Archaeological theory books

1354 books were found.

Live Artefacts: Literature in a Cognitive Environment

Live Artefacts: Literature in a Cognitive Environment...

Author: Terence Cave (Emeritus Professor, French Literature, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow, St John's College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192858122
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Provides a reflection on the relations between nature and culture as manifested by literary artefacts, and reframes...  Read More >>

The Past as a Digital Playground: Archaeology, Virtual Reality and Video Games

The Past as a Digital Playground: Archaeology, Virtual...

Author: Stefano Bertoldi (Research Fellow, Università di Siena) ,  Samanta Mariotti (Research Fellow, Università di Siena)
ISBN: 9781803272665
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This book collects the contributions to a two-day conference which illustrate a digital project developed at the...  Read More >>

A Guide to Archaeological Draughtsmanship

A Guide to Archaeological Draughtsmanship

Author: S E Boersma ,  M a Los-Weijns
ISBN: 9789493194205
Format: Paperback
$63.36

This guide explains the drawing of artefacts in its various aspects. It treats the drawing of complete vessels,...  Read More >>

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic...

Author: Joanne M.A. Murphy
ISBN: 9780367542986
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores role of ritual in variety of archaic states...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology

An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology...

Author: Thomas Wynn ,  Frederick L. Coolidge
ISBN: 9780367856946
Format: Paperback
$94.99

An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is the first concise introduction that lays out the epistemological...  Read More >>

The Object of Conservation: An Ethnography of Heritage Practice

The Object of Conservation: An Ethnography of Heritage...

Author: Siân Jones ,  Thomas Yarrow (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138655683
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments...  Read More >>

The Patients’ Story: Dr Radcliffe's Legacy in the Age of Hospitals – Excavations at the 18th–19th Century Radcliffe – Infirmary Burial Ground, Oxford

The Patients’ Story: Dr Radcliffe's Legacy in the Age...

Author: Louise Loe ,  Helen Webb
ISBN: 9780904220889
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Explores the fascinating insights uncovered by excavation of 400 burials from the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.  Read More >>

Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant...

Author: Neil Oliver
ISBN: 9781529176780
Format: Paperback
$28.44

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMES From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places...  Read More >>

Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid

Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid

Author: Sofia Greaves ,  Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
ISBN: 9781789257809
Format: Hardback
$165.00

Offers new perspectives on the ideals and aims articulated by ancient city founders and their successors.  Read More >>

Making Heritage Together: Archaeological Ethnography and Community Engagement with a Rural Community

Making Heritage Together: Archaeological Ethnography...

Author: Aris Anagnostopoulos ,  Evangelos Kyriakidis
ISBN: 9781032194745
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Making Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of...  Read More >>

Exploring Archaeoastronomy: A History of its Relationship with Archaeology and Esotericism

Exploring Archaeoastronomy: A History of its Relationship...

Author: Liz Henty
ISBN: 9781789257861
Format: Paperback
$125.00

A fascinating account of the development of archaeoastronomy, its impact on archaeological interpretation and its...  Read More >>

Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City

Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City

Author: Javier Martínez Jiménez ,  Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
ISBN: 9781789258165
Format: Hardback
$165.00

This volume tackles the subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon...  Read More >>

Documenting the Neolithic in Central Europe: Proceedings from the conference 'Problems of the Neolithic and Eneolithic', Brno, 9th-11th September 2020

Documenting the Neolithic in Central Europe: Proceedings...

Author: Peter Toth ,  Juraj Pavuk
ISBN: 9781789258103
Format: Paperback
$103.50

Presents an overview of multidisciplinary approaches into problems of interpreting the Neolithic and Eneolithic...  Read More >>

Wood in Archaeology

Wood in Archaeology

Author: Lee A. Newsom
ISBN: 9781107666894
Format: Paperback
$62.07

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Wood in Archaeology

Wood in Archaeology

Author: Lee A. Newsom
ISBN: 9781107052062
Format: Hardback
$230.26

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Beautiful Bodies: Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in the Past

Beautiful Bodies: Gender and Corporeal Aesthetics in...

Author: Uroš Matić
ISBN: 9781789257717
Format: Paperback
$135.00

Explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past...  Read More >>

A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century

A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the...

Author: Nadia Durrani ,  Brian M. Fagan (University of California, USA)
ISBN: 9780367709440
Format: Paperback
$162.00

A Brief History of Archaeology details early digs and covers the development of archaeology as a multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century

A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the...

Author: Nadia Durrani ,  Brian M. Fagan (University of California, USA)
ISBN: 9780367713270
Format: Hardback
$368.00

A Brief History of Archaeology details early digs and covers the development of archaeology as a multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment...

Author: Isabelle Dolezalek ,  Mattia Guidetti
ISBN: 9780367609474
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten...  Read More >>

The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia: From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia: From Things of Tyranny...

Author: Michael Hughes
ISBN: 9780367422004
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book will appeal to all those interested in the Third Reich, Nazi Ideology, Neo-Nazism, perceptions of the...  Read More >>

City in the Desert, Revisited: Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, 1964-71

City in the Desert, Revisited: Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr...

Author: Christiane Gruber ,  Michelle Al-Ferzly
ISBN: 9781733050401
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Featuring previously unpublished documents and reproducing over fifty photographs from archaeological excavations...  Read More >>

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