These are just a sampling of the top-notch sites you'll find in this book. Incredible Archaeology takes a striking tour through human history, so come along!
More intrepid travellers started to make their way into the eastern Mediterranean. ... This remote building, described by the Roman travel writer Pausanias, was visited by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) during 1811.
A fascinating and expert tour] from Egypt's Valley of the Kings to the Terracotta Army of Mount Li, England's Stonehenge and the Great Mayan relics of Chich, n Itz
Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance.
The result is a fascinating portrait of a civilization which still retains many of its mysteries. This book, originally published in 1992, was hailed as the best account of Easter Island ever written.
... Brain and the Making of the Western World. (Chapter 7. Imitation and the Evolution of Culture). Yale University Press: New Haven and London. Pfeiffer, J. E. 1982. The Creative Explosion. An inquiry into the origins of art and religion ...
Gives advice on how to get involved in local research projects, restoration initiatives and actual excavations in the field --
"The key sites, who discovered them, and how to become an archaeologist.
Global in perspective and covering over four million years of history, this accessible volume provides a chronological account of both the development of the human race and the order in which modern societies have made discoveries about ...
... British and Irish Context and Some Northern European Perspectives, pp. 185–220. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Sieveking, A. 1987. A Catalogue of Palaeolithic Art in the British Museum. London: Published for the Trustees ...