Unearthing the Past: The Great Discoveries of Archaeology from World

Arranged thematically, the chapters reveal a vast array of incredible finds; most of the treasures and sites featured in the book were only discovered after years of committed searching and with the painstaking efforts by archaeologists, while some were chance finds. The book relates the dramas of excavation, details the items found and their significance, where they are now exhibited, and the importance of that site to our understanding of history. For example, In Cities and Dwelling Places, the story unfolds of Dolni Vestonice, in the Czech Republic: a prehistoric site where ceramics - and therefore Man's discovery of fire - have been dated at over 27,000 years. A discovery such as this helps to unravel the complex characteristics of our human development.

 

Our Prehistoric Ancestors; Laetoli, Tanzania; Boxgrove, England; Feldhofer Grotto, Germany; Cro-Magnon, France; Mezhirich huts, Ukraine; Monte Verde, Chile, South America; Kennewick man, USA; Clovis, USA; Otzi the Ice Man, Italy; Tombs And Burial Sites; Tutankhamen's tomb, Egypt; Giza pyramid, Egypt; Kofun tomb, Japan; Sutton Hoo, England; Tel el amarna, Egypt; Cities And Dwelling Places; Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic; Huyuk and Hacilar, Turkey; Skara Brae, Scotland; Knossos, Greece; Babylon, Iraq; Ephesus, Turkey; Alexandria, Egypt; Masada, Israel; Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italy; Great Zimbabwe; Tenochtitlan, Mexico; Machu Picchu, Peru; Art, Intellect, And Religion; Avebury and Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England; Easter Island, Pacific; Angkor, Cambodia; Aksum, Ethiopia; Cosquer cave, France; Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria; Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Israel; Rosetta Stone; Terracotta Army, Lintong, China; Nazca lines, Peru; War And Human Conflict; El Djem, Tunisia; American Civil War battlefields; WW1 Battlefields; The Mary Rose, England; The Vasa, Sweden; The Bismarck; Migration And Colonization; Mungo, Australia; L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland; The Titanic; Science And Archaeology; DNA recovery; Isotope geochemistry; Forensic archaeology; Body reconstructions; Mummy studies; Ancient environmental; reconstruction; Climate modelling; Glossary; Index