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Digging for ideas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. O. H. Carver
M. O. H. Carver*
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Department of Archaeology, University of York, Micklegate House, Micklegate, York YO1 1JZ
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Abstract

An inaugural lecture is often the occasion to stand back from the specifics and the technicalities, to see the place of our subject in a larger order of things, and to look forward to its proper future. This is what Martin Carver, the second Professor of Archaeology in the University of York, looked at and saw in his inaugural last year.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 241 , December 1989 , pp. 666 - 674
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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