A review by scoobyramone
Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction by Paul G. Bahn

3.0

I suppose I got what I was looking for, an intro to archaeology, but it was pretty rudimentary. Each chapter proposed an interesting topic that the author would barely indulge in. For example, the chapters “How Did People Think?” and “How Did People Live?”, which are two concepts I find fascinating, are not actually explored in any depth at all. The author instead describes very generally how archaeologists go about finding these things out. He’ll be off on a tangent about a technical dilemma archaeologists run into and before you know it the chapter is over and you don’t know anything more about how people lived back in ancient times. But hey, maybe I’m reading the wrong book.

Also, don’t even get me started about the way he tries to tip toe around feminism in archaeology. What a nightmare.

Certainly not a great start to my experience with the Very Short Introduction series, but I can’t say I didn’t learn some fascinating stuff intermittently.