The Story of Archaeology: 50 Discoveries That Shaped Our View of the Ancient World - Hardcover

Pollard, Justin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847241832 ISBN 13: 9781847241832

Verlag: Quercus Publishing, 2007

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The Story of Archaeology tells the thrilling and fascinating tale of modern archaeology from its earliest beginnings to the present through 50 chronologically arranged profiles of iconic excavations - from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Death Pit of Ur, from Machu Picchu to the Mary Rose, and from Hoxne to Hallstatt. Some of these are discoveries of the swashbuckling type - lost tombs filled with precious artefacts - but others consist of bricks and pieces of flint and pottery which have, in the story they tell, proved to be yet rarer and more valuable. Broken pots and test-tubes of ancient pollen can, after all, be just as much 'treasure' as the mask of Tutankhamun, for they all tell a part of the story that helps us to understand who we are and how we got here. Each site profile is accompanied by boxed features shedding light on the archaeological techniques used then and now, describing the cultures that have been discovered and telling the personal stories of the people who discovered them. Helpful locator maps and informative timelines are included for every site.

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Some of the most spectacular discoveries about mankind's past come not from written records but from archaeological finds and investigations. Author Justin Pollard tells the story of archaeology in 50 ground-breaking discoveries, from the accidental finding of the fabulous Khmer temple-city of Angkor Wat by the Portuguese explorer Antonio da Magdalena in 1586, to the unearthing of the grave of the Amesbury Archer in Wiltshire in 2002. As well as describing the most celebrated discoveries of archaeology's 19th- and early 20th-century golden age (including Petra, the Rosetta Stone, Nineveh, Troy, Knossos, Machu Picchu and the tomb of Tutankhamun), The Story of Archaeology also profiles some more recent, but no less important, discoveries - from the sunken 17th-century city of Port Royal in Jamaica to the wreck of Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose in Portsmouth harbour, and from the Terracotta Army of China's first emperor to the astonishingly well-preserved bog bodies from northern Europe's ancient past. The 50 articles are amplified by timelines of the sites and accompanied by a wealth of intriguing and informative boxed features focusing on such matters as techniques of excavation, the nature of the historical cultures revealed by the sites, and the often fascinating personal stories of the archaeologists themselves. From ancient Egypt to Inca Peru, from Neolithic Anatolia to Dark Age East Anglia, and from Mycenaean Greece to 20th-century Greenland, Justin Pollard brings each site vividly and affectionately to life. The Story of Archaeology is both an enthralling collection of tales of the wonder and excitement of archaeology and its revelations, and a concise and accessible history of archaeology - from a writer with a matchless gift for the popularization of his subject.

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• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847241832
• ISBN 13: 9781847241832
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256