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.