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Recommended Books

The Art of the Maya Scribe and the books recommended below are all available from Powell's Books, "the largest new and used bookstore in the world."

Biographies

• Accidental Archaeologist
  Jesse David Jennings, archaeologist of the American southwest, gives us his memoirs. Jennings, a professor of anthropology for more than 40 years, founded the the Utah Museum of Natural History and directed the Glen Canyon salvage team and other famous excavations. University of Utah Press, 1994.
• Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeological Ceramics
  Florence Lister's autobiographical reminiscences, published by University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Introductory Texts

• Archaeology: A Brief Introduction
  Brian Fagan provides readers with a clear and comprehensive guide to basic principles, methods, and theoretical approaches to archaeology in this sixth edition of a classic text. Addison-Wesley, 1996.  For a less comprehensive history but a more vivid picture of the personalities involved, see the first-person accounts of great archaeological discoveries, as told by the people who discovered them, in Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries, edited by Fagan. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Archaeology: The Science of Once and Future Things
  One of the best introductions to archaeology. Bryan Haden describes the basic concepts and tools of archaeology and the questions that archaeologists seek to resolve. W H Freeman & Co., 1992.
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
  Paul Bahn provides a complete and authoritative history of the development of archaeology, from simple antiquarian to more scientific systems of analysis. More than one hundred color illustrations. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology
  Wendy Ashmore and Robert Sharer. Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995.
• The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
  Editors Brian M. Fagan, Charlotte Beck, and Neil Asher Silberman have assembled a definitive tome, full of terrific encylopedic articles from professionals in the field.

Looking for more books? Try a search or browse through some categories at Powell's Books: General Archaeology History of Archaeology Method and Theory Site Reports Sale Books

For fun, try Elizabeth Peters's mysteries featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody.

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