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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Representing the latest thinking in this fast-moving and often emotive field, this book offers a remarkably comprehensive international coverage of the public aspects of archaeology. The process of survey and inventory, rescue and archaeology, conservation and protection have until now been studied...
by Graham Keevill, Mick Aston, Teresa Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volume, partly based on a conference held in Oxford in...
History in the Making
The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Eastern Subarctic has long been portrayed as a place without history. Challenging this perspective, History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic charts the complex and dynamic history of this little known archaeological region of North America. Along the way, the book explores...
Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast
Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States.
Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon...
Elements of Architecture
Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within...
The Materiality of Magic
An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive – as are their material manifestations – and to avoid them is to ignore a...
Clash of Cultures?
The Romano-British Period in the West Midlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater compared to the militarized frontier zone of the north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture took root early – in cities like Colchester, London ,and St Albans – and lingered late at cities...
by John Norman Miksic, Goh Geok Yian
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists...
Culture Change and the New Technology
An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Harpers Ferry was one of America's earliest and most significant industrial communities - serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic relations in modern times. In this well-illustrated book, Paul A. Shackel...
by Brian Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The city of Norwich is renowned for its Norman castle, its cathedral and flint city walls, parts of which are still visible today. It is, and was, a ‘Fine City’, the largest walled town in England during the Middle Ages, a rich provincial city still with many well-preserved medieval buildings...
by Professor Warwick Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Churches are Britain’s most completely surviving class of historic monument. They are also usually the oldest buildings within their settlements. As such, these structures, from parish church to cathedral, from medieval to Georgian, are a huge architectural and archaeological resource. The last...
by T. O'Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. First used in the early nineteenth century to express the perceived indebtedness of the visual-artistic and architectural cultures of this period to their Classical antecedents, the term...
Re-constructing Archaeology
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy
Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related...