Archaeology category: 3529 books
Celtic Art in Europe
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The ancient Celtic world evokes debate, discussion, romanticism and mythicism. On the one hand it represents a specialist area of archaeological interest, on the other, it has a wide general appeal. The Celtic world is accessible through archaeology, history, linguistics and art history. Of these...
More than Meets the Eye
Studies on Upper Palaeolithic Diversity in the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
These twenty-three papers focus on recent research into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, a murky period of human history (ca 45,000 to 20,000 years ago) during which modern patterns of human behaviour and communication became the norm. The vast majority of archaeological data from this period...
Invention and Innovation
The Social Context of Technological Change 2: Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist...
Prioritizing Death and Society
The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management describes the historic developments, current challenges, and future opportunities presented by contemporary Cultural Resource Management (CRM). CRM is a substantial aspect of archaeology, history, historical architecture, historical preservation, and...
Women in Ancient America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America.
Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival...
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is the most renowned colonial uprisings in the history of the American Southwest. Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
In this fascinating volume, the Middle Paleolithic archaeology of the Middle East is brought to the current debate on the origins of modern humans. These collected papers gather the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries of Western Asia - a region that is often overshadowed by African or European...
by John Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s...
Living Images
Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. These paintings were first discovered by Flinders Petrie, father of modern archaeology, in his excavations in the Egyptian Fayum during the 1880s...
Mortali immortali
I tesori del Sichuan nell'antica Cina - The treasures of Sichuan in ancient China
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Catalogo della mostra aperta a Napoli presso il Museo Archeologico Nazionale dal 14 dicembre 2018 al 11 marzo 2019 Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli ospita, per la prima volta in Europa, l'eccezionale mostra “Mortali Immortali, i tesori del Sichuan nell'antica Cina” (14 dicembre - 11 marzo...
by Karen Harry, Barbara J. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This volume of proceedings from the fourteenth biennial Southwest Symposium explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest. The authors use diverse and innovative approaches and a variety of different data sets to examine the economic, social, and...
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece
Experience of the Nonelite Population
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the...
The Ancient Maya of Mexico
Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented...