Archaeology Books

Dr. Clark, who was one of the earliest to work in this field,and has written the first general survey of an increasingly important area of practical archaeology.

A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science.

The Customs of the Manors of Braunton is a book written by Robert Dymond in 1888. The book is a detailed account of the customs and traditions of the manors of Braunton, a small village in North Devon, England. Dymond explores the history of the village,...

A History of the Mercantile Marine in Japan is a book written by the Kansenkyoku of Japan in 1893. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Japan's mercantile marine, covering topics such as the development of the Japanese shipping...

The New Archeological Discoveries: And Their Bearing Upon The New Testament And Upon The Life And Times Of The Primitive Church is a book written by Camden McCormack Cobern and published in 1917. The book is a comprehensive examination of the latest...

Situé à une trentaine de kilomètres au sud-est de la petite ville aragonaise de Huesca, le site de Las Sillas à Marcén a fait l'objet depuis de nombreuses années de recherches archéologiques. Ce livre regroupe l'ensemble des découvertes réalisées tout en...

Im Kanton Bern gibt es eine grosse Anzahl von Erdwerken, die durchschnittlich vor 1000 Jahren und mehr erbaut worden sind. Leider sind, genau wie im Falle der Grabstätten aus der mitteleuropäischen Eisenzeit, über die ich bereits ein Buch veröffentlicht...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Forschungsarbeit untersucht die Getreideproduktion und Getreidedistribution in Nuzi nach den Texten aus dem Palast und präsentiert...

Der Band dokumentiert die Beiträge des am 25. November 2006 im Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin veranstalteten Symposions in memoriam Kurt Köster (1912-1986), dem Nestor der deutschen Pilgerzeichenforschung. Neben biografischen und...

Als eines der Hauptmerkmale hellenistischer Dichtung gilt allgemein und unbestritten ihre Gelehrsamkeit, doch haben in der Forschung dabei nicht alle Bereiche alexandrinischer Bildung und Kultur gleichermaßen Berücksichtigung gefunden. So ist das bei...

En visitant les mythes et la symbolique de cette star du bestiaire à travers les âges et les cultures, nous proposons au lecteur de s'interroger sur les rapports du dragon avec la réalité. Au cours des âges, les sciences se sont penchées sur son cas, et...

Initially coined by art historians in the second half of the nineteenth century to denote an ambivalent artistic style and period, ‘Orientalizing’ has been invariably used to describe a phenomenon, a revolution, or a movement. Regional...

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop, CNR, Rome, Italy, December 4-7, 2006In 2001, UNESCO and the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the 'Open Initiative on the Use of Space Technologies to Monitor Natural and Cultural Heritage of UNESCO...

In this work the author uses an evolutionary and ecological approach to interpreting early hominin geographic ranges, specifically integrating theory from biogeography and studies of human evolution. A key part of the research is a comparative study of...

One of the most significant features in the suburbium of Roman cities throughout Italy were the villae suburbanae. Modern scholarship has undertaken a large amount of research into the residential properties and lifestyles of the Roman nobility, and the...

This study concentrates on Philistine decorated pottery, its production centres and trade patterns. These issues are examined by both archaeological and archaeometric approaches. Over recent years, a considerable amount of data has been accumulated on...

This book addresses the issue of the temporal origins of transhumant pastoralism in temperate southeastern Europe (northern half of the Balkan Peninsula). In recent years, several hypotheses have been suggested to explain when and why transhumant...

This work examines the evolution of astronomical thought, as well as the various astronomical and cosmovisional ideas in pharaonic Egypt (c. 2800 -1200 BCE), after the most important religious texts (primarily Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, and...

Historical records mention that over 200 potters were active in Southern Québec between 1655 and 1920. These locally-made productions are now found on every archaeological excavation undertaken in Southern Quebec, but their contribution to the...

This work is the first comprehensive historical and archaeological investigation into the maritime organization of the port of Faversham, Kent, SE England. The period examined is 1580-1780. Faversham, a multi-functional town, was well placed to take...

This work defines Neolithic Near East 'Dark Faced Burnished Ware (DFBW)', on the basis of new data, taking into account areas of production, analyses of architectural, economic and environmental information, and the verification of the existence...

This work examines spatial variability within and between structures in the Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean and goes on to explore a number of equally significant theoretical issues that play an important role in the understanding of the particular topic...

This work ('The High Priests of Amun in the 'wHm mswt' Era and the Twenty-First Dynasty') explores the chronological, genealogical and historical controversies from a very dark episode in ancient Egypt: the period at the end of the rule...

This research presents the qualitative and quantitative data collected from the architecture within ten Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic settlements in the Central and Southwestern regions of modern-day Anatolia, the larger part of Turkey lying on the...

This book attempts to bring an anthropological perspective to the historical archaeology of a complex period in the Greek past. Traditionally, discussion of the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Byzantine period in the Aegean region has focused...

This book examines the evidence for the performance of ancestor veneration in LH III Greece with emphasis placed mainly on the data from the typical Mycenaean tomb types, i.e. tholos and chamber tombs, excavated in the central areas of the Mycenaean...

The decline of ancient Maya civilization has resonated in both the popular and archaeological imagination. Over the years archaeologists have questioned this "collapse" with increasing detail in some parts of the Maya area, but in the Belize...

This volume emerged from a conference held in Glasgow in October 2001, organised by Scottish Archaeological Forum. The study of cultural landscapes is growing increasingly more sophisticated in terms of technology and method, but also in terms of the...

This book interprets the exploitation of marine resources and the organisation of their uses during later prehistory in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular attention is focused on the analysis of the fish, molluscan and cetacean remains recovered...

Byzantium cannot be reconstructed, but its art provides an intensely vivid picture of its official and everyday life. The author of this volume has chosen two great works to illustrate this. The illuminated manuscript of the Skylitzes Chronicle in the...

In this work the author provides a comprehensive survey of bronze-working practices during the Late Bronze Age in Ireland through six key areas of research: (1) A thorough examination of all relevant categories of artifactual evidence (with the exception...

This work examines patterns of taxonomic utilization from a wide range of sites from different geographic regions and through several thousand years in order to contribute to an eventual understanding of the mechanisms by which disparate regional...

This volume is a collection of papers originally presented at the Origins of the LBK symposium held at the 8th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Thessaloniki, Greece, between September 25th and 29th, 2002. The aim of...

This work analyses two spatially referenced radiocarbon databases for the spread of Europe's first farmers and for the spread of the first sheep in southern Africa respectively. The methods for visualising large-scale diffusion processes are compared...

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 60The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences from both the north and the east and responded to the changes which have...

This volume represents the final product of a three-day conference organized by the editors and sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the École Française de Rome. Archaeological Methods and Approaches: Ancient Industry and Commerce...

This book is based on new archaeobotanical data retrieved during the last fifteen years from prehistoric sites located in the regions of Macedonia and Thrace in northern Greece. More than two thousand samples from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age...

In this volume, the author examines the woodland banking in the parish of Cudham on the North Downs (to the south of the Greater London region) to establish the phases of expansion and contraction of the woodlands in the Medieval period. An anomaly was...