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Assorted References
- major reference
- 19th-century architecture
- classical scholarship
- European prehistory
- Jerusalem
- Neoclassical painting
- Uttar Pradesh
ancient Roman history
- Herculaneum
- In Herculaneum
- Pompeii
Middle Eastern religions
- Arabian religions
- Syrian and Palestinian religions
Additional Reading
Good general introductions to the aims and methods of archaeology are Leonard Woolley, Digging Up the Past (1930); Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Archaeology from the Earth (1954); and Grahame Clark, Archaeology and Society, 3rd rev. ed. (1957). For the history of archaeology and its relation to the development of anthropology, see C.W. Ceram, Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte (1949; Eng. trans., Gods, Graves and Scholars, 1951); G. Bibby, The Testimony of the Spade (1956); and Glyn Daniel, A Hundred and Fifty Years of Archaeology (1974). Anthologies of archaeological writings that relate both to the history of the subject and its present methods are many. The following are recommended: R.F. Heizer, The Archaeologist at Work (1959), and Man’s Discovery of his Past, 2nd ed. (1970); and Jacquetta Hawkes, The World of the Past (1963). For the development of American archaeology, see G. Willey and G. Sabloff, The History of American Archaeology (1973). Special aspects of the development of archaeology are dealt with in D. Brothwell and E. Higgs, Science in Archaeology, 2nd ed. (1969); George F. Bass, Archaeology Under Water (1967); W.F. Libby, Radiocarbon Dating, 2nd ed. (1955); Kenneth Hudson, A Social History of Archaeology (1981); Myra Shackley, Environmental Archaeology (1981); and M.G.L. Baillie, Tree-Ring Dating in Archaeology (1982).
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Add new Web site: PNAS - Archaeology as a social science. | Jul 26, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Social Science LibreTexts - Contemporary Archaeology (1960s and Beyond). | May 04, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Archaeology. | Sep 15, 2022 | ||
Add new Web site: LiveScience - What Is Archaeology? | Apr 25, 2022 | ||
Removed media. | Aug 26, 2021 | ||
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Archaeology. | Feb 07, 2019 | ||
Add new Web site: Idaho Public Television - Archaeology. | Dec 26, 2016 | ||
Add new Web site: Society for American Archaeology - What is Archaeology? | Dec 12, 2016 | ||
Added video. | Aug 31, 2015 | ||
Added video. | Mar 18, 2015 | ||
Added video. | Feb 16, 2015 | ||
Added video. | Feb 06, 2015 | ||
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Archaeology. | Oct 14, 2013 | ||
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Sulfur. | Mar 25, 2013 | ||
Media added; photo of archaeologists mapping artifacts. | Jan 30, 2009 | ||
Added new Web site: Eastern Illinois University - Underground Railroad: A Path to Freedom. | Dec 24, 2008 | ||
Added new Web site: Archaeology Magazine. | May 23, 2006 | ||
Article revised. | Sep 05, 2000 | ||
Article revised. | Aug 25, 2000 | ||
Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |