Archaeology
Reflects the most recent research and changes in the field, while covering core concepts in an exceptionally student-friendly fashion by using personalized examples and high-interest topics -- Provided by the publisher.
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| Resource Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA
Cengage Learning
[2017]
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Meet some real archaeologists
- The structure of archaeological inquiry
- Doing fieldwork : surveying for archaeological sites
- Doing fieldwork : why archaeologists dig square holes
- Geoarchaeology and site formation processes
- Chronology building : how to get a date
- The dimensions of archaeology : time, space, and form
- Taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and ethnoarchaeology
- People, plants, and animals in the past
- Bioarchaeological approaches to the past
- Reconstructing social and political systems of the past
- The archaeology of the mind
- Understanding key transitions in world prehistory
- Historical archaeology : insights on American history
- Caring for our cultural heritage
- Archaeology's future.