Archaeology

Brian Fagan is one of the world’s leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His other textbooks include A Brief History of Archaeology; Ancient Civilizations (with Chris Scarre); Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory; In the Beginning; People of the Earth (both with Nadia Durrani); and World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction. He is also the author of numerous general books on archaeology. Nadia Durrani is a Cambridge University-trained archaeologist and writer, with a PhD from University College, London, in Arabian archaeology. She is former editor of Britain’s best-selling archaeology magazine, Current World Archaeology. and has authored and edited many hundreds of articles on archaeology from every corner of the globe, contributed to dozens of books, and written two: The Tihamah Coastal Plain of South-West Arabia; and In Search of the Zeppelin War: the archaeology of the First Blitz (with Neil Faulkner). 

Chapter 1 Fossils, Cities, and Civilizations: The Birth of a Science 
Chapter 2 Introducing Archaeology and Prehistory 
Chapter 3 Culture and Context 
Chapter 4 Explaining the Past 
Chapter 5 Space and Time 
Chapter 6 They Sought It Here, They Sought It There: The Process of Research and Finding Archaeological Sites 
Chapter 7 Excavation 
Chapter 8 Archaeological Classification and Ancient Technologies 
Chapter 9 The Present and the Past 
Chapter 10 Ancient Climate and Environment 
Chapter 11 Come Tell Me How You Lived 
Chapter 12 Settlement and Landscape 
Chapter 13 The Archaeology of People 
Chapter 14 Managing the Past 
Chapter 15 So You Want to Become an Archaeologist?