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Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology

2 reviews
Wendy Ashmore, Robert Sharer

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005

Not like most college textbooks
I'm currently a student and i'm taking an Introducion to Archaeology course because I've always been interested in learning a little bit about archaeology. This is the book that I have to use for my class and most of the time I dread having to read the books in any of my classes, but this book is an exception. Even if I wasn't taking the course in college, I would enjoy reading this book. ...

Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (Social Archaeology)

Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

This book offers new and diverse perspectives on the ideational qualities of past landscapes.

Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands (Mesoamerican Worlds)

University Press of Colorado, 2008

From the pre-classic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. "Ruins of the Past" is the first volume to focus on how later Maya peoples perceived, used, and sometimes ritually destroyed ruins of structures built by ancestors.

Settlement Archaeology at Quirigua, Guatemala (University Museum Monograph)

1 review
Wendy Ashmore

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication, 2007

Comprehensive
This book is a very nice comprehensive look at Maya settlement and household archaeology in general as well as a detailed report specifically on Quirigua. The accompanying CD-ROM was very helpful as it contained maps and drawings that helped me visualize what Ashmore was describing in the text.

Archaeology: Discovering Our Past

2 reviews
Robert J. Sharer, Wendy Ashmore

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua, 1992

Decent book but needs more pictures
I had this as my main text for a class at Foothill college and it was a relatively easy read if you use the glossary. Their could have been more pictures of the items discussed and I would recommend to any teacher thinking of using this book to gather some more higher quality pictures of the items discussed for the student to look at.