عنوان

Alternative Archaeology:

Number

LA122727

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Alternative Archaeology:

General Material Designation

[Article]

Other Title Information

Many Pasts in Our Present

First Statement of Responsibility

Pia Andersson

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This article introduces the field of alternative archaeology. After a short presentation of how the field has been received by professional archaeologists, different ways of defining it are discussed, and potential demarcations are examined. A survey of the most frequently discussed topics follows, together with a discussion of the methodologies employed and the theoretical presuppositions accepted by writers in the alternative archaeology genre, and how these differ from the methods and theories of conventional academic archaeology. A brief section on the relevance of alternative archaeology to the study of religion concludes the article. This article introduces the field of alternative archaeology. After a short presentation of how the field has been received by professional archaeologists, different ways of defining it are discussed, and potential demarcations are examined. A survey of the most frequently discussed topics follows, together with a discussion of the methodologies employed and the theoretical presuppositions accepted by writers in the alternative archaeology genre, and how these differ from the methods and theories of conventional academic archaeology. A brief section on the relevance of alternative archaeology to the study of religion concludes the article.

Date of Publication

2012

Physical description

125-137

Title

Numen

Volume Number

59/2-3

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5276

Subject Term

alternative archaeology

Subject Term

ancient astronauts

Subject Term

archaeoastronomy

Subject Term

Goddess Movement

Pia Andersson

Call Number

10.1163/156852712X630743

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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