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Clarke in Mediterranean archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alessandro Guidi
Alessandro Guidi*
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Instituto di Storia antica, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Universitá di Verona, Vicolo dietro San Francesco 5, Verona 37129, Italy.aguidi@chiostro.univr.it
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When ANTIQUITY published the historical article by Clarke, I was a 20-year-old student, deeply engaged in field activities and substantially torn away from the ‘theoretical’ debate.

My archaeological loss of innocence happened only in the early 1980s, when I discovered (thanks to people like Maurizio Tosi and Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri) the enormous explanatory potential of processual theories.

It would be absurd to label the whole of Italian archaeology as ‘atheoretical’; as a matter of fact, a powerful theoretical machine, the Marxist theory, had operated from the late 1960s, thanks to the group of Dialoghi di Archeologia. The problem was in the idealistic roots of our (academic) culture, characterized by a programmatic divorce between humanistic and scientific studies and from a substantial lack of interest for the anthropological theories.

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Special section: David Clarke's ‘Archaeology: the loss of innocence’ (1973) 25 years after
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998, pp. 678 - 680
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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