Archaeology essentials : theories, methods, practice with 303 illustrations /
A guide to all aspects of archaeology, this work provides a readable and compact introduction to archaeology for those new to the field. Long-established techniques are carefully explained as well as exciting new methods as the authors describe the ways in which archaeologists seek to explain and in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Thames & Hudson,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Searching for the past
- The history of archaeology
- What is left?
- The variety of the evidence
- Where?
- Survey and excavation of sites and features
- When?
- Dating methods and chronology
- How were societies organized?
- Social archaeology
- What was the environment and what did they eat?
- Environment, subsistence, and diet
- How were artifacts made, used, and distributed?
- Technology, trade, and exchange
- What were they like?
- The bioarchaeology of people
- What did they think?
- Cognitive archaeology
- Why did things change?
- Explanation in archaeology
- Whose past?
- Archaeology and the public
- The future of the past
- Managing our heritage.