Archaeology

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event...

The pre-Hispanic pueblo settlements of the Pajarito Plateau, whose ruins can be seen today at Bandelier National Monument, date to the late 1100s and were already dying out when the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century. Until recently, little modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939071784Author Jon Nathan YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Arizona Archaeological SocietyPublisher Arizona Archaeological SocietyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692878101Author Sarah A JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, TPublisher Digital Press at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981852423Author John KaloloFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samoan Studies InstitutePublisher Samoan Studies InstituteWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964169487Author Gerald S. HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hubert Allen & Assoc.Publisher Hubert Allen & Assoc.Weight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939071739Author Kenneth J ZollFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Arizona Archaeological SocietyPublisher Arizona Archaeological SocietyWeight(grams)...

Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans? No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American...

Unearthing the rich 11,000-year human heritage of the Miami area The pace of change of Miami since its incorporation in 1896 is staggering. The seaside land that once was home to several thousand Tequesta is now congested with roads and millions of...

An archaeological study of African American foodways in nineteenth-century Annapolis Eating in the Side Room, Mark Warner uses the archaeological data of food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Chesapeake to show how...

Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, the most valuable of my possessions. For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hoards of visitors and everyday pressures of his iconic estate, Monticello...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692368398Author William R CaraherFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, TPublisher Digital Press at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648473107Author Stefan VucakFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Stefan VucakPublisher Stefan VucakWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906137526Author Elena TiribilliFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Golden House PublicationsPublisher Golden House Publications

This volume was first delivered at a conference organised by the Association for Industrial Archaeology in Nottingham in June 2004, and formerly constituted a special issue of Industrial Archaeology Review. The papers have the explicit intention of...

Investigating ceramic artifacts to better understand daily life in the French colonial CaribbeanCeramics serve as one of the best-known artifacts excavated by archaeologists. They are carefully described, classified, and dated, but rarely do scholars...

The seventh issue of Groma publishes the research endeavours of young researchers strongly believing that methodological and technological evolution in archaeological research (and not only) should be based on strong ethical ground, i.e., on the paradigm...

This volume presents the results of a research project extending over four decades on the identification, location and character of the archaeological sites of Lower Egypt. The project has been known since 1997 as the Egypt Exploration Society’s Delta...

This book collects papers from various authors on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, covering archaeology, iconography, philology, lexicography, history, and history of research. The contributions provide insight into current research and offer new...

The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) conducted a series of fieldwork projects along the Hadrian’s Wall corridor between 2019 and 2021. The work focused on sites that were poorly understood or under particular threat and aimed to...

An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent...

Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors...

This exciting new addition to the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three key regions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423095Author Brian N AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 152g

This volume represents the editorial outcome of the 14th edition of ArcheoFOSS international conference, which took place online between 15-17 October 2020. The event has been held annually since 2006 and is dedicated to the theoretical framework and...

Archaeology of Body and Thought explores what we as people can do with our bodies, what we can use them for, and how we can alter and understand them. It considers the ways in which individual human groups from the Neolithic to the Migration Period have...

A transporting voyage of archaeological discovery: Sound Tracks unearths instruments from around the world and across time, releasing the past's musical secrets for the first time. ‘A thrilling journey into the sonic richness of human experience’ PHILIP...

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for over two hundred...

The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land 'in between', positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerations of the Euphrates Valley and the Syro-Mesopotamian plains beyond. As such, it provides a critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803276694Author John Nicholas PostgateFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 662g

Le Muse di Archilocho - Ricerche sullo stile archilocheoBook InformationISBN 9788798013174Author Antonio AloniFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 235g

This meticulously researched reference work documents the role of women who contributed to the development of Americanist archaeology from 1865 to 1940. Between the Civil War and World War II, many women went into anthropology and archaeology, fields...

This book analyzes the role of Dai Viet (Vietnam) in the maritime Asian trading network of the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries as it systematically integrates the results of archaeological investigations. The first half of the book...

This book has been developed from a core of papers selected for the paleodemographic session of the 25th World Population Congress (July 2005, Tours, France). It covers recent paleodemographic innovations, in terms of data, techniques and the detection...

This volume accompanies Volume A which presents the archaeological survey of the sites of the Themistou Meris (north-western Fayoum), by giving a thorough introduction to the pottery found during the survey. The great doyen of the pottery of the...

We live in an age in which one can easily think that our generation has invented and discovered almost everything; but the truth is quite the opposite. Progress cannot be considered as sudden unexpected spurts of individual brains: such a genius, the...

This volume presents the outcome of the international conference 'Housing and Habitat in the Mediterranean World: responses to different environments' that celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Monash University Centre in Prato...

This volume is designed as a wide-ranging analysis of ceramic standardization and variation, and as a contribution to pottery studies in the Mediterranean and beyond. It originates in a conference session at the 16th Annual Meeting...