Archaeology category: 3529 books
Archaeology, History and Science
Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these sources of information relate to each other, or explicit attempts at developing successful strategies for interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Archaeological evidence - i.e. presence of exogenous, foreign material objects (pottery, obsidian and so on) - is used to make inferences on ancient trade, while population movement can only be assessed when the biological component of an ancient community is analyzed (i.e. the human skeletal remains)....
by Franklin Southworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particular the Indus Valley civilization, its links with neighbouring regions and its implications for social history. Each type of linguistic data is put into...
Satellite Remote Sensing
A New Tool for Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
This book provides a state-of-the art overview of satellite archaeology and it is an invaluable volume for archaeologists, scientists, and managers interested in using satellite Earth Observation (EO) to improve the traditional approach for archaeological investigation, protection and management of...
Archaeological Research
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This updated edition of Archaeological Research introduces the basic methods of archaeological research, including data collection, analysis, interpretation, as well as a consideration of the state of archaeology today. New to the Second Edition is updated information on geographic information systems...
Inconstant Companions
Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research.
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Ronald J. Mason explores the tension between aboriginal oral traditions and the practice of archaeology in North America. That exploration is...
Archaeology of Communities
A New World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Archaeology of Communities develops a critical evaluation of community and shows that it represents more than a mere aggregation of households. This collection bridges the gap between studies of ancient societies and ancient households. The community is taken to represent more than a mere aggregation...
The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions
Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This new edition of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism shows where the study of capitalism leads archaeologists, scholars and activists. Essays cover a range of geographic, colonial and racist contexts around the Atlantic basin: Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, the North Atlantic,...
by Jeremy A. Sabloff
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1994
Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past
They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations.
Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology
Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In this fresh and engaging volume, Denys A. Stocks examines the archaeological and pictorial evidence for masonry in ancient Egypt. Through a series of experiments in which he tests and evaluates over two hundred reconstructed and replica tools, he brings alive the methods and practices of ancient...
The Near East
Archaeology in the 'Cradle of Civilization'
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
The transition from foraging, farming and the neolithic village to the city-state is a complex and fascinating period. Studies on the prehistory of the Near East by nineteenth and twentieth century pioneers in the field transformed archaeology through the creation of the 'Ages System' of Stone, Bronze...
The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture
An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived....
Biomolecular Archaeology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Illustrated thoroughly, Biomolecular Archaeology is the first book to clearly guide students through the study of ancient DNA: how to analyze biomolecular evidence (DNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) to address important archaeological questions.
The first book to address the scope and...