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The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills
Contributor(s): Grant, Jim (Author), Gorin, Sam (Author), Fleming, Neil (Author)
ISBN: 1138132934     ISBN-13: 9781138132931
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $178.20  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Archaeology
Dewey: 930.1
Physical Information: 658 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject.

The Archaeology Coursebook:

  • introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand them

  • explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations

  • supports study with key studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development

  • illustrates concepts and commentary with over 400 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment

  • provides an overview of human evolution and social development with a particular focus upon European prehistory.

Reflecting changes in archaeological practice and with new key studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams, this is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.