Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Social Archaeology of the Levant
From Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars...
Slavery behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"A significant contribution in Caribbean archaeology. Singleton weaves archaeological and documentary evidence into a compelling narrative of the lives of the enslaved at Santa Ana de Biajacas."--Patricia Samford, author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia...
Squeezing Minds From Stones
Cognitive Archaeology and the Evolution of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Squeezing Minds From Stones is a collection of essays from early pioneers in the field, like archaeologists Thomas...
Thirty Years Into Yesterday
A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
For thirty years, the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopper—a 500-room Mogollon pueblo located on what is today the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona—probed the past, taught scholars of international repute, and generated controversy. This book offers an extraordinary...
Reclaiming a Plundered Past
Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in April of 2003 provoked a world outcry at the loss of artifacts regarded as part of humanity's shared cultural patrimony. But though the losses were unprecedented in scale, the museum looting was hardly the first time that Iraqi heirlooms had been plundered...
Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds
A Settlers’ Fortification of the Black Hawk War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds is an archaeological detective story illuminating the lives of white settlers in the lead-mining region during the tragic events of the historically important conflict known as the Black Hawk War.
Focusing on the strategically located Fort Blue...
Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Rebuilding Knowledge, Memory and Community from War-Damaged Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites...
Just Past?
The Making of Israeli Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The land of Israel is rich in history and material culture and has long been the location of extensive archaeological excavation. 'Just Past?' examines the origins of Israeli archaeology in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on previously unpublished documentary material, the study offers a history of intriguing...
by Marcia-Anne Dobres, John Robb
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeology. Divided into four distinct sections and drawing across disciplines...
by Carl H. Chapman, Eleanor F. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This expanded edition of Indians and Archaeology of Missouri gives an excellent introduction to the cultural development of Missouri’s Indians during the past twelve thousand years. Providing a new chapter on the Hunter Foragers of the Dalton period and substantial revision of other chapters to...
Archaeology
The Discipline of Things
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage...
After Captain Cook
The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The original papers collected in this pioneering volume address the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia and its application in researching the shared history of Aboriginal and settler Australians. The authors draw on case studies from across the continent to show how archaeology can illuminate...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
The contributors cover the most significant...