Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Zimbabwe Culture
Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Offering a unique and original perspective on the rise and fall of indigenous states of southern Zambezia, The Zimbabwe Culture analyzes the long contentious history of the remains of the remarkable cyclopean masonry, ranging from mighty capitals of traditional kings to humble farmsteads. Forming...
The Life of the Longhouse
An Archaeology of Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains...
Counterheritage
Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs...
San Spirituality
Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations_from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New...
Monastery, Monument, Museum
Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Ranging across the longue durée of Thailand’s history, Monastery, Monument, Museum is an eminently readable and original contribution to the study of the kingdom’s art and culture. Eschewing issues of dating, style, and iconography, historian Maurizio Peleggi addresses distinct types of artifacts...
by Jane Lydon, Ian A. Lilley, Denis Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to...
Heritage and Community Engagement
Collaboration or Contestation?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book is about the way that professionals in archaeology and in other sectors of heritage interact with a range of stakeholder groups, communities and the wider public. Whilst these issues have been researched and discussed over many years and in many geographical contexts, the debate seems to...
Neolithic Britain
New Stone Age sites of England, Scotland and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The climax of the Stone Age in Britain, the Neolithic period (4700-2000BC), was a period of startling achievement. The British Isles are rich in Neolithic sites, which give us evidence of a complex and surprisingly developed archaic society. The author surveys 1100 secular and ceremonial sites in...
The British Palaeolithic
Human Societies at the Edge of the Pleistocene World
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years ago) to the end of the Ice Age. Landscape and ecology form the canvas for an explicitly interpretative approach aimed at...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated...
The Learned Collector
Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan...
Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium
Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine peasantry through written, archaeological, ethnographic and painted sources. Investigations of the infrastructure and setting of the medieval village guide the reader into the consideration of specific populations. The village becomes a micro-society,...
The Great Paleolithic War
How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America...
Point of Pines
A History of the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Recalls education and daily life at Point of Pines field school and also provides the background for the scientific papers that have resulted from the research that was undertaken there. Appendixes list contributions to Point of Pines archaeology, staff members and students, and institutions represented by attendees.