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Documentary Archaeology in the New World by Mary Carolyn Beaudry 9780521449991
RRP: £30.99£21.89Designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of archaeologists and historians, Documentary Archaeology in the New World outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America which places history alongside anthropology,... -
War in the Land of True Peace: The Fight for Maya Sacred Places by Brent K S Woodfill 9780806162812
£34.35For the ancient and modern Maya, the landscape is ruled by powerful entities in the form of geographic features like caves, mountains, springs, and abandoned cities--spirits who must be entreated, through visits and rituals, for permission to plant,... -
Remote Sensing in Archaeology by James R. Wiseman 9780387446158
RRP: £179.99£90.27Archaeology has been transformed by technology that allows one to 'see' below the surface of the earth. This work illustrates the uses of advanced technology in archaeological investigation. It deals with hand-held instruments that probe the subsurface... -
Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice by Andrew Jones 9780521790604
RRP: £75.00£51.81Is archaeology an art or a science? This question has been hotly debated over the last few decades with the rise of archaeological science. At the same time, archaeologists have seen a change in the intellectual character of their discipline, as many... -
Maritime Archaeology: Australian Approaches by Mark Staniforth 9780387258829
RRP: £44.99£44.97Subject areas discussed in this book include shipwrecks and abandoned vessels, underwater site formation processes, maritime infrastructure and industries such as whaling, submerged aircraft and Australian Indigenous sites underwater. The application of... -
Archaeology of Mediaeval Ships and Harbours in Northern Europe: International Symposium Papers by Seán McGrail 9780860540687
£51.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860540687Author Seán McGrailFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio by Elliot M. Abrams 9780821416105
£26.30Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley,... -
The Bioarchaeology of Violence by Debra L. Martin 9780813049502
RRP: £24.95£19.66"The tragedies of violence have seldom been told with such a compelling use of the biocultural perspective. Building on a solid methodological foundation, we are served theoretical perspectives that are unusually rich and nuanced in their... -
The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts by Lawrence E. Babits 9780813049069
£81.38"The best compilation of work about the French and Indian War to date."--James Parker, coauthor of Archaeology at Fort Mims "Provides images of life on the expanding American frontier of the mid-eighteenth century. A unique and significant... -
An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica by Mark W. Hauser 9780813049021
RRP: £26.95£21.16In eighteenth-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved labourers. Mark Hauser uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended... -
The Archaeology of Forts and Battlefields by David R. Starbuck 9780813044149
RRP: £19.95£15.91Forts and battlefields embody activities and locations where nations have come into conflict and where victory or defeat has determined the shape of modern American society. This book discusses some of the most dynamic archaeological projects that have... -
Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification by Mark N. Cohen 9780813044033
RRP: £35.95£29.08Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralisation. Ancient... -
The Archaeology of American Labor and Working-Class Life by Paul A. Shackel 9780813038025
RRP: £19.95£15.91The winners write history. Thus, it is no surprise that the story of American industrialization is dominated by tales of unbridled technical and social progress. What happens, though, when we take a closer look at the archaeological record? That is the... -
Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices by Maria F. Wade 9780813038018
RRP: £32.95£26.38"Provides an astute, in-depth historical comparison and analysis of changing mission strategies and the practical operation of Spanish Jesuit and Franciscan missions in California, Texas, Florida, Coahuila, Nuevo Le n, and Northeast Mexico from the... -
Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World by Craig Fiedler 9780813040141
£77.00Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the Mississippian southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). This groundbreaking volume lifts the veil of uniformity... -
Hillforts Of The Ancient Andes: Colla Warfare, Society and Landscape by Elizabeth N. Arkush 9780813035260
£70.31Winner of the Society for American Archaeology Book Award "Using a bold combination of surface survey, excavation, and cutting-edge GIS modeling, Arkush examines the social conditions that existed in the Andes during this period of unprecedented... -
The Archaeology of American Capitalism by Christopher N. Matthews 9780813035246
£71.68Christopher Matthews offers a fresh look at the historic material culture and social meaning of capitalism in this wide-ranging and compelling study. Drawing on archaeological evidence from the colonial period to the modern era and covering sites from... -
Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast by Gordon R. Wiley 9780813016030
RRP: £39.95£32.76The book contains data that remain indispensable to archaeologists working in every region or state east of the Mississippi River. Nowhere else can the reader find as compact, and at the same time as detailed, a summary of the numerous ceramic types upon... -
The Spanish Missions of La Florida by Bonnie G McEwan 9780813012322
RRP: £24.95£20.06"A major compendium of the latest effort of a truly blue-ribbon group of scholars. . . . The volume is certain to be a classic among scholars of archaeology, history, and geography, not only in Florida and the Southeast, but among the large numbers... -
Digging New Jersey's Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State by Richard Viet 9780813531137
RRP: £31.00£22.81When people think of archaeology, they commonly think of unearthing the remains of ancient civilizations in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Central or South America. But some fascinating history can be found in your own New Jersey backyard 3/4 if you know where to... -
The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade by Michael S. Nassaney 9780813061573
£71.68The North American fur trade left an enduring material legacy of the complex interactions between natives and Europeans. From the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, the demand for pelts and skins transformed America, helping to fuel the Age of... -
Beyond the Walls: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households by Kevin R. Fogle 9780813061559
£76.60While household archaeologists view the home as a social unit, few move their investigations ""beyond the walls"" when contextualizing a household in its community. Even exterior aspects of a dwelling-its plant life, yard spaces, and... -
French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean by Kenneth G. Kelly 9780813061450
£25.95This innovative collection of essays brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French... -
Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology of Mobility by Fruduric Sellet 9780813061405
£31.27This collection of chapters by archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnoarchaeologists, biological archaeologists, and behavioral ecologists considers how humans have practiced mobility across several continents and thousands of years, raising questions... -
Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting by Maria Theresia Starzmann 9780813061603
£102.09In this compelling study, Maria Theresia Starzmann and John Roby bring together an international cast of experts who move beyond the traditional framework of the ""constructed past"" to look at not only how the past is remembered but... -
Archaeology of East Asian Shipbuilding by Jun Kimura 9780813061184
£81.96In this innovative study, Jun Kimura integrates historical data with archaeological findings to examine a wide array of eleventh- through nineteenth-century ships from China, Korea, and Japan. Chinese junks and Japanese sailing ships were known... -
The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily by L. Sulosky Weaver 9780813061122
£87.28Human remains and burial customs are often considered separately in studies of ancient Greek populations. In this seminal work, Carrie Sulosky Weaver synthesizes skeletal, material, and ritual data to reconstruct the cultural practices of Kamarina, a... -
Rethinking Colonialism: Comparative Archaeological Approaches by Craig N. Cipolla 9780813060705
£81.96Historical archeology studies once relied upon a binary view of colonialism: colonizers and colonized, the colonial period and the postcolonial period. The international contributors to this volume scrutinize imperialism and expansionism through an... -
Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations by Brenda J. Baker 9780813060804
£87.28Migration has always been a fundamental human activity, yet little collaboration exists between scientists and social scientists examining how it has shaped past and contemporary societies. This innovative volume brings together sociocultural... -
Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American Identity by Mark S. Warner 9780813061115
£76.60In Eating in the Side Room, Mark Warner uses the archaeological data of food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Chesapeake as a point of departure to examine how material culture shaped African American identity in one of... -
The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant 9780813056784
£81.96The Rosewood Massacre investigates the 1923 massacre that devastated the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. The town was burned to the ground by neighboring whites, and its citizens fled for their lives. None of the... -
Modes of Production and Archaeology by Robert M. Rosenswig 9780813054308
£97.12This volume explains how archaeologists can use Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' mode of production concept to study long-term patterns in human society. Modes of production describes how labor is organized to create surplus which is then used for... -
The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco by Georgia L. Fox 9780813054131
£17.62Smoking pipes are among the most commonly found artifacts at North American archaeological sites, affirming the prevalence and longevity of smoking as a cultural practice. Yet surprisingly this is the first study in historical archaeology to broadly... -
The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America by Diana DiPaolo Loren 9780813038032
RRP: £19.95£16.73Dress has always been a social medium. Color, fabric, and fit of clothing, along with adornments, posture, and manners, convey information on personal status, occupation, religious beliefs, and even sexual preferences. Clothing and adornment are... -
The Archaeology and Pottery of Nazca, Peru: Alfred Kroeber's 1926 Expedition by Alfred Kroeber 9780761989646
RRP: £85.00£70.28When Alfred Kroeber left Lima, Peru for the ruins of the Nazca region in July 1926, he could have had no inkling of the importance of what he would uncover. Nor would he have guessed that his excavation report would not appear until the end of the... -
Museums and the Construction of Disciplines: Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain by Christopher Whitehead 9780715635087
£26.43Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual... -
Paleoindian Mammoth and Mastodon Kill Sites of North America by Jason Pentrail 9780578947051
RRP: £13.33£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578947051Author Jason PentrailFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Seven AgesPublisher Seven AgesWeight(grams) 218g -
Shells in Aegean Prehistory by Lilian Karali 9780860549666
£38.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860549666Author Lilian KaraliFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing -
Ancient Art of the Florida Peninsula: 500 B.C. to A.D. 1763 by Ryan Wheeler 9780530003047
RRP: £53.00£46.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003047Author Ryan WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 993g -
Microarchaeology: Beyond the Visible Archaeological Record by Stephen Weiner 9780521880039
RRP: £85.00£33.66The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in the microscopic record can significantly add to our understanding of past human...