Theory Can Be Fun: Review of Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell by Adrian Praetzellis

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  • Thomas Brunton

Abstract

Review of Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell by Adrian Praetzellis (Left Coast Press, 2015)

Author Biography

Thomas Brunton

Dr. Brunton has done fieldwork in the US, England, Denmark and Sweden.  He has been an adjunct and a shovel bum.  He currently lives in Sweden wherer he has been volunteering for the Bjäre Härads Hembygdsförening, and has been a student again at Akademi Båstad.  His research interests include the interactions of ethnicity and gender, the origins and maintenance of inequality, the archaeology of work and the landscape,

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Published

2015-08-05

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

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Reviews

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