Archaeology : theories, methods, and practice / Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renfrew, Colin, 1937-2024, author.

Bahn, Paul G., author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Textbooks.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

672 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

Seventh edition revised & updated.

Place of Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, 2016.

Contents:

Preface to the college edition

Introduction: The nature and aims of archaeology

Part I: The framework of archaeology. The searches : 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

Part II: Discovering the variety of human experience. How were societies organized? : social archaeology ; What was the environment? : environmental archaeology ; What did they eat? : subsistence and diet ; How did they make and use tools? : technology ; What contact did they have? : trade and exchange ; What did they think? : cognitive archaeology, art, and religion ; Who were they? What were they like? : the bioarchaeology of people ; Why did things change? : explanation in archaeology

Part III: The world of archaeology. Archaeology in action : five case studies ; Whose past? : archaeology and the public ; The future of the past : how to manage the heritage? ; The new searchers : building a career in archaeology

Glossary.

Notes:

"College edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 605-650) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

ISBN:

9780500292105

0500292108

OCLC:

935080729