Is it time for an elemental and humoral (re)turn in archaeology?

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Is it time for an elemental and humoral (re)turn in archaeology?

This paper asks whether archaeologists might profitably re-engage with the pre-Enlightenment doctrines of elemental philosophy and humoral theory as paradigms more relevant for archaeological interpretation in certain contexts than much of current theoretical discourse. These ancient cosmologies are...

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Main Authors:	Jones, Richard, Miller, Holly, Sykes, Naomi
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2016
Subjects:	archaeological theory; humoral theory; elemental theory; ‘Age of Reason’; archaeological science; landscape archaeology
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49951/

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