Archaeology category: 3529 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Part of a resurgence in the comparative study of ancient societies, this book presents a variety of methods and approaches to comparative analysis through the examination of wide-ranging case studies. Each chapter is a comparative study, and the diverse topics and regions covered in the book contribute...
by Lawrence B. Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Ground-penetrating radar is a near-surface geophysical technique that can provide three-dimensional maps and other images of buried archaeological features and associated stratigraphy in a precise way. This book, by the expert in the field, provides the basics of the physics, chemistry, geology, and...
In Search of Paul
How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L. Reed, an expert in biblical archaeology, reveal through archaeology and textual scholarship that Paul, like Jesus, focused on championing the Kingdom of God––a realm of justice and equality––against the dominant, worldly...
Interpreting the Early Modern World
Transatlantic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
This volume is based on a session at a 2005 Society for Historical Archaeology meeting. The organizers assembled historical archaeologists from the UK and the US, whose work arises out of differing intellectual traditions. The authors exchange ideas about what their colleagues have written, and construct...
by Lars Fogelin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
How do archaeologists explore the various dimensions of religion? Lars Fogelin uses archaeological work at Thotlakonda in Southern India as his lens in a broader examination of Buddhist monastic life. He discovers the tension between the desired isolation of the monastery and the mutual engagement...
The Archaeology of Hollywood
Traces of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The Golden Age of Hollywood, dating to the hazy depths of the early 20th Century, was an era of movie stars worshipped by the masses and despotic studio moguls issuing decrees from poolside divans… but despite the world-wide reach of the movie industry, little more than memories of that era linger...
by Keri J. Sansevere, Michael J. Gall, Ross Thomas Rava
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the...
Appropriated Pasts
Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture"...
Te Puna - A New Zealand Mission Station
Historical Archaeology in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonisation throughout the globe, from India to Africa and into the Pacific. In late 18th-century Britain, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its missionary ventures, and in the first decade...
Interpreting Archaeology
Finding Meaning in the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to...
The Archaeology of Ethnicity
Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment...
Iron Age Myth and Materiality
An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of...
by D.W. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
More wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of Celtic art.
Tempering the much-adopted art-historical approach, D.W. Harding argues for a broader definition of Celtic art and views it within a much wider...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers assumed a sacred character in European prehistory, and how the evidence for this can be analysed in the field. It shows how established research on votive deposits, rock art and production sites can contribute to...