Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Chora of Metaponto 2
Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the southern coast of Italy. This wide-ranging investigation,...
by David E. Graves
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Ever wonder what the Bible was all about but were nervous about reading such an intimidating book? Key Themes of the Old Testament is a creative approach to the study of the Old Testament. It surveys twelve Old Testament themes written for the undergraduate audience from a themes perspective. The...
Landscape of the Spirits
Hohokam Rock Art at South Mountain Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppings—images...
Community-based Heritage in Africa
Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage...
Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present
Resilience, Decline, and Revival
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
As water availability, management and conservation become global challenges, there is now wide consensus that historical knowledge can provide crucial information to address present crises, offering unique opportunities to appreciate the solutions and mechanisms societies have developed over time...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals,...
Droughts, Food and Culture
Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa’s Later Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Recent droughts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, from China to Peru, have serious implications for food security and grave consequences for local and international politics. The issues do not just concern the plight of African peoples, but also our global ecological future.
Global climatic changes...
Agency Uncovered
Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or...
by David Field, Dave McOmish
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Well known for its World Heritage Sites of Stonehenge and Avebury, the prehistoric monuments of Wiltshire have long provided a focus of attention for archaeologists and visitors alike. Today the Wiltshire sites are perceived as an important focal point in British prehistory. Yet there is much more...
Body and Image
Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens—a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields....
Life and Death in the Bronze Age
An Archaeologist's Field-work
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This is a great work by one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. The period covered is from 1700 to 700 B.C. and is mainly concerned with the author’s field work in western Britain. It deals with burial ritual – dances, processions, "houses of the dead", the objects deposited, the...
by Kimberly Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Archaeology, University of Phoenix, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Today, most of the methods utilized for chronometric dating of fossils are radiometric. Radiometric dating, in general, refers to the dating of material by...
by Margarita Sánchez Romero, Eva Alarcón Garcia, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask:
* what is the relationship between children and the material world?
* how does the material culture of children vary across time and space?
* how can we access the actions and identities of children in...