Archaeology category: 3529 books
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Chronology, Content, Contest
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet...
The Give and Take of Sustainability
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tradeoffs
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a global comparative...
The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors
Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts and Ceramics
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central...
by Jesse Walter Fewkes, L. Antonio Curet
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico.
Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist...
Beyond War
The Human Potential for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over...
Biosphere to Lithosphere
new studies in vertebrate taphonomy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology. Zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists were the first to realise how vital it was to study the entire process of how food enters the archaeological record, and taphonomy brought to a...
World Prehistory
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This popular introductory textbook provides an overview of more than 3 million years of human prehistory. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this engaging volume tells the story of humanity from our beginnings in tropical Africa up to the advent of the world’s first urban civilizations....
Human Dispersal and Species Movement
From Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
How have humans colonised the entire planet and reshaped its ecosystems in the process? This unique and groundbreaking collection of essays explores human movement through time, the impacts of these movements on landscapes and other species, and the ways in which species have co-evolved and transformed...
Not Just for Show
The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field...
The Oasis Papers 2
Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This volume of fourteen papers covers the environment, archaeology and conservation of the Dakhleh Oasis, as presented at the Second International Conference of this long-running project (held in Toronto, 1997). Four abstracts from papers not submitted to the published volume are also included, as is the original conference programme.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Pastoralists were a vital economic and social force in ancient societies around the globe, transforming landscapes poorly suited for agriculture into spaces of vast productive potential while simultaneously connecting mobile and sedentary communities alike across considerable distances.
Drawing...
Down By the River
Archaeological, Palaeoenvironmental and Geoarchaeological Investigations of The Suffolk River Valleys
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource. This volume details the results of 8 years of palaeoenvironmental, archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations...
by Paul Pettitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human...