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Historical Archaeology (2nd Edition)

Significantly revised and expanded, the second edition of this popular book provides a short, readable introduction to historical archaeology.

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Stressing a global perspective, it shows that this subject has real importance to understanding the world in which we live today.

This comprehensive book also includes a look at career prospects in the field for interested readers.

The overall approach is descriptive and explanatory: it describes fundamental principles, the history of the field, and basic definitions; moves through methods and discusses topics such as time and space, historical artifacts, survey, and excavation; and then presents basic archaeological theories and research.

For readers interested in historical archaeology, a rapidly expanding field that has been recently conducted on every continent in the world..

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Author: Charles E. Orser

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Date: Dec. 31, 2003

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