Difference between revisions of "Dug to Death"
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[http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/praetzel/ Adrian Praetzellis], 2003 Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. | [http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/praetzel/ Adrian Praetzellis], 2003 Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. | ||
| − | Well is it a spoof? A who-dunit set in an excavation in Victoria (thinly diguised Queenstown), Central Otago undertaken by the University of Invercargill it is clearly fiction at one level - but it is also a primer on underaking excavations. Praetzellis has spent some time | + | Well is it a spoof? A who-dunit set in an excavation in Victoria (thinly diguised Queenstown), Central Otago undertaken by the University of Invercargill it is clearly fiction at one level - but it is also a primer on underaking excavations. Praetzellis has spent some time in New Zealand so the local references are knowing. The New Zealand English glossary is a hoot. |
[[Barber Ian|Ian Barber]] has reviewed it in Archaeology in New Zealand 2005 48(4):256-58. | [[Barber Ian|Ian Barber]] has reviewed it in Archaeology in New Zealand 2005 48(4):256-58. | ||
Revision as of 16:24, 8 November 2015
Dug to Death
'A tale of archaeological method and mayhem'.
Adrian Praetzellis, 2003 Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
Well is it a spoof? A who-dunit set in an excavation in Victoria (thinly diguised Queenstown), Central Otago undertaken by the University of Invercargill it is clearly fiction at one level - but it is also a primer on underaking excavations. Praetzellis has spent some time in New Zealand so the local references are knowing. The New Zealand English glossary is a hoot.
Ian Barber has reviewed it in Archaeology in New Zealand 2005 48(4):256-58.
There are other reviews linked here.
