Archaeology category: 3529 books
How Things Shape the Mind
A Theory of Material Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.
An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in...
Reading Between the Lines
The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is the first systematic analysis of Scotland’s cursus monuments and is written by one of the foremost scholars of the Neolithic in Scotland. Drawing on fifteen years of experience of cropmark interpretation, as well as his involvement...
Human Paleontology and Prehistory
Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology). The volume presents a collection of original papers...
Extinctions and Invasions
A Social History of British Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course of millennia humans have manipulated Britain's fauna....
by Kristin Sobolik
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Inclusion of botanical and zoological remains in archaeological analysis has dramatically increased since the advent of the New Archaeology. Yet most archaeologists have a limited knowledge of what archaeobiologists do and how their work can improve archaeological research and interpretation. In this...
by Cameron H. Lacquement, Lynne P. Sullivan, Robert J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium...
From Machair to Mountains
Archaeological Survey And Excavation in South Uist
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of human occupation over many millennia. The machair strip,...
Proving Biblical Nazareth
Evidence for the Key Sites of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
“This book provides challenging material that requires a re-think on the understanding of traditional Nazareth. The historical analysis has good *correlation to biblical time frames.” ~ *Dr. Murray Adamthwaite, Historian, Theologian, Linguist.
The centre of modern Nazareth has...
by Dr Michael Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Prior to the development of scientifically based archaeology, it was widely accepted that events recorded in the Bible were based in real history.
Archaeological Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Archaeological Theory, 2nd Edition is the most current and comprehensive introduction to the field available. Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text offers students an ideal entry point to the major concepts and ongoing debates in archaeological research.
New edition of a popular...
by Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology.
This volume represents the most recent research...
Critical Approaches to Fieldwork
Contemporary and Historical Archaeological Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This work takes as its starting point the role of fieldwork and how this has changed over the past 150 years. The author argues against progressive accounts of fieldwork and instead places it in its broader intellectual context to critically examine the relationship between theoretical paradigms and...
William Boyd Dawkins and the Victorian Science of Cave Hunting
Three Men in a Cavern
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
William Boyd Dawkins was a controversial Victorian geologist, palaeontologist and archaeologist who has divided opinion as either a hero or villain. For some, he was a pioneer of Darwinian science as a member of the Lubbock-Evans network, while for others he was little more than a reckless vandal...
Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks
The Archaeology of Animal Disease
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but...