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The top Archaeology books according to the Open Syllabus Project, as found here.
This includes the most cited resources for the topic 'Archaeology' according to the Open Syllabus Project. Some of the books appear to be duplicate entries, so are only included here once.
This includes the most cited resources for the topic 'Archaeology' according to the Open Syllabus Project. Some of the books appear to be duplicate entries, so are only included here once.
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Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice
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A History of Archaeological Thought
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3.82 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Archaeological Theory: An Introduction
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3.82 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods, and Practice
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3.60 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Images of the Past
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3.61 avg rating — 116 ratings
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
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3.95 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
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4.04 avg rating — 735 ratings
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People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory
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3.70 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory
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3.76 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The Human Past: World History & the Development of Human Societies
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3.83 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Archaeology
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3.68 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology
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3.58 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Archaeology: An Introduction
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3.65 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Archaeology: A Brief Introduction
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3.74 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Archaeology
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Archaeology: The Basics
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3.42 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
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4.11 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Archaeology: Discovering Our Past
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3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Greek Art and Archaeology
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4.02 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past
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3.67 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Classical Archaeology
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Susan E. Alcock (Editor)
3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 80,
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The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
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3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 79,
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Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity
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3.72 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 78,
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Archaeology as Anthropology
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Field Methods in Archaeology
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4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 76,
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World Prehistory and Archaeology (2nd Edition)
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4.05 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Archaeology of the Roman Economy
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3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 74,
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In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology
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Nadia Durrani (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings
score: 73,
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Anthropology: The Human Challenge
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3.60 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 72,
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Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory
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3.75 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent
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3.80 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 70,
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Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory
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Joan M. Gero (Editor)
4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 69,
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Historical Archaeology
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3.49 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E.
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3.84 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Archaeological Theory Today
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3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Techniques of Archaeological Excavation
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Roman Art
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3.97 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Archaeology of Death and Burial
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4.05 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Agency in Archaeology
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
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3.96 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Companion to Social Archaeology
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Lynn Meskell (Editor)
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 60,
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Handbook of Archaeological Sciences
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D.R. Brothwell (Editor)
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Field Archaeology: An Introduction
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3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period
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4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Aegean Bronze Age
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3.69 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 56,
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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader
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Robert Preucel (Editor)
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 55,
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The Temporality of the Landscape
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Anthropology
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3.73 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Aegean Art and Architecture
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3.82 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology
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3.84 avg rating — 160 ratings
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The Archaeological Process: An Introduction
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The Archaeology of Britain
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John Hunter (editor)
3.95 avg rating — 55 ratings
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A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments
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3.92 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Methods
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409
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3.72 avg rating — 283 ratings
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World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction
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3.56 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land
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Thomas E. Levy (Editor)
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Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
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Jack M. Sasson (Editor)
4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
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3.59 avg rating — 677 ratings
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Excavation
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3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village
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3.78 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Archaeological Ethics
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Karen D. Vitelli (Editor)
3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Seeing Beneath the Soil: Prospecting Methods in Archaeology
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The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
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Arjun Appadurai (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 355 ratings
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Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice
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The Politics of the Past
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P. Gathercole (Editor)
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Discovering Anthropology
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Anthropology and Archaeology
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The Archaeology of Animal Bones
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Archaeological Laboratory Methods: An Introduction
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The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age
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Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (editor)
4.05 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Digging Up the Past: An Introduction to Archaeological Excavation
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Principles of Archaeology
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Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape Archaeology and Local History
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Death by Theory
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An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
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4.04 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Archaeological Investigation
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Athenian Black Figure Vases
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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
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The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
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Science-Based Dating in Archaeology (Longman Archaeology Series)
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Humankind Emerging (9th Edition)
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The Archaeology of Human Bones
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The Urban Revolution
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Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
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The Vikings
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The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus
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Medieval Towns: The Archaeology of British Towns in Their European Setting
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An Introduction to Museum Archaeology
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The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
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Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens
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Public Archaeology
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Nick Merriman (Editor)
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Zooarchaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
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The Discovery of the Past
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Archaeology Under Fire
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Lynn Meskell (Editor)
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Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook
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Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
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