Archaeology category: 3529 books
A Material Culture
Consumption and Materiality on the Coast of Precolonial East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Investigations of archaeological intrasite spatial patterns have generally taken one of two directions: studies that introduced and explored methods for the analysis of archaeological spatial patterns or those that described and analyzed the for mation of spatial patterns in actuaiistic-ethnographic,...
by Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered...
Balkan Dialogues
Negotiating Identity between Prehistory and the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete “cultures”, which have been conventionally treated as bound entities and equated...
Ancient West Asian Civilization
Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC.
The editors...
Exploring territories: Bubble Model and Minimum number of contemporary settlements. A case study from Etruria and Latium Vetus from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age
Published in Origini n. XXXVII/2015. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This paper has two aims. The first is to introduce to a wider audience the recently proposed Bubble Model: a new method to reconstruct ancient settlement territories. After a preliminary discussion of similar methods that have been used in archaeology, such as Voronoi diagrams (Thiessen polygons),...
Saharan Rock Art
Archaeology of Tassilian Pastoralist Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
The Neolithic rock images of Iheren, Algeria are the starting point for Augustin Holl's careful analysis of the iconography of Saharan rock art. Created in the third millennium B.C., the Iheren murals are over 3 meters wide and contain multiple compositions that present an allegorical depiction of...
Legacies of Occupation
Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Channel Islands
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
This book explores the way in which the legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands has been turned into heritage (or, conversely, neglected) over the last 70 years. Once seen as the ‘taint of the mark of the beast’, the perception of much of what the Germans left behind has slowly...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology,...
Prehistoric Figurines
Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Fully illustrated, Prehistoric Figurines brings a radical new approach to one of the most exciting, but poorly understood artefacts from our prehistoric past. Studying the interpretation of prehistoric figurines from Neolithic southeast Europe, Bailey introduces recent developments from the fields...
The Etruscans
Lost Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The Etruscans were a powerful people, marked by an influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, the Etruscans are often portrayed as mysterious—a strange and unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley’s The Etruscans presents a...
Modern Origins
A North African Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Over the last decade, Africa has taken a central position in the search for the timing and mechanisms leading to modern human origins, and the rich archaeological and human paleontological record of North Africa is critical to this search. In this volume, we bring together new research into the...
Hunter-Gatherers
Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and...
Blackbeard's Sunken Prize
The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily armed ship and its crew captured all manner of riches from merchant ships sailing the Caribbean to...