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Archaeology the Key Concepts
by Colin Renfrew  Synopsis Written by the leading authors Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, "Archaeology: The Key Concepts" is an invaluable resource, providing an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the key terms and their impact on archaeological thinking and method. Entries...
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Animal Bones Interpreting the Past
by James Rackham Publisher Comments The bones of animals are common finds on many excavations. Interesting as evidence of the occurrence of animals, both domestic and wild, at various times throughout history, bones can also yield information about the human societies that hunted or kept...
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Archaeology Essentials : Theories, Methods and Practice (07 Edition)
by Colin Renfrew Publisher Comments An abridged version of the bestselling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it. This new volume has all the authority of Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn's groundbreaking guide to all aspects of archaeology, but it has been carefully rewritten...
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Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook
by Prudence M Rice Publisher Comments Pottery Analysis is a rich and comprehensive sourcebook that draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. Using pottery as a starting point for insights into...
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A History of Archaeological Thought
by Bruce G Trigger Publisher Comments Examining the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present, this book places the development of archaeological thought and theory within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends apparent in...
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Arrowheads and Projectile Points (Artifacts and Collectibles)
by Lar Hothem Synopsis Projectile points of American Indians have long been objects of interest to students and historians. This arrowhead book has hundreds of photos, information about geographic origin, methods of production, sizes, and a special section on detecting fakes...
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Looting Spiro Mounds : American King Tut's Tomb (07 Edition)
by David La Vere Synopsis How an ancient North American civilization was plundered in the twentieth century...
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Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology 2ND Edition
by Warwick Bray Synopsis From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, this dictionary describes the sites, cultures, periods, techniques...
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Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past Through Bioarchaeology
by Clark Spense Larsen Publisher Comments The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this fascinating book, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us--about their lives, and ours--through the remarkable insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past...
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Heritage Resources Management Series #3: Assessing Site Significance
by Donald L. Hardesty Synopsis Of the many properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, only 7% are archaeological sites. With the Register designed to primarily assess the historical significance of standing sites, archaeologists have had difficulty translating...
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Management Planning for Archaeological Sites: Proceedings of the Corinth Workshop (Gci Scientific Program Reports)
by Gaetano Palumbo Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-154)....
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Frauds, myths, and mysteries :science and pseudoscience in archaeology
by Kenneth L Feder Book News Annotation Hits all the usual targets of debunking: the Cardiff Giant, Von Daniken, Atlantis, the Piltdown Man, dowsing, etc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to Recapture the Past
by Brian M Fagan Synopsis University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a fascinating look at how the key archaeological discoveries of the past 50 years were made--and how new techniques and devices have led to new insights into ancient civilizations. of...
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Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?
by Phyllis M Messenger Publisher Comments The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has brought into sharp relief the conflicts among public and private collectors, scholars, and indigenous peoples over the provenience and disposition of cultural property, especially...
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Dunes & Fossil Soils
by Wolfgang Schirmer Publisher Comments Dunes grow, change shape and fade away, controlled by climatic change, permafrost, vegetation growth, soil formation and human interference. The European sand belt spreads from the Netherlands through Germany and Poland into Russia as inland dune fields...
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Introduction to Rock Art Research
by David S Whitley Synopsis Once a stepchild of archaeology, rock art research has become increasingly important tool in recent archaeological work for understanding the symbolic and ideological systems of ancient peoples. Yet methods of working with pictographs, petroglyphs and...
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Doing Archaeology: A Cultural Resource Manager's Perspective
by Thomas F King Synopsis What is archeology and why should we do it? Tom King, arguably the best known heritage management consultant in the United States, answers the basic question of every introductory student from the unique perspective of one who active uses archaeology for...
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Archaeology & Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
by Colin Renfrew Publisher Comments In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient...
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Data Processing in Archaeology
by J D Richards Publisher Comments Specifically written for readers with no previous experience of computing, this book aims to give archaeologists a non-technical but thorough grounding in the use of computers. Every aspect of the subject is covered, from what computers actually look...
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Archaeology Down To Earth 2ND Edition
by David Hurst Thomas Publisher Comments This new brief edition pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names-- David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History and Robert L. Kelly of the University of Wyoming-to bring a passionate, down-to-earth introduction to archaeological...
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