Archaeology

Of immense significance to three major religions and cultures, the Holy Land has attracted visitors since the fifth century BC. This guide provides: coverage of all the main sites in the city of Jerusalem and throughout the Holy Land; 150 high-quality...

COMPREHENSIVE, AUTHORITATIVE, AND ACCESSIBLE. IDEAL FOR BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGISTS. With over 4,000 entries covering the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language, this up-to-date dictionary is the...

This account of the Valley of the Kings brings together its art, archaelogy and history in one volume arranged thematically. Famous as the burial place of the great New Kingdom pharaohs - such as Tutankhamun, Ramesses the Great and Tuthmosis IV - this...

Travelling around England is in many senses a journey back in time. On all sides, and sometimes even under the road or footpath itself, there are fragments of the ancient past side by side with the clutter of the modern world. Medieval villages, castles,...

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An ever popular book detailing hundreds of archaeological ruins across the American Southwest.Book InformationISBN 9780873587242Author David Grant NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Northland PublishingPublisher Northland PublishingWeight(grams)...

During the fifth and sixth centuries AD a magnificent art flowered in Britain and Ireland. Arguably it was the most accomplished ever to emerge out of barbarian Europe. The art is astonishing, exuberant yet based on careful geometric layout. First...

For more than a century, archaeologists and anthropologists have searched for evidence of when and how peoples first settled the Caribbean islands. Research on this area is pivotal for understanding the migration of peoples in the New World and how small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970568205Author Janice BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at...

The Benedictine Priory of St James was established just outside the medieval city of Bristol in 1129AD. Two areas were excavated: Site 1 to the east of the Priory church, and Site 2 to the west. The Priory was largely destroyed during the Dissolution of...

Smoking pipes are among the most commonly found artifacts at archaeological sites, affirming the prevalence and longevity of smoking as a cultural practice. Yet there is currently no other study in historical archaeology that interprets tobacco and...

In this textbook we see heritage in action in indigenous and vernacular communities, in urban development and regeneration schemes, in expressions of community, in acts of nostalgia and memorialization and counteracts of forgetting, in museums and other...

This volume is designed as a 12-lecture textbook, which can serve as a course companion, self teaching guide and handbook for basic concepts. Each lecture comprises 20 pages, in which the methods are introduced, examples shown and the code is given. All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782322162390Author Linda MayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 109g

The idea of cultural heritage has become widespread in many countries, justifying government regulation and providing the background to disputes over valuable works of art and architecture. In this book, Derek Gillman uses several well-known cases from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426591Author M Charlotte ArnauldFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Charles Roach Smith (1806-90) had a prosperous career as a druggist. His shop was in the City of London, then undergoing major excavation and redevelopment, and he began to collect the artefacts being uncovered around him. With a widening interest in all...

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Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire. At Santa Ana de Biajacas the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall. In the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation by an English speaker,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597526241Author Professor George SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 461Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841719177Author Francesca Balossi RestelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407306773Author Natacha BucFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR PublishingWeight(grams) 1392g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407306193Author Primitiva RamirezFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407301099Author Mario BuhagiarFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for...

Gravestones, cemeteries, and memorial markers offer fixed points in time to examine Americans' changing attitudes toward death and dying. In tracing the evolution of commemorative practices from the seventeenth century to the present, Sherene Baugher and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407300528Author Stefano Del LungoFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666766509Author G a CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292309Author Alice StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of `ages' that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be...

In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and rebuild from scratch, so the initial layout and buildings, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838046156Author Grahame GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Western GeomancyPublisher Western Geomancy

This Element presents emerging concepts and analytical tools in landscape archaeology. In three major sections bookended by an Introduction and Conclusion, the Element discusses current and emerging ideas and methods by which to explore how people in the...

This Element addresses a burning question – how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes? This Element describes what cultural burning...

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia,...

The study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. It treats the materiality of the place and experiences of the guides and the pupils, obtained in school as well as in...

Covering vast swathes of Europe, the Bell Beaker Phenomenon has enjoyed a privileged status in the history of archaeology and is often referred to as a key period in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age partly due to the emergence of...

Geopolitics 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...