 |
|
Archaeological Finds: A Guide to Identification
by Norena Shopland. This practical and very easy-to-use guide presents a mass of quite basic but
extremely useful information for anyone who wants to know more about the artefacts they have discovered
and must look after, especially field archaeologists, find processors, and anyone with a garden that
keeps turning up finds. Focusing on objects that are frequently found on excavations, Norena Shopland
discusses how the objects should be handled, their distinguishing characteristics and, as a result,
their date and function. With lots of illustrations, the book discusses the types of organic and
inorganic materials that are found, flint and how to identify whether it has been worked or not,
pottery forms from its invention in the Neolithic to bone china, building materials, domestic debris,
shoes and jewellery, horseshoes and tools for crafts, clay pipes and worked stone. Covering a huge
range of objects from prehistory through to the early modern period this book will be of huge use to
all those diggers in need of a spotdate or simply wanting to know more about the things they find.
248p, many b/w illus (Tempus 2005) Pb £17.99
Time Team Book Club Price £14.95 |
 |
|
The Encyclopedia of Mummies
by Bob Brier. Bob Brier's ghoulish A to Z of mummies has been reprinted in this well-presented and
fully illustrated edition. Although it contains lots of information about Egyptian mummies and
mummification techniques, the book's scope is much wider, showing how ancient (and less ancient)
cultures have felt a compulsion to mummify their dead, from South America to the bogs of northern
Europe. The guide also looks at the place of the mummy in modern society, particularly in popular
culture, and so entries include classic B-movies, some rather tacky toys, a musical and holiday
reading. 'Both a delight for browsers and a reference work', this book combines the academic and
the popular very successfully.
248p, many b/w illus (1998, Sutton Pb 2004) Pb £12.99
Time Team Book Club Price £9.95 |
 |
|
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
edited by Chris Scarre. The scope of this book is immense, as is its contribution to the study of
archaeology. Hailed as 'a magnificent achievement' by eminent prehistorian Barry Cunliffe, it
presents nineteen broad geographical sections, in which numerous experts survey, in a most accessible
and informative way, the whole span of human prehistory, examining key social developments, new
and emerging technologies, and tracing the movement of human populations across the globe and the
development of human experience. Each discussion, whether it is of the chiefdoms of Polynesia, the
mounds of North America, Mesopotamian Uruk, Mycenaean Greece, Saharan hunters, Hittite Anatolia or
Neanderthal Europe, includes a review of the controversies that have interested experts in that area
for decades and gives details on some of the most important sites in the history of archaeology.
Supported by numerous colour photographs, helpful illustrations, chronologies, diagrams and maps,
as well as panels of text that expand on certain topics, this is an invaluable reference for both
students of archaeology and anyone with an interest in prehistory.
784p, 753 illus, 211 in col (Thames & Hudson 2005) Pb £29.95
Time Team Book Club Price £24.95 |
