Archaeology

This is the sixth volume in the series of reports on investigations by the Lahav Research Project (LRP) at Tell Halif in Southern Israel. This work focuses on the Project's efforts in Field I conducted during eight excavation seasons between 1976 and...

Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo examines the specialized craft production, manufacturing, adoption, and spread of obsidian cutting tools at San Lorenzo, Mexico, the first major Olmec center to develop in the southern Gulf Coast region of Mesoamerica...

Life at the Margins of the State examines the sociopolitical and cultural nuances, negotiations, and strategies of resistance developed by marginal communities-including frontiers, borderlands, borders, and other locations where there was a substantive...

Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns. Contributors to the volume explore the varied...

Life beyond the Boundaries explores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and the Pimeria Alta, the authors use methods drawn from...

In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD...

Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Peten lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The Kowoj: Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics in Late Postclassic Peten, Guatemala summarizes the results...

Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest...

This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text. Combining interpretations of the myths with analyses of...

Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs is the most comprehensive survey and discussion of primary documentary sources and relevant archaeological evidence available about the most enigmatic figure of ancient Mesoamerica. Probably...

Kukulcan's Realm chronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapan's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology...

Focusing on marriage figurines-double human figurines that represent relations formed through social alliances-Hendon, Joyce, and Lopiparo examine the material relations created in Honduras between AD 500 and 1000, a period of time when a network of...

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new...

In this stimulating account of his life's experiences, renowned scholar and pioneer Africanist archaeologist Merrick Posnansky takes his readers on an unusual journey across the world, from his origins in a small Jewish community in Manchester to his...

Bringing together major archaeological research projects from Virginia to Alabama, this volume explores the rich prehistory of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Beginning 50,000 years ago, contributors consider how the region's warm weather, abundant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803277691Author Marion DowdFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407303796Author Shimon DarFormat PaperbackPage Count 463Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 1846g

This book summarizes the latest archeological findings on Liangzhu culture and outlines the rise and fall of Liangzhu society in terms of its environment, flora and fauna. In addition, it seeks to analyze the characteristics of animal breeding and...

Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and...

Knowth, Co. Meath, has been a place of ritual and settlement from the beginning of the Neolithic to the modern era. It is a national monument and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Property: the ancient Bru na Boinne passage tomb complex that also includes...

This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated through bodily actions, and also how archaeologists can trace the symbolism and significance of ancient gestures, ritual practices and bodily...

Presents a series of essays that apply postprocessual approaches to the solution of current problems in Plains archaeology. Postprocessual archaeology is seen as a potential vehicle for integrating culture-historical, processual and postmodernist...

This is the story of the fall of an Empire - and the rise of another. Who spread Christianity, how, and why? In her quest to find the answer, Professor Alice Roberts takes us on a gripping investigative journey. From a secluded valley in south Wales to...

This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing...

The essays in this book present new research on the interactions between Phoenicians, Greeks and indigenous people in the Iberian Peninsula during the first millennium BC. The book provides an overview of the main approaches and positions taken on the...

The concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life examines how...

Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field. These contributors analyze data from a variety of sites,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553181Author Adrian S.Z. ChaseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 966g

Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico-a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774881081Author Robert J MuckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

The Archaeology of Britain is the only concise and up-to-date introduction to the archaeological record of Britain from the reoccupation of the landmass by Homo sapiens during the later stages of the most recent Ice Age until last century. This fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788076711778Author Miroslav VernerFormat HardbackPage Count 217Imprint Univerzita Karlova, Filozoficka fakultaPublisher Univerzita Karlova, Filozoficka...

Hong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma Island, a site which has long captured the attention of archaeologists. However, until now no comprehensive study of the area has ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407302850Author Ann Elizabeth HamlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 1834g

Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship is the first definitive work to examine the maritime...

The buildings and artefacts uncovered by Canadian excavations at Stymphalos (1994-2001) shed light on the history and cult of a small sanctuary on the acropolis of the ancient city. The thirteen detailed studies collected in Stymphalos: The Acropolis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407314624Author Frank HoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 535Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 2134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407303550Author Adrian M ChadwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 1854g

Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban...

Generally portrayed as a windswept wasteland of marginal use for human habitation, Patagonia is an unmatched testing ground for some of the world's most important questions about human ecology and cultural change. In this volume, archaeologist Raven...