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Archaeology essentials : theories, methods, practice with 295 illustrations / Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn.
LIBRA CC75 .R465 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Renfrew, Colin, 1937-2024, author.
- Bahn, Paul G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Textbooks.
- Archaeology.
- Archaeology--Methodology.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Archeology essentials
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thames & Hudson, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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 interpret the remote past of humankind.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The nature and aims of archaeology
- The searchers
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780500291597
- 0500291594
- OCLC:
- 904331813
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