Archaeology category: 3529 books
Marcus Simaika
Father of Coptic Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the British occupation of Egypt. From a young age, he developed a passion for Coptic heritage and devoted his life to shedding light on centuries of Christian Egyptian history...
Seeing Beneath the Soil
Prospecting Methods in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Scientific soil prospecting methods can give dramatic pictures of buried archaeological sites, and sometimes information on what occurred within them, before any earth has ben removed. Dr Clark, who was one of the earliest to work in this field, has written the first general survey of an increasingly...
Structured Worlds
The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories...
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality
The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities...
Ancient Households of the Americas
Conceptualizing What Households Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households.
Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Entanglement theory posits that the interrelationship of humans and objects is a delimiting characteristic of human history and culture. This edited volume of original studies by leading
archaeological theorists applies this concept to a broad range of topics, including archaeological science,...
The Colonization of Unfamiliar Landscapes
The Archaeology of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. Contributions apply the related fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, and historical archaeology to the issues of individual exploration, development of trail...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.
The authors provide a global range of case...
How Chiefs Became Kings
Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex...
Lives in Land – Mucking excavations
Volume 1. Prehistory, Context and Summary
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The excavations led by Margaret and Tom Jones on the Thames gravel terraces at Mucking, Essex, undertaken between 1965 and 1978 are legendary. The largest area excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles, involving around 5000 participants, recorded around 44,000 archaeological features dating...
The Ancient Southwest
Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde. Revised edition.
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Over twenty-five years ago, David Stuart began writing award-winning newspaper articles on regional archaeology that appealed to general readers. These columns shared interesting, and usually little-known, facts and stories about the ancient people and places of the Southwest. By 1985, Stuart...
The Brother of Jesus
The Dramatic Story & Meaning of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus & His Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
The discovery of a limestone burial box with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" set the world of biblical archaeology abuzz. Could this be the first tangible proof of Jesus' existence? Hershel Shanks, celebrated for making biblical archaeology accessible to general readers, and...
by Jerald T. Milanich
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands....
Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus
The James Ossuary Controversy and the Quest for Religious Relics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In 2002 a burial box of skeletal remains purchased anonymously from the black market was identified as the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus. Transformed by the media into a religious and historical relic overnight, the artifact made its way to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, where 100,000...