caa a22 4500 388056312 CHVBK 20180307125107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00087135 doi S0003598X00087135 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00087135 Trigger Bruce G. Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7. trigger@leacock.lan.mcgill.ca ‘The loss of innocence' in historical perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Bruce G. Trigger] The dual tasks of this paper are to examine David Clarke's ideas about the development of archaeology as they relate both to the era when ‘the loss of innocence' was written and to what has happened since. In his treatment of the history of archaeology offered in that essay, Clarke subscribed to at least two of the key tenets of the behaviourist and utilitarian approaches that dominated the social sciences in the 1960s: neoevolutionism and ecological determinism. Clarke viewed the development of archaeology as following a unilinear sequence of stages from consciousness through self-consciousness to critical self-consciousness. The first stage began with archaeology defining its subject matter and what archaeologists do. As its database and the procedures required for studying it became more elaborate, self-conscious archaeology emerged as a ‘series of divergent and selfreferencing regional schools ... with regionally esteemed bodies of archaeological theory and locally preferred forms of description, interpretation and explanation' (Clarke 1973: 7). At the stage of critical self-consciousness, regionalism was replaced by a conviction that ‘archaeologists hold most of their problems in common and share large areas of general theory within a single discipline' (1973: 7). Archaeology was now defined by ‘the characteristic forms of its reasoning, the intrinsic nature of its knowledge and information, and its competing theories of concepts and their relationships' (1973: 7). Clarke looked forward to a fourth (and ultimate?) phase of self-critical self-consciousncss, when the new archaeology would monitor and control its own development. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 694-698 0003-598X 72:277<694 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087135 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087135 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Trigger Bruce G. Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7. trigger@leacock.lan.mcgill.ca NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 694-698 0003-598X 72:277<694 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge