Archaeology: Introductory Guide for Classroom and Field

By Ellis E. McDowell-Loudan

This practical, beginning-level guide to American Archeology for the beginner focuses on the basics of archaeological investigation. It explains the traditional core approaches and techniques that are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130908444
• ISBN13: 9780130908445
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Guide for Classroom and Field Archaeology

Concise, well crafted and packed with the most modern information pertinent to the field of archaeology. The author shares her experience as a professor, offering guidence to those considering entering the field. Years of experience in fieldwork by Dr. Mc Dowell-Loudan allows her to easily offer an enjoyable introduction of modern field techniques, survey work, site reporting, mapping, on site scientific methodology, field notes, laboratoy analysis, final summation and publication of one's findings. The addendum of archaeology forms are an added bonus. It is a philosophical work as well, as the author looks at the start of a new millennium of archaeology, and the discoveries that await to be located...and she cautions us: Not only must the past be studied, findings analyized, scientifically documented and shared...but also, we must all be made very much aware that accepted techniques of the past were indeed unfair and in many cases, conducted in an unscientific manner. Dr. McDowell-Loudan maintains archaeology belongs to all of us, as the tangible documentation of our past. She asserts that the descendants of past, or living cultures as the case may be, must be respected and included as a part of the process. Working in North America, the author shares multiple examples of the growing spirit of cooperation between various Native American cultural groups and the scientific community. A practical guide that is a must have for professional,student and avocational archaeologists and all that are interested in how we discover, and preserve our past.