Arkeoloji - Kuramlar, Yöntemler ve Uygulama

What's New in This Edition

• Cutting-edge survey, excavation and recording techniques, including drones and 3D modelling, bringing archaeological practice into the digital age
• The latest scientific developments in archaeology, including genetic analysis and dating
• New discoveries include a desert camp used by Lawrence of Arabia in his World War I operations; a 45,000-year-old anatomically modern human femur that sheds new light on our connection to Neanderthals; and the earliest evidence of fire from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
• Eleven new thematic boxes: Ice Patch Archaeology; Interpretation and Mapping with Aerial Imagery; Excavation of an Urban Archaeological Site; Open Hierarchy at Mississippi Period Spiro; Seasonality at Star Carr; The Origins of Agriculture: A Case Study (Jerf el Ahmar); Glassware from the Roman Mediterranean in Japan; Cape Brodgar: The Centre of Ceremonial Orkney; Grauballe Man: The Body in the Bog; Richard III; Cultural Resource Management in Practice: The METRO Rail Project

Contents

• 672 pages covering all aspects of archaeology on a global scale, from applied methods to theoretical approaches, from its history to excavation and interpretation in contemporary archaeology
• Over 700 images including maps, tables, diagrams and reconstructions
• Over 100 thematic boxes on key topics, from the origins of agriculture to the collapse of civilisations, from frozen mummies to ancient shipwrecks, and summaries of 30 influential excavations
• Five comprehensive case studies of major projects in Mexico, the United States, Australia, Southeast Asia, and the United Kingdom
• Six experts share their career stories in the latest episode, Making a Career in Archaeology
• A glossary of archaeological terms with a complete reference section and suggestions for further reading