Abstract
IT is all to the credit of British archaeology that its technique of field-work and excavation should have been built far less from theoretical principles than from practical experience, won gradually in the field itself by the men and women on the job. But matters have latterly been coming to a point where the fruits of this experience required gathering together, for the benefit both of beginners and indeed of the men and women on the job themselves. Mr. Atkinson's book meets this requirement admirably. A little more than two hundred pages long and of convenient pocket size, it is exactly suited to the part of archaeologist's 'companion', in which it should be assured of a long career of usefulness and many editions.
Field Archæology
By R. J. C. Atkinson. Pp. x + 238 + 8 plates. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1946.) 12s. 6d. net.
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HAWKES, C. Field Archæology. Nature 159, 387 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159387b0
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