Archaeology category: 3529 books
Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology
Perspectives at the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.
by Duncan Sayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The investigation of human remains has always been central to archaeological, but archaeologists are not the only ones with an interest in their treatment. Political groups, religious organisations, descendant communities and disenfranchised interest groups are all becoming more vocal in expressing...
by Deborah Rotman
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations...
by John Steane
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In the preceding 25 years to this book’s publication in 1985 there was an extensive and unprecedented burst of archaeological activity in evidence from below-ground deposits, above-ground structures, and artefacts. During the boom of the late 1960s and 1970s, which led to go much central town redevelopment,...
by Howard Thomas Foster, Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, Lisa D. O'Steen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540–1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what...
Complex Communities
The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Complex Communities explores how sedentary settlements developed and flourished in the Middle East during the Early Iron Age nearly four thousand years ago. Using archaeological evidence, Benjamin Porter reconstructs how residents maintained their communities despite environmental uncertainties. Living...
by Martin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
A revolution is underway in archaeology. Working at the cutting edge of genetic and molecular technologies, researchers have been probing the building blocks of ancient life-DNA, proteins, fats-to rewrite our understanding of the past. Their discoveries (including a Mitochondrial Eve, the woman from...
The First Americans
In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow...
David and Solomon
In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible...
The Colonial Caribbean
Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology....
The Plurality of Power
An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary...
Landscape of the Mind
Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that...
Beyond Collapse
Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience...
People of the Earth
An Introduction to World Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years ago. This is a global prehistory, which covers prehistoric times in every corner of the world, in a jargon-free...