The Visible Past: An Archaeological Reinterpretation of the Ancient World

By Michael Grant

Book Overview

Explores recent advances in technology and their impact on archaeology. The book discusses such inventions as the aqualung, the airlift and the magnetometer, and re-investigates 50 archaeological sites with these instruments. It asks how such inventions have altered the identity of archaeology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002080041X
• ISBN13: 9780020800415
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful, but outdated book

Although a little outdated now, this is a wonderful book about different periods of Ancient History and how new Archeological techniques have helped discover new details from each period discussed.