Michael Shanks
>> weblog >> traumwerk >> site map
Social theory and archaeology
Polity Press 1987
University of New Mexico Press 1988
>> see also ReConstructing Archaeology (1987)

Sometimes known as "the red book" .

Chris and I saw our project as one of building an intellectual tool kit for a social archaeology that could produce sophisticated knowledge of prehistoric societies.

We also thought that archaeologists should account for what they do and not justify thier work as knowledge for its own sake. Some saw us therefore as political pamphleteers rather than academic scholars.