Archaeology category: 3529 books
Offa's Dyke
Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's...
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 and 11
Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and3
Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Holocaust Archaeologies
Approaches and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Holocaust Archaeologies*:* Approaches and Future Directions aims to move archaeological research concerning the Holocaust forward through a discussion of the variety of the political, social, ethical and religious issues that surround investigations of this period and by considering how to address...
Human remains in society
Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Human remains and society presents a groundbreaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publically displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social,...
Becoming Brothertown
Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Histories of New England typically frame the region’s Indigenous populations in terms of effects felt from European colonialism: the ravages of epidemics and warfare, the restrictions of reservation life, and the influences of European-introduced ideas, customs, and materials. Much less attention...
Prehistoric Warfare and Violence
Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This is the first book to explore prehistoric warfare and violence by integrating qualitative research methods with quantitative, scientific techniques of analysis such as paleopathology, morphometry, wear analysis, and experimental archaeology. It investigates early warfare and violence from the...
by Gaston Maspero
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Notwithstanding the fact that Egyptology is now recognised as a science, an exact and communicable knowledge of whose existence and scope it behoves all modern culture to take cognisance, this work of M. Maspero still remains the Handbook of Egyptian Archaeology
From Tools to Symbols
From Early Hominids To Modern Humans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits...
The Shore Is a Bridge
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
With humans moving easily from water to land, the archaeology of the shore should likewise be seamless. This principle of the “seamlessness” of human interaction with the maritime environment undergirds author Ben Ford’s sweeping survey. In The Shore Is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Based on lectures given at the Conference of the British Summer School of Archaeology at Edinburgh in 1954, this book, published in 1962, surveys the general field of pre-historic Scotland, five archaeologists each contributing chapters discussing the main aspects and problems that have presented...
The British Lower Palaeolithic
Stones in Contention
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as ahistorical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case studies, and firmly rooted in material evidence,...
To weave or not to weave? Textile production and the development of a technological habitus in Cypriot Prehistory
Published in Origini n. XLI/2018. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Textile archaeology represents a rather elusive field of investigation, just as the products of textile activities archaeologically are. The scarcity of information on Cypriot Neolithic and Chalcolithic adds to this inevitable elusiveness. These two aspects may have led scholars to underestimate the...