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ARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION - an electronic companion |
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I converted my book's table of contents into an HTML script to provide a framework for adding relevant URLs as I become aware of them (please send me details of any that you think should be included). I then added short explanatory extracts from my text, with page references to the published source. Obviously, not all of the book's chapter and section headings have directly useful WWW links, but I have left them in place to allow additions. If you use or own the book, you will know its layout, and can go straight to the list of chapters below; if not, you can look at a full listing of the Table of contents and then return to this page to select the chapter you wish to explore.
How the concerns of modern archaeologists developed in the past - human origins; the recognition of human tools; the recording of ancient sites; the investigation of early civilizations.
Non-destructive ways of looking at sites in their local and regional settings.
This chapter not only explains how excavation is conducted, but also emphasises the background work that precedes it, and the time-consuming processing of site records and finds for publication.
Dating is the key to organising all archaeological evidence; the development of dating methods, whether 'traditional' or scientific, illustrates the ingenuity of archaeological problem-solving.
There are few questions about the past that would not benefit from investigation with the help of the natural or biological sciences; indeed, many questions may only be answered with the assistance of scientific methods.
Are we simply making what we want of the past because we can do nothing about the present, let alone change the future?
A rag-bag of general resources, plus others that did not fit into this 'electronic companion'. NB: If you have an idea of what it is that you are looking for try Google!, a search-engine that will allow you to make searches using simple keywords.
This book's third edition (1995) was a completely revised version of the original published by Batsford in 1983 and updated in 1990. The title was reissued in 1996 by Routledge with a new ISBN (0 415 16607 1: click here for the on-line details or use the search facilities provided on the Routledge pages). The American edition is published by University of Pennsylvania Press (ISBN 0 8122 1570 2: search Amazon Books for details). You can read a short review published in Current Archaeology. If you want to see what the cover looks like, click here.
Please remember that all paragraphs of text from my book included in this web site are copyright, and should not be quoted without acknowledgement or copied without my permission.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
I am still developing these pages, having had initial help in HTML programming from Christine Martinez, and training from Netskills. I have attempted to inform all WWW site-owners about my links to their pages - please get in touch if I have not managed to contact you! Comments, suggestions of relevant sites that I have missed, and reports of problems or errors welcomed! (E-mail me: kevin.greene@ncl.ac.uk). Please let me know if you link this site to your pages.
I work at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (England) in the Department of Archaeology. I teach courses on methodology and practical skills, pottery and the Roman economy, and Britain in the first millennium AD. My research interests centre upon economic aspects of the Roman period, and technological developments in the classical and early medieval worlds.
Further information:
Home page of the University of Newcastle
Home page of the Department of Archaeology
Information about Newcastle upon Tyne, a city noted for classical architecture, Brown Ale, and football (not necessarily in that order...)