The Archaeology Coursebook
eBook - ePub

The Archaeology Coursebook

An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills

  1. 658 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Archaeology Coursebook

An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access The Archaeology Coursebook by Jim Grant,Sam Gorin,Neil Fleming in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Archaeology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781317541103
Edition
4

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Illustration acknowledgements
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. PART I UNDERSTANDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES
  10. PART II STUDYING THEMES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
  11. PART III ISSUES IN WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
  12. Glossary of terms and abbreviations
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index