Archaeology Books
Murphy & Moore Publishing New Insights Into Archaeoastronomy
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£109.46
Murphy & Moore Publishing New Perspectives on Maritime Archaeology
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£109.46
Murphy & Moore Publishing Recent Developments in Archaeometry
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£107.38
Murphy & Moore Publishing The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
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£104.25
Penn State University Press Lahav VIII The EB III and LB II to Iron II Strata in the Western City at Tell Halif
£100.99
Wipf & Stock Publishers What Was Jesus Thinking?
£20.90
Academica Press The Oldest Art of Siberia: Technologies, Forms,
Book SynopsisPrimitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society.
£135.00
Academica Press Homo Eurasicus: New Scholarly Views of Siberia
Book SynopsisThis volume contains five chapters that present highly original research on Siberia's unique history by five Russian scholars. The volume is edited by Prof. Elena A. Okladnikova, a faculty member of the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The articles include discussions of seafaring along the Siberian coast, ethnolinguistic considerations, the worldview of inner Asian nomads, and ethnocultural understandings of civilization crossroads.
£135.00
University Press of Florida Massacres: Bioarchaeology and Forensic
Book SynopsisThis volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and modern societies, and by analyzing skeletal remains from these events within their broader cultural and historical contexts this volume opens up important new understandings of the underlying social processes that continue to lead to these tragedies.In case studies that include Crow Creek in South Dakota, Khmer Rouge–era Cambodia, the Peruvian Andes, and northern Uganda, contributors demonstrate that massacres are a process?a nonrandom pattern of events that precede the acts of violence and continue long afterward. They also show how massacres have varying aims and are driven by culture-specific forces and logic, ranging from small events to cases of genocide. Many of these studies examine bones found in mass graves, while others focus on victims whose bodies have never been buried. Notably, the volume expands widely held definitions of massacres to include structural violence, featuring the radical argument that the large-scale death of undocumented migrants in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert should be viewed as an extended massacre.This volume is the first to focus exclusively on massacres as a unique form of violence. Its interdisciplinary approach illuminates similarities in human behavior across time and space, provides methods for identifying killings as massacres, and helps today’s societies learn from patterns of the past. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen.
£70.50
University Press of Florida The Cumberland River Archaic of Middle Tennessee
Book SynopsisFor thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Middle Cumberland River Valley harvested shellfish for food and raw materials then deposited the remains in dense concentrations along the river. Very little research has been published on the Archaic period shell mounds in this region. Demonstrating that nearly forty such sites exist, this volume presents the results of recent surveys, excavations, and laboratory work as well as fresh examinations of past investigations that have been difficult for scholars to access. In these essays, contributors describe an emergency riverbank survey of shell-bearing sites that were discovered, reopened, or damaged in the aftermath of recent flooding. Their studies of these sites feature stratigraphic analysis, radiocarbon dating, zooarchaeological data, and other interpretive methods. Other essays in the volume provide the first widely accessible summary of previous work on sites that have long been known. Contributors also address larger topics such as GIS analysis of settlement patterns, research biases, and current debates about the purpose of shell mounds. This volume provides an enormous amount of valuable data from the abundant material record of a fascinating people, place, and time. It is a landmark synthesis that will improve our understanding of the individual communities and broader cultures that created shell mounds across the southeastern United States.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.
£85.50
University Press of Florida Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands
Book SynopsisFrontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence. Essays in this volume examine borderland settings in cultural contexts that include Roman Egypt, Iron Age Italy, eleventh-century Iceland, and the precontact American Great Basin and Southwest. Contributors look at isotope data, skeletal stress markers, craniometric and dental metric information, mortuary arrangements, and other evidence to examine how frontier life can affect health and socioeconomic status. Illustrating the many meanings and definitions of frontiers and borderlands, they question assumptions about the relationships between people, place, and identity. As national borders continue to ignite controversy in today’s society and politics, the research presented here is more important than ever. The long history of people who have lived in borderland areas helps us understand the challenges of adapting to these dynamic and often violent places. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer LarsenTrade Review“Richly theorized and methodologically rigorous, this volume delivers a timely and nuanced discussion of frontiers and borderlands not merely as the peripheries of complex societies but as their own complex and dynamic spaces of interaction and lived experience.” ―Bethany L. Turner, Georgia State University“The subject of boundaries and frontiers has not been explored in bioarchaeological studies to its full potential. In this volume, contributors discuss boundaries from multiple perspectives that crosscut political, social, and economic domains.” ―Dale L. Hutchinson, author of Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America
£103.55
University Press of Florida The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
Book SynopsisAbnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Deconstructing "Deviant": An Introduction to the History of Atypical Burials and the Importance of Context in the Bioarchaeological Record 1. Bodies Among Fragments: Non-Normative Inhumations among the Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin 2. Interpreting a Multiple Burial in an Early Ancestral Pueblo Village 3. A Young Man Twice Burned: A Deviant Burial from West-Central Illinois 4. The Odd Man Out in a Pioneer Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California 5. Defining Non-Normative Practices in a Diverse Funerary Record: Insights from the Caribbean 6. Good, Bad, or Indifferent? A Unique "Deviant" Burial from the Formative Site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes 7. The Hunchback, the Contortionist, the Man with the Stolen Identity, and the One Who Will be Born in the Afterlife: Pre-Hispanic Deviant Burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru 8. Friend or Foe? Investigating a Mass Burial at the Templo de la Piedra Segrada at Túcume, Peru 9. What's the Norm? "Irregular" and "Regular" Burial Practices of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe 10. Burial in a Kiln: Transgression and Punishment in Late Antiquity 11. Variation Beyond the Grave: Contextualizing Unusual Burials in Early Medieval Bohemia 12. Good and Bad Death in Early Medieval Times? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Non-Normative Burials in Finland in the Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries ADU 13. Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview 14. Does Health Define Deviancy? Non-Normative Burials in Post-Medieval Poland 15. The "Vampires" of Lesvos: Detecting and Interpreting Anti-Revenant Ritual in Greece 16. Natural Mummification as a Non-Normative Mortuary Custom of Modern Period Sicily (1600-1800) 17. Out of Range? Non-normative Funerary Practices from the Neolithic to the early Twentieth Century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey 18. Deviant Treatment of the Body as a Mortuary Ritual: A Case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan 19. Ancestors, Conflict, and Criminality in Ancient China and Mongolia 20. Dependent Deviance: Castration and Deviant Burial Afterword Contributors
£70.50
University Press of Florida Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community
Book SynopsisThis book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Yazoo Basin, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the mid-sixteenth century. Refining the widely accepted theory that this society was strongly hierarchical, Erin Nelson provides data that suggest communities navigated tensions between authority and autonomy in their placemaking and in their daily lives. Drawing on archaeological evidence from foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of communal space at the site, Nelson argues that Mississippian people negotiated contradictory ideas about what it meant to belong to a community. For example, although they clearly had powerful leaders, communities built mounds and other structures in ways that re-created their views of the cosmos, expressing values of wholeness and balance. Nelson's findings shed light on the inner workings of Mississippian communities and other hierarchical societies of the period.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
£76.00
University Press of Florida Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States
Book SynopsisThe years 1500–1700 AD were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans.Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Carden Bottoms: Indigenous Responses to Europeans on the Far Reaches of the Mississippian Shatter — George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, Leslie C. Walker, Jami J. Lockhart, Ann M. Early, and Rebecca L. F. Wiewel 2. The Early Contact Period in the Black Prairie of Northeast Mississippi — Edmond A. Boudreaux, III, Charles R. Cobb, Emily Clark, Chester B. DePratter, James Legg, Brad R. Lieb, Allison M. Smith, and Steven D. Smith 3. Oliver and Orchard Thumbnail Scrapers, a Technological and Source-Area Analysis — Jay K. Johnson and Ryan M. Parish 4. Tracking an Entrada by Comparative Analysis of sixteenth-Century Archaeological Assemblages from the Southeast — Dennis B. Blanton 5. Spanish Florida and the Southeastern Indians, 1513-1650 — John E. Worth 6. New Frontier, Old Frontier — Ramie A. Gougeon 7. Avoidance Strategies of a Displaced Post-Mississippian Society on the Northern Gulf Coast, circa 1710 — Gregory A. Waselkov and Philip J. Carr 8. An Arc of Interaction, a Flow of People, and Emergent Identity: Early Contact period Archaeology and Early European Interactions in the Middle Nolichucky Valley of Upper East Tennessee — Nathan K. Shreve, Jay D. Franklin, Eileen G. Ernenwein, Maureen A. Hays, and Ilaria Patania 9. From the Coast to the Mountains: Marine Shell Artifacts at Cherokee Towns in the Southern Appalachians —Christopher B. Rodning 10. Life at the Frontier of the sixteenth-seventeenth Century World Economy: Fort Ancient Hide Production at the Hardin Site, Greenup County, Kentucky — Matthew Davidson 11. The Seventeenth-Century Native-Colonial Borderlands of Savannah River Valley —Maureen Meyers 12. Yamasee Mobility: Responding to European Colonization through Old and New Strategies — Denise I. Bossy 13. Differential Responses Across the Southeast to European Incursions: A Conclusion —Robbie Ethridge Bibliography Index Contributors
£85.50
University Press of Florida Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Building on the field-defining research in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, contributors expand the scope of the subject regionally, theoretically, and methodologically. This collection moves beyond the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record.Case studies in this volume come from both New World and Old World settings, including sites in North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. The communities investigated range from early Holocene hunter-gatherers to nineteenth-century urban poor. Contributors broaden the concept of identity to include disability or health status, age, social class, religion, occupation, and communal and familial identities. In addition to combining bioarchaeological data with oral history and material artifacts, they use new methods including social network analysis and more humanistic approaches in osteobiography. Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited offers updated ways of conceptualizing identity across time and space.A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
£89.30
University Press of Florida Repatriation and Erasing the Past
Book SynopsisEngaging a current controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research.Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer offer a thoughtful critique of repatriation—both the ideology and the laws that support it. Repatriation and Erasing the Past is a helpful assessment for scholars and students who wish to understand both sides of the debate.
£67.50
University Press of Florida Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America
Book SynopsisIn Modeling Entradas, Clay Mathers brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages. These expeditions into the interior of the North American continent were among the first contacts between New- and Old-World communities, and the study of how they were organized and the routes they took—based on the artifacts they left behind—illuminates much about the sixteenth-century indigenous world and the colonizing efforts of Spain. Focusing on the entradas of conquistadors Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, and Juan Pardo, contributors offer insights from recently discovered sites including encampments, battlefields, and shipwrecks. Using the latest interpretive perspectives, they turn the narrative of conquest from a simple story of domination to one of happenstance, circumstance, and interactions between competing social, political, and cultural worlds. These essays delve into the dynamic relationships between Native Americans and Europeans in a variety of contexts including exchange, disease, conflict, and material production.This volume offers valuable models for evaluating, synthesizing, and comparing early expeditions, showing how object-oriented and site-focused analyses connect to the anthropological dimensions of early contact, patterns of regional settlement, and broader historical trajectories such as globalization. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
£89.30
University Press of Florida The Making of Mississippian Tradition
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America's Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. Using evidence from recent excavations at the Audrey-North site in the Lower Illinois River Valley, Friberg examines the cultural give-and-take Audrey inhabitants experienced between new Cahokian customs and old Woodland ways of life.Comparing the architecture, pottery, and lithics uncovered here with data from thirty-five other sites across five different regions, Friberg reveals how the social, economic, and political influence of Cahokia shaped the ways Audrey inhabitants negotiated identities and made new traditions. Friberg's broad interregional analysis also provides evidence that these diverse groups of people were engaged in a network of interaction and exchange outside Cahokia's control. The Making of Mississippian Tradition offers a fascinating glimpse into the dynamics of cultural exchange in precolonial settlements, and its detailed reconstruction of Audrey society offers a new, more nuanced interpretation of how and why Mississippian lifeways developed.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.
£80.75
University Press of Florida The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America's deep past. Previously, archaeologists studying "prehistoric" America focused on long-term evolutionary change, imagining ancient societies like living organisms slowly adapting to environmental challenges. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how today's researchers are incorporating a new awareness that the precolonial era was also shaped by people responding to historical trends and forces.Essays in this volume delve into sites across what is now the United States Southeast—the St. Johns River Valley, the Gulf Coast, Greater Cahokia, Fort Ancient, the southern Appalachians, and the Savannah River Valley. Prominent scholars of the region highlight the complex interplay of events, human decision-making, movements, and structural elements that combined to shape native societies. The research in this volume represents a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and begins to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America.
£80.75
University Press of Florida Presidios of Spanish West Florida
Book SynopsisA landmark study of Spain's fortified settlements in West Florida from a lifelong specialist on the periodPresidios of Spanish West Florida provides the first comprehensive synthesis of historical and archaeological investigations conducted at the fortified settlements built by Spain in the Florida panhandle from 1698 to 1763. Combining intensive research by author Judith Bense, a lifelong specialist on the Spanish West Florida period, with a century's worth of additional data, this landmark study brings to light four presidio locations that have long been overshadowed by the presidio at St. Augustine to the east, revealing the rest of the story of early Spanish Florida. Bense details a history fraught with catastrophe—hurricanes, war against France and England, and treaties that forced the Spanish base in West Florida to be uprooted and rebuilt four times. Examining each presidio, including associated military outposts, shipwrecks, and refugee mission villages of the Apalachee and Yamasee Indians, this book provides four discrete, sequential windows into the Spanish presence in the region. Bense compares the population to that of Presidio San Agustin, established 133 years later, revealing very different communities, people, and local customs. Interwoven with these historical findings is an account of how the general public has participated in investigations in the region, providing readers with an understanding of eighteenth-century West Florida and the development of public archaeology in the state from the person who initiated and directed much of the research.
£85.50
University Press of Florida The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in
Book SynopsisExamining the long-lasting effects of European colonization on Mexican populationsThe Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the response to European colonization, providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change.Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars’ work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the castas system—which the colonizers used to organize society according to parentage and the social construction of race—on individuals’ and groups’ access to power, social mobility, health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly understood extent that this system—and the national identity of mestizaje that replaced it—caused structural inequality and the structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well as genetic admixture.Five hundred years after the Spanish first clashed with Aztec forces and began to influence modern Mexico, this volume adds to discussions of colonialism, the reconstruction of biosocial relationships, and the work of decolonization. Students and scholars in anthropology and history will gain insights into how human populations transform and adapt in the wake of major historical events that result in migration, demographic change, and social upheaval.
£67.50
Wipf & Stock Publishers Myths of Enki, The Crafty God
£24.61
Grecia P. Saavedra Ancker Haply And The Vasa Ship: Based on the historic 1628 event of the Vasa Ship
£19.79
Old Paths Publications, Inc The Historical Defense of 1 John 5: 7-8: The Unjustly Exscinded Text of the Three Divine Witnesses
£23.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Lost Mysteries of Egypt
£15.36
Horeb Press The Moses Scroll
£16.80
Wessex Archaeology Joining the Dots: uniting Salisbury's past through holes in the ground
Book SynopsisSalisbury is renowned for its superb medieval cathedral and planned city centred on its market. Traces of timber-framed buildings, which served as homes for countless generations of Salisbury occupants, still remain. The lives of these former residents can now start to be reconstructed from the archaeological evidence as parts of the city have been redeveloped. Foundations of former houses can be matched with upstanding buildings to reconstruct the appearance of medieval Salisbury. The everyday lives, health, diet, occupations and social status of the residents can be illustrated using pottery, animal bones and food remains referencing how the urban population integrated with communities in rural areas. This volume attempts to bring these diverse strands of archaeological evidence together for the first time to tell the story of this cathedral city and its residents through its engaging past.
£21.80
Extremis Publishing Limited The Bannock Burn: Journeys Along and Across the World’s Most Famous Burn
£14.99
ANU Press West New Guinea
£37.39
Sydney University Press Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects
£46.86
Sapling Books The Origin of Species (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
£29.95
Oneworld Publications Archaeology: A Beginner's Guide
Book SynopsisWhether it’s Tomb Raider or Roman coins, the conventional view of archaeology as a discipline solely preoccupied with long dead cultures is misleading. In fact, archaeology is better described as a mode of thought – one by which we can better understand our past, present and future. Indeed, by studying artefacts of past human activity, we can even learn to better tackle great contemporary challenges like high population density and climate change. Spanning the globe and centuries – from Mesolithic burials in Sweden to modern landfill sites in Arizona – Joe Flatman shows how to view the world with an archaeologist’s insight. What does a discarded food packet reveal about contemporary consumption patterns? How can infrared satellite imagery tell archaeologists where to undertake expensive excavation projects? What can archaeology reveal about the beginnings of the human race? Replete with textboxes highlighting key case studies from the history of the subject, and containing invaluable diagrams and photos illustrating the reality of being an archaeologist, this is the essential primer to reading landscapes, objects, and places.Trade Review'Readers with a longer-standing involvement may gain some refreshing perspective from this attempt to present an overview in an age of specialisation'. * British Archaeology *“[This book] stands apart for the clarity and simplicity of its approach, its focus on archaeological interpretation throughout and for being packed full of rich case studies… an introduction of global reach with a distinctive voice.” -- Howard Williams, Professor of Archaeology, University of Chester"An exceptionally clear and engaging insight into how archaeologists understand the world." -- Dr Benjamin Roberts, Lecturer in Archaeology, Durham University
£17.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Early European Castles: Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200
Book SynopsisMedieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence. Looking at above and below-ground evidence and examining a wide variety of sites - from towering donjons to earth and timber castles - in different parts of western Europe, this book explores the relationship between early castle building and the emergence of a new aristocracy and investigates the impact of authority on the organisation of the landscape. A particular focus is on the social context of early private fortifications: Europe’s earliest castles came to embody a new and radically different form of power – an aristocratic authority that was highly personal in nature, glaringly visible in its presence, and enforceable through violence, both threatened and real. The volume reassesses traditional models of castle origins; examines aspects of elite lifestyle in and around these structures, including pastimes and diet; considers medieval visual experiences of sites and their settings; and explores some future directions for research.Trade ReviewThe prolific medieval archaeologist and academic author Oliver Creighton has now produced an excellent and thought-provoking short book on the origins and early development of European castles to c AD 1200 . . . This short book makes the formative stages of the ‘medieval castle’ on the European stage much more accessible to readers. -- Terry Barry, Trinity College, Dublin * Medieval Archaeology *Of necessity broad in approach, Oliver Creighton’s text provides us with an accessible, lucid and compelling narrative that introduces the main themes and methods that have emerged in castle studies over the last century, and provides us with a series of illustrative examples to support each area of discussion, without becoming submerged in complex detail. -- Richard Oram * Archaeological Journal *Table of ContentsPreface List of illustrations Debating the European 'Castral Revolution' Earth and Timber Castles Stone Towers of Status and Display The Broader Context: Landscape and Townscape Conclusions: The Rise of the Seigneury Bibliography Index
£30.43
Equinox Publishing Ltd Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis:
Book SynopsisSearching for Structure in Pottery Analysis addresses the theoretical and methodological imperatives involved in (re)integrating descriptive, structural, and compositional analytical methods in a series of contributions from a diverse group of experts in archaeological pottery. Drawing on the life's work of materials scientist Cyril Stanley Smith (The Search For Structure, MIT Press, 1981), a pioneering materials scientist who brought an important focus on structure to studies of a variety of archaeological materials, the contributors focus on those forms of analysis which investigate structural characteristics of ceramics and the methodologies that link such structural characteristics with the typological and compositional data that compose the majority of evidence in contemporary ceramic analyses. The chapters include essays organized into two sections: the first focuses on how the practices of ceramic production and the structures they generate enable inferences about the social relations between producers and consumers of pottery; and the second focuses on the role structure plays in the refraction and maintenance of different forms of social grouping and identity. These two themes serve as orienting foci for a broad set of heuristic and technical tools that have the potential to alter how archaeologists extract and identify the social information captured in the multifarious properties of pottery and transform contemporary understandings of the different roles ceramics played in past societies.Table of ContentsForeword Heather Lechtman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1. The Structure of Ceramic Analysis: Multiple Scales and Instruments in the Analysis of Production Alan F. Greene and Charles W. Hartley 2. From Texture to Temper: A Multi-scalar Approach to Identifying Variation in Clay Preparation Strategies MaryFran Heinsch, University of Chicago 3. Producing Structure: The Role of Ceramic Production in Understanding Chaco-period Communities in the American Southwest Andrew I. Duff, Washington State University 4. Ceramic Production and Society in the Late Majiayao Culture of Northwest China Michele Koons, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Jade D’Alpoim Guedes, University of California, San Diego 5. From Structure to Composition and Back: Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography; Some Cases for Anthropological Contemplation Charles W. Hartley, Alan F. Greene, and Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Nazarbayev University 6. Coiling on the Wheel: The Sociopolitical Implications of a Particular Formation Technique in Bronze Age Crete Ina Berg, University of Manchester 7. (Ceramic) Structure and (Communities of) Practice in the Bronze Age Black Sea Alexander Bauer, Queens College, City University of New York 8. Laterality and Directionality in Pottery Painting and Coiling Kathryn A. MacFarland, University of Arizona 9. What a Difference Structure Makes: Material Styles of Syrian Caliciform Ware Identified through Ceramic Petrography Sarah R. Graff, Arizona State University 10. X-ray Fluoroscopy in Your Own Backyard: A Method for Analyzing Ceramic Formation Techniques Erin N. Hegberg and Philip H. Heintz, both at University of New Mexico 11. Conclusion: A New Search for Structure Alan F. Greene and Charles W. Hartley
£90.25
Lexington Books Correlative Archaeology
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£999.99
Equinox Publishing Ltd Mediterranean Resilience: Collapse and Adaptation
Book SynopsisMediterranean Resilience examines various forms of adaptation adopted by coastal societies in the ancient Mediterranean in response to external pressures they occasionally experienced. The investigation spans the longue durée stretching from the epi-paleolithic to the Medieval period. Special attention is given to the impact of two groups of variables: climate and sea level changes on the one hand, and fluctuations in political circumstances connected with the domination of empires, on the other hand. For adaptation, the volume analyses modes of coastal residence, subsistence, and maritime connectivity, not as a static feature, constant throughout history, but as a process that requires permanent adjustments due to changes in environmental, social and political conditions. Methodologically, various forms of case studies are employed, isolating thematic issues, geographic micro-regions, temporal boundaries, and disciplinary perspectives, ultimately seeking to embrace as wide an array of phenomena as possible in the human experience of collapse and adaptation.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Mediterranean Resilience, Collapse, and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash, and Thomas E. Levy 2. Micro-Geoarchaeology: An Essential Component in the Detection and Decipherment of Resilience, Collapse, and Adaptation Ruth Shahack-Gross, University of Haifa 3. A Multi-Method Approach for Studying Environmental-Human Interaction: A Case Study from Dor, the Carmel Coast in Israel Gilad Shtienberg (University of California, San Diego) and Michael Lazar (University of Haifa) 4. The Maritime Neolithic: An Evaluation of Marine Adaptation in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory Chelsea Wiseman, Flinders University and University of Haifa 5. The Early Bronze I Coastal Settlements of Israel: A New Phenomenon or Part of a Long-Lived Settlement Tradition? Roey Nickelsberg (University of Haifa), Ruth Shahack-Gross, and Assaf Yasur-Landau 6. Cypriot Pottery as an Indicator of Adaptive Trade Networks Brigid Clark, University of Haifa 7. The Collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces Revisited Philipp W. Stockhammer, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich 8. A Twelfth-Century BCE Shipwreck Assemblage Containing Copper Ingots, from Neve-Yam, Israel Ehud Galili (University of Haifa), Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University) , Ehud Arkin Shalev (University of Haifa), Baruch Rosen, Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University), Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez (University of Haifa), and Assaf Yasur-Landau 9. The Collapse of Cultures at the End of the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean: New Developments, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Further Questions Eric H. Cline, The George Washington University 10. Anthropogenic Erosion from Hellenistic to Recent Times in the Northern Gulf of Corinth, Greece Katrina Cantu (University of California, San Diego), Richard Norris (University of California, San Diego), George Papatheodorou (University of Patras), Ioannis Liritzis (Henan University, China), Dafna Langgut, Maria Geraga (University of Patras), and Thomas E. Levy 11. Cultural Resilience in the Hellenistic Southern Levant Eleonora Bedin, University of Haifa 12. Negev Fragility and Mediterranean Prosperity in Late Antiquity Gil Gambash 13. Collapses and Renascences: What the Maya and the Old World Have in Common Geoffrey E. Braswell, University of California, San Diego
£85.50
Equinox Publishing Ltd From the Ground to the Sky
£999.99
Boldwood Books Ltd Where We Belong: The start of a heartwarming, romantic series from Sarah Bennett
Book SynopsisThe start of a new series from bestselling author Sarah Bennett.On paper, Hope Travers has an idyllic life.Living in a bustling farmhouse with her mum, aunt and uncles, cousin and too many dogs to count, surrounded by the breath-taking Cotswolds countryside, she knows she is privileged and protected.But all families have secrets, and the Travers family are no exception. Their farmhouse sits in the grounds of the Juniper Meadows estate, passed down through the generations and now being made to pay its own way with a myriad of businesses and projects. When a construction crew uncover what appear to be historical ruins, the history of the Travers family is put under ever closer scrutiny as a dig gets underway.Hope may have found a blossoming romance with local archaeologist Cameron Ferguson who is running the dig, but when things start to go wrong around the estate and family secrets begin to be revealed, Hope wonders if she’s made a big mistake in digging up the past.** **Praise for Sarah Bennett:'A gorgeous story packed with love, romance and heartfelt emotion. Will bring sunshine into your day!' Phillipa Ashley'An excellent read with a slow burning romance, family secrets, sabotage and some fascinating archeology details. Highly recommended.' Maddie Please**'**Sarah's ability to weave complex characters and idyllic settings you want to move to is astonishing! **A fantastic read combining complex family dynamics, friendship and of course romance! An unputdownable read!' Katie Ginger'Happy Endings at Mermaids Point has passion in spades, romance to make you blush and a community that cares. I hoped this story would just keep on going.' Celia Anderson'This is a real page turner, with a brisk plot and a really emotional core. The community we've grown to love at Mermaid's Point is alive with love, laughter and vibrancy!' Fay Keenan'I loved Nick and Aurora's story, and want the Morgan family to adopt me. Sarah Bennett has surpassed herself.' Jules Wake'This is the perfect escapist read and I can't wait to follow the characters in what promises to be a wonderful series. Five sparkling stars!' Rachel Griffiths'What a Mer-mazing book! I'm so glad this is a series and I'll get to meet the characters again because you won't want to leave them after the final page.' Catherine Miller‘I inhaled this book in two days. Absolutely gorgeous. Sarah Bennett is back, and better than ever!’ Rachel Burton'A perfect heartwarming read full of family, romance and intrigue, set in a stunning location - what’s not to love?' Bella Osborne
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BAR Publishing Sense and Nonsense in Homer: A consideration of the inconsistencies and incoherencies in the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Book SynopsisAn examination of passages in Homeric texts which either present semantic or logical difficulties or are incoherent or inconsistent. Extracts from the Iliad and the Odyssey are translated into English with a detailed analysis of ambiguous terms.
£25.50
£81.70
BAR Publishing Archaeology and Clays
£35.00
BAR Publishing Ashmolean Museum - Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections 1683-1886 (Part I)
£81.79
BAR Publishing Archaeological Sciences '97: Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Durham, 2nd-4th September 1997
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£71.25
BAR Publishing Darfur (Sudan) In the Age of Stone Architecture c. AD 1000 - 1750: Problems in historical reconstruction
Book SynopsisA history of the sultunates of the western part of modern Sudan and their legacy of great stone monuments, abandoned cities, myths and legends. Archaeological investigations have generally been lacking in the area and therefore McGregor focuses on the linguistic, oral and especially the literary evidence.
£46.00
British Archaeological Reports Archaeological Informatics Pushing the Envelope CAA 2001
£112.00
