Archaeology category: 3529 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method.
Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries...
Archaeology in the Making
Conversations through a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come...
Understanding the Workplace: A Research Framework for Industrial Archaeology in Britain: 2005
A Research Framework for Industrial Archaeology in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"This volume was first delivered at a conference organised by the Association for Industrial Archaeology in Nottingham in June 2004, and formerly constituted a special issue of Industrial Archaeology Review. The papers have the explicit intention of formulating a research framework for industrial...
Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning
Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Improving the relationship between archaeology and local government represents one of the next great challenges facing archaeology –specifically archaeology done in urban settings. Not only does local government have access to powerful legal tools and policy mechanisms that can offer protection...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono) theistic frameworks and...
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan
Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
An examination of archaeology in Jordan and Palestine, Competitive Archaeology in Jordan explores how antiquities have been used to build narratives and national identities. Tracing Jordanian history, and the importance of Jerusalem within that history, Corbett analyzes how both foreign and indigenous...
The Archaeology of Art
Materials, Practices, Affects
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How can archaeologists interpret ancient art and images if they do not treat them as symbols or signifiers of identity?
Traditional approaches to the archaeology of art have borrowed from the history of art and the anthropology of art by focusing on iconography, meaning, communication and identity....
Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
Paleoindian to World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A chronological summary of major stages in Southeastern United States' development, this unique textbook overviews the region's archaeology from 20,000 years ago to World War I. Early chapters review the history and development of archaeology as a discipline. The following chapters, organized in chronological...
Environmental Archaeology
Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This book aims to thoroughly discuss new directions of thinking in the arena of environmental archaeology and test them by presenting new practical applications.
Recent theoretical and epistemological advancement in the field of archaeology calls for a re-definition of the subdiscipline of...
Archaeology's Visual Culture
Digging and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, revealing...
by Gavin Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about the past. However, the issue of time is complicated and often problematic, and although we take it very much for granted, our understanding of time affects the way we do archaeology.
This book is an introduction...
Archaeology in Society
Its Relevance in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
The practiceof archaeology has many different facets: from academia, to government, tocultural resource management, to public media.
Considering the place of archaeology in society means understanding the rolesthat archaeology has in the present day and a sense of the...
Archaeology Hotspot Great Britain
Unearthing the Past for Armchair Archaeologists
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The Archaeology Hotspots series offers reader-friendly and engaging narratives of the archaeology in particular countries. Written by archaeological experts with a general reader in mind, each book in the series focuses on what has been found and by whom, what the controversies and scandals have been,...
Doing Archaeology
A Cultural Resource Management Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
What is archaeology, and why should we do it? Tom King, arguably the best-known heritage management consultant in the United States, answers the basic question of every introductory student from the unique perspective of one who actively uses archaeology for cultural resource management. Designed...