Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice - Softcover

Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500292108 ISBN 13: 9780500292105

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2016

Synopsis

The best-selling archaeology textbook in the world, revised and updated, and now in its seventh edition

Since its first edition, Renfrew and Bahn’s Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice has been the leading academic source on what archaeologists do and how they do it. This indispensable book is a comprehensive introduction to archaeology in the field, the laboratory, and the library.

Archaeology is organized around the key questions that archaeologists ask about the past and details the practical and theoretical ways in which answers to those questions are sought. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the newest developments in the subject and the latest discoveries, and is newly designed with additional box features and extensive drawings, charts, and photographs, all in full color. 750+ illustrations

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Renfrew is Disney Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and former Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He is the author and editor of many books, including Before Civilization, Archaeology and Language, and Prehistory and coeditor (with Paul Bahn) of The Cambridge World Prehistory. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a life peer in the House of Lords.

Paul Bahn is co-author of Thames & Hudson's hugely influential and bestselling textbook Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, and has also published a variety of popular books, including Easter Island: Earth Island (with John Flenley), Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age (with Adrian Lister), and Images of the Ice Age, widely regarded as the standard introduction to cave art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0500292108
• ISBN 13: 9780500292105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672