Archaeology category: 3529 books
Revolutions in the Desert
The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Southern Levant
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left few remains appropriate for analytic study. Few prior studies have approached the deeper past of desert nomadic societies,...
Under the Mediterranean
Marine Antiquities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Honor Frost has written a travel book with this difference: her journeys have extended below the surface of the sea. Her accounts of these regions can be compared with the writings of early travellers who, unhampered by overspecialization, recorded a variety of observations on completely unknown places....
The Place of Stone
Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people...
India: An Archaeological History
Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
This book charts the flow of India's grass-roots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian archaeology in the past one decade.
by Herman Wiley Ronnenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
From antique bottles to closely guarded recipes and treasured historic architecture, breweries have a special place in American history. This fascinating book brings the material culture of breweries in the United States to life, from many regions of the country and from early 16th century production...
Early Human Behaviour in Global Context
The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Early Human Behaviour in a Global Context will be of use to students and professionals who are interested in prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology, and paleoanthropology. Those interested in our ancestors and their place in the natural world will also benefit from the information presented in this book.
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Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
Boomtown Saloons
Archaeology And History In Virginia City
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. Its pre-historic heritage not only tells the story of man's origin and evolution but has also contributed to the understanding of the earth's history: fossils and artefacts spanning over 27 million years have been discovered and conserved...
Managing Heritage in Africa
Who Cares?
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Managing Heritage in Africa provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date synthesis of heritage management practice in Africa, covering a broad spectrum of heritage issues such as archaeology, living traditions, sacred sites, heritage of pain (slavery), international conventions cultural landscapes, heritage...
Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa
Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period...
The First Migration
Māori Origins 3000BC AD1450
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.Taken...
Places in Mind
Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
This edited volume provides a cross-section of the cutting-edge ways in which archaeologists are developing new approaches to their work with communities and other stakeholder groups who have special interest in the uses in the past.
Race and Affluence
An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, and ethnographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the period 1850 to 1930, the author probes distinctive African-American consumption patterns and examines how...