Archaeology category: 3529 books
A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology
The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology....
Artifacts and Ideas
Essays in Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the remnants of the material objects they made and used. In recent decades this incontrovertible fact has encouraged partisan approaches to the history and...
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes
Human-Environment Interaction from the Neolithic to the Roman Period
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental aim of this book is to bridge the intellectual and methodological gaps between those with a background in archaeology and ancient...
Mediterranean Voyages
The Archaeology of Island Colonisation and Abandonment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation, abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies display different attitudes toward the land and the sea, which in turn cast light on group identities. This volume...
Prisoners of War
Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities. Mostly absent from these narratives of victory and defeat, however, are the experiences of prisoners of war, despite what these can teach us about cruelty, ingenuity, and human adaptability. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers...
Cultural Resources Archaeology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers the jobs and provides the funding. Few textbooks,...
by Ruth Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farmland, and to all intents and purposes, the village occupants themselves, a system that in some cases remained in place up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution....
by Mark P Leone
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone, the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology, urges archaeologists to view their discipline as an activist pursuit. This volume is partly his autobiographical reflection on a thirty...
A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire
Breaking New Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and essays, this volume documents the emerging field of Ottoman archaeology and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional understanding...
by Terence Grieder
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Among the vast treasures discovered in Peru since its conquest by Pizarro, only a small fraction has been excavated scientifically. The Art and Archaeology of Pashash is an account of the discovery and excavation of one of the richest Pre-Columbian burials ever scientifically excavated in Peru. The tomb...
The Archaeology of Politics and Power
Where, When and Why the First States Formed
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they fail to do. To understand the inner-workings and motivations of states one must understand how and why they came into...
Conflict Archaeology
Materialities of Collective Violence from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In the past two decades, conflict archaeology has become firmly established as a promising field of research, as reflected in publications, symposia, conference sessions and fieldwork projects. It has its origins in the study of battlefields and other conflict-related phenomena in the modern Era,...