Springer, 2001. — 336 p. Despite the fact that the human life of the past cannot be understood without taking into account its ecological relationships, environmental studies are often marginalised in archaeology. This is the first book that, by discussing the meaning and purpose we give to the expression `environmental archaeology', investigates the reasons for such a problem....
University of Arizona Press, 2010. — 368 p. The shift from mobile hunting and gathering to more sedentary, usually agricultural, lifeways was one of the most significant milestones in the prehistory of humanity. This transformation was spurred by an alignment of social and ecological forces, pressures, and adaptations, and it took place in broadly comparable ways in many...
Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2019. — 262 p. Tribology, the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion, has traditionally focused on technological applications, although some attention has been given to geotribology and tribochemistry. This volume explores the geological applications of tribology in some detail, before introducing the entirely new subdisciplines of...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 224 p. This volume derives from a meeting on prehistoric mines and quarries held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006. Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction sites, including ethnography, geochemical signatures, the application of neutron activation analysis,...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 224 p. This volume derives from a meeting on prehistoric mines and quarries held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006. Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction sites, including ethnography, geochemical signatures, the application of neutron activation analysis,...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 228 p. Salt is an invisible object for research in archaeology. However, ancient writings, ethnographic studies and the evidence of archaeological exploitation highlight it as an essential reference for humanity. Both an edible product and a crucial element for food preservation, it has been used by the first human settlements as soon as food storage...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 192 p. This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology. Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cranfield in the UK, along with a team from France, Austria and Israel, radiocarbon dated more than 200 Egyptian objects made from plant material from museum...
Academic Press, 2023. — 326 p. — ISBN 9780323991933. Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective on the evolution of the visuospatial ability in the human genus. It presents current topics in cognitive sciences and prehistoric archaeology, to provide a bridge between evolutionary...
Academic Press, 2023. — 326 p. — ISBN 9780323993845. Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective on the evolution of the visuospatial ability in the human genus. It presents current topics in cognitive sciences and prehistoric archaeology, to provide a bridge between evolutionary...
OUP Oxford, 2022. — 768 p. - Places industrial archaeology within its global and multi-temporal contexts - Presents industrialization as both a technological and social revolution, uniting the extractive and manufacturing side of industrialization with its social consequences in terms of social organization, housing, and landscape - Studies the role of extractive,...
OUP Oxford, 2022. — 768 p. - Places industrial archaeology within its global and multi-temporal contexts - Presents industrialization as both a technological and social revolution, uniting the extractive and manufacturing side of industrialization with its social consequences in terms of social organization, housing, and landscape - Studies the role of extractive,...
AltaMira Press, 2008. — 220 p. Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 256 p. A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them. In archaeological contexts many objects become degraded to the point where identification is very difficult and the way in which these materials decay during burial and upon excavation can vary greatly. Correct identification...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 256 p. A fundamental component of the study of worked osseous objects is the identification of the raw materials chosen to make them. In archaeological contexts many objects become degraded to the point where identification is very difficult and the way in which these materials decay during burial and upon excavation can vary greatly. Correct identification...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 346 p. - Offers a truly international perspective that illustrates the significance of material approaches to hybridity - Explores cultural transfer from human evolutionary periods to the modern day - A range of theoretical perspectives (from experiential and performative to biological and cognitive) help to illuminate different archaeological...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 346 p. - Offers a truly international perspective that illustrates the significance of material approaches to hybridity - Explores cultural transfer from human evolutionary periods to the modern day - A range of theoretical perspectives (from experiential and performative to biological and cognitive) help to illuminate different archaeological...
Routledge, 2015. — 196 p. Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday questions,...
Routledge, 2015. — 196 p. Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday questions,...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 436 p. In a Mediterranean area characterised by strong seismic activity, the earthquake that struck central Italy in 2016 caused considerable damage to the archaeological and historical heritage. This catastrophic event, as well as recent archaeological fieldwork and palaeoseimological research in the same area, led to the organisation in 2019 of the first...
Routledge, 2010. — 168 p. An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have failed to acknowledge both the complexity and, moreover, the benefits of an analysis of materials. Here Conneller argues that materials cannot be understood independently of the...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 309 p. Using archaeological sites and historic landscapes to promote mental health well-being represents one of the most significant advances in archaeological resource management for many years. Its potential contribution to health-care and wellness initiatives is boundless. Prompted by the Human Henge project working within the Stonehenge and Avebury...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 208 p. Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and developing innovative mechanisms for dealing with them....
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 208 p. Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ ‘citizen science’ initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and developing innovative mechanisms for dealing with them....
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 200 p. This book presents new directions in the study of cognitive archaeology. Seeking to understand the conditions that led to the development of a variety of cognitive processes during evolution, it uses evidence from empirical studies and offers theoretical speculations about the evolution of modern thinking as well. The volume draws from...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 176 p. Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring textiles and textile processing...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 176 p. Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring textiles and textile processing...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 336 p. Bringing together a wide array of modern scientific techniques and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an accessible guide to the methods that form the current bedrock of research into Roman, and more broadly ancient, wine. Chapters are arranged into thematic sections, covering biomolecular archaeology and chemical analysis,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 336 p. Bringing together a wide array of modern scientific techniques and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an accessible guide to the methods that form the current bedrock of research into Roman, and more broadly ancient, wine. Chapters are arranged into thematic sections, covering biomolecular archaeology and chemical analysis,...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 362 p. How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 362 p. How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new...
Springer, 2016. — 304 p. This volume presents multiple idiographic, archaeological studies of vernacular watercraft from North America and the Caribbean. Rather than attempt to synthesize all vernacular types, this volume focuses on ship construction data recovered through archaeological investigations that has been used to make inferences about culture. This collection of case...
Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2020. — 516 p. The Shroud of Turin is the most important and studied relic in the world. The many scientific studies on the relic until today have failed to provide conclusive answers about the identity of the enveloped man and the dynamics regarding the image impressed therein. This book not only addresses these issues in a scientific and objective...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 378 p. — (BAR International Series 2916/Hypogean Archaeology: Research and Documentation of Underground Structures 12). L’ “antro delle gallerie” è una struttura mineraria sotterranea, probabilmente risalente al periodo rinascimentale, che si apre all’interno dell’ “Alpe Cuseglio” in Valganna, nella provincia di Varese. È stato studiato durante una...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 480 p. There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles protect us from the harsh conditions of the...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 480 p. There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, economic and legal status. Besides expressing our identity, textiles protect us from the harsh conditions of the...
Routledge, 2024. — 604 p. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through the lens of its most distinguishing and problematic material. Plastics are ubiquitous and have been so for nearly three generations since they became widely used in the early 1950s. Plastics will persist for millennia, their legacies as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 568 p. — ISBN 9781118745984. Forensic archaeology is mostly defined as the use of archaeological methods and principles within a legal context. However, such a definition only covers one aspect of forensic archaeology and misses the full potential this discipline has to offer. This volume is unique in that it contains 57 chapters from experienced...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 80 p. — (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe). This Element provides a concise account of the archaeology of salt production in ancient Europe. It describes what salt is, where it is found, what it is used for, and its importance for human and animal health. The different periods of the past in which it was produced are described, from...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 270 p. People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological...
Routledge, 2014. — 244 p. This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 315 p. This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn more about others, or for those just starting out in the study of microremains who wish to have a broad understanding about microscopic archaeology. Topics covered in this handbook include diatom microfossils, starch...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 315 p. This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn more about others, or for those just starting out in the study of microremains who wish to have a broad understanding about microscopic archaeology. Topics covered in this handbook include diatom microfossils, starch...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 288 p. Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives. Archaeoastronomy seeks to discover how the impact of the skyscape is materialised in culture, by alignments to celestial events or sky-based symbolism; yet by contrast, archaeology's approach examines all...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 288 p. Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives. Archaeoastronomy seeks to discover how the impact of the skyscape is materialised in culture, by alignments to celestial events or sky-based symbolism; yet by contrast, archaeology's approach examines all...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 272 p. Contributors to this landmark volume demonstrate that ancestor veneration was about much more than claiming property rights: the spirits of the dead were central to domestic disputes, displays of wealth, and power and status relationships. Case studies from China, Africa, Europe, and Mesoamerica use the evidence of art, architecture,...
Springer, 2021. — 582 p. This book provides a comprehensive research on Ancient Indian glass. The contributors include experienced archaeologists of South Asian glass and archaeological chemists with expertise in the chemical analysis of glass, besides, established ethnohistorians and ethnoarchaeologists. It is comprised of five sections, and each section discusses different...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 312 p. In The Ecology of Pastoralism , diverse contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism’s significant impact on humanity’s basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the network of social, political, and religious institutions existing within various societies dependent on animal husbandry. Pastoral peoples,...
Sidestone Press, 2017. — 188 p. — (CLUES 2). Henk Kars was appointed as first Chair of Archaeometry in The Netherlands in 1994. From 2002 he was full time professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, interim Director of CLUE, and founder and Managing Director of the Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology. This festschrift volume incorporates original publications in the field...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 240 p. This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa. Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan brings together specialists of...
Sidestone Press, 2013. — 170 p. ‘Ritual Failure’ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past...
Bohlau Verlag Gmbh, 2018. — 216 p. — (Conference 2016 Postprints). Supported by Eurasia Pacific Uninet, the second international conference on "Archaeology and Conservation along the Silk Road" was jointly organized by Nanjing University China and Institute of Conservation, University of Applied Arts Vienna and held in May 2016 in China. Silk Road showcases the...
Bohlau Verlag Gmbh, 2022. — 184 p. — (Conference 2018 Postprints). The third international conference on "Archaeology and Conservation along the Silk Road" was met with as much enthusiasm as the earlier ones, with participants joining from near and far. The historic city of Tabriz, which once was the melting pot for cultures across the Silk Road(s), now as venue of this...
The University of Arizona Press, 2014. — 336 p. Ash, bone, and memories are all that remains after cremation. Yet for societies and communities, the act of cremation after death is highly symbolic, rich with complex meaning, touching on what it means to be human. In the process of transforming the dead, the family, the community, and society as a whole create and partake in...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 354 p. Detachment from Place is the first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space. The volume sheds new light on an important but underexamined aspect of settlement abandonment wherein...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 354 p. Detachment from Place is the first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space. The volume sheds new light on an important but underexamined aspect of settlement abandonment wherein...
Springer, 2023. — 271 p. — (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences). — ISBN 978-3-031-23132-2. This book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human agency as...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 216 p. The chronological disjuncture, LBK longhouses have widely been considered to provide ancestral influence for both rectangular and trapezoidal long barrows and cairns, but with the discovery and excavation of more houses in recent times is it possible to observe evidence of more contemporary inspiration. What do the features found beneath long mounds...
Icon Books, 2023. — 288 p. Archaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting “archaeology of movement”. All too often we think of the past as static, “frozen in time,” and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary's expert eye we explore the tangible remains, from fossilized footprint tracks to prehistoric wooden...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 784 p. Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet explores evidence for human diet from our earliest ancestors through the dispersal of our species across the globe. As...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 784 p. Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet explores evidence for human diet from our earliest ancestors through the dispersal of our species across the globe. As...
Boydell Press, 2024. — 272 p. An examination of the uses, meanings, and social impact of Viking Age textiles. This volume offers the first full study of archaeological fabrics and their decoration found in the North Atlantic region and dating broadly from the Viking or Norse period. With contributions from both academic scholars and practitioners, it shows how approaching early...
Routledge, 2005. — 886 p. The Chalcolithic period was formative in Near Eastern prehistory, being a time of fundamental social change in craft specialization, horticulture and temple life. Gilat - a low mound, semi-communal farming settlement in the Negev desert - is one of the few Chalcolithic sanctuary sites in the Southern Levant. Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult presents...
Springer, 2024. — 132 p. This edited volume offers a new approach to the study of emotion in the past, focusing on the experience of emotional attachment. Psychological research has demonstrated that all humans are capable of forming a variety of close social and emotional attachments from cradle to grave, yet archaeology has not, to date, considered the significance of these...
Springer, 2024. — 132 p. This edited volume offers a new approach to the study of emotion in the past, focusing on the experience of emotional attachment. Psychological research has demonstrated that all humans are capable of forming a variety of close social and emotional attachments from cradle to grave, yet archaeology has not, to date, considered the significance of these...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 232 p. The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of "environmental" remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behaviour, this book investigates notions...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 232 p. The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of "environmental" remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behaviour, this book investigates notions...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 150 p. This book celebrates thirty years of Ceramic Ecology, an international symposium initiated at the 1986 American Anthropological Association. Contributions explore the application of instrumental techniques and experimental studies to analyze ceramics and follow innovative approaches to evaluate methods and theories. Innovative Approaches...
Croom Helm, 1985. — 256 p. Artefacts made from skeletal materials since the Roman period were, before this book, neglected as a serious area of study. This is a comprehensive account which reviews over fifty categories of artefact. The book starts with a consideration of the formation, morphology and mechanical properties of the materials and illuminates characteristics...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 158 p. Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World combines the two great passions of the author’s life: reconstructing the Neolithic mind and constructively challenging consensus in his professional domain. The book is semi-autobiographical, charting the author’s investigation of Alexander Thom’s theories, in particular regarding the alignment of...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 96 p. — (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques). Wood is, and always has been, one of the most common and versatile materials for creating structures and art. It is therefore also a ubiquitous element of the archaeological record. This discussion of the study of archaeological wood introduces a number of approaches to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 284 p. This book examines the interplay between astronomy and dynastic power in the course of ancient Egyptian history, focusing on the fundamental role of astronomy in the creation of the pyramids and the monumental temple and burial complexes. Bringing to bear the analytical tools of archaeoastronomy, a set of techniques and methods that...
Springer, 2009. — 456 p. This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Guilio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth? To...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 198 p. This volume presents the results of new research on animal herding and hunting in the central and western Balkans during the prehistoric and historic periods. The investigations cover a wide range of topics related to animal exploitation strategies, ranging from broad syntheses to specific case studies. Herding and hunting, along with...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 284 p. Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researches from many different countries in this first volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 284 p. Uroš Matić and Bo Jensen have brought together a team of both young and senior researches from many different countries in this first volume that aims to explore the complex intersection between archaeology, gender and violence. Papers range from theoretical discussions on previous approaches to gender and violence and the ethical necessity to...
Peeters, 2020. — 226 p. Over the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material record-including cave-like sanctuaries and images of Mithras stabbing a bull-the cult has long been examined to reconstruct the thought-systems of Mithraism, its theology,...
Routledge, 2014. — 354 p. At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the Late...
New Amsterdam Books, 1988. — 244 p. Like all human activities, ritual customs, intended to gain advantage or avert disaster by supernatural means, have left their mark on the archaeological record. Yet archaeologists are often reluctant to recognize evidence of behavior that has no obvious material purpose. Even where they realize that something unusual has occurred, they will...
Routledge, 2017. — 296 p. This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates individuals and communities into a cultural fabric....
Routledge, 2017. — 296 p. This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates individuals and communities into a cultural fabric....
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 333 p. This book presents the multidisciplinary field of forensic archaeology as complementary but distinct from forensic anthropology. By looking beyond basic excavation methods and skeletal analyses, this book presents the theoretical foundations of forensic archaeology, novel contexts and applications, and demonstrative case studies...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 268 p. The construction of formal measurement systems underlies the development of science and technology, economy, and new ways of understanding and explaining the world. Human societies have developed such systems in different ways in different places and at different times, and recent archaeological investigations highlight the importance of...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 160 p. Ritual Matters interrupts the anachronistic binaries of religious practice and belief, the material and the theological, by taking a new approach to the study of archaeological remains of ancient religions. Focusing on the materiality of ritual - inherent in everything from monumental temples and altars, to votive offerings and...
Routledge, 2017. — 300 p. The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites through conflict has been increasingly discussed and...
Routledge, 2017. — 300 p. The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites through conflict has been increasingly discussed and...
Routledge, 2017. — 300 p. The human cost in any conflict is of course the first care in terms of the reduction, if not the elimination of damage. However, the destruction of archaeology and heritage as a consequence of civil and international wars is also of major concern, and the irreversible loss of monuments and sites through conflict has been increasingly discussed and...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 200 p. — (Ancient Textiles series, Book 12). In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters inTextile...
Routledge, 2020. — 996 p. The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to today’s historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field. The broad range of topics covered in this volume allows for specificity...
Routledge, 2020. — 414 p. — (Routledge Studies in Archaeology). The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used in their urban and agricultural water supply systems. Using a range of methods and techniques, some new to...
Routledge, 2020. — 414 p. — (Routledge Studies in Archaeology). The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used in their urban and agricultural water supply systems. Using a range of methods and techniques, some new to...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 286 p. Over the last thirty years, new scientific techniques have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric economies. They enable a sound comprehension of human diet and subsistence in different environments, which is an essential framework for appreciating the rich tapestry of past human cultural variation. This volume first considers...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 542 p. This anthology celebrates 40 years of an archaeology of mind, the investigation of how the modern human mind emerged, as discerned through material artifacts such as the stone tools used throughout the Paleolithic and the hunting technologies and numbers found in the Neolithic. The contributions by established and emerging scholars cover a...
Springer, 2018. — 248 p. This book aims to thoroughly discuss new directions of thinking in the arena of environmental archaeology and test them by presenting new practical applications. Recent theoretical and epistemological advancement in the field of archaeology calls for a re-definition of the subdiscipline of environmental archaeology and its position within the practise...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 240 p. New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work of Peter Collingwood, this publication explores...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 288 p. Classical and anthropological archaeologists share many of the same interests and confront many of the same problems studying extinct cultures. Despite differences in background and training, scholars in these disciplines are all engaged in analyzing and interpreting the archaeological record. Traditionally, however, there have...
Routledge, 2020. — 288 p. This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2008. — 463 p. — (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). The purpose of Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology is to highlight studies addressing significant anthropological issues in the Americas from the perspective of environmental archaeology. Environmental archaeology encompasses the application of biological and geological techniques to...
2nd Edition — Springer, 2007. — 463 p. The purpose of Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology is to highlight studies addressing significant anthropological issues in the Americas from the perspective of environmental archaeology. Environmental archaeology encompasses the application of biological and geological techniques to the study of human/environmental interactions. Each...
Springer, 2012. — 516 p. — (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique). — ISSN: 1571-5752; ISBN: 978-1-4614-3337-8. One of the most significant developments in archaeology in recent years is the emergence of its environmental branch: the study of humans’ interactions with their natural surroundings over long periods and of organic remains instead of the artifacts...
University of California Press, 2008. — 336 p. Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed - more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a state of crisis, coastal archaeological sites contain a wealth of data that can shed light on the history of...
Routledge, 2003. — 276 p. This innovative and important volume presents the archaeological and anthropological foundations of the landscape learning process. Contributions apply the related fields of ethnography, cognitive psychology, and historical archaeology to the issues of individual exploration, development of trail systems, folk knowledge, social identity, and the role...
Springer, 2004. — 214 p. This is a Foreword by an archaeologist, not a conservator, but as Brad Rodgerssays, "Conservation has been steadily pulled from archaeology by the forces of specialization " (p.3), and he wants to remedy that situation through this manual. He see sthis work as a "call to action for the non-professional conservator", permitting "curators, conservators, and...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 166 p. Life along Communication Routes from the Roman Period to the Middle Age s is the result of the conference Roads and Rivers 2 held at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb in 2020, enriched with additional invited contributions. The volume presents the latest research on Roman roads, not just in terms of their basic infrastructure but also exploring...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 269 p. — (BAR International Series 2979). En momentos de incremento de los gobiernos de extrema derecha en todo el mundo, la emergencia de regímenes autoritarios es, de nuevo, un tema de actualidad. La arqueología tiene mucho que decir a este respecto, dado que se adentra en los cimientos ideológicos y materiales de las formaciones políticas. Qué...
Springer, 2012. — 292 p. Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono) theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 240 p. The new interdisciplinary study of modern conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade. Its anthropological approach to modern conflicts, their material culture and their legacies has freed such investigations from the straitjacket of traditional 'battlefield archaeology'. It offers powerful new methodologies and theoretical...
University Press of Florida, 2022. — 448 p. Through various case studies, Ancient Foodways illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to understand how food acquisition, preparation, and consumption intersect with economics, politics, and ritual. Spanning four continents and several millennia of human...
Springer, 2019. — 259 p. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the metallographic study of ancient metals. Metallography is important both conceptually as a microstructural science and in terms of its application to the study of ancient and historic metals. Metallography is a well-established methodology for the characterization of the microstructure of metals,...
Springer, 2019. — 259 p. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the metallographic study of ancient metals. Metallography is important both conceptually as a microstructural science and in terms of its application to the study of ancient and historic metals. Metallography is a well-established methodology for the characterization of the microstructure of metals,...
Springer, 2013. — 352 p. This book examines methods for linking osteo-archaeological data with historical and environmental sources to shed light on the living conditions of past populations. Covering all time periods from prehistory to the 20th century, it aims to construct models that capture plausible demographic dynamics from highly fragmentary evidence. Starting from the...
Oxbow Books, 1997. — 177 p. — (Oxbow monograph 75). These papers examine the ongoing relationship between numismatic research and archaeology in Greece; they are based on a 1995 conference organised by the Athens National Museum and the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in honour of Dr. Mando Oeconomodies.
Oxbow Books, 1997. — 180 p. These papers examine the ongoing relationship between numismatic research and archaeology in Greece; they are based on a 1995 conference organised by the Athens National Museum and the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in honour of Dr Mando Oeconomodies.
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 272 p. Textile production and the manufacture of clothing was one of the most essential daily activities in prehistory. Textiles were significant objects of practical use, and at the same time had cultural, social and symbolic meaning, crucial for displaying the identity, gender, social rank and status, or wealth of their users. However, evidence of ancient...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 258 p. In the United Kingdom and Europe generally, the study of prehistoric monuments has long been the domain of archaeologists who excavate, measure, date and record them. From the 1960s onwards, archaeoastronomers provided an alternative picture based on their belief that the builders understood celestial movements and consequently enshrined...
Routledge, 2022. — 684 р. Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers...
Routledge, 2019. — 610 p. Edited by two pioneers in the field of sensory archaeology, this Handbook comprises a key point of reference for the ever-expanding field of sensory archaeology: one that surpasses previous books in this field, both in scope and critical intent. This Handbook provides an extensive set of specially commissioned chapters, each of which summarizes and...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 460 p. The new and updated edition of The Archaeology of Religion explores how archaeology interprets past religions, offering insights into how archaeologists seek out the religious, ritual, and symbolic meaning behind what they discover in their research. The book includes case studies from around the world, from the study of Upper...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 616 p. - The first volume of its kind to address contemporary museum archaeology and its challenges, future directions, and role within the broader archaeological discipline - Offers an international perspective to broaden our understanding of the role and significance of collections in different contexts - Responds to specific challenges and...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 617 p. This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collections. It challenges the common misconception that museum archaeology is simply a set of procedures for managing and exhibiting assemblages. Instead, this volume advances museum archaeology as...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 484 p. Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 256 p. The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic identities, gender norms, and more. Balancing deep research with accessible writing, Katheryn Twiss familiarizes readers with archaeological data, methods, and...
Springer, 2001. — 578 p. — (Natural Science in Archaeology Series). The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion) published by the...
University Alabama Press, 2023. — 512 p. - A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients In Plant Foods of Greece , Greek archaeologist Soultana Maria Valamoti takes readers on a culinary journey, reconstructing the plant foods and culinary practices of Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece. For more than thirty years, she has been analyzing...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 288 p. Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication from being a process of simply identifying sites in the landscape, to one which provided nuanced understandings...
Serbian Archaeological Society, 2017. — 194 p. Archaeology studies material remains of the past, and the question of raw material from which they were made is often the very first, initial research question. Raw materials include food and water for humans and animals, as well as materials for making tools, shelter, clothes, other daily objects such as vessels, storage...
Routledge, 2022. — 298 p. Ancient Art Revisited develops new perspectives on ancient art by weaving together diverse strands within archaeology and art history, exploring it through recent developments in archaeological theory. In order to foster dialogue among various subfields, contributors are drawn from a wide range of domains. Classical archaeology, Aegean prehistory, Near...
Routledge, 2022. — 298 p. Ancient Art Revisited develops new perspectives on ancient art by weaving together diverse strands within archaeology and art history, exploring it through recent developments in archaeological theory. In order to foster dialogue among various subfields, contributors are drawn from a wide range of domains. Classical archaeology, Aegean prehistory, Near...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 344 p. Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse. Previous works have offered multi-causal explanations for collapse, from overpopulation, overexploitation of...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 322 p. — ISBN13 9789464270068. — ISBN10 9464270063. Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The papers in this...
Pen and Sword Archaeology, 2015. — 256 p. Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes - and archaeologists are using the same methods to identify and investigate crimes in the past. This book introduces some of those techniques, and explains how they have been used not only to solve modern crimes, but also to investigate past...
Pen and Sword Archaeology, 2015. — 256 p. Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes - and archaeologists are using the same methods to identify and investigate crimes in the past. This book introduces some of those techniques, and explains how they have been used not only to solve modern crimes, but also to investigate past...
Routledge, 2022. — 136 p. An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is the first concise introduction that lays out the epistemological foundations of evolutionary cognitive archaeology in a way that is accessible to students. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section situates cognitive archaeology in the pantheon of archaeological approaches and...
Routledge, 2022. — 136 p. An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology is the first concise introduction that lays out the epistemological foundations of evolutionary cognitive archaeology in a way that is accessible to students. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section situates cognitive archaeology in the pantheon of archaeological approaches and...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 264 p. This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe - areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute one of the basic needs in human life - to protect and keep the body warm but also to show social status...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 264 p. This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe - areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute one of the basic needs in human life - to protect and keep the body warm but also to show social status...
Владивосток: Издательство ВГУЭС, 2018. — 138 с. В монографии представлены сведения о консервации железных археологических предметов методом водной щелочной обработки в условиях нормальных и субкритических температур и давлений. Также обобщаются сведения о физико-химических основах разрушения железных археологических предметов на различных этапах их существования. Для...
Материалы Международного форума, состоявшегося в Государственном Эрмитаже 28–30 мая 2018 года. — СПб.: Изд-во Гос. Эрмитажа, 2018. — 300 с. : ил. — ISBN: 978-5-93572-792-5. Государственный Эрмитаж и Некоммерческое партнёрство по автоматизации музейной деятельности и новым информационным технологиям (НП АДИТ) в третий раз организовали встречу специалистов в области виртуальной...
Материалы IV Междунар. науч. конф. Красноярск, 20–22 сентября 2021 г. / науч. ред. Д. Ю. Гук. — Красноярск : Сиб. федер. ун-т, 2021. — 125 с. — ISBN 978-5-7638-4543-3. Государственный Эрмитаж и Сибирский федеральный университет организовали четвертую встречу специалистов в области виртуальной археологии, чтобы обсудить развитие международного сотрудничества и обучение...
Монография. — Москва: МГУ, 2000. — 88 с.
При финансовой поддержке РФФИ (проект № 97-06-80350) проведены исследования и подготовлена монография «Палеоэкологическая характеристика разновозрастных культурных слоев древних поселений». Данное руководство продолжает монографию изданную в 1998 г. и посвящено характеристике некоторых лабораторных методов исследования в естественных...
Қостанай: Костанайский обл. историко-краеведческий музей, 2018. — 132 с. — (қазақша, орысша). В настоящем издании публикуются материалы многолетних исследований самых загадочных и удивительных наземных сооружений Тургая. На протяжении десяти лет посредством изучения космоснимков было обнаружено 95 «геоглифов», что в переводе с греческого означает «рисунок, созданный рельефным...
Научное издание. — Владивосток: ИИАЭ ДВО РАН, 2015. — 197 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9906118-4-9. В сборнике представлены результаты археологических исследований городищ и поселений Центральной Азии, Сибири и Восточной Азии. Хронологические рамки публикаций охватывают период от палеолита до средневековья включительно. Особое внимание уделено комплексному подходу к изучению организации...
Научное издание. — Владивосток: ИИАЭ ДВО РАН, 2017. — 181 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9906119-2-4. В сборник включены результаты археологических исследований промыслов и ремёсел древнего и средневекового населения Восточной Азии и Тихоокеанского побережья Южной Америки. Хронологические рамки публикаций охватывают период от эпохи неолита до средневековья включительно. Особое внимание...
Л.: Лениздат, 1990. — 192 с. — (Разум познает мир). — ISBN: 5-289-00568-4. Изучение археологии юга Сибири полно сенсациями: каждый полевой сезон – это несколько открытий, часто уникальных и впечатляющих. Тысячи ярких, грандиозных по масштабам панно на скалах Алтая, поля камней с рисунками способны поразить самое искушенное воображение сюжетами, техникой исполнения, способом...
Л.: Лениздат, 1990. — 192 с. — (Разум познает мир). — ISBN: 5-289-00568-4. Изучение археологии юга Сибири полно сенсациями: каждый полевой сезон – это несколько открытий, часто уникальных и впечатляющих. Тысячи ярких, грандиозных по масштабам панно на скалах Алтая, поля камней с рисунками способны поразить самое искушенное воображение сюжетами, техникой исполнения, способом...
СПб.: СПбГУ, Кафедра археологии, 2004. — 350 с. — (Материалы тематической научной конференции, Санкт-Петербург, 1-4 декабря 2004 г.). Сборник содержит материалы V (очередной) Международнойтематической конференции. посвященной отдельным видам археологических источников. Широкая тематика представленных докладов (наскальные изображения, статуарные памятники и предметы мелкой...
Москва: Синоидальная типография, 1892. — 152 с. Содержание: Основания хронологической классификации могильных древностей Европейской России Каталог коллекции древностей профессора Д. Самоквасова Отдел первый. Древности эпохи каменной и бронзовой культуры Отдел второй. Древности скифо-сорматской эпохи Отдел третий. Древности славяно-русской эпохи Отдел четвёртый. Древности эпохи...
Тезисы докладов полевого семинара, Аркаим, 19-25 июня 2006 г. — Челябинск: Челяб. гос. ун-т, 2006. — 52 с. — ISBN 5-7271-0773-3. В сборник вошли тезисы докладов полевого семинара, посвященного вопросам археоастрономии - междисциплинарного научного направления, изучающего астрономические знания древних и традиционных (архаических) обществ. Семинар проводился 19-25 июня 2006 года...
Тезисы докладов полевого семинара, Аркаим, 19-25 июня 2006 г. — Челябинск: Челяб. гос. ун-т, 2006. — 52 с. — ISBN: 5-7271-0773-3. В сборник вошли тезисы докладов полевого семинара, посвященного вопросам археоастрономии - междисциплинарного научного направления, изучающего астрономические знания древних и традиционных (архаических) обществ. Семинар проводился 19-25 июня 2006...
Научное издание. — М.: ИА РАН, 2016. — 384 с.: ил., цв. вклейка. — ISBN: 978-5-94375-195-0. Начало XXI века ознаменовалось тем, что одним из наиболее значимых показателей эффективности и принципиальной новизны в научных изысканиях стала считаться их междисциплинарность. В первую очередь это коснулось археологии и палеоантропологии, занимающих в сфере гуманитарных наук место...
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