RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 706693042 LA English T1 Describing and interpreting the past : European and American approaches to the written record of the excavation A1 Pavel, Cătălin,, PB Editura Universitǎţii din Bucureşti PP Bucureşti YR 2010 SN 9789737378811 9737378814 AB Archaeology has an ethic dilemma at its root--quite simply, if excavation is destruction, what, if any, can be its justification? Such a line of thought, with its champions and chastisers, is that even if the excavation physically destroys the site, it compensates for this by re-creating, by means of symbolic models and narratives, the historical sequence whose witness and result was the site itself.--From publisher description.