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Books and Readings on the History of Archaeology
A number of our best scholars have attempted to make sense of the history of archaeology, its science and its not-so-science. Here is a sample of the best on offer today.
A History of American Archaeology
Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips. 1974. ISBN: 0500780021. Thames and Hudson.
A History of Archaeological Thought
Bruce G. Trigger. 1990. A History of Archaeological Thought. ISBN: 0521338182. Cambridge University Press
A Short History of Archaeology
Glyn Daniel. A Short History of Archaeology. ISBN 0500021015. W W Norton & Co Inc.
An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology
Nancy Thomson De Grummond (editor) 1996. An Encylopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. 1,125 entries and 170 contributors, 1400 pages. ISBN 0-313-22066-2. Greenwood Press.
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology
Valerie Pinsky and Alison Wylie (editors). 1989. Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology. ISBN: 0521321093, Cambridge University Press.
Excavating Women: History of Women in European Archaeology
Margarita Diaz-Andreu and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen. 1998 Excavating Women: History of Women in European Archaeology. 336 pp ISBN: 0415157609. Routledge.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
Paul H. Bahn. 1999. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. ISBN 0521669464, Cambridge University Press.
The Land of Prehistory
Alice Beck Kehoe. 1998. The Land of Prehistory: A critical history of North American archaeology. ISBN 041592054X. Routledge
The Rape of The Nile
Brian Fagan. 2005. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists and Archaeologists in Egypt. 253 pages, extensive notes and an index. ISBN 0-8133-4061-6. Westview Press, Cambridge Massachusetts.
Towards a Social History of Archaeology in the United States
Thomas C. Patterson. 1995. Towards a Social History of Archaeology in the United States. 191 pages. ISBN 0155008242. Harcourt Brace, New York.
Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology
William H. Stiebing Jr. 1994. Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology. 316 pages. ISBN 0195089219. New York: Oxford University Press