Archaeology

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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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...

Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt provides a new perspective on healthcare and healing treatments in Egypt from the Predynastic to the Roman periods. Rather than concentrating exclusively on diseases and medical conditions as evidenced in...

The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life, nor is it viewed as a permanent state. People, animals, and plants simply transition from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931901284Author James M PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Swca Environmental ConsultantsPublisher Swca Environmental ConsultantsWeight(grams)...

This book deals with the early history of agriculture in a defined part of Western Europe: the loess belt west of the river Rhine. It is a well-illustrated book that integrates existing and new information, starting with the first farmers and ending when...

A place to meet and exchange reflections from Anthropology, Archaeology and other Social Sciences from Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain and Argentina. A debate around "places of memory" to delve into their particularities with a critical approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903767030Author Maria StamatopoulouFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint Archaeopress PublishingPublisher Archaeopress PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912006529Author Charles MobleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788476004807Author Jose Alcina FranchFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal Ediciones

TEXT IN SPANISH This book is not intended as a brief history of conservation and restoration of artistic heritage, but a compendium of the main criteria and practiced theories of heritage throughout history. It is intended that the reader, having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788185067827Author Phani Kanta MishraFormat HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Sandeep PrakashanPublisher Sandeep Prakashan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932839442Author Paula K. LazrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Society for American ArchaeologyPublisher Society for American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889747736Author Maria O'DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint Arizona State MuseumPublisher Arizona State MuseumWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879442948Author Stephanie WhittleseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Statistical ResearchPublisher Statistical ResearchDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879442801Author Scott O'MackFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Statistical ResearchPublisher Statistical ResearchWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879442764Author Joan S SchneiderPage Count 228Imprint Statistical ResearchPublisher Statistical ResearchWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm) 273mm * 214mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879442740Author William L DeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint Statistical ResearchPublisher Statistical ResearchWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm)...

At the crossroads of community, territory, and the divine is the landscape of religion. This landscape is shaped by those who occupy it, or desire to occupy it, and their ideologies as much as their cosmologies. But equally important are those who pass...

Tell Tweini or ancient Gibala is located in the Syrian coastal plain and represents the southernmost harbour of the Ugaritic Kingdom in the Late Bronze Age. As one of the few sites under excavation in the Northern Levant with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783727817533Author K. PyschnyFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Vandenhoeck and RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788434465947Author Josep BallartFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Editorial ArielPublisher Editorial Ariel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503507309Author O BopearachchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1338gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 208mm *...

An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices.As the Gods Kill delivers new insights into warfare, weaponry, violence, and human sacrifice among the ancient Maya. While attending to...

Peter Lacovara has worked as a curator, archaeologist, teacher, and ceramicist during a long career in the United States and Egypt. He has played a key role in establishing and organizing groundbreaking exhibitions, written a host of popular and academic...

Some 170 years have passed since the Swiss doctor Titus Tobler published the first scientific mention of a stone arch built over a large, plastered pool west of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It was the arch that supported the path leading from the Old...