The Archaeology Coursebook

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso..

Part I. Understanding archaeological resources -- Archaeological reconnaissance -- Archaeological excavation -- Post-excavation analyis and archaeological materials -- Understaing dating in archaeology -- Archaeological interpretation -- Part II. Studying themes in archaeology -- Human origins -- Sites and people in the landscape : settlement archaeology -- Economics A: Foraging to farming : the exploitation of plants and animals -- Economics B: Extraction, manufacture, material culture and exchange -- People and society in the past -- The archaeology of religion and ritual -- Part III. Issues in world archaeology -- Managing archaeological heritage -- Archaeology and the present : whose past is it anyway? -- Glossary..

Includes bibliographical references (pages 638-652) and index..