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The Significance of
by Richard Bradley  Publisher Comments The Significance of Monuments is an indispensable text for all students of European prehistory. It is also an enlightening read for professional archaeologists and all those interested in this fascinating period....
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Field Archaeology
by Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey explores every stage of the archaeological process from the core work to the final product. Several topics are covered showing that there is more to archaeology than just digging....
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Making Places in the Prehistoric World
by Joanna Bruck Publisher Comments Discussing theoretical perspectives on the archaeological study of settlements, this volume revisits a central topic of study in archaeology and anthropology, which should be of interest to historical geographers and others....
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How The Original Jamestown Was Found With Modern Technology
by Francis Hamit Publisher Comments An article from the February 1997 issue of "Advanced Imaging" magazine, concerning the use of satellite imaging and remote sensing to discover the site of the original Jamestown colony in Virginia, and the use of X-ray techology in salvaging artifacts...
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Time, Culture and Identity
by Julian Thomas Publisher Comments Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emerging identities of people and things, and the temporal structures of humans, places and artefacts as radically similar....
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Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
by Victor Buchli Synopsis This collection turns what methods for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking at both ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline ofarchaeology. This new archaeology gives a crucial...
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Ice Maiden (ebk)
by Johan Reinhard Publisher Comments Johan Reinhard's discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of an Inca girl made international headlines in 1995, reaching more than a billion people worldwide. One of the best-preserved mummies ever found, it was a stunning and significant time capsule...
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Archaeology: The Basics
by Clive Gamble Publisher Comments A must for anyone considering the study of archaeology, designed to provide the reader with everything they should know when embarking on an archaeological course, whether A Level or first year undergraduate....
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Invisible Sex, The
by J. M. Adovasio Publisher Comments Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears...
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Critical Approaches to Fieldwork
by Gavin Lucas Publisher Comments Provides a fundamental examination of the conceptual framework within which archaeology is practised today. The relation between theoretical paradigms and everyday archaeological practice is critically explored....
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Gender and Archaeology
by Roberta Gilchrist Publisher Comments Gender and Archaeology is the first volume to critically review the development of this now key topic internationally, across a range of periods and material culture....
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Understanding the Neolithic
by Julian Thomas Publisher Comments This book employs contemporary theoretical perspectives to investigate the Neolithic period in southern britain. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991)....
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The Archaeology of Ethnicity
by Sian Jones Publisher Comments Siân Jones responds to the need for a radical reassessment of the ways in which past cultural groups are reconstructed from archaeological evidence with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories....
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The Origin Map
by Thomas G Brophy Publisher Comments On a desolate plain in the Egyptian Sahara desert, west of Aswan, there is a very remote prehistoric site called Nabta Playa. There, a recently discovered complex of extremely ancient man-made megalithic structures have baffled the archaeologists who...
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End of Days, The
by Zecharia Sitchin Publisher Comments Why is it that our current twenty-first century a.d. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? At a time when religious fanaticism and a clash of civilizations raise the specter of a nuclear Armageddon, many ask: Is history destined to repeat...
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The Archaeology of Household Activities
by Penelope M. Allison Synopsis Household archaeology has traditionally relied on architectural remains to investigate the role of households in the wider community, often ignoring the information that smaller artifacts can provide about the individuality of household members and the...
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Gender and Material Culture
by Roberta Gilchrist Publisher Comments Reveals, through a close comparison of monasteries for men and women, stark contrasts in the social and economic status of these religious foundations. The book provides the first complete case study in the applied archaeology of gender....
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The Experience of Ancient Egypt
by Rosalie David Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of religion, of beliefs and practices surrounding death, of everyday life and of literature....
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The Archaeology Coursebook
by Jim Grant Description Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index....
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The Familiar Past?
by Sarah Tarlow TOC Processional city : some issues for historical archaeology /Roger Leech --Material culture of food in early modern England c.1650-1750 /Sara Pennell --Building Jerusalem : transfer-printed finewares and the creation of British identity /Alasdair Brooks --...
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