Archaeology category: 3529 books
by George Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses contains one of the most comprehensive listings and descriptions of Egyptian deities. Now in its second edition, it provides:
a new introduction
updated entries and four new entries on deities
names of the deities as Hieroglyphs
a survey...
Karnak
Evolution of a Temple
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
The first publication in English, this book fills a gap in the market and presents an in-depth examination of the significant temple site at Karnak. It is visited by thousands of tourists each year and is one of the most famous ancient temples in the world. Up until now there has been no single publication...
The Celts
Bronze Age to New Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This dramatic history traces the mysterious Celts from their dark origins, including Druids and King Arthur, right across Britain and Europe and looking at their beliefs, cultures and arts as well as their warring and expansion.
The resurgence of Celtic identity in Britain and Europe has revitalized...
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis
Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North Platte, Nebraska. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had already seen the cities and sights of the East—New York, Washington, and Niagara Falls—and now the young nobleman was about to enjoy a western adventure: a grand buffalo...
The Final Mission
Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
The world will always remember Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for their first steps on the moon, yet few today hold in respect the sites that made these and other astronauts' journeys possible. Across the American landscape and on the lunar surface, many facilities and landing sites linked to the...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris...
Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades
Society, Landscape and Art in the Holy City under Frankish Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2001
Adrian Boas's combined use of historical and archaeological evidence together with first-hand accounts written by visiting pilgrims results in a multi-faceted perspective on Crusader Jerusalem.
Generously illustrated, this book will serve both as a scholarly account of this city's archaeology...
The Jewellery Of Roman Britain
Celtic and Classical Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD. It emphasizes the presence of two distinct...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of ‘intangible heritage’ to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. The authors examine a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical,...
by Patrick E. McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year about Food
A Forbes Best Booze Book of the Year
Interweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady...
Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working...
Black Egyptians
The African Origins of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Black Egyptians sets out to prove once and for all that Black Africans started and inhabited the Ancient Egyptian civilization. This is the book to finally solve the Ancient Egyptian race controversy. Drawing on a wealth of sources including Nuwaupu, genetics and archaeology, the author combines...
Gods, Graves & Scholars
The Story of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths...