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Death By Theory : a Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory (00 Edition)
by Adrian Praetzellis  Publisher Comments A European Neolithic burial. A large stone Venus. Nothing unusual about it -- except that it was found on an island in the Pacific Northwest. Archaeologist Hannah Green and her shovelbum nephew find themselves in a tangled web of competing interests...
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Historical Archaeology in Africa: Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions (African Archaeology)
by Peter R. Schmidt Publisher Comments Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into the questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons beyond the ethnocentrism of archaeology, as it is...
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Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland
by Gabriel Cooney Publisher Comments "Landscapes of Neolithic" is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period. This book integrates the study of landscape...
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Hunter-Gatherer: Archeology of the Colorado High Country
by Mark Stiger Synopsis The unique geophysics of Colorado's Upper Gunnison Basin provides a rich archaeological document of over 8,000 years of environmental and cultural change. In Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country, Mark Stiger presents not only an...
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Qumran in Context: Reassessing the Archeological Evidence
by Yizhar Hirschfeld Publisher Comments Qumran is not the site of an Essene community hitherto thought to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls....
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Very Short Introductions #10: Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
by Paul G Bahn Publisher Comments Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume...
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Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy: Studies in Honor of Anthony F. Aveni (Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes
by Clive Ruggles Publisher Comments Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the...
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The Archaeology of Identity: Approaches to Gender, Age, Status, Ethnicity and Religion
by Margarita Diaz-andreu Publisher Comments The "Archaeology of Identity "presents an overview of five of the key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: gender, age, ethnicity, religion and status. This book reviews the research history of each area, and the different...
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Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica : a Reader (00 Edition)
by Michael E. (ed.) Smith Publisher Comments "The Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader" brings together twenty-three of the most influential essays by leading scholars to reveal the rich variety of cultures and societies that existed in ancient Mesoamerica....
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Topics in Contemporary Archaeology: Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present
by Chris Gosden Publisher Comments A comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism....
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Priene
by Harvard University Press Publisher Comments The Ionian city of Priene, the most extensively excavated Hellenistic city in western Asia Minor, was in its day a model of town planning. It was sited according to principles corresponding to Aristotle's description in the Politics of the ideal city of...
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Geoarchaeology: The Earth-Science Approach to Archaeological Interpretation
by George Rapp Publisher Comments An indispensable book for all professionals and students interested in the field of geoarchaeology, including those with limited earth-science experience, this new edition of Geoarchaeology builds on the success and innovation of the first edition and...
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Casas Grandes and Its Hinterland: Prehistoric Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico
by Michael E. Whalen Publisher Comments Casas Grandes, or Paquime, is one of the most important settlements in the prehistoric North American Southwest. The largest and most complex community in the Puebloan world, it was characterized by its principal excavator, Charles Di Peso, as an outpost...
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Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 1: Two Decades of Discovery (Studies in Early Medieval Coinage)
by Tony (edt) 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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Egyptian Mummies (UK Edition)
by Carol Andrews Synopsis Carol Andrews presents an illustrated account of how mummies were made, the religious beliefs which lay behind this practice, the ornate coffins and elaborate tombs which housed the bodies and the grave goods which accompanied them....
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Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology)
by Luke Lavan Et Al Synopsis This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of...
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New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo
by Polly (edt) Schaafsma Synopsis Ancestral Puebloan peoples inhabited the Pottery Mound site on New Mexico's Rio Puerco River from the late fourteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. Archaeologist Frank C. Hibben began excavating Pottery Mound fifty years ago, when archaeologists were...
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Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land
by Miriam C. Davis Publisher Comments In the first full-length biography of Kenyon, excavator of Jerusalem, Jericho, and Great Zimbabwe and the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century, Miriam Davis recounts not only her many achievements in the field but also her personal...
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Caesarea Philippi: Banias, the Lost City of Pan
by John Francis Wilson Publisher Comments Banias is a city that has seen almost every age of history pass through it: from Canaanite times, via the Romans and the Crusades, to its eventual destruction in the 1967 Six Days War. John Francis Wilson brings us the first continuous history of this...
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Material Culture and Mass Consumption (Social Archaeology)
by Daniel Miller Synopsis The main argument of this book is that people use material objects to express themselves and their cultures. Drawing on examples from both Western and developing cultures, it shows that everyday objects reflect not only personal tastes and attributes...
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