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Dug to Death: A Tale of Archaeological Method and Mayhem

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A comic novel-archaeology text book. This is even better than Death By Theory, his first book that we read semester at UCB. Its funnier and has many more of his strange illustrations.
The subject is archeological field methods and it's set on a historic period site in New Zealand thats staffed by a bunch of weird and wild characters. I'm guessing that its the only archeology methods book that has a Yiddish glossary. Would make a good intro archaeology text.

This is a hilarious intro to archeology novel/text. Just killed me! i would recomend this to anyone who would like a good insight into the process of an archaeological dig.

This author was recommended to me by a classmate to enhance the required text for a class. First and foremost this is a textbook. All of the theories, methods and processes for basic archaeology are presented as well as their history, context and reasons for selection. However, Adrian Praetzellis, goes beyond the dry presentation of the facts and creates an integrated application of the processes a field archaeologist utilize. The story is quaint but does provide a good vehicle for presenting the information to a new student. The author also shows how classroom processes fail when they meet up with the real world. I recommend this to anyone who is beginning Archaeology as a field of study.