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Down to Earth Archaeology collects sixteen archaeological papers by Professor William Y. Adams chosen by the author, who added introductory commentary to each. These articles were written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career for different purposes and for different audiences. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way, either as conference proceedings or contributions to various Festschriften, and as such he wanted to enable them to reach a wider readership than they had originally. He described this collection as his ‘dernières pensées’. The essays encompass a wide range of topics, from reflections upon the successes, failures and lessons learned from the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia in the 1960s, in which Bill was very much a leading figure and which he was uniquely positioned to critique, to discussions and criticisms of the theoretical framework of ‘New’ or ‘Processual Archaeology’ and its application of ‘scientific’ methods. Other papers included here are seminal works discussing the ideological concepts of typology and classification and their practical application to archaeological excavations, notably his own major excavations conducted at the large Nubian cityscapes of Meinarti, Kulubnarti and Qasr Ibrim, and the ceramic kilns at Faras. Cover 1 Title Page 3 Copyright Information 4 Contents 7 Acknowledgements 9 List of Plates 10 List of Figures 11 Editor’s Preface 15 Genesis of a Maverick 16 PERSPECTIVES 23 Three Questions for the Archaeologist 25 Science and Ethics in Rescue Archaeology 35 Three Perspectives on the Past: The Historian, The Art Historian, and The Prehistorian 43 STRATEGY 49 Strategy of Archaeological Salvage 51 Organizational Problems in International Salvage Archaeology 65 Ends and Means in Large-Scale Excavations: Meinarti, Kulubnarti, and Qasr Ibrim 75 CLASSIFICATION 97 Principles and Pragmatics of Pottery Classification: Some Lessons from Nubia 99 Archaeological Classification: Theory Versus Practice 107 Purpose and Scientific Concept Formation 129 DATING 147 From Pottery to History: The Dating of Archaeological Deposits by Ceramic Statistics 148 Times, Types, and Sites: The Interrelationship of CeramicChronology and Typology 162 CERAMICS 191 The Archaeologist and The Ceramologist 192 On the Argument from Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence from Medieval Nubia 194 INTERPRETATION 211 On Migration and Diffusion as Rival Paradigms 212 Paradigms in Sudan archaeology 219 The Archaeologist as Detective 229 Back Cover 244 Down to Earth Archaeology collects sixteen archaeological papers by Professor William Y. Adams chosen by the author, who added introductory commentary to each. These articles were written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career for different purposes and for different audiences. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way, either as conference proceedings or contributions to various Festschriften, and as such he wanted to enable them to reach a wider readership than they had originally. He described this collection as his 'dernieres pensees'.0The essays encompass a wide range of topics, from reflections upon the successes, failures and lessons learned from the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia in the 1960s, in which Bill was very much a leading figure and which he was uniquely positioned to critique, to discussions and criticisms of the theoretical framework of 'New' or 'Processual Archaeology' and its application of 'scientific' methods. Other papers included here are seminal works discussing the ideological concepts of typology and classification and their practical application to archaeological excavations, notably his own major excavations conducted at the large Nubian cityscapes of Meinarti, Kulubnarti and Qasr Ibrim, and the ceramic kilns at Faras Professor William Y. Adams presents sixteen papers on Nubia, written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way; encompassing a wide range of topics, Adams wanted to enable them to reach a wider readership than they had originally.