The Cambridge illustrated history of archaeology
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The Cambridge illustrated history of archaeology
(Cambridge illustrated histories)
Cambridge University Press, 1999
- : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the fullest and most authoritative single-volume account of archaeology from the earliest discoveries to the great excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout and global in scope, it tells the story of those explorations which have helped shape our knowledge of the past. From early digging in Greece and the Near East, through the part played by archaeology in the 'discovery' of the Americas, to the unearthing of sites in Africa, Scandinavia, the former Soviet Union, and Australasia, the book describes individual events as part of a connected narrative amounting to a thorough history of the subject for general readers. It is the first general history of archaeology written by a team of specialists and the first history to cover every part of the world. The book is complete with time-period charts, lists of archaeological events, and a full index.
Table of Contents
- Foreword Lord Renfrew
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The archaeology of archaeology
- 2. Old worlds and new, 1500-1760
- 3. Antiquarians and explorers, 1760-1820
- 4. Science and Romanticism, 1820-1860
- 5. The search for human origins, 1860-1920
- 6. Archaeology comes of age, 1920-1960
- 7. New techniques and competing philosophies, 1960-1990
- 8. Current controversies and future trends
- Bibliography
- Table of archaeological periods worldwide
- Chronology
- Index
- Acknowledgements.
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