The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills

by Jim Grant, Sam Gorin, Neil Fleming

Overview

This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject.

The Archaeology Coursebook:

• introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand them
• explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations
• supports study with key studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development
• illustrates concepts and commentary with over 400 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment
• provides an overview of human evolution and social development with a particular focus upon European prehistory.

Reflecting changes in archaeological practice and with new key studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams, this is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317541103
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	692
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

All three authors have considerable experience in teaching archaeology, examining and field archaeology. Jim Grant is Vice Principal at Cirencester College. Sam Gorin was formerly a Curriculum Director at Newark and Sherwood College. He has been widely involved in field archaeology in the East Midlands. Neil Fleming is Upper-Sixth House Master at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Understanding Archaeological Resources 1. Archaeological Reconnaissance 2. Archaeological Excavation 3. Post-Excavation Analysis and Archaeological Materials 4. Understanding Dating in Archaeology 5. Archaeological Interpretation Part 2: Studying Themes in Archaeology 6. Human Origins 7. The Sites and People in the Landscapre: Settlement Archaeology 8. Economics A- Forgaing to Farming: The Exploitation of Plants and Animals 9. Economics B: Extraction, Manufacture, Material Culture and Exchange 10. People and Society in the Past 11. The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual Part 3: Issues in World Archaeology 12. Managing Archaeological Heritage13. Archaeology and the Present: Whose past is it anyway?

Editorial Reviews

'The excitement of discovery is tangible on every page. Few archaeology texts offer such varied and stimulating material.' - Mike Wilson, Aquinas College

'A superb introduction to anyone with a general interest in Archaeology. It serves as an excellent and invaluable companion text book to A level Archaeology students, and provides a valuable introductory read for students studying archaeology in higher education.' - Dave Jones - Principal Examiner for A Level Archaeology, UK

'An invaluable resource for students studying archaeology at a variety of levels - school, university, continuing education outreach and educational groups... Current issues and global examples are put into context, and the accessible study skills approach encourages full engagement with deeper complexities within the subject.'

- Ian Baxter, Glasgow Caledonian University

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