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Figures, figurines and Colin Renfrew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leo S. Klejn*
Affiliation:
*Retired Professor, St Petersburg University, Russia (Email: klejn@lk13534.spb.edu)

Extract

Are modern artworks really comparable in any serious way to ancient monuments? Has Colin Renfrew changed sides in the conflict of reason with intuition in modern archaeology? Leo Klejn thinks so. Colin Renfrew responds, below.

Type
Debate
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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Renfrew, Colin. 2003. Figuring it out: What are we? Where do we come from? The parallel visions of artists and archaeologists. London: Thames & Hudson.Google Scholar
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