A little history of archaeology /
"The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe. What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Arch...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Little Histories
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Table of Contents:
- The "backward-looking curiosity"
- Donkeys and pharaohs
- Reading ancient Egypt
- Digging into Nineveh
- Tablets and tunnelling
- The Maya revealed
- Axes and elephants
- A huge turning point
- The three ages
- Stone Age hunters in an icy world
- Across the ages
- The myth of the mound builders
- "Stepping into the unknown"
- Toros! Toros!
- Searching for Homer's heroes
- "Organised common sense"
- The small and unspectacular
- The palace of the minotaur
- Not "men's work"
- Mud bricks and a flood
- "Wonderful things"
- A palace fit for a chief
- East and west
- Shell heaps, pueblos and tree rings
- A fire-breathing giant
- Around the river bend
- Dating the ages
- Ecology and world prehistory
- "Dear boy!"
- The first farmers
- Defending the Emperor
- Underwater archaeology
- Meeting the colonists
- The Ice Man and others
- Warrior-priests of the Moche
- Tunnelling for the cosmos
- C̦atalhöyük
- Looking in the landscape
- Shining a light on the invisible
- Archaeology today and tomorrow.
