En busca del pasado. Descifrando el registro arquelógico

by Unknown, Pepa Gasull (Translator)

De las colecciones que nacieron de Critica/Historia, esta incorporo todos los textos correspondientes a Arqueologia e Historia antigua. Nacio con el libro de Lewis Binford, En busca del pasado, que iniciaba en Espana la divulgacion de la llamada Nueva Arqueologia y que supuso un importante instrumento de renovacion metodologica. La coleccion ha acogido obras de lan Hodder, Clive Orton, Ramon Buxo, Colin Renfrew, Marisa Ruiz-Galvez, Jose Luis Lopez Castro, Bruce Trigger, Arturo Ruiz, Manuel Molinos, G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Charles Redman, Domingo Placido, M a] Eugenia Aubet o Jaime Alvar. Primer libro publicado en Espana por uno de los mas destacados representantes de la Nueva Arqueologia. Esta obra, ilustrada con fotografias y dibujos del autor, hace un repaso a todas las estrategias metodologicas en arqueologia, asi como a las relaciones de esta con la etnologia y la antropologia.

Genres: Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Nonfiction

296 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

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Reviews

[Lee Broderick · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although some case studies are presented, this comes across as 'my life as a manifesto' as much as anything else. Binford eulogises himself as a heroic figure struggling to convert the arts and humanities legions of archaeologists to the new doctrine of archaeology as science.

Binford was an important figure in the discipline but here comes across as one arrogant enough to think that he was more important than he was: that, in the words of Jose Mourinho, he was "the special one."

[Alberto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro que trata algunas incógnitas de la prehistoria desde una perspectiva muy analítica y estadística, utilizándolas como ejemplo de las aproximaciones metodológicas procesualistas expuestas por el autor en todo el libro. A veces te pierdes en los ejemplos, dada la inmensa cantidad de datos aportados, pero sin duda es de especial valoración la minuciosidad con la que fueron tomados, teniendo en cuenta que la mayoría de ejemplos son de elaboración propia (incluidas las fotografías y planos).

[Riversue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Binford makes a clear case for the use of ethnographic material to do comparatives with the archaeological record. An interesting read that covers the Mousterian period but also assess the theories around the move to agriculture and the reasons for the increasing complexity and evolution to complex societies.

[Andrés León Guacaneme · Rating 4 out of 5]

Set of different articles not very related but still useful

[Emerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished this last year and I forgot to log it in lol