Archaeology category: 3529 books
Side-by-Side Survey
Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Twenty years ago one of the editors of this volume, John Cherry of the University of Michigan, looked forward to a day when the 'Frogs round the Pond' (active intensive survey projects working around the Mediterranean) could produce real insights into the development of human societies by comparing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance theoretical approaches and analytical tools for studying maritime connectivity. For the coast-hugging populations of the ancient Mediterranean, mobility and exchange depended on a...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Archaeological research has long focused on studying tangible artifacts to build a picture of the cultures it examines. Equally important to understanding a culture, however, are the intangible elements that become part of its heritage. In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention specifically to protect...
by James Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassical period (ca. 2000 BC–250 AD). Offering a comprehensive history of Preclassic Maya society, James Doyle focuses...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several features make the site potentially our best source for day-to-day life in a small town situated on the periphery...
Babylon of Egypt
The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major project to lower the groundwater level affecting the churches and monuments of this area of Cairo known by the Romans as Babylon. Examination of the material and structural...
Butrint 4
The Archaeology and Histories of an Ionian Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée...
by Lisa Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In this major new volume, leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe. Whereas previous overviews have focused either on Europe or on southwest Asia, this volume considers the transition from...
Profane Egyptologists
The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However, an organised reconstruction and revival of the authentic practice of Egyptian, or Kemetic religion has been growing, almost undocumented, for nearly...
Socialising Complexity
Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Socialising Complexity introduces the concept of complexity as a tool, rather than a category, for understanding social formations. This new take on complexity moves beyond the traditional concern with what constitutes a complex society and focuses on the complexity inherent in various social forms...
by Charles Stanish
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
For more than two millennia prior to the Spanish conquest, the southern region of the central Andes was home to dozens of societies, ranging from modest chiefdoms to imperial states. Attempts to understand the political and economic dynamics of this complex region have included at least two major theories...
Beyond the Glass Case
The Past, the Heritage and the Public, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The book is the result of a nationwide survey in the UK that measured public use of and attitudes to the past, archaeology and collecting. The author reviews this research in the light of contemporary theory on ideology and representation and goes on to develop a convincing explanation for the failure...
Digital Geoarchaeology
New Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
This book focusses on new technologies and multi-method research designs in the field of modern archaeology, which increasingly crosses academic boundaries to investigate past human-environmental relationships and to reconstruct palaeolandscapes. It aims at establishing the concept of Digital Geoarcheology...