Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Gabriel Moshenska
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The Second World War transformed British society. Men, women and children inhabited the war in every area of their lives, from their clothing and food to schools, workplaces and wartime service. This transformation affected the landscapes, towns and cities as factories turned to war work, beaches...
Archaeology and Language I
Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Archaeology and Language I represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the first of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination.
Archaeology and historical linguistics have...
Archaeology and Women
Ancient and Modern Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link...
Archaeology of the Communist Era
A Political History of Archaeology of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This book contributes to better recognition and comprehension of the interconnection between archaeology and political pressure, especially imposed by the totalitarian communist regimes. It explains why, under such political conditions, some archaeological reasoning and practices were resilient, while...
by Timothy Insoll
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Archaeology and World Religion is an important new work, being the first to examine these two vast topics together. The volume explores the relationship between, and the contribution archaeology can make to the study of 'World Religions'.
The contributors consider a number of questions:
* can religious...
Community Identity and Archaeology
Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Community Identity and Archaeology explores the concept of community identity and its application in archaeology, using the modern Turkish sites of Aphrodisias and Beycesultan as case studies to illustrate the formation and dissolution of communities over time. The concept of the community is vital...
New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology
Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the North American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In the early 1970s, understanding of the Mimbres region as a whole was in its infancy. In the following decades, thanks to dedicated work by enterprising archaeologists and nonprofit organizations, our understanding of the Mimbres region has become more complex, nuanced, and rich.
New Perspectives...
Spooky Archaeology
Myth and the Science of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and movies like Indiana Jones or The Mummy. This fantastical image has little to do with day-to-day science, yet it is deeply connected to why people...
Archaeology After Structuralism
Post-structuralism and the Practice of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Most practising archaeologists have preferred to leave the deep theories of what lies behind their methods and perceptions on one side. Now archaeologists have faced up to the difficult task of making (or not making) the connections between the past, interpretation and the present. The writers of...
Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal
The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture—and was the nexus of one of the most egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. Alan Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding...
The Archaeology of the Holy Land
From the Destruction of Solomon's Temple to the Muslim Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
This book provides an introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine – modern Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories – from the destruction of Solomon's temple in 586 BCE to the Muslim conquest in 640 CE. Special attention is paid to the archaeology of Jerusalem and the...
Italy's Lost Greece
Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy--an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden...
Archaeology of East Asia
The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region...
Archaeology Is a Brand!
The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What impact is there on the field to recognize that archaeology is a regular feature in daily life and popular culture? Based upon the study of England, Germany, Sweden and the USA, Cornelius Holtorf examines the commonalities and peculiarities of media portrayal of archaeology in these countries,...