by Lewis Roberts Binford, John F. Cherry, Robin Torrence · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780500274941
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«In Pursuit of the Past» is the archaeology essay by Lewis Roberts Binford, John F. Cherry and Robin Torrence, published by W. W. Norton in paperback.
The book addresses archaeologists' efforts to reconstruct the evolution of human culture from material remains and explains the methods used to study them. Binford examines from the figure of the hunter man and life by the waterhole to the origins of agriculture, with episodes such as the Mousterian challenge, and shows how the life of human groups in their environment is interpreted.
Full title: In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record. Work originally published in 1983; 1988 edition. 256 pages, with index and bibliography (pp. 243-251). In English.
Recommended for students and readers interested in archaeology, anthropology and history, especially in the interpretation of material culture.
