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A common goal in virtually all social science courses is to teach students to think critically. Most students who sign up for this "fun" archaeology course have not been asked to think deeply about how we know what we know. Clearly, it is important for anyone interested in the human past to know, for example, that there is no evidence for a race of giant human beings, and no broken shards of laser guns under Egyptian pyramids. Debunking such nons...

Linking to the Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology offers an engaging introduction to the methods archaeologists use to reveal the human past. Employing an accessible and conversational writing style, Kenneth L. Feder uses his field study of a three-thousand-year-old North American village site as the backdrop to introduce students to how archaeologists find, recover, study, and interpret the material culture left behind by earlier peoples....

The Past in Perspective is geared toward students with little-to-no previous coursework in prehistory and archaeology – the majority of students who take this course. It engages readers with a humorous, conversational, story-telling style, and introduces them to “the big picture”—the grand sweep of human evolutionary history – without overwhelming them with unnecessary detail that they are unlikely to retain. It also encourages discussion in the ...

The Past in Perspective is geared toward students with little-to-no previous coursework in prehistory and archaeology--the majority of students who take this course. It engages students with a humorous, conversational, story-telling style, and introduces them to "the big picture"--the grand sweep of human evolutionary history - without overwhelming them with unnecessary detail that they are unlikely to retain. It also encourages discussion in the...