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A review by latinandlattes
A History of Archaeological Thought by Bruce G. Trigger
challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Bruce Trigger did a fantastic job at undertaking the writing of a history of all archaeological thought. Trigger touches on all the important movements of thought in archaeological theory, including evolutionary archaeology, cultural-historical theory, processualism, and post-processualism (to name a few) and writes in a way that is neither pretentious nor complicated. It is easy to follow his argument through the chapters, even if they span up to one hundred pages.
This book is probably not a great start for those looking to read their first book about archaeology, since some of the chapters are quite long and there is a lot of technical theory in this book. But if you have some knowledge of archaeological techniques already, this book gives a great overview of all the schools of thought behind archaeological theory.
This book is probably not a great start for those looking to read their first book about archaeology, since some of the chapters are quite long and there is a lot of technical theory in this book. But if you have some knowledge of archaeological techniques already, this book gives a great overview of all the schools of thought behind archaeological theory.