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Flintknapping

Making and Understanding Stone Tools

by John C. Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological perspective...
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From Kostenki to Clovis

Upper Paleolithic—Paleo-Indian Adaptations

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013

From the American Side I went to the USSR for the first time in 1982 to attend the 11th meeting of the International Union for Quaternary research (INQUA) held at the Moscow State University. At that time relations between our two countries were anything but congenial and many restrictions were placed...
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A Cosmos in Stone

Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art

by David J. Lewis-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002

J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of...
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by Gregory J. Wightman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

How did religion emerge—and why? What are the links between behavior, environment, and religiosity? Diving millions of years into the past, to a time when human ancestors began grappling with issues of safety, worth, identity, loss, power, and meaning in complex and difficult environments, GregoryJ....
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Economic Zooarchaeology

Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture

by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Sergeantson, Paul Halstead
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary...
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National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers,...
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Negotiating Cultural Identity

Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History

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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019

This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists,...
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by Paul Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

The White Cliffs of Dover is the story of this internationally famous coastline in all its aspects. Running from Folkestone to Kingsdown and Walmer, near Deal in Kent, there is no doubt that the White Cliff s of Dover are one of this country's most iconic and spectacular natural features. They have...
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by Vernon James Knight, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012

This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr begins with an historiographical overview, addressing the methodologies...
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Charleston

An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community

by Martha A. Zierden, Elizabeth J. Reitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most storied cities of the American South. Well known for its historic buildings and landscape, its thriving maritime culture, and its role in the beginning of the American Civil War, many consider it the birthplace of historic preservation. In Charleston,...
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Ancient Scandinavia

An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings

by T. Douglas Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans...
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Tracing Old Norse Cosmology

The World Tree, Middle Earth and the Sun in Archeaological Perspectives

by Anders Andrén
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail relying mainly on Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages. Here, Anders Andrén...
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Ark of Civilization

Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945

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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to England...
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