Frances Lincoln, 2020. — 320 p. From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep underground, this book is a spectacular tour of human history. Archaeological sites tell a story spanning thousands of years, and the ones in this book range from the well-known to hidden gems, handpicked for their desirability as destinations. From the Abu...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 192 p. In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains. Their study has a long tradition and today a multitude of aspects about architecture, function or symbolism has been explored. However, fortifications are generally examined in a temporally, regionally or culturally limited context. Going a...
ANU Press, 2019. — 252 p. — (Terra Australis 50). This monograph reports the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in the Northern Moluccas Islands (the Indonesian Province of Maluku Utara) by Indonesian, New Zealand and Australian archaeologists between 1989 and 1996. Excavations were undertaken in caves and open sites on four islands (Halmahera, Morotai, Kayoa...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 544 p. The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the fields traditional focus on art and architecture has been combined with a rigorous...
Routledge, 1998. — 452 p. — (One World Archaeology 29). Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their...
Oxbow Books Limited, 2017. — 432 p. — (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 10). "Life and Death in Asia Minor" combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC – AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape perception, death and urban transformations from...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 329 p. The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that...
University of California Press, 2014. — 624 p. This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout with clear maps, drawings, and plans, Rome and Environs: An Archaeological...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 184 p. What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological approach combined with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers to these questions?...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 304 p. Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or sands, and the carcasses of twentieth-century buildings which serve as reminders of...
Springer, 2018. — 272 p. This edited volume gathers contributions focused on understanding the environment through the lens of Historical Archaeology. Pressing issues such as climate change, global warming, the Anthropocene and loss of biodiversity have pushed scholars from different areas to examine issues related to the causes, processes, and consequences of these phenomena....
Gallimard, 2021. — 400 p. Il y a près de 2 millions d’années, une première vague d’"immigrants" venus d’Afrique peuple le continent du Caucase à l’Atlantique. Une deuxième vague invente l’art rupestre et partage une culture qui embrasse, elle aussi, l’Europe. Il y a 8 000 ans, une révolution venue du Proche-Orient, le Néolithique, implante l’agriculture et les premiers...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 144 p. Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 192 p. Jonathan Eaton has provided the essential volume for all students of Archaeology, Classical Civilisations and Ancient History by condensing the entire archaeological history of Britain into one accessible volume. The Archaeological History of Britain takes us from the earliest prehistoric archaeology right up to the contemporary archaeology of the...
AltaMira Press, 2006. — 214 p. Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 734 p. With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 278 p. Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history - including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor. Each chapter takes readers through a different archaeological...
Louisville: University of Colorado Press, 2018. — vi, 296 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60732-746-2. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 236. — ISBN 9819954185. This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and...
Plon, 2021. — 558 p. L'archéologie fait rêver petits et grands et trouve sa place dans l'imaginaire des films ou des bandes dessinées. Véritable mosaïque, cette science tente de redonner vie à des sociétés très anciennes ou récentes, ayant existé dans le monde entier. Elle s'incarne dans des sites exceptionnels ou dans des traces très modestes, toutes aussi importantes pour...
Springer, 2023. — 148 p. - Explores largely overlooked areas of Silk Road studies - Investigates the impacts of conflicts and communication between Silk Road civilizations - Presents the latest archaeological discoveries and research findings in the field of Silk Road studies The book explores largely overlooked areas of Silk Road studies by searching for multidisciplinary...
Eisenbrauns, 2020. — 536 p. — (Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology. Monograph Series 39). This is the first of a three-volume final report on the Tel Aviv–Heidelberg Renewed Excavations at Ramat Raḥel, 2005–2010. It presents the stratigraphy and architecture of the excavation areas, including portions of the palatial compound, the subterranean columbarium complex,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. — (Archaeological Histories). From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the modern world,...
Springer, 2009. — 698 p. In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our predecessors. Prehistorians generally rely almost exclusively on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also...
Routledge, 2020. — 400 p. This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant narratives, the study shows that for millennia complex...
Springer, 2020. — 394 p. 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. Historically, Iran served as a bridge between the earlier Near Eastern cultures and the later classical world of the Mediterranean, and had a...
Springer, 2020. — 394 p. 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. Historically, Iran served as a bridge between the earlier Near Eastern cultures and the later classical world of the Mediterranean, and had a...
ANU Press, 2018. — 378 p. — (Terra Australis 48). The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from...
ANU Press, 2020. — 306 p. — (Terra Australis 53). This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and...
University Press of Colorado, 2020. — 276 p. In 2002, Neil Whitehead published Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death , in which he applied the concept of poetics to the study of violence and observed the power of violence in the creation and expression of identity and social relationships. The Poetics of Processing applies Whitehead’s theory on violence to...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 416 p. This critical assessment of the archaeology of the historic city of Winchester and its immediate environs from earliest times to the present day is the first published comprehensive review of the archaeological resource for the city, which as seen many major programmes of archaeological investigation. There is evidence for activity and occupation in...
Springer, 2023. —– 395 p. — ISBN 978-3031283023. Археосейсмология: методологии и тематические исследования Archaeoseismic research provides data and information on past earthquakes but is limited by the lack of ongoing discussions about methodology. This volume is an interdisciplinary approach including archaeologists, geologists, geophysicists, seismologists, engineers, and...
Routledge, 2014. — 114 p. This handsome and informative volume from the Frameworks series presents monuments from ancient civilizations. As well as discussing Egyptian pyramids, Greek temples, Roman buildings, and megalithic monuments in Britain, the book includes interesting chapters on architecture in Mesoamerica, the early Middle East, and ancient China and Japan. A...
Thames and Hudson, 2019. — 304 p. An up-to-the-minute account of ten of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in Britain over the past decade. Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten, but our understanding of our past is changing. In the...
2nd Edition — Oxbow Books, 2011 — 634 p. Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry (Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology, Brown University), in order to make this landmark publication available once again to the scholarly community....
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 1088 p. — (British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs). The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing...
Philipp von Zabern, 2012. — 161 S. Der kleine Grabungshelfer Wie geht man mit archäologischen Funden um? Welche Vermessungstechniken gibt es und wie werden sie angewandt? Was ist ein Grabungstagebuch? Diese Fragen beantwortet der Grabungsleitfaden der handliche Begleiter für die Arbeit im Gelände. Er soll dem Neuling helfen, sich schneller sinnvoll und eigeninitiativ in den...
Routledge, 2016. — 394 р. This volume is the first text to focus specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and...
Oxbow Books, 2018 — 192 p. The aim of this book is to promote the thesis that myth may illuminate archaeology and that on occasion archaeology may shed light on myth. Medieval Irish literature is rich in mythic themes and some of these are used as a starting point. Some myths are of great antiquity and some were invented by contemporary authors. It is a challenging source,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 264 p. Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day....
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 304 p. The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly...
М.: Техносфера, 2007. — 1090 с.: 225 ил. — ISBN 978-5-94836-119-2, 0-13-032906-1. Книга об истории и методах археологии, ее значении в наши дни. Главная цель авторов — дать краткий обзор этой области знания для тех, кто не очень много знает о ней. В центре внимания — фундаментальные основы, которые равно важны, пользуется ли исследователь лопаткой, лазерной записывающей...
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