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Archaeology : a very short introduction
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Archaeology : a very short introduction

Author: Paul G Bahn; Bill Tidy
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series: Very short introductions, 10.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2[nd] fully updated new edView all editions and formats
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This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years. From deserts to jungles, from deep caves to mountain tops, from pebble tools to satellite photographs, from excavation to abstract theory, archaeology interacts with nearly every other discipline  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paul G Bahn; Bill Tidy
ISBN: 9780199657438 0199657432
OCLC Number: 792747128
Notes: Edition from label on cover.
Description: xviii, 118 p : ill. ; 18 cm.
Contents: The origins and development of archaeology --
Making a date --
Technology --
How did people live? --
How did people think? --
Settlement and society --
How and why did things change? --
Minorities and sororities --
Presenting the past to the public --
The future of the past.
Series Title: Very short introductions, 10.
Responsibility: Paul Bahn ; with illustrations by Bill Tidy.

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The explorations of archaeology encompass the whole globe, survey 2.5 million years, and range from deserts to jungles, from deep caves to mountain tops, and from pebble tools to GPS. Its efforts to  Read more...
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<br>Acclaim for the first edition: <br><p><br>"A quite brilliant and level-headed look at the curious world of archaeology." Read more...

 
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