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Archaeology : theories, methods, and practice / Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London : Thames and Hudson, 1996.Edition: 2nd ed. 1st ed. 1991Description: 608 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0500278679
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CC165 R46 1996
Contents:
PART 1. The Framework of Archaeology -- 1. The Searchers : The History of Archaeology -- 2. What is Left? : The Variety of Evidence -- 3. Where? : Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features -- 4. When? : Dating Methods and Chronology -- PART 2. Discovering the Variety of Human Experience -- 5. How Were Societies Organized? : Social Archaeology -- 6. What Was the Environment? : Environmental Archaeology -- 7. What Did They Eat? : Subsistence and Diet -- 8. How Did They Make and Use Tools? : Technology -- 9. What Contact Did They Have? : Trade and Exchange -- 10. What Did They Think? : Cognitive Archaeology, Art and Religion -- 11. Who Were They? What Were They Like? : The Archaeology of People -- 12. Why Did Things Change? : Explanation in Archaeology -- PART 3. The World of Archaeology -- 13. Archaeology in Action : Four Case Studies -- 14. Whose Past? : Archaeology and the Public.
Summary: This is an introduction to all aspects of modern archaeology. The text explores: ideas in cognitive and "postprocessual" archaelogy; 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.
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Books Books Hollanda Araştırma Enstitüsü Kütüphanesi / Netherlands Institute in Turkey Library CC165, R46 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Not For Loan 10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1. The Framework of Archaeology -- 1. The Searchers : The History of Archaeology -- 2. What is Left? : The Variety of Evidence -- 3. Where? : Survey and Excavation of Sites and Features -- 4. When? : Dating Methods and Chronology -- PART 2. Discovering the Variety of Human Experience -- 5. How Were Societies Organized? : Social Archaeology -- 6. What Was the Environment? : Environmental Archaeology -- 7. What Did They Eat? : Subsistence and Diet -- 8. How Did They Make and Use Tools? : Technology -- 9. What Contact Did They Have? : Trade and Exchange -- 10. What Did They Think? : Cognitive Archaeology, Art and Religion -- 11. Who Were They? What Were They Like? : The Archaeology of People -- 12. Why Did Things Change? : Explanation in Archaeology -- PART 3. The World of Archaeology -- 13. Archaeology in Action : Four Case Studies -- 14. Whose Past? : Archaeology and the Public.

This is an introduction to all aspects of modern archaeology. The text explores: ideas in cognitive and "postprocessual" archaelogy; 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.

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