In the beginning
Subtitle: an introduction to archaeology
By: Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani
Contributors: Durrani, Nadia
Edition: Thirteenth edition.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205966677
Subjects: Archaeology; Methodology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing archaeology; title: The beginnings of scientific archaeology: sixth century B.C. to the 1950s; title: The many-voiced past: archaeological thought from the 1950s to now; title: The basics; title: Matrix and preservation; title: Doing archaeological research; title: Culture, data, and context; title: How old is it?; title: Recovering the data; title: They sought it here, they sought it there: finding the past; title: How to excavate; title: Analyzing the past: artifacts and technology; title: Classifying artifacts; title: Technologies of the ancients; title: Studying environments and people; title: Ancient environments; title: What did we eat?; title: The living past; title: Landscape and settlement; title: Interactions: people of the past; title: Archaeology and the intangible; title: Managing the past; title: Cultural resource management (crm[nh2]) and public archaeology; title: Archaeology and contemporary society; title: Careers and resources; title: So you want to become an archaeologist?