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by: Harold L. Dibble, Shannon McPherron, Barbara Roth, Harold L. Dibble, Shannon McPherron, Barbara Roth
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 936.4
EAN: 9780072824766
ISBN: 007282476X
Label: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: June 26, 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Sales Rank: 735334
Studio: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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This combination of workbook and CD-ROM (Win PC only) functions as a 'virtual field school' that gives students the opportunity to carry out an excavation using real data. Based on excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Combe-Capelle in France, the exercises included in Virtual Dig ask students to access the CD's database to analyze and interpret findings.
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Rating: - Simulated Excavation: Great Idea, Poor Implementation
Any introductory archaeology class should have a lab or lablike simulation. This book represents a good idea--simulate an actual excavation--but the book and CD program are pitched well beyond the introductory level.
The book and program simulate an actual excavation at a Middle Paleolithic site called Combe-Capelle in southern France, not far from Le Moustier, which gave the Mousterian tool tradition its name. The original inhabitants were Neanderthal, and they produced a variety of tools ... Read More
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