Archaeology category: 3529 books
Ancient Silk Trade Routes
Selected Works from Symposium on Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.
Recent archaeological excavations in countries...
by Laurajane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This controversial book is a survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulty, and a crucial pointer to how to move forward from this point.
With lucid appraisals of key debates such as NAGPRA, Kennewick and the repatriation...
The Buried
An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change
Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011....
Rubbish!
The Archaeology of Garbage
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into...
Akhenaten
History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history...
To Be Like Gods
Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance...
The Destruction of Atlantis
Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2004
The most comprehensive reconstruction of the history and fate of the legendary ancient civilization of Atlantis
• Draws together compelling evidence from geology, astronomy, myths, and ancient texts to prove the existence of Atlantean civilization and its catastrophic end
• Includes...
Dead Men's Secrets
Tantalising Hints of a Lost Super Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Archaeologist Jonathan Gray stumbled upon something that shocked him! … a whole cache of "out of place" items that should not exist. And they weren't just in one place. There was a global pattern to them. This pattern showed a lost science and technology. That's when he knew someone...
by Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
“A beautifully written . . . and illustrated history of the Food of the Gods, from the Olmecs to present-day developments.”—Chocolatier
This delightful tale of one of the world’s favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history...
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four...
Through the Lens of Anthropology
An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise but comprehensive introductory textbook that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of anthropology's four major subfields: archaeology, and biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. By viewing the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.
Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics,...
The Ancient Yew
A History of Taxus baccata
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. This book tells the extraordinary story of the yew’s...
The Constructed Past
Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education.
Using various case...