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9780415064484

Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415064484

  • ISBN10:

    0415064481

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-08-03
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The 26 articles in this newCompanion Encyclopediaprovide an invaluable compendium of the themes, issues and background of this popular, but complex field. This two-volume set offers definitive coverage of the field as a whole, and is divided into three thematic sections: Part I--Origins, aims and methods * Features articles on the history and theory of the discipline, and the techniques used in the study of archaeological evidence. Part II Problems and approaches * Examines how archaeologists approach such themes as culture, identity, society, territory, population and beliefs across the traditional boundaries of period and place. Part III--The development of human society * Integrates the concerns which are addressed in the previous two sections and draws together the methods and approaches in studying hunter-gatherer societies, developing models for state formation, examining medieval demographic trends, and understanding early modern andindustrial societies. Academics in archaeology and related disciplines, field archaeologists, undergraduate and postgraduate students, amateur archaeologists and the informed general reader will all find this a fascinating and useful reference tool.

Table of Contents

Origins, aims and methods
Discovering the past
The development of archeological theory: explaining the past
The nature of archeological evidence
Field archeology
Establishing archeological chronologies
Reconstructing environment and landscape
Studying People
Studying structures
Studying artefacts
Preserving and presenting the evidence
Themes and approaches
Culture and identity
The organization of society
Settlement and territory
Food and farming
Production and exchange in prehistory
Production and exchange in historical archeology
Population, health and disease
Cognition, thought, ideas and beliefs
Writing Archaeological History
Human evolution
Hunter-gatherer societies
Early agricultural societies
The development of rank societies
Urbanization and state formation
The development of empires
Post-collapse societies
Europe in the Middle Ages
The archeology of Islam
The archaeology of the modern state: European colonialism
The archaeology of industrialisation
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