper place.

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