Archaeology category: 3529 books
Indigenous Archaeologies
Decolonising Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes...
Interpreting the Landscape
Landscape Archaeology and Local History
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain's...
The Use and reuse of stone circles
Fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British and Irish archaeology, and for Scotland most attention has been focused on the large monuments of Orkney and the Western Isles. Several decades of fieldwork have shown how these major structures are likely to be of early date and recognised...
Bristol: A Worshipful Town and Famous City
An Archaeological Assessment from Prehistory to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Bristol is a major city and port in the south-west of England. In medieval times, it became the third largest city in the kingdom, behind London and York. Bristol was founded in the late Saxon period and grew rapidly in the 12th and 13th centuries. Initially, seaborne trading links with Ireland and...
50 Finds From Cheshire
Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The objects of our ancestors can tell us a lot about the past, from what was happening with the economy and changes in fashion to where people traded, lived and worked. Through them, we can discover the story of everyday people who don’t appear in documentary accounts. The North West is traditionally...
In Defense of Things
Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In much recent thinking, social and cultural realms are thought of as existing prior to—or detached from—things, materiality, and landscape. It is often assumed, for example, that things are entirely 'constructed' by social or cultural perceptions and have no existence in and of themselves. Bjornar...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene...
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
The Great Basin
A Natural Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental...
Cahokia's Complexities
Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns increase understanding of early Mississippian culture and society.
The reasons for the rise and fall of early cities and ceremonial centers around the world have been sought for centuries. In the United States, Cahokia has been the focus...
The Caddos and Their Ancestors
Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century. Employing the results of recent scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems...
Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 2
Les Industries du Mésolithique et du Néolithique Initial, Fascicle 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." —American Anthropologist
... an exceptional contribution to the...