Guest Editor's Introduction to Issue Twelve: Watery Places and Archaeology
Archaeology, the study of past human societies, has a certain aura of mystery to it that captures the public’s imagination. The authors in this issue, myself included, are broadly defined as archaeologists. Not the Indiana Jones kind—more the geeky and scholarly kind, whose job and passion is not on...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2018-11-01
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Series: | Open Rivers |
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/guest-editors-introduction-to-issue-twelve-watery-places-and-archaeology/
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Summary: | Archaeology, the study of past human societies, has a certain aura of mystery to it that captures the public’s imagination. The authors in this issue, myself included, are broadly defined as archaeologists. Not the Indiana Jones kind—more the geeky and scholarly kind, whose job and passion is not only to uncover how past people lived based on the things and structures they left behind, but also to take prodigious amounts of notes, photographs, measurements, and soil samples. |
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ISSN: | 2471-190X |