Archaeology category: 3529 books
Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 5 April 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Every age invents a new way of writing history, or at least seeks to shed light on the present by examining the past differently. For the past thirty years the amount of data produced by archaeology, especially by preventive excavations, has grown exponentially, thus opening new research perspectives...
by John Bintliff, Kostas Sbonias
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of
Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and
demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case
studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of
archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes
reginal field surveys,...
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period.
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America describes, illustrates, and offers nondogmatic interpretations of rituals...
Archaeological Sciences 1995
Proceesings of a conference on the application of scientific techniques to the study of archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
A huge collection of papers on scientific analysis in archaeology from a conference held in Liverpool in 1995. Papers are grouped under ten headings: Scientific analysis of Petrology ( 3 papers ); of Glass ( five papers ); of Ceramics ( 7 papers ); Metallurgy ( 9 papers ); Chronological Studies (...
The Inka Empire
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in...
A Medieval Manor House Rediscovered
Excavations at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset by Simon Flaherty, Phil Andrews and Matt Leivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Excavations in advance of housing development at Longforth Farm, Wellington revealed limited evidence for late prehistoric settlement, but the principal discovery was the remains of a previously unknown high status medieval building complex. This is thought to have been a manor house and though heavily...
The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
Basic Readings
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals
Image, Monument, and Landscape in Ancient North Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central protagonists, we tend to privilege the hero hunter of the Bronze Age and his re-incarnation as a warrior...
Scapa 1919
The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow...
The Archaeology of People
Dimensions of Neolithic Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate.
The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian...
The Southern Transjordan Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley
The Bronze Age to the Islamic Period (3800/3700 BC–AD 1917)
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Burton MacDonald presents an in-depth study of the archaeology and history of human presence over the past five-six thousand years in the southern segment of the Transjordan/Edomite Plateau and the Dead Sea Rift Valley to the west. The evidence from archaeology for the area spans the entire period...
Along Prehistoric Lines
Neolithic, Iron Age and Romano-British activity at the former MOD Headquarters, Durrington, Wiltshire
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
An excavation in 2010–12 on the site of the former Ministry of Defence (MoD) Headquarters in Durrington, Wiltshire, revealed evidence spanning the post-glacial to the post-medieval periods. It lies immediately north-east of the Stonehenge part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World...
Stone Tools and Fossil Bones
Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret how early hominins lived, foraged, behaved and communicated and how early and modern humans evolved. In this book, an international team of archaeologists...
by Alice Beck Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Atlantis, ancient astronauts, and pyramid power. Archaeologists are perennially bombarded with questions about the “mysteries” of the past. They are also constantly addressing more realistic controversies: origins of the First Americans, the ownership of antiquities, and national claims to historical...