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Michael Shanks (archaeologist)

Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has been at the forefront of post-processualism in archaeology.

He has written widely on archaeology, often in collaboration with his colleague Christopher Tilley. The pair are infamous amongst students of archaeology for their elaborate and sometimes verbose prose style. Although possibly apocryphal it is said that when accused of using sentences too long and complex, they replied that such criticism was merely "the valorisation of anti-intellectualism". Their work together is summed up in the two books ReConstructing Archaeology and Social Theory and Archaeology (both 1987). He continued to write on the character of archaeology in Experiencing the Past (1991) and Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (1996).

Shanks was a lecturer at the University of Wales Lampeter before moving to the United States of America, where he is currently Professor of Classics at Stanford University.

External link

  • Michael Shanks' homepage http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/


Last updated: 05-01-2005 16:47:05