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Ancestors and Elites: Emergent Complexity and Ritual Practices in the Casas Grandes Polity by Gordon F. M. Rakita 9780759111288
RRP: €85.68€75.34Ancestors and Elites examines prehispanic ritual behaviors characteristic of the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Gordon Rakita analyzes the archaeological data from the site with respect to broader anthropological theories regarding both... -
Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest by Barbara Roth 9780759121713
RRP: €105.91€92.76How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect the ancient peoples living in the region? In pursuit of... -
Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past by Patricia A. McAnany 9781442241275
RRP: €105.91€92.76Situated at the intersection of cultural heritage and local community, this book enlarges our understanding of the Indigenous peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America who became detached from "the ancient Maya" through... -
Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction by Thomas W. Neumann 9780759118454
RRP: €146.37€127.60Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers... -
Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya: Relational Archaeology at Chunchucmil by Scott R. Hutson 9780759119208
RRP: €116.62€101.98Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya offers a new perspective on the ancient Maya that emphasizes the importance of dwelling as a social practice. Contrary to contemporary notions of the self as individual and independent, the identities of the ancient Maya... -
Living Histories: Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh 9780759111967
RRP: €47.60€41.91This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both 'real world' archaeological practice and studies in the history of... -
Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia by Denis Byrne 9780759110182
RRP: €48.79€42.94Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in an engaging and accessible way. In each chapter the author makes the past relevant to the present... -
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution by Sue Taylor Parker 9780759103153
RRP: €121.38€106.55DarwinOs Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution compares ideas about human evolution Darwin published in The Descent of Man in 1891 to 30 scenarios about the evolution of such unique human characteristics as bipedalism, hairless skin, secondary sex... -
Archaeology and the Biblical Record by Bernard Alpert 9780761858355
RRP: €41.65€36.83In the 6th century BCE, Jerusalem and Judea were destroyed by the Babylonians. This traumatic event created the need to construct and articulate a comprehensive past that would give meaningful context to the identity of the Israelites. New modes of... -
The Mantle Site: An Archaeological History of an Ancestral Wendat Community by Jennifer Birch 9780759121003
RRP: €109.48€95.83This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one... -
Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory by Adrian Praetzellis 9780759119574
RRP: €101.15€88.67A European Neolithic burial. A large stone Venus. Nothing unusual except that it was found on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Archaeologist Hannah Green and her shovelbum nephew find themselves in a tangled web of competing interests - avaricious... -
Shamans of the Lost World: A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell by William F. Romain 9780759119055
RRP: €133.28€116.32Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science,... -
Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction by Thomas W. Neumann 9780759118461
RRP: €53.55€46.99Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers... -
California Maritime Archaeology: A San Clemente Island Perspective by L. Mark Raab 9780759113169
RRP: €116.62€102.46San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times-not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime... -
Revolutionary Economies: What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism by Thomas W. Cuddy 9780759111790
RRP: €51.17€44.96Revolutionary Economies explores the roots of American capitalism through the archaeology and history of the Chesapeake Bay region. Thomas W. Cuddy looks at the archaeological evidence concerning revolutionary-period bakeries and bakers (some of whom had... -
Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices by Quetzil E. Castaneda 9780759111356
RRP: €57.12€50.04Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently... -
Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians by Donald L. Hardesty 9780759111264
RRP: €121.38€106.08Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria... -
Collaboration in Archaeological Practice: Engaging Descendant Communities by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh 9780759110540
RRP: €61.88€54.11In Collaboration in Archaeological Practice, prominent archaeologists reflect on their experiences collaborating with descendant communities (peoples whose ancestors are the subject of archaeological research). They offer philosophical and practical... -
Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest by Christine S. VanPool 9780759109674
RRP: €61.88€54.11Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed... -
Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest by Christine S. VanPool 9780759109667
RRP: €146.37€127.60Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed... -
Civilizing Climate: Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East by Arlene Miller Rosen 9780759104938
RRP: €116.62€101.98In this fascinating in-depth study, Arlene Rosen highlights the unique and varied ways that different societies respond to their changing environments, going against the commonly held notion of simple climatic determinism. Social responses to climate... -
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution by Sue Taylor Parker 9780759103160
RRP: €47.60€41.91Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution compares ideas about human evolution Darwin published in The Descent of Man in 1891 to 30 scenarios about the evolution of such unique human characteristics as bipedalism, hairless skin, secondary sex... -
Are All Warriors Male?: Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe by Katheryn M. Linduff 9780759110748
RRP: €60.69€53.10Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field... -
Maussolleion at Halikarnassos, Volume 7: Reports of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum -- The Pottery by Leif Erik Vaag 9788788415179
RRP: €31.54€23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788788415179Author Leif Erik VaagFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab -
Panskoye 1, Volume 1: The Monumental Building U6 by Lise Hannestad 9788772887708
RRP: €45.16€33.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772887708Author Lise HannestadFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press -
The 2018 Archaeological Survey at Tawi Said, Sultanate of Oman by Dr Stephanie Döpper 9781803276960
€89.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803276960Author Dr Stephanie DöpperFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 662g -
Constructing Histories: Archaic Freshwater Shell Mounds and Social Landscapes of the St. Johns River, Florida by Asa R. Randall 9780813061016
€98.01Large accumulations of ancient shells on coastlines and riverbanks were long considered the result of garbage disposal during repeated food gatherings by early inhabitants of the southeastern United States. In this volume, Asa R. Randall presents the... -
Gathering at Silver Glen: Community and History in Late Archaic Florida by Zackary I. Gilmore 9780813062716
€103.39Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BP, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late Archaic community of Silver Glen-one of Florida's most elaborate shell mound complexes-integrated people and... -
The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize by Carl P. Beetz 9780934718417
RRP: €59.50€56.18The publication of this book finally places the exquisitely carved but little known monuments of Caracol with those of Quirigua, Copan, and Tikal. New breakthroughs in the decipherment of Maya text have enabled the graceful hieroglyphic inscriptions to... -
Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon Burials and Occupation on land to the west of The Lea, Denham, Buckinghamshire by Jo Pine 9781911228301
RRP: €14.28€2.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911228301Author Jo PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint TVAS PressPublisher Thames Valley Archaelogical Services Ltd -
Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section by Patrick Sean Quinn 9781905739592
RRP: €83.30€82.16Thin section ceramic petrography is a versatile interdisciplinary analytical tool for the characterization and interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts, including ceramic building materials, refractories and plaster. Using over 200... -
Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya Archaeological Museum by B. H. McLean 9781898249146
RRP: €85.68€68.22The city of Konya (ancient Iconium) has long been one of the most important Anatolian centres. In the late first century BC it was refounded as a Roman colony, and the centuries of the Roman Empire were among the most prosperous for the region. This... -
Life and Death in a Roman City by Andy Simmonds 9780904220490
€40.23The cemeteries around Roman Gloucester remain as windows through which the past populations of the town and preceding fortresses may be studied. Excavations by Oxford Archaeology in London Road between 2004 and 2006 revealed substantial parts of one... -
Catalogue of the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by John Falconer 9780714124216
€34.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714124216Author John FalconerFormat HardbackImprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum Press -
Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate by Ivor Noël Hume 9780813945538
RRP: €35.64€26.95The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1824) was all of these before going on to become one of the most controversial figures in the history of... -
The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde by David E. Stuart 9780826346384
RRP: €20.17€15.27Over twenty-five years ago, David Stuart began writing award-winning newspaper articles on regional archeology that appealed to general readers. These columns shared interesting, and usually little-known, facts and stories about the ancient people and... -
The Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Collapse of a Classic Maya Kingdom by Arthur A. Demarest 9780826514431
€96.13This overview and introduction to the multi-volume ""Petexbatun"" project series describes the objectives, structure, personnel, and major findings of the seven-year multidisciplinary investigation. The previous research, issues, and... -
Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids by Guillemette Andreu 9780801483134
RRP: €32.12€27.75The Golden Age of Ancient Egypt comes alive as Guillemette Andreu recreates the details of daily life. Construction sites teem with workers building the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx. Administrators bustle to and fro, handling their assignments from the... -
Corrosion of Archaeological and Heritage Artefacts EFC 45: A Special Issue of Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology by Philippe Dillmann 9781907975066
RRP: €83.29€71.83This special issue of Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology is dedicated to the study of corrosion of objects from historical sites. The issue contains contributions from the 2009 EUROCORR session on Corrosion of Archaeological and Heritage... -
The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era by Jennifer F Byrnes 9781666923117
RRP: €41.65€36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666923117Author Jennifer F ByrnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books