Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Diana Beuster
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Archaeology, grade: A, Indiana University, language: English, abstract: The discovery of Hisarlik as Troy by Heinrich Schliemann was certainly one of the most sensational news stories of the nineteenth century. Hisarlik is now commonly assumed to be...
by Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, K. Ann Horsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The ability to use DNA evidence is revolutionizing our understanding of the past. This book introduces archaeologists to the basics of DNA research so they can understand the powers and pitfalls of using DNA data in archaeological analysis and interpretation. By concentrating on the principles and...
The Curse of the Pharaohs' Tombs
Tales of the unexpected since the days of Tutankhamun
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Curse of the Pharaoh’s Tombs is the definitive book on Ancient Egyptian tomb curses, providing new information and data never before published whilst exploring the many incidents and deaths associated with tomb curses. The book puts the record straight on matters which have been wrongly recorded...
by John H. Blitz, Karl G. Lorenz
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
An overview and model of complex society in the prehistoric Southeast.
Along the banks of the lower Chattahoochee River, the remains of ancient settlements are abundant, including archaeological sites produced by Native Americans between 900 and 350 years ago, and marked by the presence...
The Dark Age of Greece
An Archeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries B.C.
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This is a classic work of archaeology by one of the premier figures in the field. First published in 1971, A.M. Snodgrass' The Dark Age if Greece is the most comprehensive and coherent account available of this period of ancient Greece.
by D. Michaelides
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and...
by Vladimir V. Pitul'ko, Elena Yu. Pavlova
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This English translation of a work previously published in Russian (Geoarkheologiya i radiouglerodnaya khronologiya kamennogo veka Severo Vostochnoi Azii, St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2010) presents an overview of the Paleolithic archaeology of Northeast Asia, with emphasis on geoarchaeological and radiocarbon-based...
by Marcel Kornfeld, George C Frison, Mary Lou Larson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
George Frison’s Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains has been the standard text on plains prehistory since its first publication in 1978, influencing generations of archaeologists. Now, a third edition of this classic work is available for scholars, students, and avocational archaeologists. Thorough...
Political Landscapes of the Late Intermediate Period in the Southern Andes
The Pukaras and Their Hinterlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This book studies the relationship between pukaras and their surrounding landscape, focusing on the architectural and settlement variability registered in both contexts. It is the outcome of a symposium held at the XIX National Congress of Argentine Archaeology (San Miguel de Tucuman, August 8–12,...
Maize
Origin, Domestication, and its Role in the Development of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize. Using a variety of scientific techniques, Duccio Bonavia explores the development of maize, its adaptation to varying climates and its fundamental role in ancient American cultures....
by Michael G. Callaghan, Nina Neivens de Estrada
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Sequencing the ceramics in Guatemala’s Holmul region has the potential to answer important questions in Maya archaeology. The Holmul region, located in northeastern Guatemala between the central Peten lowlands to the west and the Belize River Valley to the east, encompasses roughly ten square kilometers...
The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications
New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The artificial shaping of the skull vault of infants expresses fundamental aspects of crafted beauty, of identity, status and gender in a way no other body practice does. Combining different sources of information, this volume contributes new interpretations on Mesoamerican head shaping traditions....
by John Hyslop
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Before the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century A.D., the Inka Empire stretched along the Pacific side of South America, all the way from Ecuador to northwest Argentina. Though today many Inka researchers focus on the imperial capital of Cuzco, Peru, and surrounding areas, ruins of Inka settlements...
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge
Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines...