Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Archaeology of Childhood
Children, Gender, and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2005
The study of children and childhood in historical and prehistoric life is an overlooked area of study that Jane Baxter addresses in this brief book. Her timely contribution stresses the importance of studying children as active participants in past cultures, instead of regarding them mainly for their...
by Wesley Bernardini
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As contemporary Native Americans assert the legacy of their ancestors, there is increasing debate among archaeologists over the methods and theories used to reconstruct prehistoric identity and the movement of social groups. This is especially problematic with respect to the emergence of southwestern...
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World
History, Myth and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine,...
by R M Cook **Decd**, R. M. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Greek Painted Pottery has been used by classics and classical archaeology students for some thirty years. It thoroughly examines all painted pottery styles from the Protogeometric to the Hellenistic period from all areas of Greece and from the colonies in parts of Italy. In each case it covers the...
Waihou Journeys
The Archaeology of 400 years of Maori Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Drawing on archaeology, Maori oral history, European accounts, this is a fascinating study of cultural change and development by Maori in a single region of New Zealand.
TRAC 2013
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at King’s College, London in Spring 2013. During the three-day conference nearly papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and...
An Archaeology of Identity
Soldiers and Society in Late Roman Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in...
Material Culture and Text
The Art of Ambiguity
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology. It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological analysis - the relationship between text and artefact – in an analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory...
Stone Worlds
Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result...
Foreign Objects
Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Brass tinklers and pendants. Owl effigies, copper kettles, crucifixes with blue glass stones. What do they have in common? The answer spans thousands of years and a multitude of peoples and places, and reveals how people made sense of their world as they collected and used the objects they encountered.
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Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes
Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society's most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular...
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Complex and time-consuming to produce, iron-ore mirrors stand out among Prehispanic artifacts for their aesthetic beauty, their symbolic implications, and the complexity and skill of their assembly. Manufactured Light presents the latest archaeological research on these items, focusing on the intersection...
The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia
Regimes and Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
For thousands of years, the geography of Eurasia has facilitated travel, conquest and colonization by various groups, from the Huns in ancient times to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the past century. This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions...
Athens, Attica and the Megarid
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research.
Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and archaeology, the guide is unique in exploring a wide...