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A settlement pattern study in northeast China: results and potential contributions of western theory and methods to Chinese archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gideon Shelach
Gideon Shelach*
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Department of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University, Mt Scopius, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
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Abstract

Chinese scholarship well illustrates how research attitudes direct the spirit of research, and the tenor of the archaeological story which results. What happens when non-Chinese theory, approaches and field methods are brought to bear in a Chinese regional study?

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 114 - 127
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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