Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Owen Lindauer, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Deborah L Rotman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Institutions pervade social life. They express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the orthodoxy of their time. But institutions are also arenas in which both orthodoxies...
Crossing Jordan
North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological...
Archaeology to Delight and Instruct
Active Learning in the University Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This book presents novel and interesting ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. Seeking alternatives to the formal lecture format, the various contributions seek better ways of communicating the complexities of human behavior and of engaging students...
Heritage in the Context of Globalization
Europe and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This brief is the proceedings of two roundtables and forums organized by Eszter Bánffy, Peter Biehl, Douglas Comer, and Christopher Prescott and sponsored by the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) held at the 76th SAA annual conference...
Andean Archaeology I
Variations in Sociopolitical Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come...
Archaeology of the Military Orders
A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c.1120-1291)
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Michael J. Harrower, Douglas C Comer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space offers a concise overview of air and spaceborne imagery and related geospatial technologies tailored to the needs of archaeologists. Leading experts including scientists involved in NASA’s Space Archaeology program provide technical introductions to...
Field Archaeologist’s Survival Guide
Getting a Job and Working in Cultural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Chris Webster’s handy, informative guide outlines what it takes to become an archaeological technician, a field worker in cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology. Based on his popular blog feature, Shovelbums Guide, Webster offers young archaeologists useful advice about CRM work, including...
by Kenneth A. Sheedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
These papers examine the on-going relationship between numismatic research and archaeology in Greece; they are based on a 1995 conference organised by the Athens National Museum and the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in honour of Dr Mando O
Identity and Heritage
Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the New and Old World, and opens...
by Nancy Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In the first major work on the subject for over 30 years, Nancy Edwards provides a critical survey of the archaeological evidence in Ireland (c. 400-1200), introducing material from many recently discovered sites as well as reassessing the importance of earlier excavations. Beginning with an assessment...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This volume focuses on the intangible elements of human cultures, whose relevance in the study of archaeology has often been claimed but rarely practiced. In this book, the authors successfully show how the adoption of ethnoarchaeological perspectives on non-material aspects of cultures can support...
Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters
Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently...
by George Nash, Andrew Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
What constitutes an island and the archaeology contained within? Is it the physicality of its boundary (between shoreline and sea)? Does this physical barrier extend further into a watery zone? Archaeologically, can islands be defined by cultural heritage and influence? Clearly, and based on these...