Recovering the Tracks. The Story of Australian Archaeology, by David Horton, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra
This history of archaeology in Australia has been pretty well served since Mulvaney's highly influential survey of three hundred years of opinion about the nature of Australian Aboriginal people (1958). Indeed, the long-running debate about the identity of Au...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
1992-11-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |
| Online Access: | http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/440 |
| Summary: | This history of archaeology in Australia has been pretty well
served since Mulvaney's highly influential survey of three hundred years of opinion
about the nature of Australian Aboriginal people (1958). Indeed, the long-running debate
about the identity of Australian archaeology, particularly about the extent to which it
has developed a distinctive style, or whether its fundamental precepts and orientations
remain essentially undeveloped derivations from English and North American influences,
has tended to provide a ready market for research into the history of Australian
archaeology. |
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| ISSN: | 1062-4740 2047-6930 |