Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice, 7th Edition

The best-selling archaeology textbook in the world, revised and updated, and now in its seventh edition

Since its first edition, Renfrew and Bahn’s Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice has been the leading academic source on what archaeologists do and how they do it. This indispensable book is a comprehensive introduction to archaeology in the field, the laboratory, and the library.

Archaeology is organized around the key questions that archaeologists ask about the past and details the practical and theoretical ways in which answers to those questions are sought. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the newest developments in the subject and the latest discoveries, and is newly designed with additional box features and extensive drawings, charts, and photographs, all in full color. 750+ illustrations

Table of Contents

Part I The Framework of Archaeology
Chapter 1 The Searchers
Chapter 2 What Is Left?
Chapter 3 Where?
Chapter 4 When?

Part II Discovering the Variety of Human Experience
Chapter 5 How Were Societies Organized?
Chapter 6 What Was The Environment?
Chapter 7 What Did They Eat?
Chapter 8 How Did They Make And Use Tools?
Chapter 9 What Contact Did They Have?
Chapter 10 What Did They Think?
Chapter 11 Who Were They? What Were They Like?
Chapter 12 Why Did Things Change?

Part III The World of Archaeology
Chapter 13 Archaeology In Action
Chapter 14 Whose Past?
Chapter 15 The Future Of The Past
Chapter 16 The New Searchers