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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 ...