Covering periods from the Paleolithic Age through the Industrial Revolution, "The Atlas of Archaeology" encourages all those interested in the past to take a look around us. The authors explain and demonstrate techniques including geophysics, excavation, and skeletal analysis to follow digs from discovery to excavation to preservation. gatherers (Paleolithic valley : Stanton Harcourt) --The neolithic (Catal Huyuk) --The monumental era (A Henge monument : Avebury) --The first cities (Bronze age town : Palaikastro) --The Iron Age (Navan) --The classical age (Tockenham) --The Dark Ages (Winterbourne Gunner) --The Medieval Age (A medieval castle : Hylton) --New settlements (A colonial settlement : St. Mary's City) --The Industrial age (A favtory : Soho, Birmingham).