caa a22 4500 388056452 CHVBK 20180307125108.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00087093 doi S0003598X00087093 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00087093 Guidi Alessandro Instituto di Storia antica, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Universitá di Verona, Vicolo dietro San Francesco 5, Verona 37129, Italy.aguidi@chiostro.univr.it Clarke in Mediterranean archaeology [Elektronische Daten] [Alessandro Guidi] When ANTIQUITY published the historical article by Clarke, I was a 20-year-old student, deeply engaged in field activities and substantially torn away from the ‘theoretical' debate. My archaeological loss of innocence happened only in the early 1980s, when I discovered (thanks to people like Maurizio Tosi and Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri) the enormous explanatory potential of processual theories. It would be absurd to label the whole of Italian archaeology as ‘atheoretical'; as a matter of fact, a powerful theoretical machine, the Marxist theory, had operated from the late 1960s, thanks to the group of Dialoghi di Archeologia. The problem was in the idealistic roots of our (academic) culture, characterized by a programmatic divorce between humanistic and scientific studies and from a substantial lack of interest for the anthropological theories. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 678-680 0003-598X 72:277<678 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087093 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087093 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Guidi Alessandro Instituto di Storia antica, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Universitá di Verona, Vicolo dietro San Francesco 5, Verona 37129, Italy.aguidi@chiostro.univr.it NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 678-680 0003-598X 72:277<678 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge