The History of Archaeology

by Maev Kennedy

• ISBN13: 9781841003115
• ISBN10: 1841003115
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Quadrillion Media LLC

Author Biography

Maev Kennedy works as the Heritage Correspondent for The Guardian newspaper in London, England, where her particular interests are archaeology and conservation issues. Born in Dublin, she has also worked for The Irish Times

Table of Contents

Timeline	p. 6
Site Map	p. 8
Introduction	p. 10
Ancient Ancestors	p. 12
Before the Flood: The Stone Age	p. 14
The Painted Hunt	p. 16
Out of Africa, Into Australia	p. 18
Old Bones and the Leakeys	p. 20
Living in the Bones: Ukrainian Mammoth Bone Houses	p. 22
The Bronze Age	p. 24
Worshipping the Sun and Astonishing the Neighbours: The Bronze Age	p. 26
Merlin's Calendar: Stonehenge	p. 28
The Sun Also Rises: The Boyne Valley	p. 30
The Marching Stones: Carnac	p. 32
Immortal Furniture: Scara Brae	p. 34
The Romans Arrive: Maiden Castle	p. 36
Eye Witnesses from the Past: The Bog People, The Ice Man, The Ice Maiden	p. 38
The Inuit Ice Baby	p. 40
The Middle East	p. 42
History is Invented: The Archaeology of Writing	p. 44
Nineveh	p. 46
Ur: Leonard Wooley's Society Dig	p. 48
Bogazkoy: The Hittites Uncovered	p. 50
The Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 52
Mohenjo-Daro	p. 54
Egypt	p. 56
Egypt Finds its Voice Again: The Rosetta Stone	p. 58
Napoleon's Donkeys Struggle into the Desert	p. 60
Tutankhamun: The Most Famous Question and Answer in Archaeology	p. 62
Where the Workers Lived: Deir	p. 64
The Rescue of Abu Simbel	p. 66
Ramesses, An Immortal Hero	p. 68
Hatshepsut: Terrorism Among the Tombs	p. 70
Faces From a Crossroads: The Hawara Mummies	p. 72
China and The Far East	p. 74
The Greatest Wall: China and the Far East	p. 76
The Divine Bronze Age: Shang Bronzes	p. 78
The Emperor's Army	p. 80
Immortality in Jade Pyjamas	p. 82
The Silk Road: Curiosity Lures the Chinese Out	p. 84
Japan: The Mirror in the Keyhole	p. 86
Borobudar: A Mountain of Stone Rises Again	p. 88
Angkor Wat: A World Heritage Site on the Black Market	p. 90
Greece	p. 92
Digging for Homer: Greece	p. 94
Troy	p. 96
Mycenae	p. 98
Evans and Knossos	p. 100
Elgin	p. 102
The School of Athens	p. 104
Delphi: The End of the Gods	p. 106
Rome	p. 108
The Scholar Cuckold: William Hamilton	p. 110
Petra: One Immortal Line of Poetry	p. 112
The Painted Peace: The Happy Etruscans	p. 114
Rome: The Renaissance Treasure Hunter's Larder	p. 116
An Eyewitness to Archaeology: Pliny and Pompeii	p. 118
Bath: Minerva in a Sewer	p. 120
Lepcis Magna: The Triumph of the Local Boy Made Good	p. 122
Hadrian's Wall: Cold Feet on the Border of Empire	p. 124
Biblical Archaeology	p. 126
Christianity and the Archaeology of Faith	p. 128
The Walls Fall Down: Jericho	p. 130
The Queen of Sheba and Great Zimbabwe	p. 132
Jerusalem: Archaeology Under a Shower of Stones	p. 134
Celtic Asceticism on the Rim of Ireland	p. 136
Coptic Christians: A Living Link to Ancient Egypt	p. 138
The Ark: The Search Continues	p. 140
Americas	p. 142
Yearning for Vikings: The Kensington Stone and American Archaeology	p. 144
L'Anse Aux Meadows and the Missing Vineyard	p. 146
Jefferson, The 'Father' of American Archaeology, Digs Up His Own Back Yard	p. 148
Great Serpent Mound, A Puzzling Monument	p. 150
Jamestown, The Colony That Failed	p. 152
Mesa Verde, The Cattle Rancher's Treasury	p. 154
The Bloody Ball Game: The Mayans at Copan	p. 156
The Aztecs Under Mexico	p. 158
Sipan: The Unlooked For Royal Tombs	p. 160
Machu Picchu, The Misinterpreted City in the Clouds	p. 162
El Plomo, Chile: The Saddest Sacrifices	p. 164
Modern Times	p. 166
The Ancient History of Modern Times	p. 168
Archaeology Gets its Feet Wet	p. 170
Bringing Up the Boats: The Mary Rose and the Vasa	p. 172
Palaces Under the Sea: Cleopatra's Alexandria	p. 174
Cooking Pots and the Industrial Revolution	p. 176
Any Old Iron? The Archaeology of Yesterday's Redundancies	p. 178
And Did Those Feet? A Retired Chiropodist Looks Down	p. 180
More Science, Less Digging, and Still the Water Rises: Conclusion	p. 182
Glossary	p. 184
Book List	p. 186
Index	p. 187
Acknowledgements	p. 192
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