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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found...
Illicit Antiquities
The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are...
Late Roman Towns in Britain
Rethinking Change and Decline
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In this book, Adam Rogers examines the late Roman phases of towns in Britain. Critically analysing the archaeological notion of decline, he focuses on public buildings, which played an important role, administrative and symbolic, within urban complexes. Arguing against the interpretation that many...
Geotechnics and Heritage
Historic Towers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves various cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical and administrative factors, intertwining in inextricable patterns. The complexity of the topic is such that guidelines...
How the Maya Built Their World
Energetics and Ancient Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which...
Bodies in Conflict
Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and understand the past and the character of modern technological warfare. At the forefront of these developments has been the re-appraisal of the human body...
Wayward Shamans
The Prehistory of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the...
From the Baltic to the Black Sea
Studies in Medieval Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Los Primeros Mexicanos
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In 1927, near the town of Folsom, New Mexico, a spectacular discovery altered our understanding of early humans on the American continent. Scientists excavating a bison from the late Pleistocene age discovered a fluted projectile point wedged between the animal’s ribs—forceful evidence that humans...
Before the Volcano Erupted
The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cern village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under...
時光出土：考古學的故事
Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 1, 2019
最有趣的考古入門書，
閱讀的驚奇之旅！
從沒想到，考古學可以如此精準、專業，而且快樂。
「最受歡迎的考古學圖書獎」得主傾力之作，
擁有30年資歷的考古學者，告訴你第一手考古實況。
引領讀者從18世紀迄今的考古挖掘與發現，
從龐貝到佩特拉、從特洛伊到兵馬俑，
從邁錫尼到米吉多和馬撒達……
跟著艾瑞克‧克萊恩一起踏上重大考古遺址，
從此你將成為這位魔魅般考古說書人的頭號粉絲。
從西臺人、米諾安人，
談到印加、阿茲特克與莫切文明……
聽他以鮮活的細節，呈現古代民族與文明，
藉此追溯始於業餘消遣到今日尖端科學的考古學歷史。
真正的考古現場永遠比電影還精彩，
絕妙的故事敘述技巧，讓人身歷其境，
彷彿圖坦卡門寶藏出土的那一刻，
你也聽到了偉大考古學家卡特所留下的名言——
「我看到了美妙的東西」。
PTT馬雅人(Mayaman)...
Digging Up the Past
An Introduction to Archaeological Excavation
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996
This concise, readable, and well-illustrated introduction to the methods of excavation describes the basics behind a technique that is essential for every variety of archaeology. This invaluable guide presents new ideas on excavation techniques and challenges traditional approaches to site organization...
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney
Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994–2014)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones and passage graves provides an unusually comprehensive...
The column of Trajan - a symbol of the ancient Rome
a symbol of the ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Archaeology, grade: Sehr Gut (A), Indiana University (Department for Classical Studies), 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'And he set up in the Forum an enormous column, to serve at once as a monument to himself and as a memorial...