Digging up the virtual past: the archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome on the Web.(services)

From: Searcher | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Mattison, David | Copyright information

Archaeology is truly one of the foundation sciences for our understanding of the past. In his textbook, In the Beginning (9th ed., Longman, 1996, p. 27), Brian Fagan defined archaeology as "the scientific study of past cultures and technologies--whether ancient or recent--by scientific methods and theoretical concepts devised for that purpose." Archaeology, he goes on, is a subdiscipline of anthropology. Prentice Hall has a companion Web site for this rifle and several others by Fa...

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