Grant, Jim, 1958-

The Archaeology Coursebook : An introduction to themes, sites, methods and skills / Jim Grant, Sam Gorin and Neil Fleming. - Fourth edition. - xxxiii, 657 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-652) and index.

Part I. Understanding archaeological resources -- Archaeological reconnaissance -- Archaeological excavation -- Post-excavation analyis and archaeological materials -- Understaing dating in archaeology -- Archaeological interpretation -- Part II. Studying themes in archaeology -- Human origins -- Sites and people in the landscape : settlement archaeology -- Economics A: Foraging to farming : the exploitation of plants and animals -- Economics B: Extraction, manufacture, material culture and exchange -- People and society in the past -- The archaeology of religion and ritual -- Part III. Issues in world archaeology -- Managing archaeological heritage -- Archaeology and the present : whose past is it anyway? -- Glossary.

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Archaeology--Study and teaching (Higher)
Archaeology--Methodology.
Archaeology--Examinations--Study guides.

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