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Old Calabria revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Albert J. Ammerman
Albert J. Ammerman*
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American Academy in Rome, Via A. Masina 5, 00153 Rome, Italy
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It is uncommon for the prehistorian to engage in the writing of culture history in the wider sense of the term – that is, to comment on major works of literature and art in the light of contemporary experience, learning and values. As archaeology has become a more professional field of study, discourse in recent years has come increasingly to have a discipline-centred focus. There is a price to pay for the habit of looking inward: the loss of contact with cultural and intellectual developments in the world at large. What is attempted in revisiting Old Calabria, a classic that Norman Douglas wrote in the early part of this century, is an experiment at writing archaeological discourse that is less self-centred and instead tries to look outward.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 235 , June 1988 , pp. 226 - 233
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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