Brian Silberman (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. . Volume 51. Number 5. Slightly dampstained. Mertz's address label on front cover. In polypropylene bag. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on rear cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (anthropology, archaeology, periodicals). …

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Sehr gut. 844 p. Ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ A very good and clean copy. - The Oxford Companion to Archaeology celebrates this remarkable metamorphosis with a comprehensive look at archaeology and archaeologists. Like all Oxford Companions, it strives to make specialized knowledge available and accessible to a wide range of audiences, including interested nonspecialists. An encyclopedic survey of the field written by established experts is long overdue, for the dramatic advances in archaeological methods and both the spectacular and not-so-well known discoveries of recent years have often passed by the world at large. These pages offer a global assessment of archaeology's achievements, scientists' reconstruction of the past, and archaeologists' contributions to society, at a time when the precious archives of the human past are vanishing rapidly under the onslaught of modem industrial development, systematic looting, and intensive agriculture. This volume offers a particularly timely reminder of the importance of the past to the present and future. ISBN 9780195076189 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1733.…