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

a real nice clean 192 page first edition hardcover. Has just a touch of wear and is very nice. Illustrated throughout with photos and drawings. Provides a practical understanding of what archeology is, how archaeologists work, and how they interpret the evidence they find.Focuses on such critical new developments as: CAT scans, DNA analysis and facial reconstruction; computers and archeology, 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 archeology. Size: 10h x 7 1/2w.