Archaeology category: 3529 books
Caribbean Paleodemography
Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations.
According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has...
An Anthropology of Landscape
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous...
California Prehistory
Colonization, Culture, and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory...
by Michael A. Malpass
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution....
The Menial Art of Cooking
Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten players in the daily lives...
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico
Mixing Epistemologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This is an archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the early years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521. The study of households excavated in Mexico City and the probate inventories of 39 colonizers provide a vivid view of the material and social...
The Ancient Nasca World
New Insights from Science and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book presents outstanding chapter contributions on the Nasca culture in a variety of artistic expressions such as architecture, geoglyphs, ceramics, music, and textiles.
The approach, based on the integration of science with archaeology and anthropology, sheds new light on the Nasca civilization....
The Peopling of East Asia
Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2005
One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings of archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Several countries have only recently opened to field research and highly active local groups have made possible a raft of collaborative studies that...
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...
Darwin's Apprentice
An Archaeological Biography of John Lubbock
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The fascinating story of Charles Darwin’s friend, fellow scientist, and champion.
Sir John Lubbock was an important Darwinist, witness to an extraordinary moment in the history of science and archaeology—the emotive scientific, religious, and philosophical debate which was triggered by the...
Rediscovering Lost Innocence
Archaeology at the State Home and School
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In the first half of the nineteenth-century, responsibility for child care primarily rested within families. Needy children were often cared for by community-sponsored efforts that varied widely in quality, as well as by benevolent organizations dedicated to children’s welfare. The late 1800s was...
Stepping-Stones
A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
“The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern Franc[e] . . . A rapturous guide through five major Ice Age sites” (Archaeology).
The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings....
Queen Mary's Hospital, Charshalton
An Iron Age and Early Romano-British Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. Originally an open settlement, by the Late...
Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers
Archaeology, Ideology and Identities in the North
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the north-western regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become an interesting arena of academic debate...