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THE MEANING OF ARCHAEOLOGY by Massimo Pallottino

THE MEANING OF ARCHAEOLOGY

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Publisher: Abrams

The archaeologist's transformation from erudite looter to professional conservationist is explained-a history of methods, aims, excavations. The author, a professor of Etruscan studies and archaeology at the University of Rome, has assembled some 314 illustrations, 29 in color, which range from paintings to ruins, museum cases and maps.