Archaeology

The third volume in the Andean Archaeology series, this book focuses on the marked cultural differences between the northern and southern regions of the Central Andes, and considers the conditions under which these differences evolved, grew pronounced,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548928Author Craig MeridethFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548867Author Judith LittletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860541486Author Audrey L MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint British Archaeological ReportsPublisher BAR Publishing

While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent years, few attempt to move beyond a conventional discourse on ethics to consider how a discussion of the social and political implications of archaeological practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292255Author Kathryn PiquetteFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

William Stukeley (1667-1765), one of the first to conduct fieldwork at Stonehenge and to recognize its historic importance, meticulously recorded his findings in a manuscript that has remained unpublished for hundreds of years. That manuscript is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548218Author Doniert EvelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860547723Author Hamido HammadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Marxist theory has been an undercurrent in western social science since the late nineteenth century. It came into prominence in the social sciences in the 1960s and 1970s and has had a profound effect on history, sociology and anthropology. This book...

Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most radical transformation in all European prehistory - the growth of a food-producing economy in the period...

The archaeological record consists of 'dead' finds, remnants of human culture. The archaeologist relies on them to understand how past societies were organised and how they functioned. This book, by the distinguished Czech scholar Evzen Meustupny,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860547891Author C. F. ManerFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

The Wari Empire thrived in the Peruvian Andes between AD 600 and 1000. This study of human skeletons reveals the biological and social impact of Wari imperialism on people's lives, particularly its effects on community organisation and frequency of...

American cities have been built, altered, redeveloped, destroyed, reimagined, and rebuilt for nearly 300 years in order to accommodate growing and shrinking populations and their needs. Urban archaeology is a unique subfield with its own peculiar...

Americans have long identified themselves with material goods. In this study, Paul Mullins sifts through this continent's historical archaeological record to trace the evolution of North American consumer culture. He explores the social and economic...

Over 3,000 years ago, in what would be northern North America, there was a cultural fluorescence. Native Americans were exchanging materials and ideas over long distances, and their shamans were overseeing treatment of the dead and conducting ceremonies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989002271Author Kent G LightfootFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Archaeological Research Facility University of California BePublisher...

This book discusses the application of geological methods and theory to archaeology. Written as a survey text covering appropriate methods and techniques taken from geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and geochronology, it shows the student the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860544722Author Charles C. KolbFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860544074Author Kathy Diane SchickFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860544371Author H. OppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Did people in the Iron Age see their bronze figurines and sculpted stones differently from the way we see them today? How can we approach the problem of determining how they saw things? How different was their experience viewing these objects in the...

Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540625Author Atholl AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674497986Author Mary B KidderFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549048Author Gerard KleinhofmeijerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548652Author Carl I. HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548539Author David SturdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548355Author J. R. HunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world today: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt with the consequences of conflict at a national and...

Members of Hernando de Soto's 1540 march through the interior of the southeastern US, as well as other explorers at that time, described encounters with complex and powerful Indian chiefdoms. Until this work by Marvin T. Smith, first published in 1987,...

Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and essays, this volume documents the...

My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old...

Historical archaeologists often become so involved in their potsherd patterns they seldom have time or energy left to address the broader processes responsi ble for the material culture patterns they recognize. Some ofus haveurged our colleagues to use...

Voyages of Discovery is the first major synthesis of island archaeological research worldwide. The work brings together experts in the field who are concerned with analyzing islands and island societies from a variety of different archaeological and...

First published in 1938, this volume originated in a series of articles written mainly for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology between 1925 and 1938. Created with both the Egyptologist and general reader in mind, it provides a highly informative account...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549338Author Sarah J. WagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549239Author Denise MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549147Author C. Wayne SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing