The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology

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The range of this dictionary is from the earliest prehistory to the civilizations before the rise of classical Greece and Rome.From the Abbevillian handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, the 'nutcracker man' of Africa, this dictionary concisely describes, in more than 1,600 entries with copious cross-references, the sites, cultures, periods, techniques, terms and personalities of archaeology.