Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Archaeology of South Asia
From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and character of the Indus civilisation,...
by John M. McManamon SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken...
by M.J. Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the subject. The main text is a coherent introduction to the whole...
These "Thin Partitions"
Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
*These “Thin Partitions” *explores the intellectual and methodological differences that separate two of the four subdisciplines within the field of anthropology: archaeology and cultural anthropology. Contributors examine the theoretical underpinnings of this separation and explore what can be...
Image, Memory and Monumentality
Archaeological Engagements with the Material World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Leading scholars in these 29 commissioned papers in honour of Richard Bradley discuss key themes in prehistoric archaeology that have defined his career, such as monumentality, memory, rock art, landscape, material worlds and field practice. The scope is broad, covering both Britain and Europe, and...
Egyptian Archaeology
Illustrated Guide to the Study of Egyptology
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
This book is dedicated to the study of Ancient Egyptian archaeology and gives insight into civil, military and religious architecture of Egypt as well as the information about Egyptian tombs, painting, sculpture and industrial arts. Contents: Architecture--Civil and Military Houses Fortresses Public...
by Kristina Jennbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Exploring the relationship between animals and humans in Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the Viking Period, this book interprets Old Norse mythology-in which imaginary creatures with strong characters were invented-and examines the importance of animals in the human world. According to Old...
Ruin Memories
Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Since the nineteenth century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly victimized rapidly and made redundant. At the same time, processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked...
by Marion Dowd, Robert Hensey
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep...
TRAC 2000
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference. London 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Thirteen papers on Roman archaeology from the 10th annual TRAC conference.
Contents: Representing the Romans in the Museum of Scotland (David Clarke and Fraser Hunter); Representing Londinium (Francis Grew); Writing colonial conflict, acknowledging colonial weakness (Garrick Fincham); Identities...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops...
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.
From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in...
Writing the Past
Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to...