Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Matthew Liebmann, Greg Borgstede, Craig N. Cipolla
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society—with repect to both the colonizers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and...
Creating Material Worlds
The Uses of Identity in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’. Previous studies have highlighted the various problems and challenges...
California Maritime Archaeology
A San Clemente Island Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times—not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime Archaeology, the authors use the island as...
The Archaeology of Science
Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This manual pulls together—and illustrates with interesting case studies—the variety of specialized and generalized archaeological research strategies that yield new insights into science. Throughout the book there are templates, consisting of questions, to help readers visualize and design their...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study...
An Archaeology of the Margins
Colonialism, Amazighity and Heritage Management in the Canary Islands
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book analyses the problematics of archaeological heritage management in the Canary Islands, which are echoed in other parts of the world where the indigenous heritage is under-represented. The present-day management of Canarian archaeological heritage has a very specific and unusual context given...
Historical Archaeology in Wachovia
Excavating Eighteenth-Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Originally distributed with a different title as a very limited edition of twelve in 1975, Historical Archaeology in Wachovia presents a unique record of the 1753 Moravian town of Bethabara, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stanley South, who led the site's excavation in 1966, fully describes such...
Prehistoric Pathfinders
Pioneers of English Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This work draws together a series of pen-portraits of some 40 individuals who helped shape the foundations of English prehistoric and later study, mainly during the 18th and 19th centuries. They represented a diverse cross-section of contemporary society including army officers, churchmen, country...
Archaeology of Religion
Cultures and their Beliefs in Worldwide Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Steadman fills an empty niche in the offerings on how archaeology interprets past religions with this useful textbook. The book includes case studies from around the world, from the study of Upper Paleolithic religions and of shamans in foraging societies to formal religious structures in advanced...
Forms of Dwelling
20 years of Taskscapes in archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The concept of a socially constructed space of human activity in areas of everyday actions, as initially proposed in the field of anthropology by Tim Ingold, has actually been much more applied in archaeology. In this wide-ranging collection of 13 papers, including a re-assessment by Ingold himself,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing archaeologists working in areas of violent conflict, past...
The Archaeology of the Caucasus
From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In The Archaeology of the Caucasus, Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive survey of a key area in the Eurasian land mass, from the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron Age. Examining the bewildering array of cultural complexes found in the region, he draws on both Soviet and...
The Archaeology of Interdependence
European Involvement in the Development of a Sovereign United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The publication explores the ways in which archaeological research can inform us about the manner and motives of European involvement in the development of a sovereign United States. The five chapters focus on different archaeological sites (four terrestrial sites) and each consider the special...