It explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations and how to succeed with different types of assignments and exam questions.It supports study with case studies, key sites, key terms, tasks and skills development. It illustrates concepts and commentary with over 300 photos and drawings of excavation sites, methodology and processes, tools and equipment links from its own website to other key websites in archaeology at the right level. It contains new material on "Issues in Modern Archaeology", "Sites and People in the Landscape" and "People and Society in the Past", new case studies, methods, examples, boxes, photographs and diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students. This is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without.