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- Title
Excavation as theatre.
- Authors
Tilley, Christopher
- Abstract
Everyone who has dug up anything knows the excitement of bringing an ancient object to its first light for centuries. Everyone who has directed an archaeological excavation knows the excitement of finding sense in the pattern of many ancient objects revealed. Why is it, then, that the publication of that pattern in a site report is a more wearisome business when -- if ever -- it takes place? Is that just the nature of the business, or is there more to be revealed?
- Subjects
ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; DRAMA; PROTECTION of cultural property; HISTORICAL archaeology; ARCHAEOLOGY in literature
- Publication
Antiquity, 1989, Vol 63, Issue 239, p275
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00075992