Archaeology category: 3529 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The waters of Latin America and the Caribbean are rich with archaeological sites, including coastal settlements, defensive forts, freshwater sources, fishing-related activities, navigational aids, anchorages, harbours, ports, shipbuilding sites, shipwrecks and survivor camps. Tragically, treasure-hunting...
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World
Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World reconsiders the dialogue between formal scholarship and Amerindian ways of knowing. Beginning and ending with a public archaeology project in the region, the...
by Edwin H. Davis, Ephraim G. Squier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Originally published in 1848 as the first major work in the nascent discipline as well as the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley remains today not only a key document in the history of American archaeology but also the primary...
Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage
Marine Archaeology's Greatest Threat?
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world's continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bulldozers of...
by William A. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The most complete account of ancient man in the New York area ever published in one volume, this book traces a rich, 8000-year story of human prehistory. Beginning with the first known inhabitants, Paleo-Indian hunters who lived approximately 7000 B.C., the author gives a detailed chronological account...
Material Worlds
Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual objects as well as considering the contexts in which acts...
The Social Archaeology of Food
Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka...
The Anglo-Saxon Avon Valley Frontier
A River of Two Halves
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Anglo-Saxon AvonValley Frontier: A River of Two Halves is a ground-breaking exploration of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Avon Valley frontier’, combining archaeology and documentary sources to present a case for remarkable continuity as measured by a wide range of evidence. Based on research in the department...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Exploring the medieval heritage of Aberdeenshire and Moray, the essays in this volume contain insights and recent work presented at the British Archaeological Association Conference of 2014, based at Aberdeen University. The opening, historical chapters establish the political, economic and administrative...
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
Before Kukulkán
Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of Chichén Itzá. This period and area have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. Before Kukulkán is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary...
Archaeology in Environment and Technology
Intersections and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one...
Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica
Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This volume explores the dynamics of human adaptation to social, political, ideological, economic, and environmental factors in Mesoamerica and includes a wide array of topics, such as the hydrological engineering behind Teotihuacan’s layout, the complexities of agriculture and sustainability in...
The Ancient Maya Marketplace
The Archaeology of Transient Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dismissed trade—specifically, market exchange—as unimportant. They argue that the Maya subsisted primarily on agriculture, with long-distance...