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The Chora of Metaponto 4
The Late Roman Farmhouse at San Biagio
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto presents the excavation of the Late Roman farmhouse at San Biagio. Located near the site of an earlier Greek sanctuary, this modest but well-appointed structure was an unexpected...
The Chora of Croton 1
The Neolithic Settlement at Capo Alfiere
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations and surveys in ancient territories (chorae) in southern Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a large number of sites and a time period...
Memories from Darkness
Archaeology of Repression and Resistance in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
To Write What one Could Not Tell Anyone You who live in all tranquility So warm and comfortable in your houses, You who come home at night to find The table laid and friendly faces around you, Consider if this is a man, He who toils in the mud, Who knows no rest, Who fights for a crust of bread, Who...
The Cultural Landscapes of Port au Choix
Precontact Hunter-Gatherers of Northwestern Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Newfoundland lies at the intersection of arctic and more temperate regions and, commensurate with this geography, populations of two Amerindian and two Paleoeskimo cultural traditions occupied Port au Choix, in northern Newfoundland, Canada, for centuries and millennia. Over the past two decades...
by James B. Stoltman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Petrography is the microscopic examination of thin sections of pottery to determine their precise mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to the petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petrography...
Zuni Origins
Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
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The Zuni are a Southwestern people whose origins have long intrigued anthropologists. This volume presents fresh approaches to that question from both anthropological and traditional perspectives, exploring the origins of the tribe and the influences that...
Lands of the Shamans
Archaeology, Landscape and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
‘Shamanism’ is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or ‘shaman’ and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and...
Rituals of the Past
Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars...
by Kenneth Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1949
This report sets forth the results of the excavation of the site known as Ste Marie I on the Wye River, near Midland, Ontario. It is hoped that it will be in some measure a contribution to our knowledge of a small but important episode in Canadian history; namely, the activities of the Jesuit Fathers...
Ancient Ink
The Archaeology of Tattooing
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The desire to alter and adorn the human body is universal. While specific forms of body decoration, and the underlying motivations, vary according to region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance their natural appearance. Tattooing, the process...
Material Culture and Sacred Landscape
The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings...
by George Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Students of archaeology, travellers, visitors to museums and all those interested in mythology will value this comprehensive handbook. It details the major gods and goddesses and presents a broad survey of others, giving a vivid picture of the complexity and richness of the imagery of Egyptian mythology.
Current Research in Egyptology 2007
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The Eighth Annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2007) was held at Swansea University on the 19th-21st April. The conference brought together graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology from ten different countries, contributing to a total of 40 presentations. The range of topics...