Archaeological methodology & techniques books

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First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human

First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human

Author: Jeremy DeSilva
ISBN: 9780008342838
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an...  Read More >>

Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions

Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges...

Author: Isabel Velázquez Soriano (Professor of Latin Philology, Complutense University of Madrid) ,  David Espinosa Espinosa (Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Oviedo)
ISBN: 9781789699876
Format: Paperback
$108.68

This volume presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, comparing the outcomes of both well-established...  Read More >>

Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraphy, spatial organisation and chronology

Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean...

Author: Mike Parker Pearson ,  Jacqui Mulville
ISBN: 9781789256932
Format: Hardback
$90.56

The first look at the evidence from excavations at the site of Cladh Hallan (South Uist, Western Isles of Scotland)....  Read More >>

Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples

Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological...

Author: Amanda G. Henry
ISBN: 9783030426248
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn...  Read More >>

Big Data and Archaeology: Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 15, Session III-1

Big Data and Archaeology: Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP...

Author: François Djindjian (Honorary Professor / President, University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences) ,  Paola Moscati
ISBN: 9781789697216
Format: Paperback
$75.04

The advent of Big Data is a recent and debated issue in Digital Archaeology. Papers consider the historiographic...  Read More >>

Theorizing Bioarchaeology

Theorizing Bioarchaeology

Author: Pamela L. Geller
ISBN: 9783030707026
Format: Hardback
$310.47

These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance...  Read More >>

Teichos: Vom Endneolithischen Wehrdorf Zum Spatosmanischen Tambouri: 5000 Jahre Festungswesen in Attika

Teichos: Vom Endneolithischen Wehrdorf Zum Spatosmanischen...

Author: Hans Lohmann
ISBN: 9783447116145
Format: Hardback
$427.68

"""Teichos"", Mauer, ist im Griechischen der allgemeinste Begriff fur Wehrmauern aller Art und daher am besten geeignet,...  Read More >>

A Welsh Landscape through Time: Excavations at Parc Cybi, Holy Island, Anglesey

A Welsh Landscape through Time: Excavations at Parc...

Author: Jane Kenney
ISBN: 9781789256895
Format: Hardback
$116.44

This report covers the four year excavation at the archaeologically abundant site of Holy Island, North Wales.  Read More >>

Fores et Fenestrae: A Computational Study of Doors and Windows in Roman Domestic Space

Fores et Fenestrae: A Computational Study of Doors and...

Author: Lucia Michielin
ISBN: 9781789696172
Format: Paperback
$124.20

The role doors and windows play in shaping the life and structure of Roman private dwellings has been underestimated;...  Read More >>

Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity: A Global Archaeological Perspective

Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity:...

Author: Hannah V. Mattson
ISBN: 9781789255959
Format: Paperback
$135.00

Cutting-edge research on personal ornaments from archaeological contexts around the world.  Read More >>

Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation...

Author: Edith Joseph
ISBN: 9783030694104
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the role and potential of microorganisms in the degradation...  Read More >>

English Landscapes and Identities: Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

English Landscapes and Identities: Investigating Landscape...

Author: Chris Gosden (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford) ,  Chris Green (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198870623
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Based on The English Landscapes and Identities project, this volume synthesises major available data sources of...  Read More >>

Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean

Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the...

Author: A. Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781108964739
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Living in 'an age of migration' inevitably has impacted the ways that archaeologists, historians and social scientists...  Read More >>

Temporary Palaces: The Great House in European Prehistory

Temporary Palaces: The Great House in European Prehistory...

Author: Richard Bradley
ISBN: 9781789256611
Format: Paperback
$43.96

An ethnographic study of the monumental buildings from the prehistoric to early medieval periods in northern and...  Read More >>

Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The world tree, middle earth and the sun in archaeological perspectives

Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The world tree, middle...

Author: Anders Andren
ISBN: 9789188909619
Format: Paperback
$103.37

The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. In Tracing Old...  Read More >>

Advancing Cultural Astronomy: Studies In Honour of Clive Ruggles

Advancing Cultural Astronomy: Studies In Honour of Clive...

Author: Efrosyni Boutsikas ,  Stephen C. McCluskey
ISBN: 9783030646059
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This collection of essays on cultural astronomy celebrates the life and work of Clive Ruggles, Emeritus Professor...  Read More >>

Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Age

Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth...

Author: Dr Emma M. Payne
ISBN: 9781350120341
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Through the 19th century, as archaeology started to emerge as a systematic discipline, plaster casting became a...  Read More >>

Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period: A Biocultural Analysis of Human Remains from the Voudeni Cemetery, Achaea, Greece

Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period:...

Author: Ioanna Moutafi
ISBN: 9781789254822
Format: Paperback
$103.50

Investigates the complex relationship between Mycenaean funerary treatment and wider social dynamics.  Read More >>

Crimes in the Past: Archaeological and Anthropological Evidence

Crimes in the Past: Archaeological and Anthropological...

Author: Dr Tatiana Shvedchikova (Russian Academy of Sciences) ,  Dr Negahnaz Moghaddam
ISBN: 9781789697780
Format: Paperback
$103.50

This book discusses examples of crime scenes in the archaeological past, their detection and interpretation with...  Read More >>

Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Late Bronze Age and Archaic Period

Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between...

Author: Gabriella Longhitano
ISBN: 9781789255997
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Explores the role, significance and technological development of textile manufacture in 1st millennium BC Sicily....  Read More >>

Ear studs, ear plugs or beads? Reinterpreting a group of glass objects from New Kingdom Egypt in the British Museum

Ear studs, ear plugs or beads? Reinterpreting a group...

Author: Hodgkinson Anna K.
ISBN: 9781838118020
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Discussion of the function of the so-called ear studs, New Kingdom, Egypt.  Read More >>

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past

Author: Mark Q. Sutton
ISBN: 9780367617806
Format: Paperback
$221.00

Archaeology: The Science of the Human provides students with a thorough understanding of what archaeology is, how...  Read More >>

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past

Author: Mark Q. Sutton
ISBN: 9780367627201
Format: Hardback
$441.00

Archaeology: The Science of the Human provides students with a thorough understanding of what archaeology is, how...  Read More >>

Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859

Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time...

Author: Clive Gamble (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9780198870692
Format: Hardback
$64.95

The discovery of ancient stone implements alongside the bones of mammoths by John Evans and Joseph Prestwich in...  Read More >>

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