Regional Perspectives in Archaeology: From Strategy to Narrative

Richard Tabor's updated thesis analyses the relationship between regional survey sampling and the narratives, or `archaeological story-telling', drawn from them. In essence he seeks to test how remote some interpretations are from the raw data through case studies based on surveys in Europe, Africa and North and South America. Classifying surveys according to the distribution of resources, and their spatial and chronological resolution, he examines the intentions of surveys and whether they achieve their goal of describing patterns of human behaviour.