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The Archaeology of the Future

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Archaeology at the Millennium
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This volume provides a view of archaeology at the turn of the millennium, looking both backward and forward. The preceding chapters have examined the human story, and the frameworks and perspectives that archaeologists have employed to write that story, from our earliest tool-using ancestors through the rise of early empires.

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Feinman, G.M., Price, T.D. (2001). The Archaeology of the Future. In: Feinman, G.M., Price, T.D. (eds) Archaeology at the Millennium. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72611-3_14

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