Experimental Blog # 220

Comments on "Archaeology - The Essential Guide to Our Human Past" by Paul Bahn, the editor, and 13 additional authors.

The editor, Paul Bahn, apparently wrote about 15 pages of this overwhelming 555 page book. But there are 13 other additional authors: 6 men and 7 women. It seems that the 7 women authors account for almost two thirds of the writing in this book. In fact, the 2 leading authors, Jane McIntosh and Georgina Muskett, together, account for almost one third of the writing in this book; that is, maybe over 180 pages. Of course, Paul Bahn, as the editor, did a very great deal of other work, too.

The book jacket states that, "Beginning deep in prehistory, it{the book} takes in all the archaeological sites of the world as it advances to the present day." And, "it takes the reader on a tour through time and around the globe to hundreds of sites of archaeological importance." Besides that, we learn about the most modern archaeological uses of "magnetometers, ground penetrating radars, < > 3D laser scanners, < > DNA analysis" and even satellites and other applied sciences.