Archaeology books

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

""Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see""; ""Plucking herbs upward for emetics...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Freedom colonies existed wherever there was slavery. One of the earliest insurrections in the Western Hemisphere...  Read More >>

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Of the three monumental gates of Dendara (Isis, Hathor, Horus), that of Hathor is without doubt and quite logically...  Read More >>

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The papers collected in this volume are dedicated to different case studies, focusing on the archaeological and...  Read More >>

How were space and movement in Roman cities affected by economic life? What can the study of Roman urban landscapes...  Read More >>

""An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism...  Read More >>

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Paintings, statues, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise...  Read More >>

The Roman military remains of Egypt are remarkable in their variety and state of preservation: forts, quarries whose...  Read More >>

In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable...  Read More >>

In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming...  Read More >>

Paintings, statues, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise...  Read More >>

An entertaining and informative account of the Battles of Stirling Bridge and Bannockburn, including maps of the...  Read More >>

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Details how new theories and methods have recently advanced the archaeological study of initial human colonization...  Read More >>

Presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature: a series of low, cascading rapids along...  Read More >>

In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming...  Read More >>

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Im 19. Jahrhundert gelang es vielen mitteleuropaischen Monarchien, mit Anpassungsstrategien und Modernisierungsleistungen...  Read More >>

This collection of twenty-eight essays presents an up-to-date survey of pre-Islamic Iran, from the earliest dynasty...  Read More >>