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Title: | Pleistocene and early Holocene sea levels and archaeology |
Authors: | Pollacco, Sean (2002) |
Keywords: | Distributional archaeology Paleogeography Sea level |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Citation: | Pollacco, S. (2002) Pleistocene and early Holocene sea levels and archaeology (Bachelor's dissertation). |
Abstract: | The renewed interest in archaeology following the post-war period allowed the discipline to evolve into the giant subject we are acquainted with in the twenty-first century. Never more than now can we realise how realistic David Clarke's observation was in identifying a disciplinary evolution from consciousness to critical self-consciousness, 1 and how this phenomenon would inevitably bring about specialization on, and therefore fragmentation of the discipline. Undoubtedly, specialization gave way to in-depth studies in given fields, which yielded fruits far more bountiful than ever before; however, our need to increase in-depth knowledge opened up an inefficiency to understand general norms. Indeed, it seems increasingly evident that the disciplinary challenge to the twenty-first century archaeologist is to piece together the enormous volume of data available and produce a comprehensible, up-to-date text regarding a general topic. |
Description: | B.A.(HONS)ARCHAEOLOGY |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/78982 |
Appears in Collections: | Dissertations - FacArt - 1999-2010 Dissertations - FacArtCA - 1971-2009 |
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