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Expanding middle-range theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce G. Trigger
Bruce G. Trigger*
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Department of Anthropology, Stephen Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Canada H3A 2T7
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Abstract

The obscure and ugly language of theoretical archaeology conceals as well as reveals fundamentals that no real practice of archaeology can actually escape. In this paper, revised from a plenary address at the TAG conference at Bradford last year, one of the cannier of the old hands puts some of those fundamentals into proper place.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 264 , September 1995 , pp. 449 - 458
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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