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Caves in Context

The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe

by Knut Andreas Bergsvik, Robin Skeates
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

Caves in Context provides the thriving inter-disciplinary field of cave studies with a European-scale survey of current research in cave archaeology. It is unified by a contemporary theoretical emphasis on the cultural significance and diversity of caves over space and time. Caves and rockshelters...
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The Central European Magdalenian

Regional Diversity and Internal Variability

by Andreas Maier
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015

This monograph on the Central European Magdalenian aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the archaeological record of this period. It sheds new light on five regional groups between the Rhône valley to the west and the Vistula-valley to the east, which existed roughly between 20,000 and 14,000...
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The National Historic Preservation Act

Past, Present, and Future

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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

Assessing fifty years of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), passed in 1966, this volume examines the impact of this key piece of legislation on heritage practices in the United States. The editors and contributing authors summarize how we approached compliance in the past, how we approach...
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The Donkey in Human History

An Archaeological Perspective

by Peter Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018

Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship...
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Sveti Pavao Shipwreck

A 16th century Venetian merchantman from Mljet, Croatia

by Carlo Beltrame, Sauro Gelichi, Igor Miholjek
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

Between 2007 and 2012 the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute from Zagreb and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice collaborated in the recording, underwater excavation and analysis of the unusually well-preserved wreck...
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by C.J. Hacket
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

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Romancing the Maya

Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915

by R. Tripp Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphs—and having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquities—amateur...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

Transhumance is a form of pastoralism that has been practised around the world since animals were first domesticated. Such seasonal movements have formed an important aspect of many European farming systems for several thousand years, although they have declined markedly since the nineteenth century....
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The Chora of Metaponto 6

A Greek Settlement at Sant'Angelo Vecchio

by Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry, Francesca Silvestrelli
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016

The sixth volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek settlement at Sant'Angelo Vecchio. Located on a slope overlooking the Basento River, the site illustrates the extraordinary variety of settlements and uses of the...
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The Tutu Archaeological Village Site

A Multi-disciplinary Case Study in Human Adaptation

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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Excavations at the Tutu site represent a dramatic chapter in the annals of Caribbean archaeological excavation. The site was discovered in 1990 during the initial site clearing for a shopping mall in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The site was excavated with the assistance of a team of professional...
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Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages

Models of Central Mesa Verde Archaeology

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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages...
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by Larry J. Zimmerman, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2003

Using the right media, archeologists can and must educate and excite the people who need their information. Larry Zimmerman's earnestly engaging guide to reporting archaeological findings argues that communication is one of archaeology's primary tasks. He offers advice on working with colleagues,...
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Making Places in the Prehistoric World

Themes in Settlement Archaeology

by Joanna Bruck, Melissa Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

This groundbreaking volume addresses issues central to the study of prehistoric settlement including group memory, the transmission of ideology and the impact of mobility and seasonality on the construction of social identity. Building on these themes, the contributors point to new ways of understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

What does being an archaeologist mean to Indigenous persons? How and why do some become archaeologists? What has led them down a path to what some in their communities have labeled a colonialist venture? What were are the challenges they have faced, and the motivations that have allowed them to succeed?...
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