Archaeology

We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the time and ways in which they honor or do not honor the dead.

Education during the Tudor era was a privilege and took many forms including schools, colleges and apprenticeships.

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We all must die, and how society deals with the disposal is fascinating in the way it reflects the beliefs of the people of the time and ways in which they honor or do not honor the dead.

Voices of the Georgian Age is the story of seventeen witnesses to the remarkably diverse Georgian century after 1720.

This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed.

With firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands.

A history of Western culture's fascination with undead creatures in film and television.

In recent decades, African states have developed an impressive infrastructure for training their peacekeepers.

This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis.

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for 2018

Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were using football as a revolutionary tool.

Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE.

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked.

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked.

This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis.

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

Archaeological remains are ‘fragmented by definition’: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ruins, discards, and debris of past civilizations.

Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Llŷn Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its stunning beaches and countryside, with much of its landscape designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Jutting out some thirty miles into the Irish Sea, from the western edge of Snowdonia, the Llŷn Peninsula, in north-west Wales, is renowned for its stunning beaches and countryside, with much of its landscape designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare.

This essential gives an overview of current methods of analysis of stone artefacts ranging from attribute analysis of entire inventories to microscopic analyses of traces of use of individual artefacts.

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years.

A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years.

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses.

This book celebrates decades of safeguarding cultural heritage and reckons with reconfigurations and shifts that have shaped the field and understandings of it.

This book recounts the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines.

This book recounts the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines.

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F.

Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene.

Originally published in 1995, and in the same classic investigative style of Whitewash and Case Open, Harold Weisberg turns his sharp investigative eye towards the events surrounding the autopsy of John F.

Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly businesstwenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, life on the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and more.

This book studies Natha sampradaya through archaeological evidence for the first time.

Explores Britain''s most prominent armaments firms and their relationships with the British Government and foreign states from 1855 to 1955.

This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.

This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.

This volume presents the various ways in which the study of gender makes a difference in archaeological research, the archaeological academic milieu and the wider public's thinking about gender and considers avenues of future development.

Questo saggio divulga quanto la ricerca ha finora appurato sulla celebre Sindone di Torino, non ha il fine d’indurre a credere che il Lenzuolo di Torino abbia davvero avvolto il corpo di Cristo un paio di millenni fa.

Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century.

This volume follows the changes that occurred in central Palestine during the longue duree between the 7th to the 11th centuries.

This volume follows the changes that occurred in central Palestine during the longue duree between the 7th to the 11th centuries.

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands.

African Islands provides the first geographically and chronologically comprehensive overview of the archaeology of African islands.

This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the connections between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation are rooted in individual interactions.

This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the connections between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation are rooted in individual interactions.

Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.