Archaeology: Discovering the Past

by John Orna-Ornstein

Hardcover, 2002

Status

Available

Local notes

930.1 Orn

Barcode

6364

Collection

Publication

Oxford University Press (2002), 48 pages

Description

Normal font archaeology could be described as the study of everything in the past. People, animals, plants, weather, war, peace, food, clothing, art, architecture, beliefs and ideas - you name it, and some archaeologists, somewhere, are studying it. They may be on their knees in a muddy trench painstakingly uncovering a pot, or some human bones. They may be operating the most state-of-the-art computer equipment, CAT scanners and electron scanning microscopes or they may be surveying the ground from planes. They may be in a museum, carefully cataloguing the most precious - or ordinary - relics of the past. This book aims to convey the importance, the variety and the excitement of archaeology.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

48 p.; 11 inches

Pages

48
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