Archaeology from the earth / by Sir Mortimer Wheeler
1955, Third Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #347546
Physical description; xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 218). Contents; Introductory -- Historical -- Chronology -- Stratigraphy -- The layout of an excavation -- The excavation of a structure -- On digging town-sites -- Burials -- Watch-makers' jobs -- Tactics and strategy -- Staff -- Tools -- The pottery-shed -- The field-laboratory -- Photography -- Publication and publicity -- What are we digging up, and why? Subjects; Excavations (Archaeology). Archaeology Methodology. Excavation. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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