Archaeology category: 3529 books
Lives in Ruins
Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones—the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all.
Pompeii,...
The Book of Jubilees (The Little Genesis, The Apocalypse of Moses)
Old Testament / Apocrypha / Pseudepigrapha
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The Book of Jubilees is a new (2011), easy-to-read translation by ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations NOR is it a reworded public domain version. The Book of Jubilees is of great interest to students of antiquities and archaeology...
THIS LAND
Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Having spent a lifetime searching for Book of Mormon lands in some 250 ruins throughout Mexico and Central and South America, I am intrigued to return to Cumorah where it all ended. May and Goble have compiled fascinating arguments for those lands being in North-east America, complete...
by Howard Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
VOLUME ONE: THE DISCOVERY
"Let me try and tell the story of it all. It will not be easy, for the dramatic suddenness of the initial discovery left me in a dazed condition, and the months that have followed have been so crowded with incident that I have hardly had time to think."...
Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
A Frontier Mission in South Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission Espritu Santo de Ziga was relocated from far south Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. This mission, along with a handful of others in south Texas, was established by the Spaniards in...
What This Awl Means
Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis.
Of Summits and Sacrifice
An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous...
by Andrew Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity"
The opening line of the film Troy captures the tragic essence of personal mortality: ones' passing into oblivion and fading from all memory. Since the prehistoric dawn of humanity death has shadowed everyone’s footsteps. Even into the...
Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC - AD 450
A New History 55 BC-AD 450
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Patricia Southerns masterly new history tells the story from first contact, through invasion and conquest, coexistence to eventual decline incorporating the political, social...
by Mike Pitts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
"As gripping as any detective fiction. Proof that one doesn't need to be fascinated with Richard III to be enthralled by the story of his body's discovery." —Publisher's Weekly
In August 2012 a search began, and on February 4, 2013, a team from Leicester University delivered its...
by Chris Gosden
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides...
Manifesting Power
Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Power relations among humans have likely been a topic of interest since long before any historical claims to its nature were proffered. This book recognizes that power and gender may be rooted in the experience of power in western society.
by Timothy R. Pauketat
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively,...
Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.
Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist...