Archaeology: Historiography and Theory

Tim Murray has taught archaeology at Sydney, La Trobe, Cambridge, Leiden, Paris 1, Göteborg, the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), and the Nordic Archaeological Institute. He has twice been Director’s Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Murray has published over 30 books, the most recent being (with Penny Crook) Exploring the Archaeology of Immigration and the Modern City in Nineteenth-Century Australia (Springer, 2019), and many book chapters and journal articles. Two collections of his essays have also been published: From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: The History and Philosophy of Archaeology (2014); Archaeology: History, Theory, Philosophy (2025). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Murray is currently Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology  at La Trobe University.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Themes and Goals.- Chapter 3. Methodology and Structure.- Chapter 4. Some Aspects of Antiquarianism Before the Three Age System.- Chapter 5. Prehistoric Archaeology and the Development of Ethnology.- Chapter 6. The Consequences of High Human Antiquity.- Chapter 7. National and Ethnic Prehistory.- Chapter 8. Prehistoric Archaeology in the ‘Parliament of Science’.- Chapter 9. Archaeology from 1960: Transformation, Continuity and Divergence.- Chapter 10. Expanding the Theoretical:  Processual and Post-Processual Archaeologies 1960-1990.- Chapter 11. Expanding the Empirical: Transforming Time, Process and Duration.- Chapter 12. Expanding the Significance of Social and Cultural Context.- Chapter 13. Archaeological Epistemology, Middle Range Theory, and the Prospect of Intractable Problems?- Chapter 14. Historiography and Archaeological Theory.