Featuring an innovative "hyperlink" format of interconnected ideas, anecdotes, and lessons, Connecting to the Past and its accompanying CD provide an exciting introduction to archaeology with an emphasis on practical issues. The book's engaging narrative focuses specifically on the author's excavations, while "sidebars" address more general questions, such as: How do archaeologists find sites? How do you know how old a site is? and How can archaeologists trace the sources of raw materials? The CD contains the text-with embedded hyperlinks to the sidebars-and also includes glossary terms with pronunciations, an image bank of color photos, and study questions with answers.