Archaeology category: 3529 books
Practicing Archaeology
An Introduction to Cultural Resources Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This comprehensive reference book addresses the questions and problems of cultural resource archaeology for graduate students and practicing archaeological field workers. Neumann and Sanford use their decades of field experience to discuss in great detail the complex processes involved in conducting...
An Archaeology of Materials
Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller argues...
Medieval Life
Archaeology and the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis of an impressive body of material. It will be eagerly read by current and future generations of archaeologists, and will demonstrate the significance of historical archaeology to a much wider scholarly audience."...
by Ben Jervis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
From examinations of prehistoric burial to understanding post-industrial spaces and heritage practices, the writing of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is gaining increasing importance within archaeological thought. Their concept of ‘assemblages’ allows us to explore the past in new ways, by...
Transforming Archaeology
Activist Practices and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Archaeology for whom? The dozen well-known contributors to this innovative volume suggest nothing less than a transformation of the discipline into a service-oriented, community-based endeavor. They wish to replace the primacy of meeting academic demands with meeting the needs and values of those...
Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century
Contributions from Community Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expanding discussions about the mechanisms and consequences of community participation. This trend has brought to the forefront debates about who owns the past, who has...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Archaeologists from many different European countries here explore the very varied relationship between nationalistic ideas and archaeological activity through the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resurgence of nationalism was one of the most prominent features of the European...
Information Modelling for Archaeology and Anthropology
Software Engineering Principles for Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This unique text/reference reviews the key principles and techniques in conceptual modelling which are of relevance to specialists in the field of cultural heritage.
Information modelling tasks are a vital aspect of work and study in such disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, history, and...
The Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam
Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In Archaeology Under Water (1966: 19), pioneer nautical archaeologist George Bass pointed out how much easier it is to train someone who is already an archaeologist to become a diver than to take trained divers and teach them to do archaeology. While this is 'generally true, there have also been occasions...
Origini - XL
Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche - Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Editors' preface TEXTILES TEXTILES IN PRE-ROMAN ITALY: FROM QUALITATIVE TO QUANTITATIVE APPROACH Margarita Gleba NEW TEXTILE FINDS FROM TOMBA DELL'ARYBALLOS SOSPESO, TARQUINIA: CONTEXT, ANALYSIS AND PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATION Margarita Gleba, Alessandro Mandolesi, Maria Rosa Lucidi TEXTILES AND RITUALS...
Excavating Jesus
Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
The premier historical Jesus scholar joins a brilliant archaeologist to illuminate the life and teaching of Jesus against the background of his world.
There have been phenomenal advances in the historical understanding of Jesus and his world and times, but also huge, lesser known advances in...
The Roman Invasion of Britain
Archaeology Versus History
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it with the archaeological evidence, which is often contradictory. Archaeologists and historians all too often work in complete isolation from each other and this book...
by Jefferson Reid, Stephanie Whittlesey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their...
The Traveler's Guide to Greek Archaeology
Getting the Most from your Mediterranean Trip
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Here is an indispensable guide for anyone embarking on cruise or trip around the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. Read about the art and architecture of the ancient Greeks, whose world once extended from the shores of Asia Minor and the Black Sea through the Aegean islands to Crete and Sicily...