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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Lightweight and unsatisfactory I agree with the reviewers "Not Great" and "A Waste of Money". This is a set book for the 1st year of the Open University Classics MA, which I am currently taking, and I find it very lightweight and frustrating. There is nothing to get your teeth into - no case studies (unlike the Renfrew and Bahn book) and nothing to get you thinking and working at the subject. Cannot understand why the OU chose this as their set book rather than Renfrew and Bahn. To be fair to Greene I suspect that the OU course designers... more info
A good all round synopsis This book does not go to deeply into the subject in most instances but it does cover a wide range of subjects and works well with the accompanying website. Yes the Renfrew and Bahn book is much more comprehensive but nowhere near as easy to read. Get it, it has to be one of the core books along with Renfrew and Bahn
Damn good book, by a damn good lecturer Contrary, to the belief of most of the reviewers it is a good book and very useful to theose studying Archaeology, it is especially useful if you happen to study at Newcatle Uni where Kevin Greene himself works and lectures, especially if he takes all of your Archaeology Lectures, as he does with us, as the book ties in with the scheme of work. Even so i bought this book long before i decided to go to Newcastle and it helped me to understand the subject better. Personally this has to be on every archaeology... more info
Not great I felt this book was actually quite poor. If you would like to read a good general introduction to archaeology, or you are a first year archaeology student, the Renfrew & Bahn's 'Archaeology' is far superior, has a global perpective (as a book on archaeology should) and represents better value for money.
