History of archaeology

The history of archaeology has been one of increasing professionalisation, and the use of an increasing range of technqiues, to obtain as much data on the site being examined as possible.

Further Reading

• Christenson, Andrew L., Tracing Archaeology's Past: The Historiography of Archaeology, Southern Illinois Univ Press 1989
• Kehoe, Alice Beck , The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology, Routledge 1998
• Marchand, Suzanne L., Down from Olympus : archaeology and philhellenism in Germany, 1750 - 1970, Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1996, Paperback Edition 2003
• Pai, Hyung Il, Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories , Harvard University Press 2000
• Smith, Laurajane, Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Culture Heritage, Routledge 2004
• Trigger, Bruce, "A History of Archaeological Thought". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990