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Archaeology Coursebook; An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods
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Every archaeology prof I have ever met has complained about how few really useful introductory archaeological texts there are. These academics complain that they cannot find a text that discusses not just field and lab methods, but the reasons for the methods, how those methods intertwine to make a coherent whole, and how to make inferences from them. This is, no doubt about it, a lot to ask from a book. The Archaeology Coursebook, substitled An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics, and Methods, is an valiant effort from Routledge.Liberally assisted with additional resources for investigation--both Internet and standard text--the Archaeology Coursebook is a welcome addition to available teaching guides. If you dont use it as a text, you will use it as a resource for teaching..
–K. Kris Hirst, About.com
15/02/2004
I love history, and books about history, but sometimes you just really get the urge for hands on work with it. There is something amazing about finding an artifact, touching the distance past - well there is nothing like it. But you need basics. History needs handling with respect.
Most archaeology books are geared to those familiar with all the techniques and terms, they are too complex or boring to the layman, but this book is exactly the opposite. A thorough work (if they sold it by weight alone, it would be a steal!!). There is little this book does not cover, such as different type of surveys, excavating, how to analyse these steps, making sense of the data. They cover threats to historical sites today, how to use the space and set up of on a dig, the art, the dwellings, what the people lived on...well, I could go on and on; if you need to know it, it's here.
It's presented in a crisp, logical fashion with oodles of diagrams and photographs, and in easy to follow language. I just cannot recommend this highly enough for true history buffs that want to leave that armchair and get involved in our heritage. The books is written primarily for England, but these teaching will apply for any country.
Excellence resource for writers as well!
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