Customer Center
- support.gale.com
- E-newsletters
- Free Marketing Materials
- Gale's Literary Index
-
Join us on
- Product Training
Product Center
Milestones in Archaeology: A Chronological Encyclopedia
- Published by ABC-CLIO
Treasures, temples and tombs; pyramids, pots, and projectile points - the stuff of archaeology has captured people's imagination since the first digs in the 16th century. Although humans have always been fascinated with the past, the formal discipline of archaeology has existed for only 500 years. This book details the surprisingly controversial course of those five centuries.
The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods - Birth of Archaeology (16th-18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An introductory essay acquaints the reader with the essence of the science for each period. The short entries comprising the balance of the book expand on the themes introduced in the essays.
Organized around personalities, techniques, controversies, and conflicts, the encyclopedia brings to life the history of archaeology. It broadens the general reader's knowledge by detailing the professional significance of widely known discoveries while introducing to wider knowledge obscure but important moments in archaeology. Archaeology is replete with the visionaries and swashbucklers of popular myth; it is also filled with careful and dedicated scientists.
- Published/Released: June 2010
- Original Copyright: 2007
- ISBN 13: 9781851096459
- ISBN 10: 1851096450
- Product number: 257465
- Shipping Weight: 1.00 lbs (0.45 kgs)
Price: Sign In for price
