Illustrated World History of Archaeology

This voluminous work has been given the somewhat misleading title world history in the translation: half of the world is not discussed. After an introductory chapter on archaeological methods, 1. Europe, 2. North and Central Africa, and 3. The Middle East, India and China are discussed in succession. The quality of the many colour photographs and reconstruction drawings can be called good, but that cannot be said of the text everywhere. The text is printed small (71 lines per page, 8 lines in the NBLC template framework) and several of the 33 authors often use long sentences with unnecessarily difficult language. The book is not annotated, does not contain a bibliography, but does contain an index. As a picture book this archaeological overview is worth its money, but you have to accept the text here and there.