The second edition highlights recent developments in the field and includes a new chapter on archaeology beyond mainstream academia. It also integrates more examples from popular culture, including mummies, tattoos, pirates, and global warming.
Situating archaeology in academic, social, and political contexts, the third edition emphasizes the ethics and the scholarship of women and includes considerable focus on the archaeology of recent and contemporary times.
The text begins by covering the goals of archaeology, and then moves on to consider the basic concepts of culture, time, and space, by discussing the finding and excavation of archaeological sites.
From the introduction: Archaeogaming, broadly defined, is the archaeology both in and of digital games.
... ANAESTHESIA Aidan O'Donnell ANARCHISM Colin Ward ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom ANGELS David Albert Jones ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman THE ANGLO-SAXON ...
Archaeology: The Basics, rewritten for this fourth edition, is a short, engaging book that takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating world of archaeology and archaeologists.
The text introduces archeology's basic principles along with numerous examples from all over the world. Authors Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani provide a comprehensive summary of the field for people who have little or no experience.
Designed as a supplement to introductory texts in archaeology, Reading Archaeology offers selections from scholarly journals and books as well as from semi-scientific periodicals and the popular press. Readings are...
Herrmann, B. and Hummel, S. (eds) (1993) Ancient DNA: recovery and analysis of genetic material, Berlin: Springer Verlag. ... Herz, N. and Garrison, E. (1998) Geological methods for archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
With this new edition updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in the discipline, Ancient Lives continues to be a comprehensive and essential introduction to archaeology.
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.