Archaeological theory

Techno-logic & Technology is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for studying the development of stone tool technology, with the goal of integrating humanity's earliest and longest-lasting technology into a comprehensive questioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world.

This book asks new and interesting questions about how our prehistoric ancestors survived and how they settled the world.

In much recent thinking, social and cultural realms are thought of as existing prior to-or detached from-things, materiality, and landscape.

This book provides a broad overview of the current research questions facing archaeologists working in Europe.

This book provides a broad overview of the current research questions facing archaeologists working in Europe.

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources.

This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history.

This book provides a brief, readable introduction to archaeological theory.

This book provides a brief, readable introduction to archaeological theory.

Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritize change and variability.

Archaeology in the past century has seen a major shift from theoretical frameworks that treat the remains of past societies as static snapshots of particular moments in time to interpretations that prioritize change and variability.

This study focuses on the fabric, construction and preservation of stretches of Hadrian's Wall in its more remote locations, providing significant insights into the places between the mile castles and important forts and associated settlements.

This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization.

Das vielfältige Angebot der Inhalte und Vorgaben der Craftbook Bandreihe fördert die Kreativität, insbesondere die Konzentration und erleichtert ebenso das Erlernen der motorischen Fähigkeiten.

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts into account.

First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality.

First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality.

Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts into account.

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials.

The date of the Cerne Giant has long been a matter for debate, as exemplified by a public and televised debate of March 1996, published as The Cerne Giant: An Antiquity on Trial (1999, Oxbow Books).

Scholars who investigate racea label based upon real or perceived physical differencesrealize that they face a formidable task.

The book focuses on the archaeology of the Late Geometric and Early Archaic North-Eastern Aegean through the emergence, manufacture, distribution and consumption of a regional pottery group known as G 2-3 Ware.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Geschichte der Sintflut und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Geheimnisse hinter diesem zeitlosen Mythos.

The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history.

Actualmente, el centro de Colombia cuenta con una secuencia de desarrollo sociocultural prehispánico de unos veinte mil años de antigüedad, constituyéndose en el territorio donde se ha podido identificar y caracterizar la mayor diversidad sociocultural prehispánica del país.

Entre el río y la montaña es el resultado de una investigación arqueológica sobre la ocupación temprana del Cauca medio colombiano, llevada a cabo en el sitio La Pochola, el cual forma parte de un grupo de sitios precerámicos localizados en esta región y datados entre los últimos momentos del Pleistoceno final y el Holoceno medio.

This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India's deep history.

This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India's deep history.

This handbook is a completely revised version of the first edition, which was published in 2012.

This volume is the fourth in the series Corollaria Crustumina and deals with the results of the project The People and the State, Material culture, social structure, and political centralisation in Central Italy (800-450 BC).

Plant cultivation has a long and successful history that is tightly linked to environmental and climate change, social development and to cultural traditions and diversity.

Wijnaldum is nowadays an unassuming rural village in the north of the province of Friesland, no more than a small dot on the map of the Netherlands.

This publication presents the results of the 2005-2007 excavations at Swifterbant S4, carried out by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology.

Dit boek bevat vijf langere en twee korte artikelen, die los van elkaar staan.

This study on the genesis and evolution of a cluster of disorders (called sitapitta, i.

Cultural transmitters, or mediators, play an important role in the transmission and reception of literature.

This volume is the first publication within the project 'PeripheralAutonomy?

This is the full text of my Master's thesis presented to the University of Wyoming in 1949 (way back then!

This book addresses the problems of identifying human actions behind finds of bones in settlement archaeology, exemplified with the identification of ritual deposits.

In de Nederlandse bodem zijn de resten van oudtijdse bewoning zelden als opgaande structuren terug te vinden.

The study of ritual practice in the past is an accepted part of archaeological research these days.

This dissertation delves into the reconstruction of past vegetation at the most detailed level.

The third part of the Digital Plant Atlas presents illustrations of subfossil remains of plants with economic value.

Plant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past.

Nederlandse beschrijving:
Het op naam brengen van individuele zaden en vruchten van wilde planten en cultuurplanten is niet altijd eenvoudig.

The taxonomic identification of individual seeds and fruits of wild and cultivated plants is not always straightforward.

Tauchen Sie ein in die fesselnde Welt des legendären Ungeheuers von Loch Ness!

The Kybalion - The Three Initiates - The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, originally published in 1908 under the pseudonym of "e;the Three Initiates"e;, is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes TrismegistusThe Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, originally published in 1908 under the pseudonym of "e;the Three Initiates"e;, is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.

Prähistorische Rätsel und Mysterien der Neuzeit:Wie wird es sein, wenn wir Aliens von Angesicht zu Angesicht oder was auch immer gegenüberstehen?