Archaeology: Discovering Our Past - Couverture rigide

Sharer, Robert J.; Ashmore, Wendy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874847400 ISBN 13 : 9780874847406

Editeur : Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S., 1987

Synopsis

Book by Sharer Robert J

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr. Robert J. Sharer is Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology, and Curator of the American Section, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. He has over 30 years of research experience in the Maya area of Central America, including the directing of long term archaeological projects at Chalchuapa, El Salvador(1966-70), in the Alta Verapaz (1971-74) and at Quirigua, Guatemala (1974-79), and currently at Copan, Honduras, where he has directed the Early Copan Acropolis Program since 1989. In addition to articles, papers, and monographs reporting the results of this research, he is the author of several books about Maya civilization, including Quirigua: A Classic Maya Center and Its Sculpture (1990), The Ancient Maya (1994), and Everyday Life in Maya Civilization (1996).

Currently Professor of Anthropology at the University California, Riverside, Dr. Wendy Ashmore has archaeological research experience spanning more than 25 years. Her work includes field research at Quirigua in Guatemala, at Gualijoquito and Copan in Honduras, and most recently, at Zunantunich in Belize. Among her publications are edited volumes on Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (1981), Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past (with Richard Wilk, 1988), and Archaeolgies of Landscape: Contemporary Approaches (with A. Bernard Knapp, 1999).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is the only textbook which is organized to follow the steps of the actual process of archaeological research in order to present the methods and theoretical frameworks of archaeology, from the planning and actual conduct of field research, to the different ways archaeological data is interpreted to produce an understanding of the past. It is also the only such textbook to give the reader a series of firsthand accounts of what its like to do archaeology, written by a variety of practicing archaeologists.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mayfield Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0874847400
• ISBN 13: 9780874847406
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 640