Archaeology
Subtitle: theories, methods and practice
By: Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn
Contributors: Bahn, Peter, 1953-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780500289761
Subjects: Archaeology; Methodology
Notes: "College edition includes online study guide and website."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-633) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the college edition; title: Introduction: The nature and aims of archaeology; title: Part I: The framework of archaeology. The searchers : the history of archaeology ; What is left? : the variety of evidence ; Where? : survey and excavation of sites and features ; When? : dating methods and chronology; title: Part II: Discovering the variety of human experience. How were societies organized? : social archaeology ; What was the environment? : environmental archaeology ; What did they eat? : 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 bioarchaeology of people ; Why did things change? : explanation in archaeology; title: Part III: The world of archaeology. Archaeology in action : five case studies ; Whose past? : archaeology and the public ; The future of the past : how to manage the heritage? ; The new searchers : building a career in archaeology; title: Glossary.