Archaeology category: 3529 books
TRAC 2014
Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Reading 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at TRAC 2014, as well as some invited contributions. In keeping with the aims of TRAC, several papers make make innovative use of interdisciplinary theory: in humanistic geography, philosophy and archaeology; social psychology; and the cognitive...
by Harold Mytum
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. It will be an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government...
An Archaeology of History and Tradition
Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City. This unusual appellation has served Annapolis into the present as a city that has consistently defined and redefined for itself what being ancient...
Footprints of Hopi History
Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni'at
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Kukveni—footprints—are a powerful historical metaphor that the Hopi people use to comprehend their tangible heritage. Hopis say that the deity Máasaw instructed their ancestors to leave footprints during their migrations from their origin place to their home today as evidence that they had fulfilled...
Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before...
by Myriam Rosen-Ayalon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredible dynamism. Its unique contribution to the Islamic “macrocosm,” however, never became the subject of extensive study. Numerous archeological excavations...
The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt
From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
In this book, Nadine Moeller challenges prevailing views on Egypt's non-urban past and argues for Egypt as an early urban society. She traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic period up to the disintegration of the powerful Middle Kingdom state (c.3500–1650 BC). This book offers...
Beyond Pompeii
Archaeology and urban renewal for the vesuvian cultural & tourist district - Archeologia e recupero urbano per il distretto turistico/culturale vesuviano
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2016
Between the Vesuvio slopes and the front coastline, there are several archaeological sites of significant cultural and landscape interest, far less popular than Pompei but not less fascinating. These sites, including the ancient towns of Stabiae and Oplontis up until the coastal city of Sorrento,...
Reading the Past
Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
The third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method has been fully updated to address the burgeoning of theoretical debate throughout the discipline. Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson argue that archaeologists must bring to bear a variety of perspectives in the complex and...
The human factor in the transformation of Southern Italian Bronze Age societies: Agency Theory and Marxism reconsidered
Published in Origini n. XXXV/2013. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
In the light of recent thinking, this is a consideration of two interconnected subjects: Agency Theory and Marxist Archaeology. It is a re-examination aimed at evaluating to what extent these theories can still contribute to the development of theoretical discussion in Prehistoric Archaeology; going...
by John Argubright
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Come along on a journey back in time and watch the historical events and men of the Bible be proven before your very eyes. Evidences compiled from ancient history and archeology reveal the accuracy of the Bible. Evidences for Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, the high priest...
Mortal Wounds
The Human Skeleton as Evidence for Conflict in the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Martin J Smith argues that the study of human remains is the purest, most reliable and unbiased source of evidence for the reality of conflict in the past. He outlines its value to the new science of Battlefield Archaeology and the wider understanding of historical conflict. He outlines the processes...
by Loren C. Steffy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
J. Richard “Dick” Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the...
by John Argubright
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Ever hear people say that the Bible is just a bunch of made up stories? This book proves otherwise. Evidences compiled from ancient history and archeology reveal the accuracy of the Bible. Evidences for Queen Esther, Mordecai, Agrippa and his sister Bernice, Sergius Paulus, the Plague of Boils on...