ABSTRACT
Archaeology as a subject has attracted a vast literature, much of it written at a popular level and unreliable. The best readable and authoritative outline is perhaps J. G. D. Clark, World Prehistory: a new outline, whose scope is truly world wide. A succinct definition of the scope, aims and methods of archaeology is E. Pyddoke, What is Archaeology. C. W. Coram, Gods, Graves and Scholars is a most readable outline history of archaeology, illustrated by biographies of archaeologists. G. E. Daniel, A Hundred Years of Archaeology is the best historical survey. Journals, excluding those devoted to a particular period or area, include the popular American magazine Archaeology and the wide-ranging British Antiquity.
