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Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece: Exploring Economic and Political Networks through Data Modelling by Michael Loy 9781009343817
RRP: £100.00£90.28This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from... -
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage by Natalia Grincheva 9781009500142
RRP: £49.99£49.85Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance, from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project, to a national aggregator like... -
Long-Distance Exchange and Inter-Regional Economies by Sarah C. Murray 9781009319171
RRP: £17.00£14.72An undulating flow of multi-scalar exchanges pulsed across the surface of Aegean from the beginnings of the Bronze Age in the third millennium to the transition into the Iron Age nearly two thousand years later. Such exchanges were variable in nature... -
Archaeology of the Roman Conquest: Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered by Manuel Fernández-Götz 9781009181990
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches with the latest fieldwork results. Recent advances in conflict archaeology research are revolutionising... -
Reassessing Paleolithic Subsistence: The Neandertal and Modern Human Foragers of Saint-Cesaire by Eugene Morin 9781009125062
RRP: £25.99£23.63The contribution of Neandertals to the biological and cultural emergence of early modern humans remains highly debated in anthropology. Particularly controversial is the long-held view that Neandertals in Western Europe were replaced 30,000 to 40,000... -
Heritage, Education and Social Justice by Veysel Apaydin 9781009055543
RRP: £17.00£14.72This research examines how museums and heritage sites can embrace a social justice approach to tackle inequalities; to empower disadvantaged groups; and to develop the necessary skills to take an equal benefit from cultural resources. This work argues... -
Qumran by Phillip R. Davies 9780718891411
RRP: £22.50£22.30From the Cities of the Biblical World series - a series describing the recent archaeological developments at major Biblical sites for the general reader, the student and the tourist. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, and the subsequent... -
The Social and Chronological Dimensions of Village Occupation at a North Florida Weeden Island Period Site by Timothy Kohler 9780530007212
RRP: £80.00£70.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530007212Author Timothy KohlerFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Social and Chronological Dimensions of Village Occupation at a North Florida Weeden Island Period Site by Timothy Kohler 9780530007205
RRP: £53.00£46.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530007205Author Timothy KohlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective by Patricia A. McAnany 9780521895187
RRP: £105.00£86.33The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has enabled scholars to better understand Classic society, but many aspects of this civilization remain shrouded in mystery, particularly its economies and social structures. How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make... -
The Material World of Ancient Egypt by William H. Peck 9780521886161
RRP: £75.00£61.97The Material World of Ancient Egypt examines the objects and artifacts, the representations in art, and the examples of documentation that together reveal the day-to-day physical substance of life in ancient Egypt. This book investigates how people... -
Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain by Howard Williams 9780521840194
RRP: £92.99£75.52How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration... -
The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice by Chris Scarre 9780521840118
RRP: £75.00£63.71The question of ethics and their role in archaeology has stimulated one of the discipline's liveliest debates. In this collection of essays, first published in 2006, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists and philosophers explore the... -
Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories by Susan E. Alcock 9780521890007
RRP: £38.99£33.26Social memory - the shared remembrances of group experience - creates shared identity, and provides people with both an image of their past and a design for their future. But how are we to conceive the memories of past peoples such as, for example, the... -
Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation by William Andrefsky, Jr. 9780521888271
RRP: £105.00£82.41The life history of stone tools is intimately linked to tool production, use and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology, or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational... -
The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place by Christopher Chippindale 9780521818797
RRP: £105.00£95.31A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge, 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws... -
The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000-300 BC) by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans 9780521792301
RRP: £95.00£82.03This was the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field archaeology in the Middle East in the past thirty years, and Peter Akkermans... -
Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East by Joy McCorriston 9780521768511
RRP: £75.00£68.14In this book, Joy McCorriston examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East. Tracing the phenomenon of pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia up through the development of the Hajj, she defines its essential characteristics and... -
Clay in the Age of Bronze: Essays in the Archaeology of Prehistoric Creativity by Joanna Sofaer 9780521768269
RRP: £75.00£67.74Studies of creativity frequently focus on the modern era yet creativity has always been part of human history. This book explores how creativity was expressed through the medium of clay in the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin. Although metal is one of... -
Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory by Nerissa Russell 9780521767378
RRP: £82.00£74.94This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals... -
The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System by James A. Delle 9780521744331
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes... -
Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy by Roman Roth 9780521875677
RRP: £89.99£77.09What was the impact of Romanisation on non-elite life in central Italy during the late third and second centuries BC? Focusing on the increasing spread of black-gloss pottery across the peninsula, this text demonstrates the importance of the study of... -
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology by Patrick Vinton Kirch 9780521788793
RRP: £33.99£29.66The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly... -
Europe's First Farmers by T. Douglas Price 9780521665728
RRP: £47.99£41.27Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7000 and 4000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the... -
The Archaeology of Micronesia by Paul Rainbird 9780521656306
RRP: £49.99£42.93This was the first book-length archaeological study of Micronesia, a collection of island groups in the Western Pacific Ocean. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological, anthropological and historical sources, the author explores the various ways that... -
The Archaeology of Rank by Paul K. Wason 9780521612005
RRP: £38.99£33.26Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a... -
Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change by A. G. Brown 9780521568203
RRP: £49.99£42.93This comprehensive manual is designed to give archaeologists the necessary background knowledge in environmental science required to excavate and analyse archaeological sites by rivers and on floodplains. Part I covers the techniques for studying... -
The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia by Charles Higham 9780521565059
RRP: £62.99£56.79Some claim the earliest bronze production in the world occurred in South-east Asia; others say it occurred elsewhere. This book presents the debate surrounding the Bronze Age in the Indochina region, providing a systematic and regional presentaton of the... -
Archaeology in Africa and in Museums: An Inaugural Lecture given in the University of Cambridge, 22 October 2002 by David W. Phillipson 9780521537223
RRP: £18.99£16.18David Phillipson is the first Professor of African Archaeology to be appointed at any UK university, and is Director of Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In the first part of this passionately argued lecture, he makes the... -
The Archaeology of Political Structure: Settlement Analysis in a Classic Maya Polity by Olivier de Montmollin 9780521548021
RRP: £40.99£35.21This innovative analysis of archaeological settlement patterns as a guide to ancient political structure focuses on the Maya of Southeastern Mexico. Working principally with data from the Classic Period in the Rosario Valley, Dr de Montmollin relates... -
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire by Patricia A. McAnany 9780521515726
RRP: £89.99£79.20Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible... -
Everyday Life in the Aztec World by Frances Berdan 9780521516365
RRP: £82.99£74.81In Daily Life of the Aztecs, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social... -
The Archaeology of Korea by Sarah Milledge Nelson 9780521407830
RRP: £53.99£45.85The Archaeology of Korea surveys Korean prehistory from the earliest Palaeolithic settlers, of perhaps half a million years ago, through the formation of the Three Kingdoms, and on to the creation of United Silla in AD 668, when the peninsula was largely... -
Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory by Harry Lourandos 9780521359467
RRP: £37.99£34.83This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory: that the environment is the major determinant of hunter-gatherers; that Aborigines were egalitarian and culturally homogeneous and therefore experienced few economic and... -
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms by Patrick Vinton Kirch 9780521273169
RRP: £53.99£45.95This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers,... -
Archaeology and the Social History of Ships by Richard A. Gould 9780521194921
RRP: £56.00£50.65Maritime archaeology deals with shipwrecks and is carried out by divers rather than diggers. It embraces maritime history and analyses changes in shipbuilding, navigation and seamanship and offers fresh perspectives on the cultures and societies that... -
The Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World by Patricia A. Baker 9780521194327
RRP: £60.99£53.18This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials. Ancient medicine is a subject dominated by textual sources, yet there is a wealth of archaeological remains that can be used... -
A Picture Book of Ancient British Art by Stuart Piggott 9780521176408
RRP: £17.99£15.23Originally published in 1951, this book contains seventy-three pictures of treasures found in Britain - things that have survived from ancient prehistoric times, made with care and made to be beautiful. These discoveries have kept their attraction for... -
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350-1650 by Carla M. Sinopoli 9780521174169
RRP: £41.99£36.59The study of specialized craft production has a long tradition in archaeological research. Through analyses of material remains and the contexts of their production and use, archaeologists can examine the organization of craft production and the economic... -
The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies by Bleda S. During 9780521149815
RRP: £40.99£35.46In this book, Bleda During offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and...