Archaeology

As the predominant form of birth control in Soviet society, abortion reflected key paradoxes of state socialism: women held formal equality but lacked basic needs such as contraceptives.

This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications.

What readers are loving about X Marks the Spot: 'Reads like an Indiana jones novel, full of adventure and discovery' 'A cracking good read' 'Fascinating' GREG JENNER'I couldn't put it down' JANINA RAMIREZ'Alive with the spirit of adventure' RANULPH FIENNES'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOWAncient shipwrecks in crystal seas, mythical princesses preserved in ice and astonishing lost rituals - this is the story of archaeology.

This book examines the politics of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Namibia.

The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England.

This volume includes a selection of papers derived from the IX Conference of the Pampas region of Argentina, held virtually in 2021 in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and organized by the National University of Mar del Plata.

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 volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications.

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.

Ob Stonehenge, die Tempel Babylons oder ägyptische Göttermythen: Die frühen Zivilisationen versuchten die Geheimnisse des Himmels zu entschlüsseln.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 description and catalog of pre-dynastic, prehistoric artifacts from Egypt.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 description and catalog of pre-dynastic, prehistoric artifacts from Egypt.

La obra de Arriaza y Standen aquí presentada trata de problemas de antiguos pobladores que son, en cierta medida, invariables en el tiempo y propios del crecimiento humano.

This book focuses on current trends in cultural heritage conservation and their influence on heritage practice.

In the face of increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are collaborating with historians, museum curators, and exhibit designers to devise the best strategies for translating archaeological information to the public.

Scholars have long acknowledged a gap in the archaeological literature on African herder societies.

Curation is rarely the first topic raised in an archaeological seminar or addressed in a fieldwork design.

The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years.

Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist.

Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes.

In this fourth edition of the CRM classic, Thomas F.

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Excavation is traditionally considered the heart of the archaeological enterprise.

In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "e;archaic states"e; whose distinctive feature was divine kingship.

From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world.

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology.

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world.

Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt.

In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia.

The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals.

Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all about H.

During the late Middle Kingdom (about 1850-1700 B.

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A helpful handbook with 100+ recipes for bartenders amateur or pro: "e;Unique concoctions for casual dinners or upscale holiday events.

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area.

The theme of this volume is big data in ecology.

The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

In the forensic context it is quite common for nonhuman bones to be confused with human remains and end up in the medical examiner or coroner system.

Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200-600 BCE).

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R.

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity.

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist.

Hans J.

Writing, Violence, and the Military takes representations of reading and writing in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt (ca.

Writing, Violence, and the Military takes representations of reading and writing in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt (ca.

In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective.