Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Ferriby Boats
Seacraft of the Bronze Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In 1937 the author, then aged 19, found the remains of an ancient boat at Ferriby on the Humber shore. This book is his own account of his discoveries, excavations and research over 50 years since the first boat find. The importance of this and the subsequent finds was only fully recognised after...
by Antonio Sagona, Paul Zimansky
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented evidence, both archaeological and textual, that forms the basis of our knowledge of the development of Anatolia from the...
Roman Pompeii
Space and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist.
Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new...
by L. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend. As worker or companion, the dog has enjoyed a unique relationship with its human master, and the depth and variety of the papers in this fascinating collection is a testament...
Statements in Stone
Monuments and Society in Neolithic Brittany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The megalithic monuments of Western Europe cover a period of over 2,000 years, from the earliest neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age, and have excited the popular imagination for centuries. Based on the evidence of recent excavations, and the most up-to-date and controversial theoretical...
Piecing Together the Past
The Interpretation of Archaeological Data
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V. Gordon Childe based upon 10 years of his lectures on the principles of archaeological classification, terminology and interpretive concepts. It examines meanings of technical terms and methodologies used in prehistoric archaeology, for those new to the area.
Wealth inequality and the pristine Hawaiian State: a political economy approach
Published in Origini n. XXXVIII/2015-2. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Archaeology provides a unique long-term perspective on the emergence of inequality, suggesting that social complexity can be organized based on alternative economic structures. To understand inequality, requires an analysis of the political economy and its diverse currencies used to create power differentials....
Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies
Traditions, Theories, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies provides a systematic overview of major non-American traditions of ethnoarchaeology, with a particular focus on Europe and Asia. It explores all stages of their research agenda. These ethnoarchaeologies were embedded in theoretical traditions of local archaeologies....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume (at present the information is unpublished...
Plains Earthlodges
Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains.
Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers...
Homeless Heritage
Collaborative Social Archaeology as Therapeutic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in Bristol and York, the book first describes the way in which archaeological methods and theory have...
by Maciej Kuczyński
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Maciej Kuczyński, author of 35 books published in 4 languages, UNESCO's IBBY Literary Award recipient, member of The Explorers Club, while studying the handpainted mexican Mixtecs' picture codice called „Nuttal”, perceives that it might depict the biological genesis of man and plants....
Tell el-Hesi
Modern Military Trenching and Muslim Cemetery in Field I (Strata I-II)
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1985
Tell el-Hesi, located in southern Israel at the juncture of the Negev Desert and the foothills of the Judean Mountains, provides an excellent opportunity for the archaeological study of the impact of a variety of physical environments on the peoples who inhabited a single site. The site has been occupied...
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including...