RT Web Page DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 818113300 LA English. UL https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520274167.001.0001 T1 Archaeology : the Discipline of Things. A1 Olsen, Bj��rnar., Shanks, Michael., Webmoor, Timothy., Witmore, Christopher., PB University of California Press PP Berkerley YR 2012 SN 9780520954007 0520954009 9780520274167 0520274164 9780520274174 0520274172 1283695936 9781283695930 AB Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the "science of old things," archaeology does not discover the past as it was but must work with what remains. Such work involves the tangible mediation of pa.