Items related to Concise Book of Archaeology
Search results for Concise Book of Archaeology
Stock Image
The Prentice-Hall Concise Book of Archaeology
Published by
Trewin Copplestone Books Ltd., London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0136954529
ISBN 13: 9780136954521
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 96 pp. Includes table of contents, glossary, index and b&w and colour photographs. Book shows light edgewear. Dustjacket shows scratching, edgewear and crease on inside front cover, else in very good condition. ".Explains how archaeologists have worked in the past and how they work today.". Seller Inventory # 006306
Seller Image
The Prentice-Hall Concise Book of Archaeology
Published by
Prentice Hall Canada, Inc, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, 1981
ISBN 10: 0136954529
ISBN 13: 9780136954521
Used
Hardcover
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
4to. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Numerous Colour & b/w Illustrations / Photographs (illustrator). There is more to archaeology than striking a buried object with a spade. Today's archaeologist works as part of a scientific team that can include analysts of radioactive materials, botanists; astronomers, soil experts and code-breakers. Modern archaeology is not unlike highly-skilled o detective work: looking for evidence in the smallest clues and using it to reconstruct a picture of what really happened. THE PRENTICE-HALL CONCISE BOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY explains in non-technical language everything that is involved in present-day archaeology, including sophisticated laboratory techniques. The author takes the reader step by step from the origins of modern scientific archaeology to the great discoveries about past civilizations in such places as Egypt, Crete, the Indus Valley, and Central and South America. Archaeology is about people. The author shows how much we can learn about what people believed (from how they buried their dead), or about the way they lived (from their rubbish dumps). She reconstructs children's toys and the games they played. She shows how we deduce the food people ate and their average life-spans (from organic remains) and how means of transport and different kinds of cattle give clues to the way prehistoric economies developed and changed. She shows, too, how the unwritten history of the past lasted until quite recent times, in lost medieval villages and their field systems, for example, and even in the industrial relics of less than 100 years ago. The illustrations will help you to share in the excitement of discovering forgotten cities and unsuspected works of art, while specially drawn diagrams and reconstructions enable you to visualize the methods archaeologists have developed for understanding the many silent messages from the past. Seller Inventory # 128727