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Biers, William R. 1996. The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801482801. From prehistory, through the Minoan civilization and the the classical Greek city states to the Roman period in Greece.

Coe, Michael D. 1992. Breaking the Maya Code. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500277214. How linguists and archaeologists deciphered Maya writings.

Coe, Michael D.  1994.  Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs.  Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500277222.  The rise of civilization in Mexico.

Daniel, Glyn. 1981. A Short History of Archaeology. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500021015. A historical perspective on the great discoveries in archaeology and the archaeologists who made them.

Deetz, James. 1996. In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life. Anchor Books. ISBN 0385483996. How the archaeological record provides information about colonial America not found in written records.

Deetz, James. 1995. Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virgina Plantation, 1619-1864. Univ. Press of Virginia. ISBN 0813916399.  Archaeological and archival explorations at a seventeenth century British colony.

Edey, Maitland A. and Donald C. Johanson.  1990.  Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution.  Penguin. ISBN 0140132651.

Fagan, Brian.  1989.  Adventure of Archaeology. National Geographic Society.  ISBN 0870448145.  

Fagan, Brian, ed.. 1997.  Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries. Oxford Univ. Press.  ISBN 0195081412.  Great archaeological discoveries described by the discoverers themselves.

Fagan, Brian. 1987. The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500275157. Describes the migration of hunting and gathering societies from northeastern Asia to the Americas over 10,000 years ago.

Fagan, Brian. 1990. The Journey From Eden: The Peopling of Our World. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500050570. Recent advances in our understanding of human evolution.

Fagan, Brian. 1991. Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: The Americas Before Columbus. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500050627. Accounts of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America.

Fagan, Brian.  1994. Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology.  Waveland Press.  ISBN 0881337919. Great moments in the history of archaeology.

Fagan, Brian.  1992. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt.  Moyer Bell.  ISBN 1559210664.  History of destruction and discovery in Egypt.

Fagan, Brian. 1995  Snapshots of the Past.  Altamira Press. ISBN 0761991093.

Fagan, Brian. 1995. Time Detectives: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Past. Touchstone. ISBN 0684818280. A new book about how archaeologists attempt to solve the puzzles of the past.

Feder, Kenneth L. 1996. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. Mayfield Publishing Co. ISBN 1559345233. The title says it all.

Folsom, Franklin and Mary Elting Folsom. 1993. America's Ancient Treasures. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826314503. A guide to archeological sites and museums in the U.S. and Canada.

Grant, Michael. 1990. The Visible Past: Recent Archaeological Discoveries of Greek and Roman History. Scribners. Recent discoveries by classical archaeologists.

Johanson, Donald & Maitland Edey. 1981. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.  Touchstone. ISBN 0671724991. Johanson's account of the discovery and controversies surrounding Australopithecus afarensis.

Johanson, Donald, Blake Edgar, and David Brill.  1996.  From Lucy to Language.  Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0684810239.

Johanson, Donald & James Shreeve. 1989. Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor. Avon. ISBN 0380712342. Further discoveries of fossil ancestors by Johanson and their importance for understanding human evolution.

Kemp, Barry. 1989. Ancient Egypt: The Anatomy of a Civilization. Routledge. ISBN 0415063469.  A summary of the ancient Egyptians.

Kennedy, Roger.  1994.  Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization.  Penguin.  ISBN 0140255273.  A historical account of moundbuilder archaeology in the U.S. during the eighteenth century.

Leakey, Richard.  1996.  The Origin of Humankind.  Basic Books.  ISBN 0465053130.

Leakey, Richard and Roger Lewin. 1992. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human.  Anchor. ISBN 0385467923. Explores multiple lines of evidence to understand the details of human evolution.

Lewin, Roger. 1997. Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226476510. The history of paleoanthropology and paleoanthropologists.

Lewin, Roger. 1988. In the Age of Mankind: A Smithsonian Book of Human Evolution. Smithsonian Books. ISBN 0895990253. Describes recent efforts to understand the details of human evolution.

Moseley, Michael E. 1992. The Incas and Their Ancestors. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500277230. A well-illustrated account of Andean prehistory.

Noel Hume, Ivor.  1994.  Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeologist's View of Colonial Life and History.  University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0813915287.

Noel Hume, Ivor. 1982. Martin's Hundred: The Discovery of a Lost Colonial Virginia Settlement. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 0385292813. The discovery and excavation of a British settlement founded in Virginia in 1618.

Reeves, C. N. and Nicholas Reeves. 1995. The Complete Tutankhamun. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500278105. A description of the discovery of King Tut's tomb.

Renfrew, Colin.  1990.  Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins.  Cambridge University Press.  ISBN 0521386756.

Schick, Kathy D. and Nicholas Toth. 1993. Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0671693719. A look at the earliest stone tools, how they were made and what they were used for.

Schele, Linda and David Freidel. 1990.  A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya.  Quill. ISBN 0688112048. A history of the Maya based on recent translations of Mayan writing.

Stringer, Christopher and Clive Gamble.  1993.  In Search of the Neanderthals.  Thames & Hudson.  ISBN 0500278075.  Everything you need to know about neandethals and the current controversy concerning their place in human evolution.

Thomas, David Hurst.  1994.  Exploring Native America: An Archaeological Guide.  MacMillan.  ISBN 0671880500.

Throckmorton, Peter, editor. 1987. History From the Seas: Shipwrecks and Archaeology From Homer's Odyssey to the Titanic. Mitchell Beazley. Nautical archaeology around the world.

Williams, Stephen. 1991. Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812213122. A careful, thoughtful look at outlandish theories.

Wood, Michael. 1987. In Search of the Dark Ages. Facts On File. Archaeological discoveries in historic Europe.

Wood, Michael. 1985. In Search of the Trojan War. Facts On File. ISBN 0816013551. Archaeological evidence for the events described in Homer's The Illiad.

Barber, Russell J. 1994. Doing Historical Archaeology: Exercises Using Documentary, Oral, and Material Evidence Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-176033-5. Examples and exercises showing how historical archaeologists combine written and material evidence of the past.

Daniels, Steve and Nicholas David. 1982. The Archaeology Workbook University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN0-8122-1125-1. A series of problems illustrating archaeological methods.

Fagan, Brian. 1997. Archaeology: A Brief Introduction. Longman Publishing Group. ISBN 067352252. An abbreviated version of In The Beginning.

Fagan, Brian. 1993. In The Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology. Harper Collins. ISBN 0673521346. A thorough introduction to archaeological methods of analysis and reasoning.

Greene, Kevin T. 1995. Archaeology: An Introduction.  University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812215702. Also published in the U.K. this text is supplemented with an Electronic Companion (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nktg/wintro/).

Hasten, Linda L., editor. 1996. Archaeology 96/97. The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc. ISBN 0697315088. A collection of articles about archaeology and archaeologists.

Hester, Thomas R., Harry J. Shafer, and Kenneth L. Feder.  1997.  Field Methods in Archaeology.  Mayfield.  ISBN 1559347996.  A classic text on archaeological methods completely revised and updated.

McIntosh, Jane.  1986.  The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know about the Past.  Facts on File.  ISBN 0816018146.  A simple, direct introduction for beginners.

Orser, Charles E., Jr. and Brian M. Fagan. 1995. Historical Archaeology: A Brief Introduction. Harper Collins. ISBN 067399094X. Archaeology applied to historic sites.

Patterson, Thomas C. 1994. The Theory and Practice of Archaeology: A Workbook Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-014846-6. A series of exercises to illustrate how archaeologists interpret the past.

Price, T. Douglas and Gitte Gebauer. 1996. Adventures in Fugawiland: A Computer Simulation in Archaeology. Mayfield.  ISBN 1559347627.  An exercise book and computer simulation of prehistoric sites in the midwestern U.S.

Thomas, David H. 1991. Archaeology: Down to Earth. Harcourt Brace. ISBN 0030475848. A brief description of the basics of archaeological interpretation.

Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn. 1996. Archaeology: Theories Methods and Practice. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500278679. A comprehensive summary describing how archaeologists learn about the past.

Sharer, Robert J. and Wendy Ashmore. 1993. Archaeology: Discovering Our Past. Mayfield Publishing Co. ISBN 155934041X. An thorough introduction to how archaeologists study artifacts and sites to learn about the past.

Webster, David L., Susan T. Evans, William T. Sanders. 1993. Out of the Past. An Introduction to Archaeology Mayfield Publishing Co. ISBN 155934153X. A thorough introductory text covering the basic principles of archaeological research illustrated with examples from around the world.

Fagan, Brian.  1995.  Ancient North America.  Thames & Hudson.  ISBN 0500278172.  A thorough, readable summary of North American prehistory.

Fagan, Brian. 1995. People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory. Harper Collins. ISBN 0673523942. A survey of world prehistory from the earliest hominids to rise of civilizations.

Fagan, Brian. 1996. World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction. Harper Collins. ISBN 0673523721. An abbreviated version of People of the Earth.

Feder, Kenneth L. 1996.  The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory.  Mayfield.  ISBN 1559343842.

Hayden, Brian. 1993. Archaeology: The Science of Once and Future Things. Freeman. ISBN 0716723077. Archaeological theories and their use to understand social and technological changes in prehistory.

Price, T. Douglas. 1995. Images of the Past. Mayfield Publishing Co. ISBN 1559346949. World prehistory seen through summaries of 80 archaeological sites.

Wenke, Robert J. 1997. Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years. Oxford. ISBN 0195085728. A survey of the state of our knowledge about the human past.

The Ancient World on Television lists weekly schedules of archaeological programs on television (http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/awotv.html).

Archaeology on Film: An Electronic Database of Archaeology Film Reviews provides reviews of archaeological films and allows you to add your own reviews (http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/anth/videos/video.html).

Finally, if you are just interested in a good read, Anita Cohen-Williams has compiled an extensive listing of works of fiction that include archaeologists or archaeological sites Archaeology in Fiction Bibliography.