Archaeology: Books

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The following titles reflect the most recent textbooks purchased by the University of Manchester Library for your studies and research.

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The University of Manchester Library is one of the largest subscribers to e-journals and databases in the UK but we don’t have access to everything.

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Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Pure, the University of Manchester’s internal repository.

Paul Bahn (ed.), Collins dictionary of archaeology. London: HarperCollins, 1992. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/B48)

Graeme Barker (ed.), Companion encyclopedia of archaeology. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1999. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/B50)

Pam J. Crabtree (ed.), Medieval archaeology: an encyclopedia. London: Garland, 2001. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/C8)

Nancy Thomson de Grummond (ed.), An encyclopedia of the history of classical archaeology. 2 vols. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/D68)

James P. Delgado (ed.), Encyclopaedia of underwater and maritime archaeology. London: British Museum Press, 1997. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/D67)

Linda Ellis (ed.), Archaeological method and theory: an encyclopedia. London: Garland Publishing, 2000. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/E26)

Brian M. Fagan (ed.), The Oxford companion to archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/F1) Also available in electronic form.

Eric M. Meyers (ed.), The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/M1)

Tim Murray (ed.), Encyclopedia of archaeology: the great archaeologists. 2 vols. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1999. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/M2)

Tim Murray (ed.), Encyclopedia of archaeology: history and discoveries. 3 vols. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1999. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/M3)

Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson (ed.), A dictionary of archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. (Blue 3 Reference Collection 913.03/S1)