The Practical Archaeologist : How We Know What We Know About the Past - Softcover

McIntosh, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500281815 ISBN 13: 9780500281819

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1999

Synopsis

This reference to the world of modern archaeology provides a practical understanding of what archaeology is, how archaeologists work, and how they interpret the evidence they find. This revised edition focuses on such critical new developments as: CAT scans, DNA analysis and facial reconstruction; computers and archaeology, including virtual reality reconstruction of buildings and pyramids; spectacular royal burials at Sipan; advances in the study of diet, including the chemical composition of human bones and food residues on vessels; new dating technologies; satellite and ground surveys, and what they reveal about Maya lifeways; new analyses of the Sutton Hoo ship burial, including "sand ghosts"; the latest ideas on megaliths and studies of the bones they contain; and techniques of underwater archaeology.

About this title

Review:

. . .[an] enjoyable book. . . . Highly recommended. -- The Book Report, March/April 2000

Praise for the previous edition: "...a first rate book..." -- Scientific American

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0500281815
• ISBN 13: 9780500281819
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192