Archaeology category: 3529 books
Han Material Culture
An Archaeological Analysis and Vessel Typology
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Han Material Culture is an analysis of Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) Chinese archaeology based on a comparison of the forms of vessels found in positively dated tombs. The resultant chronological framework allows for the cross dating of tombs across China, of which approximately one thousand are documented...
Living Under the Shadow
Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Popularist treatments of ancient disasters like volcanic eruptions have grossly overstated their capacity for death, destruction, and societal collapse. Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly...
Objects
Reluctant Witnesses to the Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
An invaluable field textbook, Objects examines detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can and have been used to study ancient artefacts.
From the Bayeux Tapestry to small...
50 Finds From Essex
Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Home to the first recorded town in Britain, Essex has a vast wealth of history. However, historical accounts of the county have tended to focus on the major settlements and have left large parts unexplored. Through the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), alongside continuing professional...
50 Finds From Manchester and Merseyside
Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Greater Manchester and Merseyside are built-up, urban areas, where the archaeology is often hidden under modern buildings and developments. There are also rural pockets of land and open spaces where coins and objects that were lost in the past are brought back to the surface by the plough. These finds...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Individual agents are frequently evident in early writing and notational systems, yet these systems have rarely been subjected to the concept of agency as it is traceable in archeology. Agency in Ancient Writing addresses this oversight, allowing archeologists to identify and discuss real, observable...
Homol'ovi
An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Beginning sometime in the thirteenth century, people from the Hopi Mesas established a cluster of villages to the south along the Little Colorado River. They were attracted by the river’s resources and the region’s ideal conditions for growing cotton. By the late 1300s, these Homol’ovi villages...
Investigating Archaeological Cultures
Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Defining "culture" is an important step in undertaking archaeological research. Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture. The study of archaeology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in...
Megadrought and Collapse
From Early Agriculture to Angkor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse. Previous works have offered multi-causal explanations for collapse, from overpopulation,...
Connections and Complexity
New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new...
Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 3
Du Néolithique ancien au Néolithique final, Fascicle 13
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." —American Anthropologist
... an exceptional contribution to the...
Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 1
Présentation générale et industries Paléolithiques, Fascicle 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." —American Anthropologist
... an exceptional contribution to the...
Metals in Past Societies
A Global Perspective on Indigenous African Metallurgy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These processes were transformative...