Archaeology

In this interdisciplinary study of colonial San Francisco, Barbara L. Voss examines one of the most diverse population's ethnogenesis - the passive and active creation of an ethnic group. Through archaeological analysis of religious, environmental,...

Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the...

This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of...

The last decades of the 20th century witnessed strongly growing interest in evolutionary approaches to the human past. Even now, however, there is little real agreement on what evolutionary archaeology is all about. A major obstacle is the lack of...

This 1982 collection of eight original anthropological essays provides an exciting synthesis of theory and practice in one of the key issues of contemporary cultural evolutionary thought. The contributors ask why complex, highly stratified societies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904531954Author A. W. R. WhittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860546542Author Charles C. KolbFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648473121Author Stefan VucakFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Stefan VucakPublisher Stefan VucakWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 17mm

Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was regarded...

In the volume The Southwest Pacific and Oceanian Regions, case studies from Alofi, Vanuatu, the Marianas, Hawai`i, Guam, and Taiwan compare the development of colonialism across different islands. Contributors discuss human settlement before the arrival...

In the days of slavery, people of African descent sought to protect their human rights, escape from bondage, and combat exploitation. Their actions varied across different settings and times, and included accommodation, collaboration, autonomy, and...

For more than a century researchers have studied Maya ruins, and sites like Tikal, Palenque, Copan, and Chichen Itza have shaped our understanding of the Maya. Yet cities of the eastern lowlands of Belize, an area that was home to a rich urban tradition...

What can bones tell us about past lives? Do different bone shapes, sizes, and injuries reveal more about people's genes or about their environments? Reading the Bones tackles this question, guiding readers through one of the most hotly debated topics in...

In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Greeks and...

This is a Foreword by an archaeologist, not a conservator, but as Brad Rodgers says, "Conservation has been steadily pulled from archaeology by the forces of specialization"(p. 3),andhewantstoremedythatsituationthroughthismanual. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272615Author Mark R GroenhuijzenFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987601421Author Stefan VucakFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Stefan VucakPublisher Stefan VucakWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548591Author Clive BonsallFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287534Author Alan StrathernFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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This title examines in a comprehensive way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape. By sifting through an array of both primary material and modern interpretations, Charles...

This field manual provides essential background information for those interested in undertaking archaeology in Australia. Professional archaeologists provide their personal tips for working in each state and territory, dealing with a living heritage,...

A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of marginal positioning in regard to empires, trade routes, and the production and accumulation of wealth. The author describes how Buenos Aires...

The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The project focused on the occupation of a large Pleistocene-age terrace in the Little...

Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology's sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are...

What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the...

Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904531206Author Jeffrey P. SedgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548447Author Christopher CuikFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing