Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Theresa A Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other scholars on the topic of slavery and plantations. It synthesizes materials known through the 1980s and...
Iron and Steamship Archaeology
Success and Failure on the SS Xantho
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site. This relatively straightforward assignment...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood. However marginal the...
Archaeology After Interpretation
Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A new generation of archaeologists has thrown down a challenge to post-processual theory, arguing that characterizing material symbols as arbitrary overlooks the material character and significance of artifacts. This volume showcases the significant departure from previous symbolic approaches that...
Bridging the Gaps
Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico does just that: it bridges the gap between archaeology and history of the Precolumbian, Colonial, and Republican eras of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a cultural area encompassing several of the longest-enduring literate societies...
Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology
A South American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create...
On the Periphery of the Periphery
Household Archaeology at Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi, Yucatán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
This book examines from an archaeological perspective the social and economic changes that took place in Yucatán, Mexico beginning in the 18th century, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange. Of particular interest is the formation and ultimate supremacy...
Harney Flats
A Florida Paleoindian Site
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
"Represents another stepping stone toward our understanding of life in the Southeast 10,000–11,000 years ago."--Southeastern Archaeology "The Paleoindian component at Harney Flats is a benchmark in early [human] studies in Florida and the Southeast."--North American Archaeologist...
The Emergence of the Moundbuilders
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000...
by Jon Muller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Although it has been occupied for as long and possesses a mound-building tradition of considerable scale and interest, Muller contends that the archaeology of the lower Ohio River Valley—from the confluence with the Mississippi to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky – remains less well-known that...
by Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region.
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely...
Images of the Recent Past
Readings in Historical Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1996
Historical archaeology has been without a definitive, up-to-date collection that reflects the breadth of the field_until now. Orser's book brings together classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the development of the field over the last twenty years, both in North America and throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This is the first summary of how archaeology has contributed to our understanding of the War of 1812. The contributors of original papers discuss recent excavations and field surveys that present an archaeological perspective that enriches,—and often conflicts with, received historical narratives....
by David Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Eighteen papers and six abstracts from the ninth symposium of the Association of Environmental Archaeology held at Roskilde, Denmark, in 1988.