Veteran science writer Michael Balter skillfully weaves together many threads in this biography of the excavation one of archaeology’s most legendary prehistoric sites— Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
Two leading archeologists challenge assumptions about mankind's earliest days, arguing that women played a central role in the development of language and social life--in short, in our becoming human.
This book offers principles, examples, and exercises to help all museums and all museum workers unleash their creative potential and develop an internal culture of creative learning.
Patricia Leavy, herself both a highly published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between... Læs mere
J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, uses ethnographic, archival, and archaeological lines of... Læs mere
Authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine... Læs mere
In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity.
This unique volume demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs, and highlights the importance of regional rock art studies and regional variations.
Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches which incorporate and critique memory-work.
Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach to mortuary archaeology begins by identifying commonalities of a culture from the “funeral kit” that occurs in all of its burials, using examples from the Ancient Near East and comparing it to other cultures.
This volume is a call for integrity in autoethnographic research. Stephen Andrew weaves together philosophy, critical theory, and extended self-reflections to... Læs mere