Archaeology category: 3529 books
The Archaeology of Anxiety
The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Recent efforts to engage more explicitly with the interpretation of emotions in archaeology have sought new approaches and terminology to encourage archaeologists to take emotions seriously. This is part of a growing awareness of the importance of senses—what we see, smell, hear, and feel—in the...
by Susan M. Alt, Melissa R. Baltus, Kenneth B. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America
Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The public’s fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature...
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
*Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perceptions of...
Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History
The Present and Future of Counternarratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
At a time when archaeology has turned away from questions of the long-term and large scale, this collection of essays reflects on some of the big questions in archaeology and ancient history - how and why societies have grown in scale and complexity, how they have maintained and discarded aspects...
by Graham Connah
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology. Based on his own experiences, he presents his personal views about the task of writing about archaeology. The book is not intended to be a technical manual. Instead, Connah...
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking
Butrint and the Global Heritage Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume series of accompanying scientific publications have made this a key site for our developing understanding of the Roman and Medieval Mediterranean. Through...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This essential handbook explores the relationship between the postcolonial critique and the field of archaeology, a discipline that developed historically in conjunction with European colonialism and imperialism. In aiding the movement to decolonize the profession, the contributors to this volume—themselves...
Ethnographic Archaeologies
Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative...
by Paul Burtenshaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Nowhere in archaeology is the gap between theory and practice more evident than in its ambivalent engagement with economic development. This groundbreaking volume assembles practicing archaeologists, economists, and NGO officials in an extensive exploration of the theoretical, practical and...
by Richard I. Macphail, Paul Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Applied Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology provides the most up-to-date information on soil science and its applications in archaeology. Based on more than three decades of investigations and experiments, the volume demonstrates how description protocols and complimentary methods (SEM/EDS, microprobe,...
by Maria Mina, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Yiannis Papadatos
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
In the long tradition of the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean bodies have held a prominent role in the form of figurines, frescos, or skeletal remains, and have even been responsible for sparking captivating portrayals of the Mother-Goddess cult, the elegant women of Minoan Crete or the deeds...
Crusader Archaeology
The Material Culture of the Latin East
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Crusader Archaeology examines what life was like for European settlers in the Latin East and how they were influenced by their new-found neighbours. Incorporating recent excavation results and the latest research, this new edition updates the only detailed study of the material culture of the Frankish...
The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia
From the End of Late Antiquity until the Coming of the Turks
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book accounts for the tumultuous period of the fifth to eleventh centuries from the Fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire through the breakup of the Eastern Roman Empire and loss of pan-Mediterranean rule, until the Turks arrived and seized Anatolia. The volume is divided...