Kingfisher Knowledge is a groundbreaking series for readers hungry for information on today's hot topics. Lively, engaging text, packed with information, accompanies stunning photographs that enhance each chapter. Amazing, state-of-the-art digital artwork guides readers into the fascinating heart of the subject. This learning adventure does not stop there - information panels throughout lead the reader to further discovery. Each chapter offers website links, book lists, places to visit and career information. Archaeology explores the fascinating science of excavating and examining the debris of centuries of daily human life, from the earliest Iron Age axe-heads to the mass-produced objects of more recent history, and from the smallest Roman coins to the largest archaeological sites. It describes the history and techniques of archaeology, overviews some of the important historical themes and periods on which it has shed light, and includes a section which looks closer at some of the most exciting archaeological sites around the world. The book as a whole introduces readers to the treasure-trove that archaeology offers us, and begins to put it into its wider historical context.

 

This book is part of a book series called Kingfisher Knowledge .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Pan Macmillan .

?Trevor Barnes is a skilled writer with great story-telling abilities, as well as the award-winning presenter of many religious programmes for the BBC. He has written numerous articles on religion for newspapers and magazines, and is the author of several other books, including The Wounded City, a book about the people of Belfast, and Man With a Mission, a biography of Terry Waite.

This book has the following chapters: 1 Half Title; 2-3 Title; 4-5 Imprint & Contents; 6 Foreword; 7 Chapter One: What is archaeology? 8-9 What is archaeology? 10-11 What do archaeologists do? 12-13 Where is archaeology? 14-15 Bits and pieces; 16-17 Famous finds; 18-19 Changing times; 20-21 Where next? 22 Summary of chapter one and information panel; 23 Chapter Two: Touching the past; 24-25 Sites around the world (with map); 26-27 Catal Huyuk; 28-29 Giant stones of northern Europe; 30-31 Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro; 32-33 Ur and Babylon; 34-35 The palace at Knossos; 36-37 The tomb of Tutankhamun; 38-39 The Acropolis at Athens; 40-41 The terracotta army; 42-43 Pompeii; 44-45 Angkor Wat; 46-47 Cahokia; 48-49 Kingdoms of west Africa; 50-51 The Aztecs' great temple (Tenochtitian); 52-53 The warship Mary Rose; 54-55 The Battle of Little Bighorn; 56-57 City of London O-present; 58 Summary of chapter two and information panel; 59-61 Glossary; 62-63 Index; 64 Acknowledgements