A little history of archaeology
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- ISBN: 9780300224641 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0300224648
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viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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General Note: | Includes index (pages [268]-277). |
Formatted Contents Note: | The "backward-looking curiosity" -- Donkeys and pharaohs -- Reading ancient Egypt -- Digging into Nineveh -- Tablets and tunnelling -- The Maya revealed -- Axes and elephants -- A huge turning point -- The three ages -- Stone Age hunters in an icy world -- Across the ages -- The myth of the mound builders -- "Stepping into the unknown" -- Toros! Toros! -- Searching for Homer's heroes -- "Organised common sense" -- The small and unspectacular -- The palace of the minotaur -- Not "men's work" -- Mud bricks and a flood -- "Wonderful things" -- A palace fit for a chief -- East and west -- Shell heaps, pueblos and tree rings -- A fire-breathing giant -- Around the river bend -- Dating the ages -- Ecology and world prehistory -- "Dear boy!" -- The first farmers -- Defending the Emperor -- Underwater archaeology -- Meeting the colonists -- The Ice Man and others -- Warrior-priests of the Moche -- Tunnelling for the cosmos -- C̦atalhöyük -- Looking in the landscape -- Shining a light on the invisible -- Archaeology today and tomorrow. |
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Subject: | Archaeology -- History Archaeology -- Methodology |
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Hazelton Public Library | 930.1 Fag (Text) | 35154000127450 | Adult Non-Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |