T. Douglas Price,
University of Wisconsin --- Madison Gary M. Feinman,
The Field Museum
ISBN: 007299634x Copyright year: 2005
New to this Edition
Expanded introductory and concluding chapters provide an in-depth summary of the basic methods, questions, and goals of archaeology along with a discussion of the main themes of the course. New sections on the value of the past and the importance of protecting it and on ethics and careers in archaeology will help students link the past to the present and give students a better sense of why the study of the past matters to the present.
New enticing chapter openers, focussing on photographs, draw students into the topics at hand and motivate them to read.
New learning aids (all new to this market) in this edition include a marginal glossary, marginal thought questions, end-of chapter discussion questions, in-text pronunciation help, and orientation globes. The new pedagogy helps students master the details and think critically about how the details fit into the big picture.
A new four-color design throughout includes a full color art program with many new photographs that illustrate the vibrancy of many finds, as well as many redrawn illustrations that now make pedagogical use of color.
Several new sites have been added, including Atapuerca, Kennewick, Khok Phanom Di, Angkor, and Vindolanda.
New information has been included on the first Americans, extinctions, ice age art, genetics, bone chemistry, the origins of agriculture, Neanderthal diet, Catalhoyuk, domestication, the Iceman, extinct hominids, CO2, the latest early hominid sites in Chad East Africa and Georgia, and ideology and social organization.
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