Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory

Archaeological Dialogues

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-72

  Brück, Joanna ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Embodiment; Epistemology; Experience; Landscape; Phenomenology; Self

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHITECTURE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; PREHISTORIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646888179     PISSN: 13802038     EISSN: 14782294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1380203805001583     Document Type: Review

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