Archaeology books

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Mediterranean Connections: Maritime Transport Containers and Seaborne Trade in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages

Mediterranean Connections: Maritime Transport Containers...

Author: A. Knapp (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Stella Demesticha (University of Cyprus, Cyprus.)
ISBN: 9781629583549
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early...  Read More >>

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline,...

Author: Valentina Yanko-Hombach ,  Allan S. Gilbert
ISBN: 9789402404654
Format: Paperback
$569.22

Stimulated by 'Noah's Flood Hypothesis' proposed by W Ryan and W Pitman in which a catastrophic inundation of the...  Read More >>

The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications: New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond

The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications:...

Author: Vera Tiesler
ISBN: 9781493953967
Format: Paperback
$316.77

The systematic examination of Mesoamerican skeletal series fosters an explained review of indigenous cultural history...  Read More >>

The Ancient Hawaiian State: Origins of a Political Society

The Ancient Hawaiian State: Origins of a Political Society...

Author: Robert J. Hommon (Senior Cultural Resource Scientist, Senior Cultural Resource Scientist, Pacific Islands Office, National Park Service)
ISBN: 9780190499129
Format: Paperback
$205.92

Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states -- ""cradles...  Read More >>

Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation and Application

Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation...

Author: Erik Flügel
ISBN: 9783662499610
Format: Paperback
$724.47

This new edition synthesizes the methods used in microfacies analysis and details the potential of microfacies in...  Read More >>

Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past

Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the...

Author: Ludomir R Lozny
ISBN: 9781493939398
Format: Paperback
$580.77

This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective—to identify and explain...  Read More >>

First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River

First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson...

Author: S. David Webb
ISBN: 9789402404586
Format: Paperback
$646.85

Over the last 20 years the Aucilla River Prehistory Project has been one of the most f- cinating stories unfolding...  Read More >>

Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains

Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation...

Author: Anna J. Osterholtz
ISBN: 9783319373133
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy

Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry,...

Author: Isabella Turbanti-Memmi
ISBN: 9783662506677
Format: Paperback
$646.85

Papers deal with the development and/or application of scientific techniques for extracting information related...  Read More >>

Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region: Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference

Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific...

Author: Wayne Orchiston ,  Tsuko Nakamura
ISBN: 9781493941056
Format: Paperback
$659.97

With just 400 pages, this title provides readers with the results of recent research from some of the world's leading...  Read More >>

GPR Remote Sensing in Archaeology

GPR Remote Sensing in Archaeology

Author: Dean Goodman ,  Salvatore Piro
ISBN: 9783662521786
Format: Paperback
$181.10

GPR Remote Sensing in Archaeology provides a complete description of the processes needed to take raw GPR data all...  Read More >>

Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene

Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions...

Author: Andrew Y. Glikson ,  Colin Groves
ISBN: 9783319363981
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last...  Read More >>

An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts: Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century

An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts:...

Author: Quentin Lewis
ISBN: 9783319363288
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. The meaning of Improvement...  Read More >>

Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island

Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From...

Author: Giulio Magli
ISBN: 9781493939077
Format: Paperback
$131.97

In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which...  Read More >>

Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact

Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology,...

Author: William Honeychurch
ISBN: 9781493943272
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This monograph uses the latest archaeological results from Mongolia and the surrounding areas of Inner Asia to propose...  Read More >>

Capitalism and Cloves: An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar

Capitalism and Cloves: An Archaeology of Plantation...

Author: Sarah K. Croucher
ISBN: 9781493941872
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in...  Read More >>

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Impacts, Experiences and Actions

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United...

Author: Julie Koppel Maldonado ,  Benedict Colombi
ISBN: 9783319357980
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional...  Read More >>

Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology: A South American Perspective

Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology: A South...

Author: Cristóbal Gnecco ,  Carl Langebaek
ISBN: 9781493947645
Format: Paperback
$290.37

They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that give meanings...  Read More >>

Monumentality in Later Prehistory: Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort

Monumentality in Later Prehistory: Building and Rebuilding...

Author: Harold Mytum
ISBN: 9781493947867
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at...  Read More >>

Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth

Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth

Author: Howard Clinebell
ISBN: 9781138150454
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This trailblazing book sheds light on humankind's most serious health challenge ever--how to save our precious planet--describes...  Read More >>

Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A study of the extant formularies

Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A study...

Author: David Bennett
ISBN: 9781409441656
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the...  Read More >>

Ritual and Archaic States

Ritual and Archaic States

Author: Joanne M.A. Murphy
ISBN: 9780813062785
Format: Hardback
$168.30

This volume compares archaic rituals across civilizations, exploring theoretical models and interpretations for...  Read More >>

Westminster: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey and Palace

Westminster: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of...

Author: Warwick Rodwell ,  Tim Tatton-Brown
ISBN: 9781910887295
Format: Mixed media product
$357.00

The British Archaeological Association's 2013 conference was devoted to the study of Westminster Abbey and the Palace...  Read More >>

Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC - I: Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions

Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur...

Author: Daisuke Shibata ,  Shigeo Yamada
ISBN: 9783447105835
Format: Paperback
$179.52

The excavations of various archaeological sites along the Habur and the Middle Euphrates region since the 1970s...  Read More >>

Finding Shakespeare's New Place: An Archaeological Biography

Finding Shakespeare's New Place: An Archaeological Biography...

Author: Head of Research Paul Edmonson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) ,  Archaeological Project Manager Kevin Colls (Centre of Archaeology, Staffordshire University)
ISBN: 9781526106483
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost...  Read More >>

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