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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• 1. The production of archaeological knowledge
• The literary archaeologist
• Epistemology on the move
• Knowledge and literary production
• Doing the right thing: epistemic virtues in archaeology
• 2. Models of reasoning in Anglo-American archaeology
• The legacy of the nineteenth century
• Diverging traditions in the early twentieth century
• Explanation and the philosophy of science
• Interpretation and hermeneutics
• Theory-ladenness, paradigm-dependence and relativism
• Archaeological epistemology in the new millennium
• 3. Text types and archaeology
• Introduction
• Archaeology and narrative
• Rethinking archaeological texts
• Text types in archaeology
• Text types and the digital humanities
• 4. Textual composition and knowledge production
• Introduction
• Narrative: a sense of an ending
• Description: a sense of presence
• Argument: a sense of reason
• Exposition: a sense of order
• Conclusion: detachment as an epistemic virtue
• 5. Mobile knowledge
• Introduction
• Paradigms and exemplars
• Analogies and metaphors
• Concepts and generalizations
• Concluding remarks
• Bibliography
• Index