Archaeology category: 3529 books
Forgotten Africa
An Introduction to its Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa's momentous human...
Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
Practices and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing...
Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna
The Origins of a West African Political System
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Many West African societies have egalitarian political systems, with non-centralised distributions of power. 'Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna' analyses a wide range of archaeological data to explore the development of such societies. The volume offers a detailed case study of the village settlement...
African Civilizations
An Archaeological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the...
Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies
The State of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
In this book, Benoît Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience and primatology, he offers a natural history of hierarchies from the point of view of both cultural and biological evolution....
by Eric H. Cline
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war inspires countless articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, movies, television documentaries, even souvenirs and collectibles. But while...
by Austen Layard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1849, this early work by traveller, archaeologist and collector Sir Austen Henry Layard is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the religion, art and military of the ancient city of Nineveh. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the...
Focus on Fortifications
New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient...
Pompeii
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, miraculously preserved, from their layers of volcanic ash. Yet for all the fame and unique importance...
Anasazi America
Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for over two hundred years, the Chacoans’ society collapsed dramatically...
by Norman Golb
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy. Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls...
Through a Glass Brightly
Studies in Byzantine and Medieval Art and Archaeology Presented to David Buckton
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine...
Microarchaeology
Beyond the Visible Archaeological Record
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in the microscopic record can significantly add to our understanding of past human behaviour, provided this information has not been...
by Francis Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This ebook edition does not include illustrations. As he did in ‘Britain B.C.’ and ‘Britain A.D.’, eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages' suggests a time between two other...