Robert C. Dunnell’s scientific contributions

... Varma and Menon 2008;Haricharan et al. 2013;Basa et al. 2015;Guha 2015;Johansen 2003;Johansen and Bauer 2015;Nair 2015;Paddayya 2013;Selvakumar 2015), there remains both latent and explicit commitments to its maintenance and continuity. Indeed, it has been argued that constructing a culture-history sequence (rather than simply a relative chronology) is considered an underlying, foundational layer of most regional archaeological research-a necessary first step to further problem-oriented research on the past (Paddayya 1990). This logic is so deeply instilled in the practice of archaeology in India that regulatory agencies insist that mandatory site reporting of archaeological research be framed according to a narrative structure of sequential archaeological cultures. ...

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Reconceptualizing the Archaeology of Southern India: Beyond Periodization and Toward a Politics of Practice