THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1996
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1996, 844pp, maps, light shelfwear to cover, slight soiling to pg edges, contents clean.
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- Title
- THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
- Author
- Fagan, Brian M. ed.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195076184
- ISBN 13
- 9780195076189
The range of subjects covered here is breathtaking - everything from the domestication of the camel, to Egyptian hieroglyphics, to luminescence dating, to the Mayan calendar, to Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge. Readers will find extensive essays that illuminate the full history of archaeology - from the discovery of Herculaneum in 1783, to the recent finding of the `Ice Man' and the ancient city of Uruk - and engaging biographies of the great figures in the field, from Gertrude Bell, Paul Emile Botta, and Louis and Mary Leakey, to V. Gordon Childe, Li Chi, Heinrich Schliemann, and Max Uhle. The Companion offers extensive coverage of the methods used in archaeological research, revealing how archaeologists find sites (remote sensing, aerial photography, ground survey), how they map excavations and report findings, and how they analyse artifacts (radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, stratigraphy, mortuary analysis). Of course, archaeology's great subject is humanity and human culture, and there are broad essays that examine human evolution - ranging from our early primate ancestors, to Australopithecus and Cro-Magnon, to Homo Erectus and Neanderthals - and explore the many general facets of culture, from art and architecture, to arms and armour, to beer and brewing, to astronomy and religion. And perhaps most important, the contributors provide insightful coverage of human culture as it has been expressed in every region of the world. Here entries range from broad overviews, to treatments of particular themes, to discussions of peoples, societies, and particular sites. Thus, anyone interested in North America would find articles that cover the continent from the Arctic to the Eastern woodlands to the Northwest Coast, that discuss the Iroquois and Algonquian cultures, the hunters of the North American plains, and the Norse in North America, and that describe sites such as Mesa Verde, Meadowcraft Rockshelter, Serpent Mound, and Poverty Point. Likewise, the coverage of Europe runs from the Paleolithic period, to the Bronze and Iron Age, to the Post-Roman era, looks at peoples such as the Celts, the Germans, the Vikings, and the Slavs, and describes sites at Altamira, Pompeii, Stonehenge, Terra Amata, and dozens of other locales. The Companion offers equally thorough coverage of Africa, Europe, North America, Mesoamerica, South America, Asia, the Mediterranean, the Near East, Australia and the Pacific. And finally, the editors have included extensive cross-referencing and thorough indexing, enabling the reader to pursue topics of interest with ease; charts and maps providing additional information; and bibliographies after most entries directing readers to the best sources for further study.
Every Oxford Companion aspires to be the definitive overview of a field of study at a particular moment of time. This superb volume is no exception.
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About the Author
Charlotte Beck is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College. George Michaels is a Mayan archaeologist and an Instructional Consultant at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Chris Scarre is Assistant Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. Neil Asher Silberman is an independent scholar.
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