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The Times Archaeology of the World
A Meticulous Reconstruction of Our Past
How have men and women lived in the 2,500,000 years of human existence? With what shelter and tools, strategies and rituals did they meet life's dangers and opportunities? 'The Times Archaeology of the World' is a meticulous reconstruction of the human story, using hundreds of maps, illustrations, photographs and reconstruction of ancient sites.
An international team of leading experts has contributed to this monumental volume. Using all the techniques available to the modern archaeologist – forensics, genetics, linguistics and art history among them – the book unravels the myriad traces left by our ancestors. The only record of countless millennia is in pots and tools, burials and artefacts and ruined buildings. The ingenuity of scholars in unearthing and interpreting these remains has fascinated the world since the first archaeologists gazed in awe at the ruins of Troy and Pompeii. The book examines not only the well documented civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Near East, India and China but much less well-known civilizations of the past: the tattooed nomads of the Steppes, the Pyramid temples of the Yucatán rain forests, the abandoned cities of the Andes, the enigmatic statues of Easter Island.
The result is both an essential reference to the modern science of archaeology and a fascinating revelation of the past.
A lavish, global vision of world archaeology from the origins of humanity to the emergence of the modern world.
“Never has the past been so magnificently charted”
Magnus Magnusson
How have men and women lived in the 2,500,000 years of human existence? With what shelter and tools, strategies and rituals did they meet life's dangers and opportunities? 'The Times Archaeology of the World' is a meticulous reconstruction of the human story, using hundreds of maps, illustrations, photographs and reconstruction of ancient sites.
An international team of leading experts has contributed to this monumental volume. Using all the techniques available to the modern archaeologist – forensics, genetics, linguistics and art history among them – the book unravels the myriad traces left by our ancestors. The only record of countless millennia is in pots and tools, burials and artefacts and ruined buildings. The ingenuity of scholars in unearthing and interpreting these remains has fascinated the world since the first archaeologists gazed in awe at the ruins of Troy and Pompeii. The book examines not only the well documented civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Near East, India and China but much less well-known civilizations of the past: the tattooed nomads of the Steppes, the Pyramid temples of the Yucatán rain forests, the abandoned cities of the Andes, the enigmatic statues of Easter Island.
The result is both an essential reference to the modern science of archaeology and a fascinating revelation of the past.
A lavish, global vision of world archaeology from the origins of humanity to the emergence of the modern world.
“Never has the past been so magnificently charted”
Magnus Magnusson
320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1988
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