Archaeology

This volume presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaquena and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. These remarkable terraced hilltop settlements represent a series of watershed developments, including substantial...

Modeled after previous seasonal reports, this ninth volume of the Madaba Plains Project's excavations at Tall al-'Umayri, Jordan gives a detailed accounting of the artifactual finds from the 2004 season of the excavations, accompanied by hundreds of...

The area of the Judean Foothills - the biblical Shephelah - has in recent years become one of the most intensively excavated regions in the world. Numerous projects, at sites of different types and utilizing various methodological approaches, are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551642666Author George WoodcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW'Fascinating' GREG JENNER'A thrilling investigation' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'An essential read for anyone with even a fleeting interest in exploring the past' JANINA RAMIREZUncovering the physical...

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that...

A comprehensive study of the archaeology of the House of Serenos The House of Serenos, Part II is the second of four books devoted to publishing the archaeology of the House of Serenos, a richly decorated, late antique villa of a local elite, located...

The sixth volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek settlement at Sant'Angelo Vecchio. Located on a slope overlooking the Basento River, the site illustrates the...

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens...

This book examines from an archaeological perspective the social and economic changes that took place in Yucatan, Mexico beginning in the 18th century, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange. Of particular...

Archaeological field schools, notably in North America but also across the world, are seminal student experiences. They are also important vehicles by which research students and academic staff carry out fieldwork research, often away from the environs...

The practiceof archaeology has many different facets: from academia, to government, tocultural resource management, to public media. Considering the place of archaeology in society means understanding the rolesthat archaeology has in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438433660Author Ezra B. W. ZubrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This volume represents the concerted efforts of a group of Maya archaeologists to employ a different approach to their archaeological data that is consistent with an effort called IHOPE: Integrated History and Future of People on Earth. IHOPE is a global...

"Territoriality in Archaeology brings together a series of studies that examine the dynamic nature of land, boundaries, and social space in ancient political life. The authors draw on diverse perspectives, ranging from evolutionary ecology to...

This volume expands perspectives on infrastructure that are rooted in archaeological discourse and material evidence.The compiled chapters represent new and emerging ideas within archaeology about what infrastructure is, how it can materialize, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951069561Author Maria MedlycottFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint ALGAOPublisher ALGAO

These nine papers, based on the 4th World Archaeological Congress held in South Africa in 1999, take a critical view of computer usage in archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and especially in terms of archaeological method and theory...

Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. Volume 13 can be said to be truly interdisciplinary, carrying papers from...

Proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in January 1987. The primary objective of this symposium was to examine the diversity in data, methodologies, and interpretive models that have emerged from recent fieldwork. The...

Any consideration of the Iranian plateau must include the important site of Hasanlu in northern Iran. The Museum carried out excavations from 1956 through 1977. A major aspect of the research focused on the Iron Age settlement. This fortified town was...

From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at Quirigua, a major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala, in order to document the basic chronology, determine the nature and pattern of structures, and test hypotheses concerning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905594507Author Umberto AlbarellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Norfolk Museums Service, Archaeology & Environment DivisionPublisher Norfolk...

Prior to the building of the new Bath Spa, in the centre of the World Heritage City of Bath, excavations were carried out to record the archaeological remains threatened by its construction. Evidence was recovered of the presence and perhaps the rituals...

In 1995 a second phase of excavations was undertaken by Oxford Archaeological Unit (OAU) at Reading Business Park in advance of development. This volume reports on the occupation evidence they found dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age and medieval ...

An excavation report of a Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon site investigated by the Oxford Archaeological Unit at Melford Meadows, just outside Thetford. The Roman remains comprised buildings probably belonging to a small farmstead occupied from the...

AJN is an annual publication featuring original scholarly research in all fields of numismatics.Book InformationISBN 9780897223089Author Peter van AlfenFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint American Numismatic Society,U.S.Publisher American...

The American Numismatic Society's annual annotated bibliography of publications and articles related to numismatics covering literature recorded between February 2, 2003-March 23, 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780897223041Author Oliver HooverFormat...

This volume is the first in a series providing detailed and up-to-date analyses of excavations and fieldwork conducted over more than a century at the Argive Heraion, site of a succession of religious buildings high above the plain of Argos. The book...

Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results...

This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse...

The structures of Chaco Canyon, built by native peoples between AD 850 and 1130, are among the most compelling ancient monuments on earth. Recognized as a World Heritage Site, these magnificent ruins are consistently featured in scholarly books and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873659567Author Thomas R. RocekFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

Tepe Yahya provides a stratigraphic sequence that stretches some 6,000 years, from the Neolithic period to the early centuries AD. As a result, the site is critical for understanding cultural processes in southeastern Iran. In this fifth volume of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873655491Author D. T. PottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873655477Author Ofer Bar-YosefFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873655422Author Peter DamerowFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873655262Author Sándor BökönyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of Archaeology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873654012Author John H. HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

A collection of essays presenting original data that have allowed the author to reconstruct prehistoric Maya environment and subsistence.Book InformationISBN 9780873652032Author Mary PohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Harvard University...