Archaeology category: 3529 books
Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards
Merging Necrogeography, Historical Archaeology, and Geomorphology
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the degradation and deterioration of the cultural record encompassed by urban headstones located in parish churchyards. Its interdisciplinary approach allows the geomorphological analysis of rock weathering to be combined with the impacts on the...
Formative Britain
An Archaeology of Britain, Fifth to Eleventh Century AD
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian...
Pastoral states: toward a comparative archaeology of early Kush
Published in Origini n. XXXVI/2014. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Ancient Kush was one of the earliest complex societies in Africa, yet it is not normally considered in comparative archaeologies of states and empires. This paper makes the case for considering Kush as a culturally distinctive trajectory to political authority, social inequality, and economic complexity....
Museums and the Ancient Middle East
Curatorial Practice and Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Bringing together the latest thinking from a diverse and international group of leading curators, the book presents the views of those working in one particular...
A Lake Dwelling in its Landscape
Iron Age settlement at Cults Loch, Castle Kennedy, Dumfries & Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Cults Loch, at Castle Kennedy in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, loch lies within a landscape rich in prehistoric cropmark sites and within the loch itself are two crannogs, one of which has been the focus of this study. A palisaded enclosure and a promontory fort on the shores of the loch have...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Since World War II, there has been tremendous success in the development of new methods for dating artifacts; the so-called `radiocarbon revolution' was only the first such discovery. The increasing accuracy of the various new techniques has brought about major changes in archaeological research strategies....
by Tommy Charles
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
For years Tommy Charles scoured South Carolina's upcountry for examples of ancient rock art carvings and paintings, efforts conducted on behalf of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA). As SCIAA's collections coordinator, Charles amassed considerable field experience...
KOINE
Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles...
by M.G.L. Baillie
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The analysis of tree-ring patterns, or dendrochronology, is a very exact science and an important dating technique. The basis of the method is misleadingly simple: that overlap of successive older ring patterns can generate a master chronology and samples of unknown age can then be checked against...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this notion, revealing how such communities shaped their environment—and...
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives
Origins, Changes & Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Consisting of more than 70 papers written by scholars concerned with pre-Christian Norse religion, the articles discuss subjects such as archaeology, art history, historical archaeology, history, history of ideas, theological history, literature, onomastics, Scandinavian languages, and Scandinavian...
An Archaeology of Skill
Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Material is the mother of innovation and it is through skill that innovations are brought about.
This core thesis that is developed in this book identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation, and material culture. Through a detailed...
Clay in the Age of Bronze
Essays in the Archaeology of Prehistoric Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Studies of creativity frequently focus on the modern era yet creativity has always been part of human history. This book explores how creativity was expressed through the medium of clay in the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin. Although metal is one of the defining characteristics of Bronze Age Europe,...
Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD
A Chronological Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material...