Archaeology category: 3529 books
Care in the Past
Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being...
by Robert Cornuke
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In a book that is being heralded as an “investigative masterpiece” with “astounding archeological and prophetic implications,” TEMPLE: Amazing New Discoveries That Change Everything About the Location of Solomon’s Temple, by Robert Cornuke, is sending shockwaves through the Jewish, Muslim,...
Discovering the Olmecs
An Unconventional History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Olmecs are renowned for their massive carved stone heads and other sculptures, the first stone monuments produced in Mesoamerica. Seven decades of archaeological research have given us many insights into the lifeways of the Olmecs, who inhabited parts of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and...
by Dr Rebecca H. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest of the ancient world, and expanding and maintaining that Empire required military might. While considerable research has been undertaken on Roman frontiers, fortresses and forts, Roman camps, the subject of this book, are one of the bridesmaids of the study...
La Belle
The Archaeology of a Seventeenth-Century Vessel of New World Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of La Salle’s La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River that landed instead along today’s Matagorda Bay in Texas. During 1996–1997, the Commission...
Great Basin Rock Art
Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Rock art is one of humankind’s most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. For centuries, scholars and other observers have struggled to interpret the meaning of the mysterious figures incised or painted on natural rocks and to understand their role in the lives of...
Celtic from the West 3
Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages — questions of shared language
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. ‘Celts’) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines—archaeology, genetics, and linguistics—the background in later European prehistory to these...
Iron Age Communities in Britain
An Account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology. This fully revised fourth edition maintains the qualities of the earlier editions, whilst taking into account the significant developments that have moulded the discipline...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge...
Gyeongju
The Capital of Golden Silla
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Gyeongju, the capital of the Kingdom of Silla, grew from a loose confederation of villages, called Saro, to become the capital of most of the Korean peninsula. Its relationships with Japan, the Eurasian Steppes, and countries along the Silk Road leading to Europe helped to make the city one of the...
The Language and Iconography of Chinese Charms
Deciphering a Past Belief System
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book offers an in-depth description and analysis of Chinese coin-like charms, which date back to the second century CE and which continued to be used until mid 20th century. This work is unique in that it provides an archaeological and analytical interpretation of the content of these metallic...
by Alan Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
After more than a century of neglect, a profound revolution is occurring in the way archaeology addresses and interprets developments in the social history of early Islamic Syria-Palestine. This concise book offers an innovative assessment of social and economic developments in Syria-Palestine shortly...
Who Needs the Past?
Indigenous Values and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.
Understanding Collapse
Ancient History and Modern Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses...