Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice
Still authoritative, now thoroughly updated by new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais

This authoritative survey of archaeological practice takes a unique approach by launching each chapter with an important question that archaeologists consider. In this edition, new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais, an expert in the archaeology of the Americas, introduces recent discoveries and advances in methodology, analysis, and interpretation, paying special attention to the contributions of women, people of color, and Indigenous communities, and to how the discipline is changing amid calls for decolonization and diversification.
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Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice
Still authoritative, now thoroughly updated by new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais

This authoritative survey of archaeological practice takes a unique approach by launching each chapter with an important question that archaeologists consider. In this edition, new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais, an expert in the archaeology of the Americas, introduces recent discoveries and advances in methodology, analysis, and interpretation, paying special attention to the contributions of women, people of color, and Indigenous communities, and to how the discipline is changing amid calls for decolonization and diversification.
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Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice

Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice

Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice

Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice

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Still authoritative, now thoroughly updated by new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais

This authoritative survey of archaeological practice takes a unique approach by launching each chapter with an important question that archaeologists consider. In this edition, new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais, an expert in the archaeology of the Americas, introduces recent discoveries and advances in methodology, analysis, and interpretation, paying special attention to the contributions of women, people of color, and Indigenous communities, and to how the discipline is changing amid calls for decolonization and diversification.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780500845295
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 07/01/2024
Edition description: Fifth Edition
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 521,144
Product dimensions: 7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Colin Renfrew is Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and former Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He is the author and editor of many books, including Before Civilization, Archaeology and Language, and Prehistory and coeditor (with Paul Bahn) of The Cambridge World Prehistory. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a life peer in the House of Lords.

Paul Bahn is co-author of Thames & Hudson's hugely influential and bestselling textbook Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, and has also published a variety of popular books, including Easter Island: Earth Island (with John Flenley), Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age (with Adrian Lister), and Images of the Ice Age, widely regarded as the standard introduction to cave art.

Elizabeth DeMarrais is Associate Professor in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches archaeological theory and the archaeology of the Americas. She has done fieldwork in Northwest Argentina, Cape Cod, Maui (Hawai‘i), and the American Southwest, and is widely published.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Introduction 8

The nature and aims of archaeology

1 The Searchers 14

The history of archaeology

2 What Is Left? 36

The variety of the evidence

3 Where? 62

Survey and excavation of sites and features

4 When? 106

Dating methods and chronology

5 How Were Societies Organized? 142

Social archaeology

6 What Was the Environment and What Did They Eat? 176

Environment, subsistence, and diet

7 How Were Artifacts Hade, Used, and Distributed? 210

Technology, trade, and exchange

8 What Were They Like? 234

The bioarchaeology of people

9 What Did They Think? 252

Cognitive archaeology

10 Why Did Things Change? 276

Explanation in archaeology

11 Whose Past? 298

Archaeology and the public

12 The Future of the Past 316

Managing our heritage

Glossary 338

Illustration Credits 344

Useful Websites 345

Index 345

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