BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL ON ARCHAEOLOGY


Basic World Prehistory Textbooks:

Patterson, Thomas C.
1993 Archaeology: The Historical Development of Civilizations. [Second Edition] Prentice-Hall, NJ.

Feder, Kenneth
1996
The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory. Mayfield, NJ.

Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C. and J. A. Sabloff
1995 Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica. [Second Edition] Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL.

Fagan, Brian M.
1992 People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory. [7th Edition]. Harper-Collins, NY.


Basic textbook sources to Method and Theory:

Fagan, Brian
1994 In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology. [8th edition] Harper-Collins, New York [older editions are not as useful]

Hodder, Ian
1991 Reading the Past [2nd edition] Cambridge University Press, New York.

Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn
1994 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice. [second edition] Thames and Hudson, New York.

Schiffer, Michael ed.
1978-87 Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Academic Press, New York.

Schiffer, Michael ed.
1989-93 Archaeological Method and Theory. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (1994-present)

Sharer, Robert J. and Wendy Ashmore
1993 Archaeology: Discovering Our Past [2nd edition] Mayfield, Palo Alto.

Thomas, David H.
1989 Archaeology [2nd edition] Holt Rinehart and Winston.

Webster, David L., Susan T. Evans, and William T. Sanders
1993 Out of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology. Mayfield, Mountain View, Ca.

Preucel, Robert W. and Ian Hodder eds.
1996 Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. Blackwell, Oxford.

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