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Beazley as theorist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

James Whitley
James Whitley*
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School of History & Archaeology, University of Wales, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU, Wales
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Sir John Beazley (1885-1970), founder of the modern and archaeological study of Classical vases, was a master of method. Is the Beazley method just that, a well-judged method fitting to the material under study? Or does that considered method in truth amount to a considered theory, held and used by a consciously most untheoretical archaeologist?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997, pp. 40 - 47
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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