Description
About the Author
Dennis Harding graduated from Keble College, Oxford in English Language and Literature before gaining his D. Phil under the supervision of Professor Christopher Hawkes. He was temporary Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum before being appointed lecturer in Archaeology at Durham University in 1966. He was Abercromby Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University (1977-2007), serving as Dean of Arts (1983-6) and Vice-Principal of the University (1988-91). He has excavated later prehistoric sites from Wessex to the Western Isles, and has a particular interest in aerial archaeology, holding a current pilot's license for nearly thirty years.
Reviews
Harding is clearly someone who loves archaeology and who cherishes its possibilities for helping people to understand more about human history. Significantly, Harding is no simple empiricist banging the epistemological drum of claims for value-free knowledge and the need to disentangle fact from theory comprehensively... Re-writing History is an interesting and provocative book that challenges the current consensus, and is all the more valuable for it. * Tim Murray, La Trobe University, Antiquity *
Every archaeologist should read it in order to understand the degree to which contemporary issues, social and political attitudes and intellectual fashions have coloured our interpretations of archaeological evidence. * Christopher Catling, Current Archaeology *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198817734
Author Dennis Harding
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 24mm