Archaeology

This book presents and analyses the results of the use and adaptation of ancient Egyptian architecture in modern times. It traces the use of ancient Egyptian motifs and constructions across the world, from Australia, the Americas and Southern Africa to...

Archaeology is perceived to study the people of long ago and far away. How could archaeology matter in the modern world? Well-known archaeologist Jeremy Sabloff points to ways in which archaeology might be important to the understanding and amelioration...

New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology highlights current scholarship that employs a range of new techniques, methods, and theoretical approaches to questions related to the archaeology of the prehistoric and protohistoric periods on the island of Cyprus...

Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). The only archaeology museum that is...

More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and...

Reputed to be the richest city of Etruria, Veii was one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean world. It was located ten miles northwest of Rome, and the two cities were alternately allied and at war for over three hundred years until...

A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But...

The first-ever comprehensive analysis of its kind in any western language, this unique volume provides a social art history of Yungang: a 5th-century rock-cut court cave complex, UNESCO World Heritage site, and one of the greatest Buddhist monuments of...

Waterlands: Prehistoric Life at Bar Pasture, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough recounts a decade-long archaeological investigation at Bar Pasture Farm, Pode Hole Quarry, Peterborough, and represents one of the most significant landscape excavations carried...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897571111Author Gloria LondonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint American Schools of Oriental ResearchPublisher American Schools of Oriental Research

Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a...

3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya...

For many archaeologists, Iberia is the last great unknown region in Europe. Although it occupies a crucial position between South-Western Europe and North Africa, academic attention has traditionally been focused on areas like Greece or Italy. However...

Archaeology is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to the field which details how archaeologists study the human past in all its fascinating diversity. Now in its twelfth edition, this classic textbook has been updated to include the latest...

Omani men carried personal weapons until relatively recent years. Swords and daggers were part of daily life attire and are still worn in social events. Thanks to its political independence, Oman developed unique types of weaponry like the saif sword,...

The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made...

Belgian Museums of the Great War: Politics, Memory, and Commerce examines the handling of the centennial of World War I by several museums along the Western Front in Flanders, Belgium. In the twenty-first century, the museum has become a strategic space...

It has long been known that all forms of art - rock paintings, carvings and scribings, and also portable sculpture - are present at various locations throughout Africa. This book was the first inclusive survey and brings together in one volume accounts...

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from...

Originally published in 1956, this collection features chapters by well-known archaeologists on various archaeological sites explored in the previous decade, as examples of the techniques being used and finds being made. Mostly from the lowland zone of...

The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the Bronze Age. 'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant' provides an overview of the sources and distribution of commodities. The book presents a study of...

It is little secret that most archaeologists are uneasy with statistics. Thankfully, in the modern world, quantitative analysis has been made immensely easier by statistical software packages. Software now does virtually all our statistical calculations,...

First published in 1928, this volume constituted the results of expeditions by the famous archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia, Albert von Le Coq. Funded by the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, and von Le Coq's own brewing and winery empire, the...

Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that data to address research questions. Part I introduces archaeobotanical...

Alternative Iron Ages examines Iron Age social formations that sit outside traditional paradigms, developing methods for archaeological characterisation of alternative models of society. In so doing it contributes to the debates concerning the...

In the preceding 25 years to this book's publication in 1985 there was an extensive and unprecedented burst of archaeological activity in evidence from below-ground deposits, above-ground structures, and artefacts. During the boom of the late 1960s and...

The first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and...

Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly...

This volume takes a more comprehensive view of past familial dynamics than has been previously attempted. By applying interdisciplinary perspectives to periods ranging from the Prehistoric to the Modern, it informs a wider understanding of the term...

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering...

Papers from an important conference on zooarchaeology, reflecting state-of-the-art work on the study of human relationship to animals in ancient times.About the AuthorJuliet Clutton-Brock, D.R. Brothwell, Kenneth D ThomasBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897570701Author Douglas R. EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint American Schools of Oriental ResearchPublisher American Schools of Oriental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897570626Author Edward F. CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 607Imprint American Schools of Oriental ResearchPublisher American Schools of Oriental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023906Author Sharon E. J. GerstelFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023647Author Julia GuernseyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873658331Author Mary MalloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint 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 9780873654005Author Laurie D. WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 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 9780873654036Author Anne-Marie Victor-HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815329169Author Catherine E. KarkovFormat HardbackPage Count 524Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 703g

In 1937 the Colt Archaeological Expedition, excavating the ancient site of modern Auja Hafir in the Negeb, uncovered two storerooms containing the hoard of Greek papyrus documents of the 6th and 7th centuries. These non-literary papyri contain military,...