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Peter Kent's City Across Time
From the Stone Age to the Distant Future
By Kent, Peter
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-75346-400-7
- Publisher
- Kingfisher
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2010
Gr 4-8 This intriguing introduction to urban archaeology features cross-sections of the same location in an imaginary European city from the Stone Age to the 21st century. Changes in daily life aboveground are fascinating, and what happens in the subterranean realm is equally engaging. As one civilization displaces another, skeletons, artifacts, and garbage form layer upon layer of an unwritten record. Kent supplies brief overviews of each era depict...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Claiming "each century leaves its own layer of remains," this fascinating, accessible title introduces archaeology by presenting a fictiona...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
