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Télécharger le livre :  The Archaeology of Southern Africa
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The Archaeology of Southern Africa


Peter Mitchell


Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Antioch on the Orontes
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Antioch on the Orontes


Andrea U. De Giorgi


Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world.  A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Minoan Zoomorphic Culture
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Minoan Zoomorphic Culture


Emily S. K. Anderson


Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
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Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World


Stefanos Gimatzidis


Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliestGreek pottery exchanged in Greek,...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Burning
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Cultural Burning


Collectif


This Element addresses a burning question – how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes?This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient South America
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Ancient South America


Karen Olsen Bruhns


Ancient South America, 2nd edition features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions  Isolated for all of prehistory and much of history, the continent witnessed the rise of cultures and advanced civilizations...

Parution : 2024-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Here and Now at Historic Sites
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Here and Now at Historic Sites


David Ludvigsson , Martin Stolare , Cecilia Trenter


The study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. It treats the materiality of the place and experiences of the guides and the pupils, obtained in school as well as in other contexts, as...

Parution : 2024-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks
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Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Potentially Polluting Wrecks


Michael L. Brennan


This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these sites. It is an important resource on the subject...

Parution : 2024-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Archaeology
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Exploring Archaeology


Shengqian Chen , Guo Peng Chen


This book looks inward to reveal and analyse problems in archaeology itself. The subject explored in this volume include: humanistic attributes of archaeology, various archaeological theory, challenges in the development of archaeology, China Archaeology paradigms and...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling
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Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling


Charlotte Jarvis


This open access book focuses on the destruction of our Ocean Heritage from bottom trawling. It brings together the natural and cultural sides of the marine environment to further our understanding of the importance of this heritage, how it is threatened by activities...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Bodies, Ontology, and Bioarchaeology
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Bodies, Ontology, and Bioarchaeology


Ann M. Palkovich


This volume introduces the place of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo in our understanding of Southwestern Archaeology in the Northern Rio Grande. The author discusses the reanalysis of the skeletal and mortuary remains that draws on a half century of research since the original...

Parution : 2024-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Human Factor
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The Human Factor


Cèsar Carreras , Pieter Houten , Alejandro Sinner


The Human Factor establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis.The authors take a multidisciplinary approach, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic,...

Parution : 2024-05-10
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East
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From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East


Nicola Laneri


Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the relics of human skeletons, animal symbolism, statues, and icons all...

Parution : 2024-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Moritz Hoernes
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Moritz Hoernes


Andreas Lippert


Der Band ist eine Biografie des ersten Lehrkanzelinhabers für Prähistorische Archäologie im deutschen Sprachraum. Nach einer längeren Zeit von Forschungen in Bosnien und der Herzegowina fand Hoernes eine Anstellung in der Prähistorischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen...

Parution : 2024-05-03
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Éditeur : Springer VS
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Télécharger le livre :  Wicked Problems for Archaeologists
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Wicked Problems for Archaeologists


John Schofield


'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required. The adjective 'wicked' describes the mischievous and...

Parution : 2024-05-01
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting
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Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting


Jamie J. Devine , April Kamp-Whittaker , Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood


The study of childhood in historical archaeology enriches interpretations of the past, but also has the potential for contributing to the understanding of methodological and theoretical issues in archaeology. Archaeologically, children are understudied relative to both...

Parution : 2024-04-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Archaeology of the Roman Conquest
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Archaeology of the Roman Conquest


Manuel Fernández-Götz , Nico Roymans


This Element volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches with the latest fieldwork results. Recent advances in conflict archaeology research are revolutionising our knowledge...

Parution : 2024-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places
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Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places


Jessie Birkett-Rees , Bruno David , Jean-Jacques Delannoy


This Element presents emerging concepts and analytical tools in landscape archaeology. In three major sections bookended by an Introduction and Conclusion, the Element discusses current and emerging ideas and methods by which to explore how people in the past engaged...

Parution : 2024-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  First Cities
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First Cities


Dean Saitta


This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the...

Parution : 2024-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Change in Archaeology
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Gender and Change in Archaeology


Ana Cristina Martins , Nona Palincas


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. It addresses questions such as...

Parution : 2024-03-29
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Éditeur : Springer
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