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Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
by Carl Knappett  Publisher Comments Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely...
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Vessels of Influence: China and Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)
by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere Synopsis This book, while examining in depth the role of Chinese ceramics in Japan, also delves into the meaning, motivation for, and rapid development of Japanese porcelain from many angles, including archaeology, heirloom and documentary evidence. The political...
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Ships' Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Site Formation Process
by Nathan Richards Publisher Comments Ships' Graveyards is an explicitly theoretical study that avoids the single-site bias prevalent in most underwater archaeology research. It also eschews the traditional examination of shipwreck sites as the core component of study in this field. ...
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Role Models in the Roman World: Identity and Assimilation (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome)
by Sinclair Bell Publisher Comments The tendency of ancient Romans to look to mythical and historical figures for role models is everywhere evident in their surviving literary and material culture. This book broadens the horizon of the long-standing scholarly interest in role models in...
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Assyrian Stone Vessels and Related Material in the British Museum
by Ann Searight Synopsis This catalogue makes available to scholars more than 600 complete or fragmentary stone vessels from the Ancient Near East in the rich collections of the British Museum. In common with much other material in the British Museum, many of the pieces were...
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Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies
by Clare Fawcett Publisher Comments At the end of the 20th Century, archaeologists from non-Anglo-American countries started to become vocal about the traditional interpretations of history that archaeology was making. The traditional archaeology came from the predominantly white, male...
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American Industrial Archaeology: A Field Guide
by Douglas C. Mcvarish Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in industrial archaeology. These include bridges, railroads, roads, waterways, several types of production and...
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Longbridge Deverill Cow Down: An Early Iron Age Settlement in West Wiltshire
by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes Synopsis Between 1956 and 1960 Sonia Hawkes excavated an Early Iron Age settlement at Longbridge Deverill Cow Down, Wiltshire, following the discovery by J.K. St. Joseph's aerial photographic survey of a complex of three enclosures on the site. The most...
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Archaeological Guide to Albania: Butrint and the Saranda Region
by Oliver J. Gilkes Synopsis This is the first English guidebook specifically on the archaeological sites and monuments of southern Albania. Designed to guide visitors around the sites of this archaeologically rich and varied region, the book also provides a comprehensive overview...
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American Industrial Archaeology: A Field Guide
by Douglas C. Mcvarish Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in industrial archaeology. These include bridges, railroads, roads, waterways, several types of production and...
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Image and Response in Early Europe (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)
by Peter S. Wells Publisher Comments Did people in the Iron Age see their bronze figurines and sculpted stones differently from the way we see them today? How can we approach the problem of determining how they saw things? How different was their experience viewing these objects in the...
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Studies in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology #11: Building Materials and Building Techniques at Sagalassos
by Lieven Loots Synopsis The book aims at a better understanding of the economy of the building industry at Sagalassos through the study of the provenance, extraction and preparation of the building materials (stone, brick, mortar, glass) and the techniques used in building with...
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The New Biblical Archaeology: From Text to Turf
by Thomas E. Levy Publisher Comments The New Biblical Archaeology reflects the major changes happening today in the historical archaeology of the Holy Land. Whereas traditional Biblical archaeology was a highly descriptive and subjective discipline, The New Biblical Archaeology represents a...
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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania (Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology)
by Springer Publisher Comments The history of lunatic asylums ??? what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as places of horror where the patients are restrained and left to listen to the cries of their fellow inmates in despair. But what was...
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The Archeaology of North American Farmsteads (American Experience in Archaeological Perspective)
by Mark D. Groover Publisher Comments From the early colonial period to the close of World War II, life in North America was predominantly agrarian and rural. Archaeological exploration of farmsteads unveils a surprising quantity of data about rural life, consumption patterns, and migrations...
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Navies of Rome
by Michael Pitassi Publisher Comments This publication represents the first true examination of the Roman Navy as an independent arm of the military. Though many may perceive the Roman Empire as a primarily land based organisation, an empire forged by the formidable legions of infantry, the...
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Practical Archaeology: A Step-By-Step Guide to Uncovering the Past
by Christopher Catling Synopsis This accessible and comprehensive illustrated guide is ideal for anyone with a passion for the past. It is both a hands-on resource for the new enthusiast - student or volunteer - attending their first dig, and a superb professional reference book and...
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The Butrint Baptistery and Its Mosaics
by Joan Mitchell Synopsis The Baptistery with its near-perfectly preserved mosaic floor is undoubtedly the most famous of the monuments at Butrint. In this splendidly illustrated book, Mitchell analyses the narratives of salvation and rebirth inherent in its iconography and...
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Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains
by George W. Gill
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A Canyon Through Time: Archaeology, History, and Ecology of the Tecolote Canyon Area, Santa Barbara County, California
by Jon M. Erlandson
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