Archaeology category: 3529 books
by William Davies, Ruth Charles
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into...
Ladies of the Field
Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
"If you're looking to shake up your concept of Victorian women, these stories of adventure may be your cup of tea." -- Shameless Magazine
"Full of well-researched facts, these tales of seven determined explorers will interest anyone looking for a good adventure." -- Publishers...
Carl W. Blegen
Personal and Archaeological Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Carl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, has found no biographer. In part, the explanation for this must lie in the fact that his life was so...
The Goddess and the Bull
Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly...
Time before History
The Archaeology of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled...
Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend
The Pape-Tunnell Collection
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Harold F. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the nearby shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay and what is now called Port Bay, a southern arm of the larger Copano Bay.
A lifelong natural history enthusiast and...
by Marina Belozerskaya
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks...
Buried Hope or Risen Savior
The Search for the Jesus Tomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Buried Hope or Risen Savior? argues for the credibility of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, engaging the issue in relation to the recent “Jesus Family Tomb” claims that continue making headlines around the world.
Among the contributors, Steve Ortiz (professor of Biblical Archaeology at Southwestern...
by Adrian Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography. The Atlas will help readers of the Bible understand the contexts in which its stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Traditional methods of making archaeological data available are becoming increasingly inadequate. Thanks to improved techniques for examining data from multiple viewpoints, archaeologists are now in a position to record different kinds of data, and to explore that data more fully than ever before....
Cypriot Cultural Details
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in Cypriot Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
There are countless references to Cyprus in Venice: in palaces, primarily that of Queen Caterina Corner, in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo, where the skin of Mark Antonius Bragadin (the staunch defender of Famagusta) is guarded, in the spices, and especially in the wine of Cyprus (Commandaria),...
The Swordfish Hunters
The History and Ecology of an Ancient American Sea People
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Thousands of years ago, Maine's Red Paint People, so called because of the red ochre in their burial sites, were among the first maritime cultures in the Americas. They could have subsisted on easily caught cod, but they chose to capture dangerous and elusive swordfish. This book explains beautifully...
Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture
A Research Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Barbara A. Purdy, Robert J. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
With more than 50 years of field experience between the two authors, this highly regarded volume reveals how responsible archaeologists locate, excavate, and analyze sites, middens, and remains. This second edition contains new, emended, and greatly expanded chapters about recently discovered sites...