About the Book: Archaeology an Introduction 6th Edition
This fully updated sixth edition of a classic classroom text is essential
reading for core courses in archaeology.
Archaeology: An Introduction explains how the subject emerged from an amateur
pursuit in the eighteenth century into a serious discipline and explores
changing trends in interpretation in recent decades. The authors convey the
excitement of archaeology while helping readers to evaluate new discoveries by
explaining the methods and theories that lie behind them. In addition to drawing
upon examples and case studies from many regions of the world and periods of the
past, the book incorporates the authors own