Exploring the past : readings in archaeology /

Exploring the past : readings in archaeology / edited by James M. Bayman and Miriam T. Stark. - Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2000. - xvii, 566 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining Archaeology -- Archaeology's past -- The archaeology of human origins and the human diaspora -- Conducitng fieldwork in archaeology -- measuring time in archaeology -- New techniques in archaeology -- Archaeological approaches to technology -- Making a living -- Social and political life in the ancient world -- Art, ritual, and ideology -- Experiment and ethnography in "Living Archaeology" -- Archaeology and the contemporary world -- Archaeology's future.

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Archaeology.
Archaeology--Methodology.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Antiquities, Prehistoric.

CC 165 / .E88 2000