Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Karen O Bruhns, Nancy L Kelker
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly...
50 Finds From Cumbria
Objects From The Portable Antiquities Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Archaeology is about understanding people in the past from what they have left behind. Objects inform us about how people lived, what they made and what they were used for. There has often been a view that there are no archaeological finds in the north-west. However, through the work of the Portable...
Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’
An Archaeological Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource for the city, which as seen many major programmes of archaeological investigation.There...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The Out of Australia Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
It has often been said that humanity’s history is a fabrication, littered with lies and omissions, but this has never been conclusively proven, until now. What has been recently found in Australia is unequivocal in rewriting convenient versions of ancient history and the genesis of modern humans.
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Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic
Landscapes, Monuments and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Archaeological evidence suggests that Neolithic sites had many different, frequently contradictory functions, and there may have been other uses for which no evidence survives. How can archaeologists present an effective interpetation, with the consciousness that both their own subjectivity, and the...
by D.W. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200),...
by Rachel Pope
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The Earlier Iron Age (c. 800-400 BC) has often eluded attention in British Iron Age studies. Traditionally, we have been enticed by the wealth of material from the later part of the millennium and by developments in southern England in particular, culminating in the arrival of the Romans. The result...
Clovis
On the Edge of a New Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years before Clovis. These revelations indicate to researchers that the peopling...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
As research continues on the earliest migration of modern humans into North and South America, the current state of knowledge about these first Americans is continually evolving.
Especially with recent advances in human genomic studies, both of living populations and ancient skeletal remains,...
Care or Neglect?
Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
"The method of Formgeschichte seeks to help in answering the historical questions as to the nature and trustworthiness of our knowledge of Jesus, and also in solving a theological problem properly so-called. It shows in what way the earliest testimony about Jesus was interwoven with the earliest...
Origini - XXXVI
Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche - Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
THIS ISSUE CONTAINS INVESTIGATING DOMESTIC ECONOMY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LATE CHALCOLITHIC IN EASTERN ANATOLIA: THE CASE OF ARSLANTEPE PERIOD VIII Cristiano Vignola, Francesca Balossi Restelli, Alessia Masi, Laura Sadori, Giovanni Siracusano KURA ARAXES CULTURE AREAS AND THE LATE 4TH AND EARLY 3RD...
Avoiding Archaeological Disasters
Risk Management for Heritage Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
You think it can’t happen to you, but it can. One day, months into your construction project, your front end load operator runs into bones and wooden slats. Your county coroner says it is not a crime scene, and refers you to the local archaeology department. The archaeologist tells you that it is...
The Teleoscopic Polity
Andean Patriarchy and Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of south-central Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical...