Archaeology category: 3529 books
Treasures from Native California
The Legacy of Russian Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are presented here for the first time in an English...
Building for Eternity
the History and Technology of Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively unknown. There exists beneath the waters of the...
THIS LAND
AMERICA 2,000 B.C. TO 500 A.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Wayne May has done more work and research on the North American setting for the Book of Mormon than any single individual. The evidence he has compiled is overwhelming as a witness not only to the setting of this book of scripture, but also to the reality of the Book of Mormon as a historical...
The Reconstructed Past
Reconstructions in the Public Interpretation of Archaeology and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site...
The Land of Prehistory
A Critical History of American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Before Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people...
Becoming White Clay
A History and Archaeology of Jicarilla Apache Enclavement
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The story of one of the longest-lived and most successful nomadic enclaves in North America provides a rare glimpse into the material expressions of Apache self-determination and survival. For nearly 200 years the Jicarilla Apache of New Mexico thrived in the interstices of Pueblo and Spanish settlements...
The Last Civilized Place
Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Set along the Saharas edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold...
by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, Olav Hammer, David Warburton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
"The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the issues of settlement change and distribution within the contexts of:
* environment
* demography
* culture.
The...
Unwrapping the Pharaohs
How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
"THE PYRAMIDS ARE THE OLDEST MONUMENTS OF CIVILIZATION ON THE EARTH. THESE STRUCTURES AND THE RELICS THEY CONTAIN ARE THE MOST TANGIBLE PHYSICAL LINKS WITH OUR ANCIENT PAST AND PROVIDE IMPORTANT CLUES TO OUR ORIGINS."
-From the Introduction
Mummies, pyramids, and pharaohs! The culture...
Afterglow of Empire
Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external pressures, ultimately reversed by invaders from Nubia and consolidated by natives of the Nile Delta...
Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
Material Signs and Traces of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical...
A Portable Cosmos
Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the bottom...