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Part 1 The idea of the past: the awareness of man's origins; prehistory and history; the antiquity of man; medieval attitudes to antiquity; archaeology in the "Age of Reason"; touring and collecting; the recognition of human artefacts; Scandinavia and the three-age system; typology; achievements of early antiquarians. Part 2 Discovery and fieldwork: the discovery of new archaeological sites; aerial photography; geophysical surveying. Part 3 Excavation: stratification; the interpretation of stratification; case study - the development of excavation techniques at Corbridge, Northumberland; excavation procedure; case study - archaeological dating by history, artefacts and stratigraphy at South Cadbury Castle, Somerset. Part 4 Dating the past: typology; sequence dating and seriation; the advent of scientific dating techniques; absolute scientific dating techniques; authenticity of atrefacts; historial dating. Part 5 The sciences and archaeology: metallurgy; petrology; conservation; the environment; bones and shells; plants; geology and soil science; computers, statistics and archaeology; experimental archaeology. Part 6 Making sense of the past: frameworks for the past; processualist archaeology; ethnoarchaeology; spatial archaeology and the landscape; "astro-archaeology".