Archaeology category: 3529 books
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early...
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi
A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details...
Lapps and Labyrinths
Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Professor Noel D. Broadbent is one of Sweden's foremost experts on north Swedish archaeology and literally wrote the book on the prehistory of the Skellefteå region on the North Bothnian coast. This knowledge is now brought to bear on the issue of Saami origins. The focus is on the successful adaptive...
by Mats Burstrom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army's advance; most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home. A comprehensive study of a common yet neglected phenomenon, this book tells the stories of the...
50 Finds From Wiltshire
Objects From the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Every year around 5,000 archaeological objects from Wiltshire are recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. These finds are made by members of the public and each object on the database has a story to tell. Each is a link between us and the past. Every article was once designed for a purpose, and...
Appropriating the Past
Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past...
Archaeological Resource Management
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Archaeological resource management (ARM) is the practice of recording, evaluating, preserving for future research and presenting to the public the material remains of the past. Almost all countries uphold a set of principles and laws for the preservation and professional management of archaeological...
Places in Between
The Archaeology of Social, Cultural and Geographical Borders and Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and "rethought". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to...
Excavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China,...
Enduring Motives
The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.
Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts,...
Familiar Past?
Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as:
* the origins of modernity in urban contexts
* the historical anthropology of food
* the social and spatial construction of country houses
*...
by Tom Moore, Elizabeth Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The nature and causes of the transformation in settlement, social structure, and material culture that occurred in Britain during the Later Iron Age (c. 400-300 BC to the Roman conquest) have long been a focus of research. In the past, however, there was a tendency for attention to be directed mostly...
Beneath the Sands of Egypt
Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“Donald Ryan is a rare bird—a field archaeologist who can write with verve and immediacy. I heartily recommend his book to all Egyptology buffs.”
—Barbara Mertz ( a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters), author of Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs
A real-life “Indiana Jones,” Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D.,...
Labib Habachi
The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Labib Habachi, Egypt's most perceptive and productive Egyptologist, was marginalized for most of his career, only belatedly receiving international recognition for his major contributions to the field. In Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist, Jill Kamil presents not only a long-overdue...