Archaeology in the 21st century

Six Modest Recommendations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3781422
AutoresWilliam Andrew Mcdonald
Año1991
Volumen65
Número249
Páginas829-839
Fecha de publicación1991-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00080558
OpenAlexW2470224529
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas21

My age-fellows and I, whose professional careers over the past 50 years or so have been devoted to college teaching in the USA and whose fieldwork was conducted mainly in Mediterranean countries, will scarcely see the opening of the next century. Perhaps the most useful contribution veterans like us can now make to the overall discipline - not just to our own 'wing' - is to outline certain problems that have particularly disturbed us during our active careers. Younger colleagues - the new decisionmakers - can then judge whether our criticisms are well founded and, if so, what can (or should) be done to alter present practices and attitudes If our concerns are reasonable and our recommendations for remedial action are constructive, we can at least hope that useful discussion will result - particularly in the disciplinary subdivision with which we have been most closely associated

Action (physics) · Constructive · Discipline · Political science · Remedial education · Social science · Sociology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law