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Shamanism and the Origins of States: Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia
by Sarah Milledge Nelson  Publisher Comments Sarah Milledge Nelson explores a bold thesis that the development of states in East Asia—China, Japan, Korea—was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans....
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country
by Mark Stiger Publisher Comments Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country offers data on 8,000 years of cultural change across a wide area of Colorado and updates archaeological methodology in the mountain West. Synthesizing research from several important, previously...
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Archaeological Oceanography Archaeological Oceanography
by Robert D. Ballard Publisher Comments Archaeological Oceanography is the definitive book on the newly emerging field of deep-sea archaeology. Marine archaeologists have been finding and excavating underwater shipwrecks since at least the early 1950s, but until recently their explorations...
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The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease
by Charlotte Roberts Publisher Comments Though apparently in decline during the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis has reawakened in both developed and developing countries, particularly among susceptible populations with immunodeficiency disorders....
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Shamanism and the Origins of States: Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia
by Sarah Milledge Nelson Publisher Comments Sarah Milledge Nelson explores a bold thesis that the development of states in East Asia—China, Japan, Korea—was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by shamans....
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Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains
by Lawrence L. Loendorf Publisher Comments This volume is the first summary and synthesis of the rock art of the American High Plains, from Archaic times to the historic period. Even more, it presents an engaging combination of Plains archaeology, rock art sites, and holistic archaeological...
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The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
by D. Troy Case Publisher Comments The Scioto Hopewell people of North America have been of great interest to prehistoric archaeologists for a number of reasons: - their monumental, 80 acre earthworks aligned precisely to events in the day and night skies, - masterfully worked glistening...
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Magnetometry for Archaeologists
by A. Aspinall Synopsis A discussion of the most widely used method for archaeological prospecting, covering the technical background of magnetometry and explaining what is measured and how this knowledge is used in archaeological surveys....
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Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain
by Adam Stout Synopsis "Creating Prehistory" deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars. Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the...
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Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains
by Lawrence L. Loendorf Publisher Comments This volume is the first summary and synthesis of the rock art of the American High Plains, from Archaic times to the historic period. Even more, it presents an engaging combination of Plains archaeology, rock art sites, and holistic archaeological...
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Subartu #21: Beydar Studies 1
by Marc Lebeau Synopsis Beydar Studies 1 Constitutes the first volume of a new series dedicated to the excavations at Tell Beydar (NE Syria) and its neighborhood. The contributions included in this first volume present progress reports on categories of objects discovered at...
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Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 1: Two Decades of Discovery (Studies in Early Medieval Coinage)
by Tony Abramson Publisher Comments Recent years have seen increasing interest being taken by both scholars and enthusiasts in the remarkable iconography of early Anglo-Saxon coinage. During this period there was a remarkable diversity of intentionally ambiguous imagery conflating the...
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Te Puna - A New Zealand Mission Station: Historical Archaeology in New Zealand (Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology)
by Angela Middleton Publisher Comments Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonisation throughout the globe, from India to Africa and into the Pacific. In late 18th-century Britain, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its...
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Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, Fifth Edition
by Colin Renfrew Publisher Comments "Sets the new standard for excellence in this field."—Antiquity This best-selling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it has now been completely revised. Structured according to the key questions that archaeologists ask themselves, it...
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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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Underwater and Maritime Archeology in Latin America and the Caribbean
by Margaret E. Leshikar-denton Publisher Comments Case studies written primarily by Latin American and Caribbean archaeologists demonstrate exciting and cutting edge research, conservation, site preservation, and interpretation of underwater and maritime archaeology in the region....
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Metal Detecting and Archaeology (Heritage Matters: Contemporary Issues in Archaeology)
by Peter Stone Publisher Comments The invention of metal detecting technology during the Second World War allowed the development of a hobby that has traditionally been vilified by archaeologists as an uncontrollable threat to the proper study of the past. This book charts the...
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Computational Intelligence in Archaeology
by Juan A. Barcelo Synopsis The vast quantity of archaeological data coming from excavations is now well beyond the traditional data processing tools. Computational archaeology creates an exhaustive analysis of technical and analytical needs in the archaeological sciences....
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The Steamboat "Montana" and the Opening of the West: History, Excavation, and Architecture (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology)
by Annalies Corbin Publisher Comments The Montana was a shining example of modern design and technological sophistication when it made its maiden voyage in 1879. But it is remembered for its ironic end: only five years after it was launched, the Montana struck a railroad bridge near...
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Aztec City-State Capitals (Ancient Cities of the New World)
by Michael E. Smith Publisher Comments The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. Aztec...
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