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The most wide-ranging comprehensive & up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. Over 4 000 entries cover the terms encountered in academic & popular archaeological literature in lectures & on television. Topics covered include artefacts techniques terminology people sites & periods & specialist areas such as industrial & maritime archaeology. The second edition is fully revised & updated now including 150 new entries on archaeological sites terms movements & people plus extended coverage of archaeological resource management & archaeological theory. The dictionarys primary focus is on Europe the Old World & the Americas as these are the regions where archaeology has become an established academic & vocational subject but it

Includes:: key archaeological sites around the world. A quick-reference section covers chronological periods around the world Egyptian rulers & dynasties Roman rulers & dynasties rulers of England to AD 1066 & principal international conventions & recommendations. New to this edition recommended web links for over 100 entries are updated on the Dictionary of Archaeology companion website.

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