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Archaeology

Theories, Methods and Practice


  • Thames & Hudson - Academic
  • by Colin Renfrew
Since its first edition, Renfrew and Bahn''s Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice has been the leading educational source on what archaeologists do and how they do it. The text 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 eighth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.

ISBN 9780500294246 | E | PB
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Publisher Thames & Hudson - Academic
ISBN 9780500294246
Author(s) Colin Renfrew
Publication date August 2020
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 229 x 187 mm
Illustrations 800 col.ill.
Pages 672
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Description
New to this Edition

• Updated treatment of postcolonial approaches and indigenous archaeology, with coverage of the ontological turn in archaeology, and new examples of community archaeology in southern Africa and Australia.
• New discoveries and research across the globe, such as archaeological evidence of social hierarchies at the ancient city of Liangzhu, China, and recent evidence of Neanderthal art in France and Spain.
• A more inclusive picture of archaeology, raising the profile of women in the discipline’s history, and describing the development of archaeology in China and Japan.
• In Chapter Five, updated treatment of social organization, with critical evaluations of Service’s model, and new coverage of heterarchies.
• New box features include: forensic archaeology