Abstract
In the middle of the nineteenth century when it was finally demonstrated that human existence extended back in time on a scale measurable by geo logical means (Lyell 1863), there was an urgent need to try to understand the nature of the technology, economic life, and even social organization and beliefs of the people who had left behind the broken pieces of pots or flakes of stone in the superimposed layers of earth that archaeologists were only just beginning to find ways to organize into coherent chronological sequences. At the very birth of prehistoric archaeology there was a welding of cultural analogies drawn from contemporary ethnography with the stratigraphic methods of geology.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 27-66 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315422923 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781598744576 |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Sept 2016 |