Archaeology category: 3529 books
Rural Society in the Age of Reason
An Archaeology of the Emergence of Modern Life in the Southern Scottish Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday...
Capitalism and Cloves
An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological...
Archaeologies of Text
Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Scholars working in a number of disciplines – archaeologists, classicists, epigraphers, papyrologists, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, Mayanists, philologists, and ancient historians of all stripes – routinely engage with ancient textual sources that are either material remains from the archaeological...
Inauthentic Archaeologies
Public Uses and Abuses of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Archaeology has an impact on the public far beyond what any archaeologist would imagine. In this concise, student-friendly look at the public appropriation of archaeology, Troy Lovata examines outright hoaxes, fanciful re-creations, artistic representations, commercial enterprises, and discredited...
Bridging the Divide
Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The collected essays in this volume address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA and similar legislation....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures...
by Philippe Leveau, Kevin Walsh, Frederic Trement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Contents include: Introduction ( K Walsh ); Palynology ( S Bottema ); A database for the palynological recording of human activity ( V Andrieu, E Brugiapaglia, R Cheddadi, M Reille and J-L de Beaulieu ); The contribution of anthracology ( J-L Vernet ); Dendroclimatology ( F Guibal ); Techniques in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the great advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People’s Republic of China. The 15 chapters are devoted to a historical overview of past and recent studies, the development of chronological...
by Michael Given
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the Colonized focuses on the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, looking at case studies from areas of...
Archaeology and Language IV
Language Change and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.
Israel's Ethnogenesis
Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Winner (for best semi-popular book) of the 2008 Irene Levi-Sala Prize for publications on the archaeology of Israel. The emergence of Israel in Canaan is a central topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology. However, the archaeology of ancient Israel has rarely been subject to in-depth anthropological...
by Kathryn A. Bard
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman periods, and has now been updated to include recent discoveries and new illustrations.
• Superbly illustrated with photographs, maps, and site plans, with additional...
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation. Contributors explore different conceptualizations of “border,” the importance of which...
Photographing Tutankhamun
Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut...