About this title: Stuart Piggott traces the uneven and often amusing story of archaeological research from the Renaissance to the present day, showing how it freed itself only slowly from the bonds of prejudice and the spells of the imagination.
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Cloth bds
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780500550106ISBN:0500550107
Description: 43 illustrations. A very good tight clean copy in VG (lightly sunned) wraps. 8vo. dustwrapper. 64pp. Being the text of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture 1978, the author details aspects of the recording of archaeological antiquities by way of illustration, from the Renaissance to the present day, first posing the question 'did the early investigators draw what they saw or what they expected to see? ', and then following the processes whereby archaelogical research freed itself from prejudice ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Date Published: 1978
Description: Very Good. B000J00JMA Hardcover, no dust jacket, near fine condition, remainder mark on bottom. Pages clean and bright, the binding is tight. read more
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