Three Stones Make A Wall Review
Three stones makes a wall is an introduction to archaeology s history and practice.
Three stones make a wall review. This entry was posted in culture. But three stones makes a wall is a fun informative and scholarly read an updated less romantic and breathless version of c. The story of archaeology. As the title of his new book promises eric cline s goal in three stones make a wall is to tell the story of archaeology fortunately for the readers of this excellent volume cline is a skilled storyteller who brings many of the great discoveries in world archaeology.
On the whole three stones make a wall makes for a very good general introduction to the field though it is far from complete. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Cline brings to life the personalities behind these digs including heinrich schliemann the former. Written by eric cline an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience three stones make a wall traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries from pompeii to petra troy to the terracotta warriors and mycenae to megiddo and masada.
This work also has endnotes and that is its one great weakness. Any australian reader picking up this book may justifiably be dismayed to find the omission of the continent from what is otherwise a fairly wide ranging and balanced survey. Three stones make a wall. Three stones make a wall is an overview of a lot of different archaeological sites and how archaeology is actually done there and how it has been done in the past.
Press 2017 480 pp 50 line illus 2 maps 35 hardcover. Ceram s gods graves scholars. Glynnis fawkes illustrator reviewed by jennie ebeling.