Polity Press 1987
Sometimes known as "the red book", with ReConstructing Archaeology as the "black book" (after Kristian Kristiansen's article on us in the journal Antiquity).
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 their work as knowledge for its own sake. Some saw us therefore as political pamphleteers rather than academic scholars.
Here are the chapters of the book in editable PDF (this means that there are a few mistakes as a result of OCR)
Titles.pdf
Contents.pdf
Preface.pdf
01-Theory-and-Method.pdf
02-Social-Archaeology.pdf
03-The-Individual-and-the-Social.pdf
04-Material-Culture.pdf
05-Time.pdf
06-Social-Evolution.pdf
07-Politics-of-Theory.pdf
Further-Reading.pdf
References.pdf
Index.pdf
Synopsis.pdf
