The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods - Softcover

Grant, Jim; Gorin, Sam; Fleming, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415360773 ISBN 13: 9780415360777

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

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 case studies in this second 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 and how to succeed with different types of assignments and exam questions 
• supports study with case studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development 
• illustrates concepts and commentary with over 200 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment 
• links from its own website to other key websites in archaeology at the right level at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415360773
• contains new material from European pre-history and the Roman Empire; new case studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students.

This is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Grant is a Principal Examiner in A Level Archaeology and Assistant Principal at Cirencester College. He is also a member of the subject advisory panel for archaeology at the Higher Education Academy for teaching and learning and has experience as an archaeologist in the field.

Sam Gorin is Chief Moderator for A Level Archaeology and until recently was head of general studies at Newark and Sherwood College. He has 20 years experience as a professional archaeologist.

Neil Fleming is Chief Examiner in A Level Archaeology and Upper Sixth Housemaster at Christ’s Hospital school. He is a highly experienced teacher of archaeology who also has field archaeology experience.

Review:

Every archaeology prof I have ever met has complained about how few really useful introductory archaeological texts there are. These academics complain that they cannot find a text that discusses not just field and lab methods, but the reasons for the methods, how those methods intertwine to make a coherent whole, and how to make inferences from them. This is, no doubt about it, a lot to ask from a book. The Archaeology Coursebook, substitled An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics, and Methods, is an valiant effort from Routledge.Liberally assisted with additional resources for investigation--both Internet and standard text--the Archaeology Coursebook is a welcome addition to available teaching guides. If you dont use it as a text, you will use it as a resource for teaching..
–K. Kris Hirst, About.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415360773
• ISBN 13: 9780415360777
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384