Archaeology category: 3529 books
Living Histories
Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has...
by Bradley E. Ensor
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
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by Susan McCarter
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This excellent introductory textbook describes and explains the origins of modern culture– the dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic area.
Written in an easy-to-read style, this lively and engaging book familiarises the reader with essential archaeological and genetic terms and concepts, explores...
Egypt
Lost Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
From Roman villas to Hollywood films, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspiration in many other cultures. But why, exactly, has this been the case? In this book, Christina Riggs examines the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt to illuminate why it has been so influential...
The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey
Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
President of the Archaeological Institute of America, professor at the University of Michigan from 1889 to 1927, and president of the American Philological Association, Francis Kelsey was crucially involved in the founding or growth of major educational institutions. He came to maturity in a period...
The Mummy's Curse
Mummymania in the English-speaking world
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The most penetrating study of the curse ever conducted, The Mummy's Curse uncovers forgotten nineteenth-century fiction and poetry, revolutionizes the study of mummy horror films, and reveals the prejudices embedded in children’s toys.
Examining original surveys and field observations of...
The Millionaire and the Mummies
Theodore Davis’s Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt.
At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world; his...
by Francis Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role. One of the most haunting and...
Prehistoric Indians of the Southeast
Archaeology of Alabama and the Middle South
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This book deals with the prehistory of the region encompassed by the present state of Alabama and spans a period of some 11,000 years—from 9000 B.C. and the earliest documented appearance of human beings in the area to A.D. 1750, when the early European settlements were well established. Only within...
by Elizabeth Rees
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Throughout the Celtic world, in Britain, Ireland and France, the legacy of the Celtic saints remains visible. It is not easy to come close to the Celtic saints as many of their biographies were written centuries after their deaths, but the sites where they lived and worked can still be seen in the...
Deep Time Dreaming
Uncovering Ancient Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown.
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first...
Fantastic Dreaming
The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals...
In Small Things Forgotten
An Archaeology of Early American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the...