The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods - Softcover

Grant, Jim; Gorin, Sam; Fleming, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415360773 ISBN 13: 9780415360777

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

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 case studies in this second 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 and how to succeed with different types of assignments and exam questions 
• supports study with case studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development 
• illustrates concepts and commentary with over 200 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment 
• links from its own website to other key websites in archaeology at the right level at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415360773
• contains new material from European pre-history and the Roman Empire; new case studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students.

This is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.

About this title

Review:

"Every archaeology prof I have ever met has complained about how few really useful introductory archaeological texts there are. These academics complain that they cannot find a text that discusses not just field and lab methods, but the reasons for the methods, how those methods intertwine to make a coherent whole, and how to make inferences from them. This is, no doubt about it, a lot to ask from a book. "The Archaeology Coursebook, substitled "An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics, and Methods," is an valiant effort from Routledge.Liberally assisted with additional resources for investigation--both Internet and standard text--the "Archaeology Coursebook is a welcome addition to available teaching guides. If you don't use it as a text, you will use it as a resource for teaching.."-K. Kris Hirst, About.com

Synopsis:

This fully updated and revised new edition of the bestselling title "The Archaeology Coursebook," is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and case studies in this second 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. Specially designed to assist learning it: - 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 and how to succeed with different types of assignments and exam questions - supports study with case studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development - illustrates concepts and commentary with over 200 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment - links from its own website at www routledge/textbooks/0415...to other key websites in archaeology at the right level - contains new material on British pre-history and the Roman Empire; new case studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students.

A book no archaeology student should be without.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415360773
• ISBN 13: 9780415360777
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384