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Archaeology : theories, methods, and practice / Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn ; with over 550 illustrations.
- Title
- Archaeology : theories, methods, and practice / Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn ; with over 550 illustrations.
- Author
- Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
- Publication
- London : Thames and Hudson, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Bahn, Paul G.
- Description
- 608 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 23 cm.
- Summary
- This is an introduction to all aspects of modern archaeology. The text explores: ideas in cognitive and "postprocessual" archaeology; the archaeology of gender and the role of women archaeologists; new methods, such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems), optical dating and DNA research; and recent discoveries - the Alpine "Iceman", the Palaeolithic painted caves of Cosquer and Chauvet in France, the mass grave of pre-modern humans at Atapuerca, Spain, and the pre-Columbian gold finds at Sipan, Peru. The book includes an in-depth case study on a key site in Southeast Asia.
- Subject
- Archaeology
- Genre/Form
- Textbooks
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction : the nature and aims of archaeology -- The searchers : the history of archaeology -- What is left? : the variety of the evidence -- Where? : survey and excavation of sites and features -- When? : dating methods and chronology -- How were societies organized? : social archaeology -- What was the environment? : environmental archaeology -- What did they ear? : subsistence and diet -- How did they make and use tools? : technology -- What contact did they have? : trade and exchange -- What did they think? : cognitive archaeology, art and religion -- Who were they? What were they like? : the archaeology of people -- Why did things change? : explanation in archaeology -- Archaeology in action : four case studies -- Whose past? : archaeology and the public -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 0500050791 (hardcover)
- 0500278679 (paperback)
- LCCN
- ^^^95070511^
- OCLC
- 34521234
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library