Archaeology category: 3529 books
Challenging the Dichotomy
The Licit and the Illicit in Archaeological and Heritage Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discourse of ethics, practices, and institutions. Examining issues of cultural heritage law, policy, and implementation, editors Les Field, Cristóbal Gnecco, and Joe Watkins guide the focus to important discussions...
Of Rocks and Water
An Archaeology of Place
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices....
Form and Fabric
Studies in Rome's material past in honour of B R Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Colleagues, friends and students pay tribute to Brian Hartley's contribution to Roman archaeology and particularly to samian studies with essays on: Stanwick and Melsonby ( L Fitts ); Tacitus on Agricola ( R H Martin ); Agricola and Roman Scotland ( G Maxwell ); Cameleon and Flavian troop-movements...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s...
The Iron Age in Northern Britain
Britons and Romans, Natives and Settlers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the archaeological evidence for earlier Iron Age communities from the southern Pennines to the Northern and Western Isles and the impact of Roman expansion on local populations, through to the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman...
Burial Terminology
A Guide for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
With archaeological practices being as varied as the cultures they study, little advance has been made to standardize the nomenclature used in the Western scientific world to describe the physical aspect of burial and other forms of body disposal, which would allow researchers to describe and precisely...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Caves and rockshelters in Europe have traditionally been associated with prehistory, and in some regions cave archaeology has become synonymous with the Palaeolithic. However, there is abundant evidence that caves and rockshelters were important foci for activities in historic times. During the medieval...
by Annelou van Gijn, John Whittaker, Patricia C. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently uses experiments in archaeology. It aims to establish new common ground for integrating different approaches and for viewing agriculture from...
Children, Death and Burial
Archaeological Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how children were treated...
In the Aftermath of Migration
Renegotiating Ancient Identity in Southeastern Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Safford and Aravaipa valleys of Arizona have always lingered in the wings of Southwestern archaeology, away from the spotlight held by the more thoroughly studied Tucson and Phoenix Basins, the Mogollon Rim area, and the Colorado Plateau. Yet these two valleys hold intriguing clues to understanding...
Connected Communities
Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Cibola region on the Arizona–New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for more than a century. The region’s core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the contemporary Zuni people, and the area also spans boundaries between the Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon culture areas. The...
Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands
The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks...
by Catherine Frieman, Berit Valentin Eriksen
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
For more than a century flint daggers have been among the most closely studied and most heavily published later prehistoric lithic tools. It is well established that they are found across Europe and beyond, and that many were widely circulated over many generations. Yet, few researchers have attempted...
The Burial Record of Prehistoric Liangshan in Southwest China
Graves as Composite Objects
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book proposes a new model and scheme of analysis for complex burial material and applies it to the prehistoric archaeological record of the Liangshan region in Southwest China that other archaeologists have commonly given a wide berth, regarding it as too patchy, too inhomogeneous, and overall...