How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of... Læs mere
From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon.
This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.
Puschnigg’s detailed study of Merv’s Sasanian pottery creates a benchmark for other work on this ceramic corpus. She dissects the frequency, dates, wares,... Læs mere
Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology.
In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe.
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project, that of the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England.
An exploration of the archaeology of the African diaspora.
Examines some of the most important events in the development of a socially engaged archaeology concerned with issues in the contemporary world.
Examines a neglected period in the history of Egyptology, from the Moslem annexation of Egypt in the 7th century CE until the... Læs mere
This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from the formative period of the profession, written by many of the American and European founders of the field, with contextualizing introductions by the editors.