The Science Times Book of Archaeology

By: Nicholas Wade

Book Overview

Gathers science articles from the New York Times, covering prehistoric, classical, biblical, North American, and underwater archaeology. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558218939
• ISBN13: 9781558218932
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A Fun Read

This book uses reprints of recent news-breaking stories of archeological discoveries to provide fascinating glimpses of past civilizations. The scope of these glimpses varies from peasants to royalty, from the Old World to the New World of the Americas, and from 117,000 years ago (Humans' Earliest Footprints Discovered) to 1944 (the sinking of the Japanese submarine I-52 with more than two tons of gold aboard). The stories unflinchingly portray ancient human nature, a nature not so different from modern humans. For example, archeological remains often tell gruesome tales of human suffering and sacrifices. However, some ancient remains are poignant, such as a child's footprint left in the soft clay beside a hearth at Monte Verde (southern Chile) 12,500 years ago. The book was a fun read. As a bonus to me, it provided some background for the archeological aspects of a novel I am writing.