Archaeology category: 3529 books
Settling the Earth
The Archaeology of Deep Human History
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that...
Beastly Questions
Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This is bizarre given that the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human–animal relationships (be they in the form of animal bones, individual artifacts or entire landscapes)...
Modelling Ecological Change
Perspectives from Neoecology, Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This collection of essays in Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space....
by Clive Orton, Michael Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available to the archaeologist, and assesses their value for answering...
A Passion for the Past
The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Ivor Noël Hume has devoted his life to uncovering countless lives that came before him. In A Passion for the Past the world-renowned archaeologist turns to his own life, sharing with the reader a story that begins amid the bombed-out rubble of post–World War II London and ends on North Carolina’s...
The Archaeology of Drylands
Living at the Margin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates about desertification and the sustainability of dryland settlement.
An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts
Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. Improvement was a metaphor for human intervention in the dramatic changes taking place to the English speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of a transition to industrial capitalism. The meaning...
by Christopher P. Barton, Kyle Somerville
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book explores the history of children’s toys and games bearing racial stereotypes, and the role these objects played in the creation and maintenance of structures of racialism and racism in the United States, from approximately 1865 to the 1930s. This time period is one in which the creation...
The Archaeology of Mothering
An African-American Midwife's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South.
Social Approaches to an Industrial Past
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2002
Social Approaches to an Industrial Past addresses the social issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology:
* the social context of production
* gender
* power and labour exploitation
* imperialism and colonialism
* production and technology.
by Steven Mithen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
"A truly pioneering work, perhaps the first by a practicing archaeologist to review coherently the evolution of human cognitive abilities." —Colin Renfrew, author of Before Civilization and Archaeology and Language
Here is an exhilarating intellectual performance, in the tradition...
Conflicted Antiquities
Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study...
Killing Time
Archaeology and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Great War stands at the furthest edge of living memory. There are a handful of men alive who fought in the trenches of the Somme and Flanders. Within their own lifetimes, their memories have become epic history. Hardly a month passes without some dramatic...