Archaeology category: 3529 books
by William Moss
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"This volume is the result of collaboration between SPMA and the Association des archeologues du Quebec (AAQ); its guest editor is William Moss, Chief Archaeologist for the City of Quebec. The publication has arisen from the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the city's founding by Samuel...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
This book explores different aspects of LA-ICP-MS (laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry). It presents a large array of new analytical protocols for elemental or isotope analysis. LA-ICP-MS is a powerful tool that combines a sampling device able to remove very small quantities...
by Terry O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Animal bones are one of the most abundant types of evidence found in archaeological sites dating from pre-historic times to the Middle Ages, and they can reveal a startling amount about the economy and way of life of people in the past. This is a fascinating introduction for anyone seeking to understand...
Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
A View from South Asian Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C....
by Lawrence B Conyers
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has become one of the standard tools in the archaeologist's array of methods, but users still struggle to understand what the images tell us. In this book—illustrated with over 200 full-color photographs—Lawrence Conyers shows how results of geophysical surveys can...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
by BarbaraA. Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Waterlogged archaeological sites in Florida contain tools, art objects, dietary items, human skeletal remains, and glimpses of past environments that do not survive the ravages of time at typical terrestrial sites. Unfortunately, archaeological wet sites are invisible since their preservation depends...
Monacan Millennium
A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 A.D. through the moment of colonial contact in 1607...
Time's River
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.
The...
The Stones Bear Witness
A Journey Through Archaeological Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Critics of the Bible today often say, Science has disproved the Bible. Others say that there is no evidence to support that the Bible is anything more than a book of myths and fables. But the science of archaeology is seldom mentioned by these critics. Even though no provable archaeological discovery...
by Duncan MacKenzie, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Zvi Lederman
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In 1909 the Scottish archaeologist Duncan Mackenzie, Sir Arthur Evans’s right-hand man on the excavations of the legendary ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos since 1900, was appointed ‘Explorer’ of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF). From the spring of 1910 until December 1912 he was engaged...
The Archaeology of Market Capitalism
A Western Australian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The area claimed by the British Empire as Western Australia was primarily colonized through two major thrusts: the development of the Swan River Colony to the southwest in 1829, and the 1863 movement of Australian born settlers to colonize the northwest region.
The Western Australian story...
Matériel Culture
The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Matériel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record, highlights the difficulties and...
Archaeology of The Teufelsberg
Exploring Western Electronic Intelligence Gathering in Cold War Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
For over 50 years, the white radomes of the Teufelsberg have been one of Berlin’s most prominent landmarks. For half of this time the city lay over 100 miles behind an 'Iron Curtain' that divided East from West, and was surrounded by communist East Germany and the densest concentration of Warsaw...