Archaeology

At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums.

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts.

This volume will examine the varied roles that women and children play in period of warfare, which in most cases deviate from their perceived role as noncombatants.

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

In this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East.

Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies.

First published in 1998.

Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice.

This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires.

The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses.

A collection of papers - revised or previously unpublished - about the history, institutions, and literature of Boiotia, by a leading expert on the region.

Joint winner of the 2011 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award in the category "e;Best Scholarly Book on Archaeology"e; The archaeology of the Holy Land is undergoing major change.

This fully updated sixth edition of a classic classroom text is essential reading for core courses in archaeology.

The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades.

The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries.

The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous dimensions.

The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries.

This book covers Chinese archaeology from the first people to the unification of the empire, emphasizing cultural variations and interregional contact.

Richard Hodges is one of Europe's preeminent archaeologists.

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

Human actions are often deeply intertwined with religion and can be understood in a strictly religious context.

In the aftermath of the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage pursued by Islamist groups like ISIS, many observers have erroneously come to associate Islamic doctrine and practice with such acts.

The book reveals how the 'social value of art' may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist - and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and interpretation.

The story of incense is one of the most intriguing in both eastern and western culture.

In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands.

This is an immensely fascinating work, published originally in 1968, which is of great value in understanding London's past.

A comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world's center, from its founding to its modern rediscoveryThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "e;omphalos"e;-the "e;center"e; or "e;navel"e;-of the ancient world for more than 1,000 years.

A volume from a monograph series featuring seven papers on trilobites with brief summariesThis research volume is entitled Papers from the 6th International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives.

This volume explores the sex trade in America from 1850 to 1920 through the perspectives of archaeologists and historians, expanding the geographic and thematic scope of research on the subject.

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

This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art.

Gathered together here are the fruits of 60 years of research by the late Sir Laurence Kirwan into the history and archaeology of the mid 1st millennium AD in the Middle Nile Valley, papers previously scattered through a wide range of publications.

Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence.

Although archaeologists are using GIS technology at an accelerating rate, publication of their work has not kept pace.

Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture.

Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art.

After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause.

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons.

Examining dynamic interactions betweenhumans and island environmentsThisvolume explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems andthe ways these environments have adapted to anthropogenic changes over thecourse of millennia.

Underwater Archaeology: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive summary of the archaeological process as applied in an underwater context.

This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity.

Mysterious Lands covers two kinds of encounters.

The twenty-first century is a time of change for early learning in museums, due in part to society's evolving view of childhood, from an age of innocence to understanding the robust learning that defines the first years of life.

The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation.

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"e;There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence.

This book offers fascinating insights into the lives of our ancestors and investigates the dynamic processes that led to the establishment of complex human societies.

Immediately hailed as the standard work and one of the most widely used archaeological field manuals, this survey of current excavation techniques, now in its third edition, remains an in-dispensible guide for archaeologists.