Archaeology

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's first families.

An investigation is made here of a marking and counting system used in Ancient Egypt similar to the one existing in Mesopotamia, during the fourth millennium BCE.

In 1932, at age four, Alice moved with her family of five in the dilapidated house on the hill, above the creek bed where hobos, weary of riding the rails looking for work, often camped.

This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non white communities' artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color.

The Boer Wars that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century involved nearly 450,000 British troops and over 60,000 Boers.

Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject and is underpinned by feminist theorizing of motherhood and mothering.

This book challenges the general assumption that William Shakespeare was the sole author of Hamlet.

Christian Heurich (1842-1945) was not only Washington D.

This history begins with the earliest brewers in the colony--women--revealing details of the Old Line State's brewing families and their methods.

Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality.

In early to mid-19th century America, there were growing debates concerning the social acceptability of alcohol and its consumption.

Americans began chewing gum long before 1850, scraping resin from spruce trees, removing any bits of bark or insects and chewing the finished product.

This greatly expanded and revised edition contains more than 1,000 entries, covering everything from common everyday foods to the latest in genetic research--and beyond.

In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly unaffected by the economic calamity.

This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933).

Nestled in the heart of Paris, the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity today stands as one of the great buildings of this ancient city.

Since World War II, there has been tremendous success in the development of new methods for dating artifacts; the so-called `radiocarbon revolution' was only the first such discovery.

Just over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage.

More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate communication appeared (Altmann, 1967).

This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues.

Historical archaeology has made great strides during the last two decades.

Harpers Ferry was one of America's earliest and most significant industrial communities - serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic relations in modern times.

This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their methods, and their raison d'etre.

This volume is the third in the Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science series sponsored by the Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS).

More than any other category of evidence, ceramics ofters archaeologists their most abundant and potentially enlightening source of information on the past.

James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space.

This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory.

This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa.

Archaeological research on interregional interaction processes has recently reasserted itself after a long hiatus following the eclipse of diffusion studies.

In this unique volume, archaeologists examine the changing economic structure of trade in North America over a period of 6,000 years.

Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca.

A modern, comprehensive compilation of more than 7,000 entries covering themes, concepts, and discoveries in archaeology written in nontechnical language and tailored to meet the needs of professionals, students and general readers.

Contributions to this volume detail paleontologic research in Manonga Valley, and shed important light on the evolutionary development of eastern Africa.

Offering the most comprehensive study of southern Jordan, this illuminating account presents detailed data from over a hundred archaeological sites stretching from the Lower Paleotlithic to the Chalcolithic periods.

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the architecture of Egyptian temples and pyramids has attracted tourists to Egypt for centuries.

This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland.

Historical Remarks Bearing on the Discovery of Pan paniscus Whether by accident or by design, it was most fortunate that Robert M.

This volumes examines Roman pottery and production centers in the bay of Gaditana, modern-day Cádiz.

In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome.

In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome.

Lara Douds examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), under Lenin.

Lara Douds examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), under Lenin.

Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn – from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from social order to cultural patterns.

Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn – from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from social order to cultural patterns.

This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change.

This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change.

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world.

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world.