Presenting the Past to the Public: Digging for Truths

From: Plains Anthropologist | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Presenting the Past to the Public: Digging for Truths. Edited by JOHN H. JAMESON, JR Altamir Press, Walnut Creek, CA. 288 pp., acknowledgments, foreword, illustrations, photographs, index. $49.00 (cloth, ISBN 0-7619-8908-0), S24.95 (paper, ISBN 0-7619-8909-9).

So you want to tell people about archaeology-how it works and what it can tell us. And you certainly want to explain how people lived long ago. That should be pretty easy, right? There are lots of things that you could do: invite the public to tour a site excavation, design new exhibits, or show a few slides in a local classroom. All ...

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