Archaeology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873651981Author Charles R. McGimsey, IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint 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 9780873654043Author Gloria Polizzotti GreisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of...

In A Universal Theory of Pottery Production, award-winning archaeologist Richard A. Krause presents an ethnographic account of pottery production based on archaeological evidence.Krause posits that the careful study of an archaeological site's ceramics...

Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernado de Soto expedition.To explain the cultural and political disruptios caused by Hernado de Soto's exploration deep into...

A new perspective on Caribbean historical archaeology that goes beyond the colonial plantation.Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and...

Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast. A prevailing enigma in American archaeology is why vast swaths of land in the Southeast and Southwest were abandoned between AD 1200 and 1500. The most well-known abandonments...

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America.Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined...

Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States. Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the...

A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States. Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern...

Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions. The authors employ a multiscalar approach to...

This 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...

Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the...

This volume continues documenting the well-known excavations at Morgantina, a Greek town in central Sicily, in a presentation of the largest body of coins ever unearthed at an Italian site and published as a group. The excavations, conducted by Princeton...

Household archaeology, together with community and regional settlement information, forms the basis for a unique local perspective of Andean prehistory in this study of the evolution of the site of Lukurmata, a pre-Columbian community in highland Bolivia...

This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts,...

Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. No other species creates such a variety of dwellings. Drawing examples from across the archaeological record and around the world, archaeologist Jerry D. Moore recounts the cultural development of...

This book develops a theory and framework to describe how archaeology can contribute to a more humane world. Recognizing that archaeology is an inherently political activity, Randall H. McGuire builds on the history of archaeological theory and Marxist...

Papyri from Karanis: The Granary C123 is the twenty- first volume of University of Michigan papyri and the fourth devoted to texts from the University's excavations at Karanis. The volume offers a contextualized edition of thirty-seven documents found in...

The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa continues the exemplary record of publication by the American Academy in Rome on important classes of materials recovered in excavation from one of the principal archaeological sites of Roman Italy...

This study of an important class of ceramics from the key coastal colonial site of Cosa in southwest Tuscany documents the rise of Republican Rome to dominance in central Italy in the third and second centuries BC. Excavation and survey work by the...

2003 - Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Winner - Texas Catholic Historical Society2004 - Finalist: Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for Book Making the Most Significant Contribution to Knowledge - Texas Institute...

Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and...

In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic...

Between 1900 and 1915, a quarter of the working-age male Greek population immigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia. This profound demographic phenomenon left an indelible mark on Greek society, but also created new diasporic communities in...

The capital of ancient Dilmun, Qala'at al-Bahrain, the most important archaeological site in East Arabia, was excavated in 1954-1978 by a Danish expedition from Moesgaard Museum. The first two volumes were published in 1994 and 1997, dealing with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793423169Author Steffen Terp LaursenFormat HardbackPage Count 447Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788788415032Author Kristian JeppesenFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

Lutz Klassen (ed.), The Pitted Ware Culture On Djursland. Supra-regional significance and contacts in the Middle Neolithic of southern Scandinavia.Between ca. 3000 and 2800 BC, the Pitted Ware Culture of northeast European descent spread to the...

For millenia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail.Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban...

Winner of the 2019 Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology, the collaborative archaeology project at the former Stewart Indian School documents the archaeology and history of a heritage project at a boarding...

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique...

Building the Bronze Age analyses Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I domestic architecture with reference to social organization and social change. This book covers domestic architecture from the southern and central Greek mainland up...

Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-disciplinary cooperation amongst academics. This book is a selection of conference papers and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906137632Author Helmut SatzingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Golden House PublicationsPublisher Golden House Publications

Contents: 1) New perspectives on Minaean expiatory texts (Alessio Agostini); 2) Investigating an early Islamic landscape on Kuwait Bay: the archaeology of historical Kadhima (Andrew Blair, Derek Kennet & Sultan al-Duwish); 3) The early settlement of HD-5...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018781Author Dave CollardFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Volume 5 is perhaps the richest and most diverse volume of the Journal of Greek Archaeology so far offered to readers. The editors have kept to the journal's core brief to cover all the major periods of Greek Archaeology in a literal sense, with articles...

Digging Up Jericho: Past Present and Future, arising from a conference exploring the heritage, archaeology and history of the Jericho Oasis, includes contributions by 21 internationally significant scholars. It will appeal to scholars and students in...

Dating Urban Classical Deposits: Approaches and problems in using finds to date strata considers the issues surrounding the dating of archaeological strata on the basis of the assemblages recovered from them. This process is one of the most common...

When Ferdinand Magellan first anchored off the island of Guam in 1521, the inhabitants of the small Chamorro village at Afetna Point on the southwest coast of Saipan were likely unaware. Archaeological investigations of the traditional village yielded...