Archaeology

The recent crisis in the world of antiquities collecting has prompted scholars and the general public to pay more attention than ever before to the archaeological findspots and collecting histories of ancient artworks.

The ancient Egyptians had very definite views about their neighbours, some positive, some negative.

The ancient Egyptians had very definite views about their neighbours, some positive, some negative.

How much was archaeology founded on prejudice?

How much was archaeology founded on prejudice?

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When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed.

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources.

How should we interpret the Bible in light of the latest biblical research and archaeology?

- When did archaeology begin?

Archaeological sites opened to the public, and especially those highly photogenic sites that have achieved iconic status, are often major tourist attractions.

An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites.

This scholarly collection explores the method and theory of the archaeological study of indigenous persistence and long-term colonial entanglement.

A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions struck in the middle of the twelfth century BC and with a sudden swiftness brought Old World civilizations to an abrupt end.

The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines.

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life.

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Johann Herolt OP (~1390-1468), a Dominican friar of Nrnberg, was the most prolific sermonist of fifteenth century Europe, producing a huge and widely used library of sermon materials under the penname Discipulus.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related spatial technologies have a new and powerful role to play in archaeological interpretation.

The Last Story is the insight view of a collection of myths, legends,fables, prophecies, and facts of an object I discovered several years ago.

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Coins in Rhodes: From the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498 - 1522) presents the Byzantine and medieval coins collected by Greek archaeologists in Rhodes over a period of more than sixty years.

Archaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire’s involvement with the Sissi Archaeological Project, where he conducted a seven year photographic study of the Bronze Age Minoan excavations under the auspices of the Belgian School in Athens, Université Catholique de Louvain, offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture moments of human interaction during excavations as they interconnected with an ancient Minoan culture, stretching back millennia (2600-1200 BC).

Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era presents a series of papers reflecting the latest approaches to the study of buildings from the historic period.

This book assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century in 'restructuring' the shared past of India and Southeast Asia.

Northamptonshire Archaeology, now MOLA Northampton, was commissioned by Opportunity Peterborough (Peterborough City Council) to undertake archaeological work ahead of an improvement scheme centred on Cathedral Square, the historic centre of Peterborough.

Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections: A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum- Alpine region.

In 1926 Pauline Klug, had an opportunity to visit her family living in Eastern Europe.

MISTER CAINBRIDGE WAS a West Indian merchantwho owned a small grocery store in Harlem.

The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing is a detailed examination of the Indus script.

As part of the Property Development Programme for Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, English Heritage created an ambitious reconstruction of the Elizabethan garden which formerly stood on the north side of the castle keep.

Everyone who investigates pre-modern concepts of nature cannot avoid a critical reflection on the ancient understandings of it.

Rivers have often been the gateway to natural wilderness and the first element of a natural landscape that humans made their own.

Literary sources suggest that Mt.

This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development since the first enclosing/capturing of light (fire) within a portable man-made vessel.

The later part of the Bronze Age (1500-700 BC) was a time of settlement expansion and economic prosperity in Ireland.

12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

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Off-the-wall solutions for real farmstead problems Fueled by a failing economy and a passionate desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought.

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The agricultural world of Old Testament Israel swarmed with animals-birds, insects, fish, pack animals, pets, animals for hunting, and domesticated herds of sheep, goats, and cattle.

New perspectives on transitions in humanhistoryThisbook is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seenthrough the lenses of archaeology and ethnography.

Newunderstandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily lifeThis book discussesthe range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture,arts, writing, beliefs, and practices.

Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.