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Time detectives : how archeologists use technology to recapture the past

Title
Time detectives : how archeologists use technology to recapture the past / by Brian Fagan.
Author
Fagan, Brian M.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1995.

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Description
288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
The focus of archeology has changed from collecting artifacts to using advanced technology to learn more about how our ancestors lived.
Subject
  • Archaeology > Technological innovations
  • Archaeology > History
  • Archaeology > Methodology
  • 15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology
  • Archaeology > Methodology
  • Archaeology
  • Archaeology > Technological innovations
  • Archäologie
  • Neue Technologie
  • Archäometrie
  • Ausgrabung
  • Physikalisches Verfahren
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Archeologie
  • Technologie
  • Archeology > Technique
  • Archeology > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-270) and index.
Contents
The inconspicuous oasis -- "Where he got his head smashed in" -- The chumash -- Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates -- Anasazi -- The enigma of Flag Fen -- Searching for Eden -- Vintages of pharaohs -- Uluburun -- Glyphs of the forest -- Footplows and raised fields -- A wall against Barbarians -- Annapolis, Maryland.
ISBN
  • 0671793853
  • 9780671793852
  • 0671712470
  • 9780671712471
  • 0684818280
  • 9780684818283
LCCN
94032458
OCLC
  • ocm31075053
  • 31075053
  • SCSB-2040649
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library