Historicism, chronology and straw men: Situating Hawkes' 'Ladder of inference'

Antiquity

Volumn 72, Issue 276, 1998, Pages 398-404

  Evans, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British archaeology; Hawkes; Historicism; Inference; New archaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002009334     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00086671     Document Type: Article

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