The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods

This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and case studies in this second edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject. The Archaeology Coursebook: introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods, concepts, and themes, and provides the necessary skills to understand them  explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations and how to succeed with different types of assignments and exam questions  supports study with case studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development  illustrates concepts and commentary with over 200 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment  links from its own website to other key websites in archaeology at the right level at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415360773 contains new material from European pre-history and the Roman Empire; new case studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students. This is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.