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Images of the Past (6th Edition)
By T. Douglas Price
McGraw-Hill | November 2009 | PDF | ISBN10: 0073531057 | 640 pages | 65.8 mb
Amazon Link : http://www.amazon.com/Images-Past-T-Douglas-Price/dp/0073531057

This well illustrated, full-color, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into the research, interpretations, and theoretical themes in the field. The new edition maintains the authors' innovative solutions to two central problems of the course: first, the text continues to focus on about 80 sites, giving students less encyclopedic detail but essential coverage of the discoveries that have produced the major insights into prehistory second, it continues to be organized into essays on sites and concepts, allowing professors complete flexibility in organizing their courses.

About the Author
T. Douglas Price was born in New Haven in 1945. Many homes during childhood. Louisville and Kansas City stand out. Educated and acculturated at the University of Michigan. Doug is Weinstein Professor of European Archaeology emeritus and Director of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has been on the faculty for more than 35 years. He was also 6th Century Chair in Archaeological Science in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, now retired. He does archaeological fieldwork on early agriculture in Denmark and laboratory studies of isotopes in human tooth enamel to look at questions of prehistoric migration. He is the author of a number of books and articles on archaeology. He likes archaeology, small children, food, football, Anne Birgitte, and the amily dog Bagel. He doesn't like long, self-promoting descriptions of book authors.

CONTENTS
PREFACE xi
ABOUT THE AUTHORS xvii
CHAPTER ONE Principles of Archaeology 1
CHAPTER TWO The First Humans 35
CHAPTER THREE Out of Africa: Homo Erectus 73
CHAPTER FOUR The Hunters 105
CHAPTER FIVE Postglacial Foragers 165
CHAPTER SIX The Origins of Agriculture 199
CHAPTER SEVEN Native North Americans 267
CHAPTER EIGHT Ancient Mesoamerica 321
CHAPTER NINE South America: The Inca and Their Predecessors 391
CHAPTER TEN States and Empires in Asia and Africa 437
CHAPTER ELEVEN Prehistoric Europe 507
CHAPTER TWELVE The Past as Present and Future 561
APPENDIX: COMMON MEASUREMENT
CONVERSIONS AND EQUIVALENTS 576
GLOSSARY G-1
REFERENCES R-1
CREDITS C-1
INDEX I-1