Description

Brief history of archeology will show you the progress of humanity over thousands of years and the traces our ancestors left in the soil in sedimentary deposits before they became really human, under the sands of the regions devastated by the invasions and disaster, forgotten in thick jungles or on the bottom of the seas. The author, Jorge García, not only will show you the events that marked humanity, but the intricacies of a subject whose goals were not always altruistic; before becoming a science, it was the breeding ground for abusive collectors, colonial plundering and massive destruction of antiques, which were usually confined in museums, for centuries. Throughout this work, we will read Renaissance manuscripts, we will enter the tunnels carved out in Pompeii and Herculanum, and we will accompany Heinrich Schliemann to excavations at Troy and Mycenae, or Arthur Evans to the ruins of the palace of the mythical Crete. We will also cast light on which is the most revolutionary methods of chronological dating, which kind of techniques are currently employed in archeological excavations and which kind of discoveries the archaeologist's dream of..