Research Catalog

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