Archaeology category: 3529 books
Peruvian Archaeology
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book offers a unique, critical perspective on the history of Peruvian archaeology by a native scholar. Leading Peruvian archaeologist Henry Tantaleán illuminates the cultural legacy of colonialism beginning with “founding father” Max Uhle and traces key developments to the present. These...
by Sharon R Steadman
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding...
The Archaeology of Kinship
Advancing Interpretation and Contributions to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Archaeology has been subjected to a wide range of misunderstandings of kinship theory and many of its central concepts. Demonstrating that kinship is the foundation for past societies’ social organization, particularly in non-state societies, Bradley E. Ensor offers a lucid presentation of kinship...
by Brian Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology...
Field Methods in Archaeology
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Field Methods in Archaeology has been the leading source for instructors and students in archaeology courses and field schools for 60 years since it was first authored in 1949 by the legendary Robert Heizer. Left Coast has arranged to put the most recent Seventh Edition back into print after a brief...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The remains of hunter-gatherer groups are the most commonly discovered archaeological resources in the world, and their study constitutes much of the archaeological research done in North America. In spite of paradigm-shifting discoveries elsewhere in the world that may indicate that hunter-gatherer...
Archaeology Hotspot Egypt
Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals have been,...
Community-Based Archaeology
Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts involved...
by Willem Willems
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Quality Management in Archaeology deals with the effects of the profound changes that have had an impact on the discipline of archaeology all over the world. In North America, in Europe and increasingly in other parts of the world, new legislation and international treaties have changed its position...
The Archaeology Coursebook
An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and...
Historical Archaeology in Africa
Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory,...
Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology
Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology examines Northern Iroquoian archaeology through various lenses at multiple spatial levels, including individual households, village constructions, relationships between villages in a local region, and relationships between various Iroquoian nations...
Archaeology Hotspot France
Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals have been,...