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The 1990s: North American archaeology with a human face?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce G. Trigger
Bruce G. Trigger*
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Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street W, Montreal H3A 2T7, Canada
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The English reviewer for Nature (Renfrew 1990) declared that Bruce Trigger's new history of archaeology will become the standard account of our subject's history, and the French reviewer for ANTIQUITY also has a warm view (this issue, page 960). Having looked to the past, what does Trigger see for the future of archaeology in North America, as the reaction comes to the view of archaeology as, primarily, science that has dominated these last decades?

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990, pp. 778 - 787
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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