Archaeology category: 3529 books
by Sarah H. Parcak
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of the field of satellite remote sensing for archaeology and how it can be applied to ongoing archaeological fieldwork projects across the globe. It provides a survey of the history and development of the field, connecting satellite remote sensing...
American Antiquities
Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward or simple as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation, to a semi-profession, to a specialized, self-conscious profession was anything...
An Archaeology of Ancash
Stones, Ruins and Communities in Andean Peru
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
An Archaeology of Ancash is a well–illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland Ancash built impressive monuments, with no other region of South America showing such an early and continuous...
Molluscs in Archaeology
Methods, Approaches and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis...
The Archaeology of Portable Art
Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40,000 years ago. Archaeological...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology is the most comprehensive survey of global wetland archaeology ever published. Well known for the spectacular quality of its surviving evidence, from both an archaeological and environmental perspective, wetland archaeology enables scholars to investigate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. BP to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, complex...
Archaeological Theory in Europe
The Last Three Decades
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The 1980s witnessed exciting developments in theoretical writing in Western archaeology. Where previous decades were dominated by the Anglo-American perspective, or "New Archaeology", the recent years showed the European debate grow in confidence and vitality. This book, published in 1991,...
African Archaeology Without Frontiers
Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
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 understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from...
Archaeology in British Towns
From the Emperor Claudius to the Black Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Over the last twenty-five years archaeology has revolutionised our knowledge of the early history of British towns. Based on his day-to-day involvement in urban archaeology, Patrick Ottaway reviews the important discoveries and research themes of this period, and considers how long-term urban research...
by Nancy Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This volume focuses on new research on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches c AD 400-1100 in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, south-west Britain and Brittany. The 21 papers use a variety of approaches to explore and analyse the archaeological evidence for the origins and development of the...
Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives
Digital Technology and Deep-Time Perspectives on Culture Change in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume asks how the current Information Technology Revolution influences archaeological interpretations of techno-social change. Does cyber-archaeology provide a way to breathe new life into grand narratives of technological revolution and culture change, or does it further challenge these high-level...
A Maritime Archaeology of Ships
Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central...
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry
Power, Sex and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and...