This Smithsonian coffee table book highlights 100 archaeological sites across the world, trying to give a cross section of sites both time-wise (ancient Neolithic cave art to the Battle of Little Bighorn) and geography-wise (Egypt, Peru, Australia, Canada, etc.). The introduction notes that the criteria for inclusion in this book included things like whether the sites were important in the field, would be interesting to the lay person, were accessible to visitors and were photogenic. Some of these sites would be familiar to a lot […]