This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to provide a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire.
Kids on YouTube goes beyond the hype about “digital youth”, using fine-grained ethnographic studies to describe the collaborative social networks kids use to negotiate identities and develop digital literacy.
This volume marks a significant departure from previous symbolic approaches in post-processual archaeology, bringing together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge approaches to chart a new direction in material culture studies.
This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technology, archaeometry, and field methods.
The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.
Drawing from numerous examples, including historical archaeology’s study of race and labor, this book explores how archaeology and the wider heritage field can encourage working toward social and environmental justice and peacebuilding.
This is the first summary of archaeological contributions to our understanding of the War of 1812 by examining recent excavations and field surveys on fortifications, encampments, landscapes, shipwrecks, and battles in the different regions of the United States and Canada.
Prize-winning sociologist Lloyd H. Rogler, a founder of cultural psychiatry, gives us an intimately revealing, brilliantly narrated account of fieldwork from San Juan, Puerto Rico to inner-city New Haven.
This fascinating volume reviews Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory and presents a model in which the onset of the Middle Stone Age (before 285,000 years ago) marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers.
In this literary, co-constructed narrative, two Brazilian scholars explore the spaces “in-between” their biographies and work looking to decolonize scholarship and promote social justice.
The collected essays in this volume address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and... Læs mere
Using data from archaeological excavations, patent filings, and marketing catalogs, this book provides a broad view of the introduction, spread, and use of mass-produced coffin hardware in North America.