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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1 The ‘Backward-Looking Curiosity’
• 2 Donkeys and Pharaohs
• 3 Reading Ancient Egypt
• 4 Digging into Nineveh
• 5 Tablets and Tunnelling
• 6 The Maya Revealed
• 7 Axes and Elephants
• 8 A Huge Turning Point
• 9 The Three Ages
• 10 Stone Age Hunters in an Icy World
• 11 Across the Ages
• 12 The Myth of the Mound Builders
• 13 ‘Stepping into the Unknown’
• 14 Toros! Toros!
• 15 Searching for Homer’s Heroes
• 16 ‘Organised Common Sense’
• 17 The Small and Unspectacular
• 18 The Palace of the Minotaur
• 19 Not ‘Men’s Work’
• 20 Mud Bricks and a Flood
• 21 ‘Wonderful Things’
• 22 A Palace Fit for a Chief
• 23 East and West
• 24 Shell Heaps, Pueblos and Tree Rings
• 25 A Fire-Breathing Giant
• 26 Around the River Bend
• 27 Dating the Ages
• 28 Ecology and World Prehistory
• 29 ‘Dear Boy!’
• 30 The First Farmers
• 31 Defending the Emperor
• 32 Underwater Archaeology
• 33 Meeting the Colonists
• 34 The Ice Man and Others
• 35 Warrior-Priests of the Moche
• 36 Tunnelling for the Cosmos
• 37 Çatalhöyük
• 38 Looking in the Landscape
• 39 Shining a Light on the Invisible
• 40 Archaeology Today and Tomorrow
• Index