thirty-five years of the twentieth century. In his highly original and influential Analytical Archaeology (1968),David Clarke sought to explain why archaeology in general (but British archaeology in particular) needed to change by means of a short but potent history of archaeology. A sense of the importance of the history of archaeology also underwrote Trigger’s spirited defense of historical perspectives in archaeology. But since the rise of theoretical archaeology as a recognizable field of archaeological endeavor in Britain in the early 1970s, few theoretical archaeologists have paid much attention to the history of their discipline either as a source of inspiration or as the basis for understanding the social, cultural, and political contexts

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Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in Britain