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Epilogue: why the history of archaeology matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tim Murray
Tim Murray*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia.
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In recent years the history of archaeology has been enjoying something of a vogue in different research traditions, resulting in a wealth of new studies and publications. In the English-speaking world, our store of biographies and national histories has been considerably expanded by the five-volume Encyclopedia of archaeology (Murray 1999; 2001). The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology has provided a much needed forum for research, and the AREA project — Archives of European Archaeology — has begun to explore a range of resources bearing on the history of archaeology in Europe. At the same time, archaeologists have continued to justify and to advocate the significance of ‘novel’ approaches to archaeology through partial histories of the discipline (the most recent being those associated with the revival of ‘Darwinian archaeologies’ such as Lyman et al. 1997).

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Special section: Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 291 , March 2002 , pp. 234 - 238
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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