Archaeology category: 3529 books
Historical Archaeology in South Africa
Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The corpus provides a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire during the contact period. Representing over three decades...
by Paul D. Welch
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
100 years of archaeological excavations at an important American landmark.
The Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark, is a late prehistoric community within the boundaries of the Shiloh National Military Park on the banks of the Tennessee River, where one of...
A Future for the Past
Petrie's Palestinian Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Flinders Petrie, known for his extensive work in Egypt, was also a pioneer of scientific archaeology in Palestine early in the 20th century through his excavations at Tell el-Hesi, Tell el-‘Ajjul, and elsewhere. This volume offers a critical analysis of Petrie’s contributions to the archaeology...
Life beyond the Boundaries
Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Life beyond the Boundaries explores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and the Pimería Alta, the authors use methods drawn from material culture science, anthropology, and...
The Romano-British Peasant
Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields...
by Gregory D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent...
Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, "the most valuable of my possessions." For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyday pressures of his iconic estate, Monticello.
Jefferson's Poplar Forest uses the...
The King's Grave
The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The first full-length book about the discovery of Richard III's remains, by the person who led the archaeology team and the historian whose book spurred her on
The mystery of who Richard III really was has fascinated historians, readers and audiences familiar with Shakespeare's dastardly portrait...
Prehistory
The Making of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory”...
The Invisible Sex
Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field of...
The Creative Spark
How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
Creativity. It is the secret of what...
Whose Culture?
The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that...
Yutopian
Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly,...
The Search for Nefertiti
The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Her power was rivaled only by her beauty. Her face has become one of the most recognizable images in the world. She was an independent woman and thinker centuries before her time. But who was Egypt's Queen Nefertiti?
After years of intense research, Dr. Joann Fletcher has answered the questions...