How do we deal with the cynicism behind the politics of both intellectual liberals and conservatives today? How do we make an archaeological science that is empirical, yet also is believable to people who think they know that most of the knowledge that is available might not be believable?
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Now much revised, this essay originally appeared under the title “Where is Culture to be Found by Historical Archaeologists?” It was published as the Prologue to the Percheron Press paperback edition of the Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States, edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr., Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, New York, 2003 (http://www.eliotwerner.com).
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I am grateful to Matthew Johnson, Parker B. Potter, Jr., and Carmel Schrire for their comments on this essay.
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Leone, M.P. (2009). Making Historical Archaeology Postcolonial. In: Gaimster, D., Majewski, T. (eds) International Handbook of Historical Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72071-5_9
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