Archaeology : the basics
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Archaeology : the basics
（The basics）
Routledge, 2022
4th ed
- : hbk
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First ed. 2001, 3rd ed. 2015
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
* a coherent, flowing story, written in short, punchy chapters, rich in examples, each dealing with major questions making it suitable for complete beginners in archaeology
* shows how such contemporary issues such as biological and cultural diversity, gender, and climate change have deep roots in the human past
* creates student interest in the human past as reconstructed by multidisciplinary research, including archaeology, anthropology, biological anthropology, ethnohistory, and many other disciplines
Table of Contents
- 1. Introducing archaeology
- 2. The archives of the past
- 3. Finding the archive
- 4. Excavation
- 5. Technologies
- 6. Ancient environments
- 7. Subsistence: How did people eat?
- 8. Living across the landscape
- 9. Dealing with others and the divine
- 10. People of the past
- 11. Community and identity
- 12. Why archaeology?
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