Archaeology

Dominant historical narratives among cultures with long and enduring colonial experiences often ignore Indigenous histories. This erasure is a response to the colonial experiences. With diverse cultures like those in the Philippines, dominant groups may...

The archaeological excavations in advance of A14 Road Improvement Scheme in Cambridgeshire are among the biggest and most complex ever undertaken in the UK, revealing important archaeology of prehistoric, Roman, early medieval and medieval date. The...

The application of design practice and theory has received little attention in the field of archaeology, despite the close and interdisciplinary connection of both disciplines working with material culture. Christina Unwin provides an up-to-date study...

Rounds out Edward J. Lenik's comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464271294Author Dina SerovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press

Excavations over many years in the Peruvian Andes and coastal regions have revealed that the village settlements on the west coast of South America were one of the early centers of world civilization. One of these settlements, La Galgada, flourished...

Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their...

Plants from the Past is a fascinating, comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as vigorous subdisciplines within American archaeology. Hugh Carson...

This volume comprises 100 archaeological air photographs, principally of sites dating to the Iron Age and Roman periods in Northern Britain, resulting from aerial survey between 1970 and 1995, before the advent of drones when archaeological air...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826514431Author Arthur A. DemarestFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

First published in 1876, this book traces the history and antiquities of two of the earliest European settlements in India - Chaul and Bassein which after having attained the heights of luxury and power, had at the time of writing this book declined to...

This comprehensive updated edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses updates in laws and new practices in heritage management, using perspectives from archaeology, history, and architecture.Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the...

In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of...

This book presents a detailed and fascinating study of the two oldest doors in England: in the chapter house vestibule at Westminster Abbey, which pre-dates the Norman Conquest (1050s) and the north nave door at Hadstock Church, Essex, dated to the...

A full-color examination of 50 fascinating and important archaeological discoveries from prehistoric Europe.Countless archaeological sites and artefacts relating to the diverse prehistoric peoples who occupied the landscapes of Europe thousands of years...

Archaeological heritage has broadened increasingly because management is no longer, or not only, based on centralised state governance, but is open to so-called collaborative approaches. Such approaches demonstrate the need to integrate communities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427444Author Elizabeth A KlarichFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

This next in the successful Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers series arises from the day conference held in November 2024. Following on from 2023's Revisiting Grooved Ware volume, it aims to provide an up-to-date analysis and synthesis of Middle...

Winchester's rich heritage is brought to life in this uniquely accessible overview of the city's long and intricate physical and cultural history. Examining a wealth of archaeological evidence alongside surviving documentary sources, Susanne Haselgrove...

Codename SICILYWAR is a multidisciplinary, innovative investigation into the impact of World War II on archaeological sites and museums in Sicily (1940-45). The island's cultural and archaeological heritage was under major threat from Allied bombing,...

The Cortez Hills Expansion Project archaeological excavations uncovered a wealth of information about the Cortez Mining District, from its beginning in 1863 to the government-mandated end to the mining of precious metals in the district during World War...

Early Christianity on the Margins (?) is the final result of a five-year project divided into multiple phases, in which the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology - PIAC) of Rome took a leading role in...

First published in 1989, What's New? puts innovation firmly back on the agenda of archaeological interpretation. This book revives interest in the process of innovation and reinterprets it by drawing on original work done in a variety of disciplines. It...

Ash, bone, and memories are all that remains after cremation. Yet for societies and communities, the act of cremation after death is highly symbolic, rich with complex meaning, touching on what it means to be human. In the process of transforming the...

This new work offers a unique investigation into the complexities of Mimbres identity and social dynamics beyond the traditional Mimbres Valley heartland. Situated at the western edge of the Mimbres region, the Powers Ranch site represents the only...

This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the present to explain how zooarchaeology allows us to...

Making a study of East Germanic iron smelting in the Roman period, this open access book gives an in-depth account of the development of metallurgy in the Przeworsk Culture. Its two main ironmaking centres - the Holy Cross Mountains and Masovia - were...

This book presents the results of excavations made from 1986 to 1987 at the Epipaleolithic site of Badanj, which lies near the town of Stolac in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina. The site was already known from excavations made by Đuro Basler and from an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803279534Author Alexandra BivolaruFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Archaeopress PublishingPublisher Archaeopress PublishingWeight(grams) 376g

The assumption that regular landscapes that contain seemingly ordered arrangements of boundaries and lanes, could only arise through deliberate planning has been a central pillar of theories about 'relict field systems' - the survival of organised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805830627Author Kenneth William RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Archaeopress PublishingPublisher Archaeopress PublishingWeight(grams) 463g

This is the first volume in the publication of the results of the Magdala Archaeological Project, supported by the Anahuac University Mexico and the Instituto de Investiagciones Antroplogicas de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. It addresses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803279558Author Vito MessinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Archaeopress PublishingPublisher Archaeopress PublishingWeight(grams) 866g

The Excavated Past: An Introduction to Peruvian Archaeology offers an accessible and up-to-date guide to Peru's rich archaeological heritage.Through a broad vision of archaeology as a discipline and historical reality, Henry Tantalean offers a...

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This book presents the results of years of research on Limoges enamels in the medieval Norwegian Church province (established 1152/1153). This is the first study of the 133, more-or-less complete, surviving objects. In presenting this new knowledge, the...

Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal...

The sectional conflict between North and South was different in Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma). There, the Civil War was only a veneer over the competition among the United States, the Confederacy, and sovereign Indian Nations known as the...

This book presents a systematic, authoritative, and in-depth exploration of the archaeological restoration and historical evolution of Chinese palace architecture, drawing on methodologies from archaeology, history, and architecture. It fills the gap...

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