"There are several generations of archaeologists living in Europe whose life experiences bore the often devastating effects of invasions and migrations in two World Wars and their aftermaths. It is hard to resist the notion that these personal experiences did have an effect on the models of explanation which they proposed... I suggest... that the personal impact of migrations and invasions on archaeologists has been a factor much underestimated in past "explanation" of the changing modes of archaeological explanation. I would like to suggest that there is a yet largely untapped reservoir of information and insight about the writing of archaeological texts relating to the subjective experiences of scholars."
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Chapman, John. 1997."The Impact of Modern Invasion and Migrations on Archaeological Explanation." In Migrations and Invasions in Archaeological Explanation" (11-20). Ed. John Chapman and Helena Hamerow. BAR International Series 664. Oxford: Archaeopress. p. 18.in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 10
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