Archaeology category: 3529 books
Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains
Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains:Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data brings together research that provides innovative methodologies for the analysis of commingled human remains. It has temporal and spatial breadth, with case studies coming from pre-state to historic periods,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use...
Migration and Disruptions
Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
“Artfully integrates scholarship on both past and present migration. With its thematic focus on disruption, this volume develops unprecedented nuance in the treatment of migration.”—Graciela S. Cabana, coeditor of Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Migration
“A significant contribution...
TRAC 2015
Proceedings of the 25th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The 2015 TRAC proceedings feature a selection of 14 papers summing up some of the key sessions presented at the conference held at the University of Leicester in March 2015, which drew over 180 delegates of 17 nationalities from a variety of universities, museums, and research institutions in the...
by Duncan Garrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds in the context...
Material Approaches to Roman Magic
Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This second volume in the new TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the research agendas of materiality and lived experience further into the study of Roman magic, a field that has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and Bremmer's...
Time, Culture and Identity
An Interpretative Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between:
* nature and culture
* mind and body
* object and subject.
Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects.
Painting Pots – Painting People
Late Neolithic Ceramics in Ancient Mesopotamia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Archaeologists have recently made tremendous advances in understanding the early ceramic traditions of the prehistoric Near East. Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in research focusing on various aspects of ceramic production, its origins and evolution, distribution and consumption...
Managing Archaeological Resources
Global Context, National Programs, Local Actions
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In a snapshot of 21st century archaeological resource management as a global enterprise, these 25 contributors show the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by contemporary managers of heritage sites around the world. They show how the linkages between global archaeology and funding...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
In recent years, an important and encouraging development in the practice of archaeology and historical preservation has been the markedly increased number of collaborations among archaeologists, educators, preservation planners, and government managers to explore new approaches to archaeological...
Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact
The Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased contact between cultures; and the use of alloy bronze. 'Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact' integrates archaeological data...
Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World
Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core...
Travellers in Time
Imagining Movement in the Ancient Aegean World
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly transformative, and the processual, systemic models that...
Of Odysseys and Oddities
Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and their Neighbours
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Of Odysses and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in archaeology,...