 | Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice by Colin Renfrew
Buy used from: £4.18 Once my coursebook-bible, now better regarded as a work to surpass - its chapter-specific style remains deeply outdated and its theory based more on habit than scholarship but as a science guide - 5/5
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 | Archaeology: An Introduction by Dr Kevin Greene
Buy new: £18.67 / Used from: £8.18 More site practical, making it a valuable read for the excavtion focused student in a way Time Team can't match - however, again, is uncritically founded upon 19th century science's view of the world
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 | Prehistoric Britain by Professor Timothy C Darvill
Buy new: £20.77 / Used from: £5.45 Ditto - additionally Prof. Darvill's book, now factually out of date, should not, in all honesty still be in print. Given the quality and volume of his work since, I feel he would agree
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 | The Archaeology of Disease by Charlotte A. Roberts
Buy used from: £19.95 Disease!! This fired my imagination and enthusiasm for forensics - you'll be amazed by what the dead can tell us. This is science in its place, it informs archaeology, it does not dominate it.
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 | A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany by Aubrey Burl
Buy used from: £13.23 A classic guide to prehistoric monuments, very weak on Brittany, but of value for this country. Burl's books are all worth a look.
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 | Archaeological Theory: An Introduction by Matthew Johnson
Buy new: £17.29 / Used from: £16.55 Not a book that changed my life/archaeological outlook, since I read it at the wrong time; but one that could easily serve as an introduction to a more reflective archaeology4students or the dedicated
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 | Understanding the Neolithic by Julian Thomas
Buy new: £21.19 / Used from: £17.74 Not an introduction by any means but for the student of archaeology a book you will find on your reading list and widely discussed in the literature. Academic archaeology of the highest standard
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 | The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe by Richard Bradley
Buy new: £18.49 / Used from: £25.78 This is the more accessable equivelent of Professor Thomas's tome. Its been called an academic detective story and you WILL find this an adictive read. Theortically doesnt go as far as Thomas.
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 | The Archaeology of Death and Burial (Texas a&M University Anthropology, 3) by Mike Parker Pearson
Buy used from: £14.63 Dr. Parker Pearson is an excellent writer of archaeology (checkout his English Heritage Bronze Age). Certainly a course guide but also lavishly illustrated enough to hold the attention of TVarch fans
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 | The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain : Including a Gazetteer to Over 300 Prehistoric Sites by Julian Cope
Buy used from: £75.00 Equally passionate, relevant and attractively presented, Cope's huge book is part Burl-like guide and part newage-goddess obsessed polemic. With very little foundation but a wholelota love.
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 | "Time Team's" Timechester: A Companion to Archaeology by Tim Taylor
Buy used from: £0.01 I probably dont strike anyone as a fan but this is my fave of the Time Team money-spinners. It gives the most coherent view of the past by looking at a single town and surrounding area;and does itwell
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 | Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor
Buy used from: £21.49 I have mixed feelings about Pryor's work, as one of the UKs most senior archaeologists he certainly has the ability to get his own way(eg seahenge debacle) and so how will HE blend TVarch and science?
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