Washington, DC, Estados Unidos : National Geographic Society, 1985.

368 p. ; 29 cm.

The adventure begins. -- The treasure hunters. -- In search of buried cities. -- From sport to science. -- Tombs, texts, and trophies. -- Seeking the first Americans. -- Putting time in order. -- A new look at the new world. -- Scientists in the field. -- When, where - and why. -- Lost ships, sunken cities. -- To the ends of earth and time. -- The future of the past. --

Tomado del prólogo: "The Adventure of Archaeology tells the story of how science came into being - a compelling tale of tourists and treasure hunters, of strong-minded adventurers, of patient excavators laboring alone, of teams of scholars trekking into the desert or diving into the deep. In these pages you will witness the discovery of forgotten civilizations - the Assyrians and Sumerians of Mesopotamia, the Minoans of Crete, the Harappans of the Indus Valley, the Olmec of Mexico. In words and images you will travel through time with the Leakey family to the earliest chapters of human existence in East Africa, and with Kathleen Kenyon to Jericho's 10,000-year-old walls. You will look over the shoulder of Howard Carter as he opens Tutankhamun's tomb, and dive with George Bass as he studies Bronze Age shipwreck on the bottom of the Mediterrean." --