Archaeology in Society

by Rockman, Marcy; Flatman, Joe

• ISBN13: 9781441998804
• ISBN10: 1441998802
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The practice of Archaeology has many different facets: from academic, to governmental, to cultural resource management, to public media.#xA0; Contemporary relevance of archaeology means understanding the roles that archaeology has in the present day and a sense of the contributions that it can make in each of these areas, both now and in the future.#xA0; Archaeologists come to the field to pursue a variety of interests: teaching, examining history, preserving the environment, or studying a specialized time period or interest.#xA0; The outside world has a number of other expectations on Archaeology: preservation, tourism, and education, to name a few.#xA0; From a broad and varied background, the Editors have compiled a rare group of contributors well-qualified to address questions about the current state of Archaeology and its continued relevance.#xA0; There is no single answer to how the field of archaeology should develop, and what it can do.#xA0; Instead, the authors in this volume lay out the many ways in which archaeology is and can be relevant to the present day- creating a state-of-the-art tool for archaeologists to understand the work of others in the field, and address the challenges they all face.