Dictionary of Archaeology is a long felt desiredatum. For this, ancient civilizations of egypt, Mesopotamia, Greek,India. Mexico, China and peru have been brought within the compass of his stufy.The project is exhaustive, ambitious and vast.This dictionary fulfils a long-felt need in india and development countries studies by initiating an inter-disciplinary dialouge between archaeology and history. It challenges traditional assumptions derived  from text-based archaeology dating to the alexander cunningham era and reexamines the role of archieves, monumental architecture and artifacts in the reconstruction of the past. In this dictionary over 3,500 entries covering the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language, this up-to-date dictionary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of its kind. The present book Dictionary of archaeology in a sense is a continuation of the past research and implict updating the subject in a different angle.