Archaeology: Theories, Methods and PracticeThames & Hudson, 2008 - 656 pages This best-selling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it has now been completely revised. Structured according to the key questions that archaeologists ask themselves, it provides coverage of all the major developments in methods, science, technology, and theory.For the fifth edition, the voices of indigenous archaeologists have been included, and there is updated coverage of archaeological ethics and Cultural Resource Management. Recent findings are discussed, and there is expanded coverage of topics such as bioarchaeology and geoarchaeology. |
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... preserved only by the cold , not by any process of artificial mummification . The Incas of the 15-16th centuries AD built more than 100 ceremonial centers on many of the highest peaks in their empire , since they worshipped the snow ...
... preserved only by the cold , not by any process of artificial mummification . The Incas of the 15-16th centuries AD built more than 100 ceremonial centers on many of the highest peaks in their empire , since they worshipped the snow ...
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... preserved , particularly his hands : the well - kept fingernails and absence of calluses suggest that he may have been an individual of relatively high status . Analysis of his stomach contents revealed a final meal of cereals and ...
... preserved , particularly his hands : the well - kept fingernails and absence of calluses suggest that he may have been an individual of relatively high status . Analysis of his stomach contents revealed a final meal of cereals and ...
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... Preserved by burial under sand and brine , it is thought to be a ritual structure , perhaps an " altar " for exposing corpses which would then be taken away by the sea . It has been tree - ring dated to c . 2050/2049 BC . DISCOVERING ...
... Preserved by burial under sand and brine , it is thought to be a ritual structure , perhaps an " altar " for exposing corpses which would then be taken away by the sea . It has been tree - ring dated to c . 2050/2049 BC . DISCOVERING ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 9 |
How Did They Make and Use Tools? | 10 |
BOX FEATURES | 11 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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absolute dating activity Africa American analysis ancient animals Antiquity archae archaeological record archaeological sites archaeology artifacts bones Bronze Age burial buried calibration Calusa Çatalhöyük cave century Chapter chronology climate cognitive cognitive archaeology context copper cores culture deposits early environment environmental Europe evidence example excavation groups hominin human hunter-gatherer Ice Age identified important indicate individual interpretation isotope Kent Flannery landscape layers Lewis Binford London material Maya Mesoamerica modern monuments mounds Museum Neanderthal Neolithic objects obsidian Optical Dating organic Paleolithic past pattern percent period phytoliths plant Pleistocene pollen population pottery prehistoric preserved Press processual archaeology produced radiocarbon dates recent reconstruction region remains revealed Roman sample sediments sequence settlement social societies soil species stone tools stratigraphic structures surface survey symbolic techniques Teotihuacán tomb tree-ring Univ Upper Paleolithic York