This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various historical periods during the establishment and development of ancient Chinese civilization based on an a view of ancient Chinese civilization studies as a whole.
Excavating Pedregal offers a new synthesis of household-level experiences of imperial conquest on the north coast of Peru, using excavations at the Late Intermediate Period farming community of Pedregal as an engaging case study of archaeological research in action.
Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean assembles leading and emerging scholars in Caribbean bioarchaeology, offering an overview of current research in genomic analyses, deathways, demography and health, diet and population mobility, and research ethics.
Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean assembles leading and emerging scholars in Caribbean bioarchaeology, offering an overview of current research in genomic analyses, deathways, demography and health, diet and population mobility, and research ethics.
Der ägyptische Zeitbegriff hat zwei Eigentümlichkeiten: erstens gibt es nicht einen, sondern zwei Begriffe für das, was wir Zeit nennen, und zweitens können wir diese Begriffe zugleich mit Zeit und mit Ewigkeit wiedergeben.
Excavating Pedregal offers a new synthesis of household-level experiences of imperial conquest on the north coast of Peru, using excavations at the Late Intermediate Period farming community of Pedregal as an engaging case study of archaeological research in action.
This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of 'Liangdao Man,' and the origins of Austronesian language groups.
This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of 'Liangdao Man,' and the origins of Austronesian language groups.
This book analyzes and summarizes the narrative motifs of Chinese mythology, before tracing their material and cultural elements using the new classification of Big Tradition and Small Tradition theories of culture from the field of literary anthropology, as well as related interdisciplinary theories from literary anthropology and archaeology.
Providing the first synthesis of the archaeological heritage of
Baltimore, this book explores the layers of the city’s material record from the
late seventeenth century to the recent past.
This book centres on the transformation of landscapes, focusing on the Western Mediterranean during the end of the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire.
This book centres on the transformation of landscapes, focusing on the Western Mediterranean during the end of the Roman Republic and the Early Roman Empire.
This book presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, and Sicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time in the history and archaeology of the central Mediterranean.
Bisher hat die hohe Zahl archäologischer Unternehmungen in Griechenland und Kleinasien um 1900 dafür gesorgt, dass deren wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchung sich auf wenige "große" Ausgrabungen wie Pergamon und Olympia konzentrierte.
In this book leading experts uncover and discuss archaeological topics and themes surrounding the long-term trajectory of camelid (llama and alpaca) pastoralism in the Andean highlands of South America.
Because the archaeology of West Mexico has received little attention from researchers, large segments of the region's prehistoric ceramic sequences have long remained incomplete.
This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica.