Archaeology category: 3529 books
Grasshopper Pueblo
A Story of Archaeology and Ancient Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Located in the mountains of east-central Arizona, Grasshopper Pueblo is a prehistoric ruin that has been excavated and interpreted more thoroughly than most sites in the Southwest: more than 100 rooms have been unearthed here, and artifacts of remarkable quantity and quality have been discovered....
An Archaeological Study of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Landscapes, Buildings and Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
An Archaeological Study of the Bayeux Tapestry provides a unique re-examination of this famous piece of work through the historical geography and archaeology of the tapestry. Trevor Rowley is the first author to have analysed the tapestry through the landscapes, buildings and structures shown, such...
Stones Standing
Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated, contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism from...
Materiality and Social Practice
Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding...
Incomplete Archaeologies
Assembling Knowledge in the Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept – assemblages – and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble them. The discussions presented here engage with the practices of collection, construction, performance...
Negotiating for the Past
Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 was a landmark event in Egyptology that was celebrated around the world. Had Howard Carter found his prize a few years earlier, however, the treasures of Tut might now be in the British Museum in London rather than the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. That's...
by Estelle Lazer
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time.
Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other...
Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.
Archaeologies of Rock Art
South American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Rock art in South America is as diverse as the continent itself. In this vast territory, different peoples produced engravings, paintings, and massive earthworks, from the Atacama to the Amazon. These marks on the landscape were made by all different kinds of peoples, from some of the earliest hunter-gatherers...
Presenting Archaeology in Court
A Guide to Legal Protection of Sites
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
The passage of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) in 1979 was a watershed moment in the movement to protect cultural objects against looting. This brief volume provides practical help to those who wish to use the provisions of ARPA_archaeologists, government land managers, preservation...
Home
A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain
Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In...
Archaeologies of the British
Explorations of Identity in the United Kingdom and Its Colonies 1600-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Beginning with the early English colonisation of Ireland and Virginia, the international range of contributors in Archaeology of the British examine the interplay of objects and identity in Scotland and Wales, regional England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka. Informed by developments in historical archaeology and by postcolo
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This pioneering collection engages with recent research in different areas of the archaeological discipline to bring together case-studies of the household material culture from later prehistoric and classical periods. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible study for students into the material records of past households, aiding wider understanding of our own domestic development.
The Origins and Development of African Livestock
Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost...