Archaeology by period / region Books
The University of Alabama Press Method and Theory in American Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis is a facsimile reprint of a 1958 title. It outlines the state of American archaeology at that time. It suggests that little interpretation was taking in place in American Archaeology, and offered an analytical perspective.Trade ReviewThis newly edited edition will give the large number of new millennium archaeologists a chance to read and own a pivotal work in American archaeological theory. - Stephen Williams Harvard University
£30.56
University of Alabama Press New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology
Book SynopsisIn this text, based on a symposium presented at the 1998 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century.Trade ReviewThis is a unique collection of original, in-depth archival/manuscript research that is chock-full of new insights and information about the origins of American archaeology. More than providing substance, this inspirational volume sets the standard and provides the model for archaeologists interested in pursuing similar studies into the poorly lit corners of our discipline's past. - James Stoltman University of Wisconsin
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press The Woodland Southeast
Book SynopsisThe Woodland Period (ca 1200BC to AD1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research since the late 1970s. Researchers learned that the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism and population growth. This work covers research themes in this area.Trade Review1000 B.C.-A.D. 1000, the proverbial vacuum that Native and Southeastern archaeologists abhor? Well, no more! This volume provides wide ranging, up-to-date, and authoritative coverage of an important period in southeastern prehistory that, until now, has not received the emphasis it deserves. - James Stoltman University of Wisconsin
£36.51
The University of Alabama Press WCMcKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method
Book SynopsisThis volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship
Book SynopsisBy contextualising classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Megadrought in the Carolinas The Archaeology of
Book SynopsisConsiders the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast. In Megadrought in the Carolinas, John Cable demonstrates through the application of innovative ceramic analysis that a fifteenth-century abandonment event took place across an area of some 34.5 million acres centered on the South Carolina coast.Trade ReviewQuestions concerning regional abandonment and migration of agricultural societies loom large throughout all of North America. Cable has provided the first book-length topic on this issue as it applies to anywhere in eastern North America, and it will clearly set the tone for future efforts along these lines in the Southeast." - Charles R. Cobb, author of From Quarry to Cornfield: The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe ProductionTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Central South Carolina Coast: At the Margins of South Appalachian Mississippian Interaction 2. A Model of Ceramic Change for the Eastern Wing of South Appalachian Mississippian 3. The Fifteenth-Century Depopulation of the Central South Carolina Coast 4. The Cultural and Natural Geography of Megadrought 5. Regions of the Greater Desert of Ocute 6. Migration to the Ring of Drought Resilience 7. Drought-Related Indigenous Disease Epidemics 8. The Broader Implications of Late Prehistoric Societal Collapse and Transformation in the Southern Latitudes of the United States during an Age of Global Warming References Index
£47.60
The University of Alabama Press Las Varas Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient
Book SynopsisReveals a rare case of finding ethnicity by relying solely on archaeological remains. Howard Tsai analyses data from the excavation of Las Varas within a theoretical framework based on current understandings of ethnicity, and demonstrates the potential for archaeologists to discover how ethnic identities were constructed in the past.Trade ReviewArchaeologists and anthropologists have been interested in ethnicity for many years. Las Varas is a welcome addition to this literature, offering a unique study of relationships between different ethnic groups in the chaupiyunga zone." - Christina Conlee, author of Beyond the Nasca Lines: Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert
£36.51
The University of Alabama Press Signs of Power The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Book SynopsisBy focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artefacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies.Trade ReviewThis volume aptly Illustrates the very complex nature of Archaic societies that constructed the earliest earthworks in the New World and sets their activities in the broader context of their times. - John Kelly, Washington University at St. Louis
£33.11
The University of Alabama Press The MoundBuilders Classics in Southeastern Archaeology
Book SynopsisIn this title, Henry Clyde Shetrone made available to general readers the archaeological research data and conclusions concerning the ancient mounds and earthworks that dot the landscape of eastern North America. He explained that their purposes were defensive and ceremonial, that they had been used for habitation, burial, and worship.
£33.11
The University of Alabama Press The RockArt of Eastern North America Capturing
Book SynopsisRock-art provides a record of human activity and ideology at particular sites. This text brings together 20 papers from research at sites in eastern North America. Discussions include the history, ethnography, recording methods, dating, and analysis of the subject sites and integrate these with the known archaeological data.Trade ReviewAnyone with an interest in rock-art must own this book! - F. Kent Reilly III, Southwest Texas State University
£33.11
The University of Alabama Press Plains Earthlodges
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers provides a comprehensive gathering of the current research into earthlodges in a variety of Plains Indian cultures - Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Oglala Sioux - in the territory of the upper Missouri River and its tributaries.Trade ReviewAn excellent body of work that will serve as an important reference for many years. - George H. Odell, University of Tulsa
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press San Jacinto 1 A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the data gathered and the interpretations made during excavation and analysis of the San Jacinto 1 site. By examining the social activities of a human population in a highly seasonal environment, it adds to our contemporary understanding of the historical ecology of the tropics.Trade ReviewAn outstanding summary of the important San Jacinto site.... Few sites in the Americas offer this kind of window into early human complexity....The authors have written a remarkable synthesis of the ecological and behavioral issues surrounding early pottery making and intensive plant manipulation in the lowland tropics of Colombia. Geographers, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Latin Americanists, and archaeologists will find this an essential source of information on a key region of early South American civilization. - Tom D. Dillehay, Vanderbilt University
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley
Book SynopsisProvides a vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term Woodland. This volume represents an important step toward establishing terminology and taxa that are appropriate to interpreting cultural diversity in the region. It addresses the issues in the context of the Middle Ohio Valley Woodland Period research.
£26.96
University of Alabama Press Prehistoric America Classics in Southeastern Archaeology
Book SynopsisWith the settling of the New World, word spread throughout Europe of the native inhabitants, their artifacts, communities, and culture. This book addresses the antiquity of humans in the New World, drawing upon the scientific data compiled on the inhabitants and their cultures.
£44.20
The University of Alabama Press Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Chronology Content Context Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Paperback
Book SynopsisOne of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The last comprehensive study of the melding of these concepts into the term Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) is quite old. This work presents data on the temporal and social contexts, artistic styles, and symbolic themes included in the complex.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press thenatureofanancientmayacityresourcesinteractionandpoweratblue
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the architectural features. This work reveals what daily Maya life was like.Trade ReviewClearly written, substantive, and well-organized, this volume is a summary of the most important aspects of the research and is designed to alert the discipline to the major discoveries and interpretations. - David Freidel, Southern Methodist University
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press Reachable Stars Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of
Book SynopsisModern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach the young. This book offers a review of native American myths.Trade ReviewThis book is an absolutely amazing work. The content and organization are wonderful. It shows extensive research, synthesis, impeccable analysis of themes, and thought-provoking discussion throughout. - Carol Diaz-Granados, Research Associate and Lecturer, Washington University, St. Louis
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The University of Alabama Press Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
Book SynopsisEnslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. This book shows how archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into their daily lifeways and culture.Trade ReviewThe manuscript is thorough and richly textured in use of ethnohistoric, art history, archaeological, and historical data. This will be a useful and concise source of data. - Amy L. Young, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Southern Mississippi ""This is a well-conducted piece of exciting synthetic research on a topic of interest to many archaeologists. This study features a thorough and sophisticated integration of ethnographic, documentary, and archaeological analyses. This work is an outstanding example of contextual archaeology."" - Laurie A. Wilkie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press SunWatch Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
Book SynopsisPresents a model for investigations of the Mississippian dimensions of Fort Ancient societies. This work focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change.Trade ReviewThe book presents new data and new types of analyses for the SunWatch site, and does have the potential to contribute to the literature. This is particularly true since very few books dealing with the Fort Ancient archaeological tradition have been published in recent years. - Penelope B. Drooker, author of Mississippian Village Textiles as Wickliffe ""Cook presents some interesting ideas regarding Fort Ancient society and the consequences of interaction between Fort Ancient societies and Mississippian societies."" - John Scarry, author of Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States
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The University of Alabama Press Speaking with the Ancestors Mississippian Stone Statuary of the TennesseeCumberland Region Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Book SynopsisCompiling the data from early documents and public and private collections, this title remind us that the statuary should not be viewed in isolation, but rather as regional expressions of a much broader body of art, ritual, and belief. It also includes examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press PreColumbian Jamaica Caribbean Archaeology and
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The University of Alabama Press Times River
Book SynopsisServes as a resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky. This title examines the matters of method and theory, the application of materials science, geophysics, and other tools in archaeology that provide for better data-recovery.Trade ReviewThis will be a critical volume to contribute to the archaeology of Mississippi, the Southeast, and North America that will stimulate vital research. - T. R. Kidder, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University at St. Louis
£36.51
University of Alabama Press Woodland Potters and Archaeological Ceramics of the North Carolina Coast
Book SynopsisExamines the manner in which pottery traits cross-cut taxonomic types, tests the proposition that communities of practice existed at several scales, and questions the fundamental notion of ceramic types as ethnic markers. This study intends to interpret the meaning of pottery as an indicator of social activity on the North Carolina coast.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Holocene Huntergatherers of the Lower Ohio River
Book SynopsisAddresses the approximately 7,000 years of the prehistory of eastern North America, termed the Archaic Period by archaeologists. This title focuses on a 380-mile section of the Lower Ohio River Valley, an area rife with temporary and long-term Archaic sites. It covers the duration of the Holocene and offers a compendium of knowledge of the era.
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Mississippian Polity and Politics on the Gulf Coastal Plain A View from the Pearl River Mississippi
£19.76
University of Alabama Press Out of Many One People
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The University of Alabama Press Footprints in Stone
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£38.66
The University of Alabama Press Feeding Cahokia Early Agriculture in the North
Book SynopsisOffers an authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia. The book presents evidence to demonstrate that the emphasis on corn has created a distorted picture of Cahokia's agricultural practices.Trade ReviewFeeding Cahokia is an excellent summation of cultivated plant subsistence practices as evidenced by the material record from the interior Midwest. Because it is written in an accessible manner, it will appeal to anyone interested in the native cultivated crop complex; first in documenting its very existence and secondly for setting the record straight on its importance. As such, it is a good introduction to those topics for archaeologists wanting to understand and incorporate the archaeobotanical record into their research." - Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology"This is an excellent book that examines a topic with deep roots in American archaeology: the role of agriculture in the rapid growth, florescence, and decline of Cahokia Mounds, the largest prehistoric population center north of Mexico. As Fritz points out, numerous debates surround this topic. For years, the archaeological story maintained that Cahokia's ruling class governed via a wealth distribution system that relied mainly on corn grown by the lowest classes of society. Fritz sees this as a vastly oversimplified scenario that misrepresents the status of farmers, who were primarily women and girls of various socioeconomic levels. Further, the narrow focus on corn as the primary crop overlooks the abundant evidence that numerous other plants, including knotweed, chenopodium, and maygrass, were major contributors to the Cahokia diet. Fritz puts that diet in excellent perspective by examining the archaeobotanical record for the several thousand years prior to the rise of Cahokia. Twenty-two color plates add substantially to the text, and each chapter concludes with recipes for preparing the plants discussed. What fun! Highly recommended." - CHOICE"In Feeding Cahokia, Gayle Fritz has provided new data that leads to new insights about the role of domestic crops and the farmers who grew them in such abundance that they supported Cahokia's population. This readable volume brings together years of research and paints a new and enlightened picture of the United States' greatest ancient city." - American Archaeology"A significant contribution both to our understanding of food and farming among ancient American Indians and to our understanding of the largest American Indian polity north of Mexico." - C. Margaret Scarry, editor of Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands and coeditor of Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland"This thorough and accessible, beautifully written contribution provides a data-driven account of the agricultural systems of Cahokia. Feeding Cahokia reminds us that our agricultural systems have changed in the past, and they will change again. This epic work raises the intriguing question: could some of the crops grown by the residents of Cahokia have a role to play in the future of agriculture in the American Heartland? Dr. Fritz's book provides a deep historical description of agriculture in this region, and offers a sense of resilience and hope for future food systems." - Economic Botany"Here, for the first time, dozens of monographs and syntheses are marshaled to deal with the many topics and problems that have arisen over the timing and nature of the biologically diverse agricultural system unique to the central Mississippi Valley." - James A. Brown, coeditor of Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American MidwestTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Domesticating Gourds and Forests Chapter 2. Sunflower and Marshelder: Late Archaic Period Eastern Crops Chapter 3. Rise of the Eastern Agricultural Complex: Terminal Late Archaic and Early Woodland Periods Chapter 4. Seeds of Exchange: The Middle Woodland Period Chapter 5. Good Late Woodland Farmers in the American Bottom Chapter 6. Feasting at Early Cahokia Chapter 7. Early Mississippian Plant Use Chapter 8. Guardians of All Vegetation Chapter 9. Crop Production: Estimates of Yields and Dietary Proportions Chapter 10. How to Feed Cahokia: Cultivating Fields and Social Relationships Chapter 11. The Farmers Vote with Their Feet Chapter 12. What Can We Learn from the Past? References Cited Index Plates follow page 000.
£23.36
The University of Alabama Press The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities
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University of Pittsburgh Press Bone Wars
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£18.40
University of Hawai'i Press The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island
Book SynopsisWere there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai'i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? This book answers these and other questions.
£27.71
University of Hawai'i Press Ancient Ryukyu
Book SynopsisExplores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human presence in the region up to AD 1609 and the emergence of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It focuses on the unique geopolitical position of the islands, their environment, and the many human communities whose historical activities can be discerned.
£23.96
University of Hawai'i Press Feasting in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisDocuments the dynamics of traditional feasting and the ways in which a bewildering array of different types of feasts benefits hosts. Brian Hayden argues that people's ability to marry, reproduce, defend themselves against threats and attacks, and protect their interests in village politics all depend on their ability to engage in feasting networks.
£25.56
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Breaking Through Mexicos Past Digging the Aztecs
Book SynopsisBased on a series of interviews conducted by Mesoamericanists, this work is the biography of Mexico's award-winning archaeologist, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. It demonstrates Eduardo's determination to recover Mexico's cultural past.
£26.96
James Currey Iron Technology in East Africa
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this study is to recuperate the history of African iron technology.Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iron smelting over two thousand years in East and Central Africa. North America: Indiana U PressTrade ReviewLike the act of iron smelting itself, this important book can be understood and used on many levels: as a technological reference on a vanished craft; as a reference tool for archaeologists to analyse and explain the evidence of ironworking; as a study of the role ritual and belief play in technological process of recent societies; and - more challenging, more problematic - the use of this to understand symbolism and cognition in the earlier societies of the African Iron Age. -- Robin Derricourt * AFSAAP *With archaeologists increasingly emphasizing the need of looking at a geographically broader range of case-studies and of integrating archaeology, anthropology and history, Schmidt's book comes at a highly appropriate time. -- Peter Mitchell, Lecturer in African Archaeology, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsRemaking knowledge about African iron technology; historical and cultural contexts - excavating history, myth and ritual; ethnoarchaeology and experiment in iron technology; ethnoarchaeology and bricolage - engaging iron smelting; a technological model of the Haya process; comparative models - forging a history of Haya iron smelting; dynamic models for an archaeology of iron technology; models for the interpretation of space - smelting and forging; an archaeology of African iron symbolism; reading ideology in the archaeological record; a history of landscape transformation - bringing the past up to the present.
£30.24
Liverpool University Press Pharaoh Triumphant The Life and Times of Ramesses
Book SynopsisA thorough and detailed account of one of the best known pharaohs of Egypt, written by the leading expert on the subject. Kitchen discusses the early life and childhood of the young king, his reign, politics, wars and policies, and his death and the after-life.
£34.99
Liverpool University Press An Elementary Coptic Grammar of the Sahidic
Book SynopsisCoptic is the language of the Ancient Egyptians written in Greek letters (with some additions) and though it is no longer spoken it is still the liturgical language of the Coptic Christians of Egypt. It is thus of great interest to those learning ancient Egyptian as well as those who want to study one of the earliest Christian traditions.
£27.96
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Painted by a Distant Hand
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Feeding the Ancestors
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Piedras Negras
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£35.66
MP-NEV University of Nevada The Archaeology of the Donner Party
Book SynopsisThe tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847. This work offers insight into the ordeal of these ill-fated emigrants and demonstrates the vital role that archaeology can play in expanding our understanding of historical events.Trade Review"The Archaeology of the Donner Party is a significant book, not simply because it provides new insights regarding a well-covered episode of western history, but also because it demonstrates how historians and archaeologists can work together to arrive at conclusions of benefit to both disciplines. The result is good history and good archaeology." - Western Historical Quarterly"
£16.76
Cornell University Press Cahokias Countryside
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A new and insightful synthesis of change in late prehistoric Mississippian communities.... A pace-setting example of archaeological research."—Choice "A valuable contrast to the traditional focus on big sites and prominent mounds.... Lively debates over issues raised...will undoubtedly continue for a long time." -AntiquityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction Theoretical Perspectives on Settlement in the Cahokia Region Sites, Features, and Methodology Analysis: Patterns of Settlement in the Archaeological Record Interpretation: Summary and Settlement Model Conclusion: Changing Life Ways in a Rural Landscape Notes Works Cited Index
£27.90
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection collectingtheprecolumbianpast
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Making Value Making Meaning
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£53.51
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks
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£46.71
MP-TAM Texas A&M University Culture of Stone Sacred and Profane Uses of
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£52.50
Getty Trust Publications Greeks of the Black Sea Ancient Art From the
Book SynopsisThe ancient Greeks were one of the most feared and respected sea-faring peoples of their era. One such area was the north coast of the Black Sea. This work is an illustrated collection of essays that explore the Grecian archeology of the Northern Black Sea region and its history, culture, and art - including sculpture, pottery, and gems.
£47.50
Yale University Press The 1946 and 1953 Yale University Excavations in
Book SynopsisIn 1946 and 1953, Irving "Ben" Rouse led archaeological excavations at prehistoric to protohistoric sites on the island of Trinidad. This book presents an analysis of these excavations - until now unpublished.
£61.75
