Archaeology category: 3529 books
Kukulcan's Realm
Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory...
Unearthing childhood
Young lives in prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This is the first book to survey the ‘hidden half’ of prehistoric societies as revealed by archaeology – from Australopithecines to advanced Stone Age foragers, from farming villages to the beginnings of civilisation. Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This is the first volume to introduce the data, theory and methodology of contemporary archaeological work in Japan and other parts of East Asia archaeology in English to western audiences. It also introduces a new theoretical concept to archaeologists interested in the relationship between ancient...
The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.
Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C., Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy, initiating the first in a long and intermittent series of...
The Indus Civilization
A Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2002
The Indus Civilization of India and Pakistan was contemporary with, and equally complex as the better-known cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. The dean of North American Indus scholars, Gregory Possehl, attempts here to marshal the state of knowledge about this fascinating culture in a readable...
Understanding Early Civilizations
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2003
This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid...
Archaeological Thinking
How to Make Sense of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
How do archaeologists think? How do they use the scattered and often-fragmentary remains from the past—both historical and excavated—to create meaningful, sensible interpretations of human history? In Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr., provides a commonsense guide to applying critical...
The Lost Gospel
The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Judas Iscariot.
He’s been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ’s betrayer– the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver.
But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot. One such reference was written in 180 by an influential Church Father...
Holistic Anthropology
Emergence and Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is rapprochement. Rather than just seeing them as reactions to each other, it is perhaps better to say that both tendencies co-exist and that it is very...
Fertile Ground
Papers in honour of Susan Limbrey
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The fourteen papers in this volume focus on the environmental archaeology of Britain, uncovering a rich seam of evidence from what might, to the uninitiated, seem like the most unlikely places. They are centred on issues looked at by Susan Limbrey during her career, and presented in her honour on the occasion of her retirement.
by Steven R Simms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great...
Globalisation and the Roman World
World History, Connectivity and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
This book explores a new perspective for understanding the Roman world, using connectivity as a major point of departure. Globalisation is apparent in increased flows of objects, people and ideas and in the creation of translocal consciousness in everyday life. Based on these criteria, there is a...
Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society
Vital Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This book tackles the topic of religion, a broad subject exciting renewed interest across the social and historical sciences. The volume is tightly focused on the early farming village of Çatalhöyük, which has generated much interest both within and outside of archaeology, especially for its contributions...
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The earliest rock art�in the Americas as elsewhere�is geometric or abstract. Until�Early Rock Art in the American West,�however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety....