The beginning of wisdom

Bibliographic Data

ID3780658
AuthorsMike Parker Pearson (0000-0002-7341-121X, University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume72
Issue277
Pages680-686
Publication date1998-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x0008710x
OpenAlexW2116965353
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited20

It is the best of times and it is the worst of times. On one hand, there are more resources and people involved in archaeology than ever before; there is considerable public and media interest in the subject; and there have been exciting developments in archaeologists' uses of social theory. On the other, competition is intense for locally scarce funding; most field research is constrained by non-archaeological considerations; and fragmentation, insecurity and disenchantment are rife. The split between theory and practice has certainly widened since David Clarke's day, whilst theory has become not so much Clarke's unifier within the morass of empirical detail but its own basis for division and often bitter disagreement within the profession

Competition (biology) · Disenchantment · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Mathematics

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