Archaeology
North American Archaeology
Lacking the grand-scale, pre-Columbian alterations to landscapes brought about by the repeated rise and fall of states and empires, the focus of North American archaeologists has been on native foragers and villagers.
Archaeology
This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology-a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years.
Archaeologies of Memory
As in the present, past peoples commemorated, constructed, and manipulated their past for their own social and political ends. Archaeologists can use a variety of evidence to study social memory and to recover past ideas about what the more distant past was like.
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory. Its case studies, spanning the Neolithic through the Iron Age, are drawn from all the Mediterranean's major lands, coasts, and islands.
Museums And Source Communities
This book brings together hitherto uncollected work on one of the most important developments in museology in the past century: collaborative research involving museums and members of ethnographic source communities, and the development of a new curatorial praxis which incorporat
Archaeology In Practice
"Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses" offers to students on archaeology laboratory courses a detailed and invaluable how-to manual of archaeological methods.
Archaeologies Of Materiality
Archaeologies of Materiality explores the philosophies that underpin materiality for specific cultural moments across time and space.
Oldeholtwolde
The well-preserved archaeological site at Oldeholtwolde (Friesland, the Netherlands) was inhabited by a small group of people - probably a family - during the final phase of the last Ice Age, some 13, 000 years ago.
An Archaeology Of The Early Anglo-saxon Kingdoms
An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms has for nearly a decade been used by students seeking an introduction to the field.
Managing Archaeology
Managing Archaeology explores the interdependence of theory and practice in archaeology and demonstrates how management renders simplistic divisions between the two counter-productive.