‘The separation of theory and practice is not one that will easily be overcome by academic and philosophical critique, however necessary and important these are.’ (Shanks & Tilley 1992: xxii). Here a team of archaeologists address this difficult theme, in the light of their experiences under the flightpath of Heathrow Airport.
This is an important book that simultaneously re-evaluates the 'Middles Ages', which are easily seen as an era of darkness, a 'temporal monstrosity' between antiquity and modernity (see the discussion in the Introduction). It is seductively easy to guard and idealise our modernity against supposedly more primitive times.
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