The Facts on File Dictionary of Archaeology contains over 3500 entries covering themes, concepts and discoveries in archaeology. The Dictionary is comprehensive, with coverage of the whole world, beginning with the first hominids some three million years ago, and continuing up to and including the medieval periods in Europe and the Islamic periods in western Asia and north Africa; while in the rest of Africa, the Americas and Australasia it covers all material up to the arrival of the European settlers and some sites of the colonial period itself.
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