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Klappentext The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: an annotated Table of Contents , a Topic Guide , an annotated listing of supporting websites, Learning Outcomes and a brief overview for each unit, and Critical Thinking questions at the end of each article. Go to the McGraw-Hill Create(TM) Annual Editions Article Collection at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individual Annual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Pritchard Parker/Angeloni: Annual Editions: Archaeology, 12/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource. Visit the Create Central Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/createcentral for more details. Inhaltsverzeichnis UNIT: About Archaeologists and ArchaeologyThe Awful Truth about Archaeology, Dr. Lynne Sebastian, Albuquerque Tribune, 2002"You're an Archaeologist! That sounds soooo exciting!" Of course it sounds exciting because of the hyperbole and mystery perpetuated by TV shows, movies, and novels- professional archaeologists know better! Yes, the thrill of looking at the past is truly exciting, but the process of discovery is slow, tedious, and frustrating, especially when nothing is found. Digging square holes in the ground and carefully measuring artifacts, cataloging, taking notes, and hoping to publish something meaningful about the past-it is more of a work of love that has its inherent reward in knowledge.Zahi Hawass, Egypt's 'Indiana Jones,' Thinks Giza Pyramid Holds Hidden Treasure, Owen Jarus, Live Science, 2013Cleared of all the corruption charges against him, Zahi Hawass is once again on the world-wide lecture circuit raising funds for research and touting new technology for probing Egypt's pyramids.Distinguished Lecture in Archeology: Communication and the Future of American Archaeology, Jeremy A. Sabloff, American Anthropologist, 1998Jeremy Sabloff discusses the role that archaeology should play in public education and the need for archaeologists to communicate more effectively with relevant writing for the public. He further suggests the need to recognize nonacademic archaeologists and to focus on action archaeology, or what is more usually termed public archaeology.CSI: Italian Renaissance, Tom Mueller, Smithsonian, 2013A forensic anthropologist, along with a team of archaeologists, physical anthropologists, and historians of medicine, use state-of-the-art medical technology to investigate the lives and deaths of illustrious figures of the past.Tomb Raider Chronicles, Lauren Hilgers, Archaeology, 2013In spite of the inherent dangers involved, the harsher punishments and the creation of a national information center on the part of China's security forces, tomb raiding is on the increase. What is taken moves through the hands of middlemen to collectors and to auction houses and, finally, around the world. The result is the destruction of everything that is valuable to the science of archaeology.New Evidence Ties Illegal Antiquities Trade to Terrorism, Violent Crime, Heather Pringle, National Geographic, 2014A transnational criminal network is involved in moving stolen antiquities from the countries of origin to the international market and, in the process, laundering artifacts to attract a legitimate, well-heeled clientel...
