Archaeology

The rich human history of South Carolina from its earliest days to the presentAdam King's Archaeology in South Carolina contains an overview of the fascinating archaeological research currently ongoing in the Palmetto state featuring essays by twenty scholars studying South Carolina's past through archaeological research.

Protecting present and future generations in times of crisis.

This heavily illustrated book is written by top archaeologists who study Florida's sunken heritage in unique underwater sites.

Art West has done it again.

Home Brewing: 70 Top Secrets & Tricks To Beer Brewing Right The First Time: A Guide To Home Brew Any Beer You Want is the definitive book on making quality beers at home.

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A concise history of warfare between Ancient Middle Eastern cultures in the age of the Old Testament using archaeology and evidence from the Bible.

First-person accounts chronicling the 3/7 Marines engaging in intense street-by-street fighting to put down an uprising in Iraq in April 2004.

"e;Art West is in hot water in more ways than one in his latest adventure.

A book of dinosaurs from Janet Evans featuring the world's top 16 most loved dinosaurs.

Though dinosaurs no longer exist, their past continue to provide clues to the future.

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.

If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldnt food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live?

The diversity of the world's cakes are represented for the first time in one thoroughly researched volume.

This volume, published in honour of Egyptologist Professor Rosalie David OBE, presents the latest research on three of the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian civilisation: mummies, magic and medical practice.

The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC.

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This richly illustrated Element presents many useful tips and tricks to both novices and experts in mapping and planning.

Numbers by the Book is a step by step guide to the financial side of planning, opening and operating a successful museum retail operation.

In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources.

Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term program of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a program that commenced with the excavation and full publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city of Nicopolis ad Istrum.

This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history.

Before the 1970s, discoveries of Roman material in Guernsey consisted of a few chance finds of coins, plus a handful of sherds of samian pottery from the harbor and from prehistoric megaliths.

Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past.

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This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’.

Though the word ‘vegetarianism’ was not coined until the mid-nineteenth century, the vegetarian diet has been around as long as man has.

Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them.

Archaeologists now face a myriad of digital ways of engaging with the public - social media, online TV channels, games, etc.

David Price Williams is a well-known Middle Eastern archaeologist and 'An Ancient Land: Genesis of an archaeologist' is an account of his work in the Holy Land, especially about his four-year multi-disciplinary expedition to find for the first time the effects of climatic change on human cultural and physical evolution.

The Nashville community, with its collective thirst for brews that are more pleasing to their palates, is but a microcosm in this surging universe of bubbly artisan beverages.

The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations.

This book compares consumer behavior in two nineteenth-century peripheral cities: Melbourne, Australia and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

This second edition of the multi-volume work goes beyond the comprehensive and systematic coverage of archaeology that appears in the first edition.

This book introduces selected contributions from the GEGAL (Spanish acronym for Latin American Geoarchaeological  Studies Group) Workshop held at La Paloma Beach, Uruguay, with a focus on Coastal Geoarchaeology, and an attendance of more than 50 researchers, students and professionals from several Latin American countries.

Highlighting the latest research on Actualistic Taphonomy (AT), this book presents the outcomes of a meeting that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, in October 2017.

This collection of twenty-eight essays presents an up-to-date survey of pre-Islamic Iran, from the earliest dynasty of Illam to the end of Sasanian empire, encompassing a rich diversity of peoples and cultures.

This book reports on a public archaeology project carried out at the ancient site of Tilmen Hoyuk in south-eastern Turkey.

This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet, subsistence regimes, and nutrition-and corresponding insights into adaptation, suffering, and resilience-among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European colonial periods.

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets.

This textbook provides a general introduction to the most important nondestructive testing (NDT) exploration methods for cultural heritage sites.

This Brief discusses a unique mechanism to combine historical and archaeological evidence with statistical geodynamic modeling to study the historical development of the Eura region in lower Satakunta, Finland; this region is known for its rich cultural history.

Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology.

This volume addresses the Out-of-Africa dispersals of the earliest hominins and early anatomically modern humans, the last semi-sedentary, pottery-bearing hunters-fishers-gatherers, the early food producers and users of domestic plants and animals either local or imported from the Near East, and the presuppositions of the rise of the kingdoms of Kerma, Pharaonic Egypt, and Axum on the basis of the latest available data.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture.

This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn more about others, or for those just starting out in the study of microremains who wish to have a broad understanding about microscopic archaeology.

Since prehistoric times and throughout the course of human evolution, wood has been an integral part of all civilizations.