Archaeology category: 3529 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss...
by Richard A. Boisvert, James W. Bradley, John G. Crock
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling of North America. Late Pleistocene Archaeology...
Gender and Material Culture
The Archaeology of Religious Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gender in medieval monasticism influenced landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and...
Seabed Prehistory
Investigating the Palaeogeography and Early Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Southern North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Archaeological investigation of Early Middle Palaeolithic flint tools, including hand axes, and faunal remains in the North Sea. This volume also examines submerged and buried landscapes. The methods used to recover artifacts and other remains and to explore these buried landscapes are also described....
The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria
Burial, Commemoration, and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In the first centuries of the Common Era, an eclectic collection of plain and embellished underground and aboveground tombs filled the cemeteries of the Roman province of Syria. Its inhabitants used rituals of commemoration to express messages about their local identity, family, and social position,...
Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as “center places.”
Rodning investigates...
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory
Locating Meaning in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory explores the place of Africa in archaeological theory, and the place of theory in African archaeology. The centrality of Africa to global archaeological thinking is highlighted, with a particular focus on materiality and agency in contemporary interpretation. As...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
How humans adapt to life in an area prone to natural disasters is an intriguing study for the social sciences. In this volume, experts from several disciplines explore the adaptation process of prehistoric societies in the volcanic Arenal region of Costa Rica from about 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest...
by John Coles
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built.
What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he...
The Neolithic of Europe
Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from southeast Europe to Britain and Ireland and chronologically from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with...
by Ioannis Liritzis, Ashok Kumar Singhvi, James K. Feathers
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The field of Luminescence Dating has reached a level of maturity. Both research and applications from all fields of archaeological science, from archaeological materials to anthropology and geoarchaeology, now routinely employ luminescence dating. The advent of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)...
Field Archaeology from Around the World
Ideas and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field...
Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times
Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from...
Villain or Visionary?
R. A. S. Macalister and the Archaeology of Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
R.A.S. Macalister is an important but controversial figure in the history of Palestinian archaeology. This volume celebrates the centennial of the publication of his excavations at Tel Gezer (1912), conducted under the auspices of the PEF. This excavation was the most ambitious one of its time in...