1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) ; color illustrations
Contents
Local communities, labor, and laboratories -- Site workers as specialists, site workers as supporters -- Access to interpretation -- Lucrative non-knowledge -- Lucrative identities in global archaeological labor -- Inclusive recording
Summary
"Years of ethnographic work with current and former workers at two Middle Eastern archaeological sites combined with archival research. Describes the knowledge that locally-hired laborers possess about artifacts, excavation methods, and interpretation, showing that archaeological workers are experts-and are paid by archaeologists to pretend to be less knowledgeable"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2021)
