About this title: In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology - a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey and Phillips, represented a "theoretical debate...a question of whether archaeology should be the study of cultural history or the study of cultural process." Willey and Phillips suggested that little interpretation had taken place in American archaeology, and their book offered an analytical ...
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Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press / Phoenix Edition
Date published: 1967
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. wraps creased, faded; owner's name, scattered ink lining. 270p. Originally published (B58-16540) Chicago U.P., 1958. read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780817310882ISBN:0817310886
Description: Like New. Book in almost Brand New condition. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chicago
Date published: 1958
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. ExLibr w/ no card pockets, minimal pencil notations, stamped on title page. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. No DJ. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chicago
Date published: 1958
Description: Good. Brief marks and underlining. Writing on front end paper. No dust jacket. Light soiling to boards. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780817310882ISBN:0817310886
Description: As New. Originally published in 1958 This has a new foreword by Willey, and it's edited & introduced by R. Lee Lyman & Michael J. O'Brien. 270 pp., occasional figs. read more
Edition: 5TH PRINTING
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chicago U. P
Date published: 1967
Description: Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. X LIBRARY-1967 FIFTH PRINTING-HARDCOVER "VINABIND" BINDING-STD CLEAN MARKS-PGS CLEAN-BINDING SOLID-SENT--20. 270p., 21 cm. Originally published (B58-16540) Chicago U.P., 1958. read more
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