Archaeology category: 3529 books
Coffins of the Brave
Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812, archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial shipbuilding. They range from four small prewar vessels to four 16- or 20-gun brigs, three warships of much greater...
Representations and Communications
Creating an Archaeological Matrix of Late Prehistoric Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
In this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey...
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World
The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit–God K," King of Copan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya cities throughout the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Mute testimony to state rituals that linked the king's power to rule with the rhythms and renewal of time, the stelae...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life, nor is it viewed as a permanent state. People, animals, and plants simply transition from a soft, juicy, dynamic life to drier, more lasting...
Maya Calendar Origins
Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos, Prudence M. Rice proposed a new model of Maya political organization in which geopolitical seats of power rotated according to a 256-year calendar cycle known as the May. This fundamental connection between timekeeping and Maya political organization...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged...
The Cultural Life of Images
Visual Representation in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Pictures are often admired for their aesthetic merits but they are rarely treated as if they had as much to offer as the written word. They are often overlooked as objects of analysis themselves, and tend to be seen simply as adjuncts to the text. Images, however, are not passive, and have a direct...
Abundance
The Archaeology of Plenitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices...
Transformation in Anglo-Saxon Culture
Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. Literary text is used to interpret...
by Carol Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Funny and fanciful, this is a book about a Coca Box, and an unlikely travel foursome exploring the art and archaeology of Peru. Except that one member of the team likes to collect Precolumbian pottery. If trafficking in archaeological materials is unlawful, it seems to matter little, and in the end...
by Tomasz Zackiewicz
Language: Polish
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: Polish
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Tomasz Zackiewicz - Autor niezwykle poczytnych za granicą książek o tematyce archeologiczno-historycznej oraz artykułów naukowych, szczególnie popularnych w Niemczech. Jego anglojęzyczne publikacje stanowią cenny materiał edukacyjny zarówno dla naukowców jak i pasjonatów i cieszą się...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Hadrian’s Wall was inscribed as a World Heritage Site (WHS) in 1987 and, with the German Limes, became one of the first two parts of the transnational ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ (FRE) WHS in 2005. The World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall is unusual, although not unique, among World Heritage...
The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place
Ideology, Power, and Meaning in Maya Mortuary Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place investigates variations in social identity among the ancient Maya by focusing on individuals and small groups identified archaeologically by their inclusion in specific, discrete mortuary contexts or by unusual mortuary treatments. Utilizing archaeological, biological...
Vintage Moquegua
History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The microhistory of the wine industry in colonial Moquegua, Peru, during the colonial period stretches from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, yielding a wealth of information about a broad range of fields, including early modern industry and labor, viniculture practices, the cultural symbolism...