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Chaco Canyon - Archeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Brian Fagan Chaco Canyon - Archeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Brian Fagan
R745 R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Save R94 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than a century. Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, Chaco Canyon draws on the very latest research on Chaco and its environs to tell the remarkable story of the people of the canyon, from foraging bands and humble farmers to the elaborate society that flourished between the tenth and twelfth centuries A.D. Brian Fagan is a master story teller, and he weaves the latest discoveries into a compelling narrative of people living in a harsh, unpredictable environment. Indeed, this is not a story about artifacts and dusty digs, but a riveting narrative of people in the distant past, going about their daily business, living and dying, loving, raising children, living in plenty and in hunger, pondering the cosmos, and facing the unpredictable challenges of the environment. Drawing on rare access to the records of the Chaco Synthesis Project, Fagan reveals a society where agriculture and religion went hand-in-hand, where the ritual power of Chaco's leaders drew pilgrims from distant communities bearing gifts. He describes the lavish burials in the heart of Pueblo Bonito, which offer clues about the identity of Chaco's shadowy leaders. And he explores the enduring mystery of Chaco's sudden decline in the face of savage drought and shows how its legacy survives into modern times. Here then is the first authoritative account of the Chaco people written for a general audience, lending a fascinating human face to one of America's most famous archaeological sites.

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (Paperback): Tamar Hodos The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (Paperback)
Tamar Hodos
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. bp to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, cultural change, and the complex connectivities between communities and groups. In considering social practices shared between different historic groups, and also the expression of their respective identities, the papers in this volume illustrate the potential of globalization thinking to bridge the local and global in material culture analysis. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization is the first such volume to take a world archaeology approach, on a multi-period basis, in order to bring together the scope of evidence for the significance of material culture in the processes of globalization. This work thus also provides a means to understand how material culture studies can be utilised to assess the impact of global engagement in our contemporary world. As such, it will appeal to archaeologists and historians as well as social science researchers interested in the origins of globalization.

The Archaeology of Mothering - An African-American Midwife's Tale (Hardcover): Laurie A. Wilkie The Archaeology of Mothering - An African-American Midwife's Tale (Hardcover)
Laurie A. Wilkie
R3,893 Discovery Miles 38 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Motherhood is a subject that has largely been ignored by archaeologists who focus on gender and history-until now. Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to midwifery to support her family and as a midwife, became a vehicle for transmitting cultural, social and political knowledge regarding mothering performance and practice to the broader African-American community.

The Archaeology of Mothering - An African-American Midwife's Tale (Paperback, New): Laurie A. Wilkie The Archaeology of Mothering - An African-American Midwife's Tale (Paperback, New)
Laurie A. Wilkie
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Motherhood is a subject that has largely been ignored by archaeologists who focus on gender and history-until now. Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to midwifery to support her family and as a midwife, became a vehicle for transmitting cultural, social and political knowledge regarding mothering performance and practice to the broader African-American community.

Faking Ancient Mesoamerica (Paperback): Nancy L. Kelker, Karen O. Bruhns Faking Ancient Mesoamerica (Paperback)
Nancy L. Kelker, Karen O. Bruhns
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they describe the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system. Unique to this volume are biographies of several of the forgers, who describe their craft and how they are able to effectively fool connoisseurs and specialists. An important, accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud for archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike. A parallel volume by the same authors discusses fakes in Andean archaeology.

African Foragers - Environment, Technology, Interactions (Paperback, New): Sibel Barut Kusimba African Foragers - Environment, Technology, Interactions (Paperback, New)
Sibel Barut Kusimba
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Foraging bands were the quintessential form of human social organization for the most of prehistory. Current arguments rage on the genesis of the contemporary descendants of these hunter-gatherers and their applicability to our understanding of lifeways before agriculture and domestication of animals. Sibel Barut Kusimba addresses this debate by synthesizing the archaeological evidence in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present, where the greatest time depth of foraging cultures can be traced. She develops a comprehensive picture of these foundational human societies, their social and technological adaptations to environmental conditions, and the impact of interaction from later economic systems on their lifeways. The book should be of importance to both cultural and archaeological anthropologists and their students.

The Archaeology of Mesopotamia - Theories and Approaches (Hardcover): Roger Matthews The Archaeology of Mesopotamia - Theories and Approaches (Hardcover)
Roger Matthews
R3,879 Discovery Miles 38 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the original site of many of the major developments in human history, such as farming, the rise of urban literate societies and the first great empires of Akkad, Babylonia and Assyria.
The work of archaeologists is central to our understanding of Mesopotamia's past; this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian archaeology from its origins in the nineteenth century up to the present day.
Dr Matthews places the discipline within its historical and social context, and explains how archaeologists conduct their research through excavation, survey and other methods. In four fundamental chapters, he uses illustrated case-studies to show how archaeologists have approached central themes such as
* the shift from hunting to farming
* complex societies
* empires and imperialism
* everyday life
This is the only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology. It will be both an ideal introductory work and useful as background reading on a wide range of courses.

Digging Up Texas - A Guide to the Archaeology of the State (Paperback): Robert Marcom Digging Up Texas - A Guide to the Archaeology of the State (Paperback)
Robert Marcom
R389 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R32 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Take a guided tour of more than 15,000 years of life in Texas Mr. Marcom has authored a volume that makes the incredibly diverse archaeological record of Texas accessible to interested laypersons and beginning avocational archaeologists.

East Greek Pottery (Paperback, Revised): R.M. Cook, Pierre Dupont East Greek Pottery (Paperback, Revised)
R.M. Cook, Pierre Dupont
R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

East Greek Pottery provides the only dedicated study of the pottery created by the Greek settlers along the western coast of Turkey between 1100 and 500 BC. The authors examine in detail significant developments in shape, material and decoration from the emergence of the protogeometric style in the eleventh century to the fifth century BC, when competition from Athenian imports forced craftsmen to use only very simple ornamentation. The twenty-three chapters offer a comprehensive style-by-style analysis of both familiar and lesser-known pottery types, including Grey ware, relief ware and archaic trade amphorae.
With full illustration, thorough referencing and authoritative interpretation of the archaeological evidence, this volume is a unique and accessible guide to an area of study which has often been neglected.

The Tutu Archaeological Village Site - A Multi-disciplinary Case Study in Human Adaptation (Hardcover): Elizabeth Righter The Tutu Archaeological Village Site - A Multi-disciplinary Case Study in Human Adaptation (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Righter; Foreword by Anna Roosevelt
R6,155 Discovery Miles 61 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Tribal Cultural Resource Management - The Full Circle to Stewardship (Paperback): Darby C. Stapp, Michael S. Burney Tribal Cultural Resource Management - The Full Circle to Stewardship (Paperback)
Darby C. Stapp, Michael S. Burney; Foreword by Jeff Pelt; Contributions by Robert Whitlam
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals. This book examines these developments from tribal perspectives and articulates native views on the identification of cultural resource, how they should be handled and by whom, and what their meaning is in contemporary life. Stapp and Burney also demonstrate the connections between cultural resource and other issues such as native sovereignty, economic development, human rights, and cultural integrity.

The Small Isles (Hardcover): John Hunter The Small Isles (Hardcover)
John Hunter
R814 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R72 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and explore. We know this because the evidence of their presence has been preserved down the millennia - in traces of flint and quartz, in charred fragments of grain and animal bone, in great heaped piles of ancient shellfish. The islands were Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck - four distinctive shapes rising from the waters of the Inner Hebrides between Ardnamurchan and Skye. Collectively, they are known as the Small Isles. From those first moments on, people have been working these islands and using their resources, adapting each landscape to suit the changing needs of the communities they served. In this definitive new book, archaeologist John Hunter searches for the stories of the Small Isles in the evidence that survives - from the fragmentary physical remains of dwellings, defences, places of worship and monuments, to the records of early antiquarians, historians and travellers. This is a journey to rediscover communities that were erased by the mass migrations of the nineteenth century, and the rise of the Victorian sporting estate. Within a few generations cultural identity on the islands disappeared and a new order developed. Placenames were changed, buildings and structures abandoned, and traditions forgotten. The Small Isles became islands without memories. This comprehensive guide - illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings - takes readers on a tour of both place and time. Crisscrossing the landscapes of four fascinating and evocative islands, it reveals traces of a forgotten past in everything that has been left behind.

Investigating the Ordinary - Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology (Hardcover): Sarah E Price, Philip J. Carr Investigating the Ordinary - Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology (Hardcover)
Sarah E Price, Philip J. Carr
R2,434 Discovery Miles 24 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on the daily concerns and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate. Instead of dividing archaeological work by time periods or artifact types, the essays in this volume unite separate areas of research through the theme of the everyday. Ordinary activities studied here range from flint-knapping to ceremonial crafting, from subsistence to social gatherings, and from the Paleoindian period to the nineteenth century. Contributors demonstrate that attention to everyday life can help researchers avoid overemphasizing data and jargon and instead discover connections between the people of different eras. This approach will also inspire archaeologists with ways to engage the public with their work and with the deep history of the southeastern United States.

State Formation in Korea - Emerging Elites (Hardcover): Gina Barnes State Formation in Korea - Emerging Elites (Hardcover)
Gina Barnes
R3,893 Discovery Miles 38 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Emerging Elites I: perspectives on state formation in Korea Preface Introduction 1. State formation in the southern Korean peninsula: a critical review 2. Early Korean states: a review of historical interpretation 3. The development of stoneware technology in southern Korea 4. A technological study of earthenware and stoneware from southern Korea 5. Discoveries of iron armour on the Korean peninsula 6. Walled sites in the Three Kingdoms settlement patterns 7. The emergence and expansion of Silla as seen archeologically 8. Korean capital cities Appendix I. Western language works on Korean state formation (ref: Ch. 2)

Indigenous Archaeology - American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (Hardcover): Joe Watkins Indigenous Archaeology - American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (Hardcover)
Joe Watkins
R2,753 Discovery Miles 27 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As a practicing archaeologist and a Choctaw Indian, Joe Watkins is uniquely qualified to speak about the relationship between American Indians and archaeologists. Tracing the often stormy relationship between the two, Watkins highlights the key arenas where the two parties intersect: ethics, legislation, and archaeological practice. Watkins describes cases where the mixing of indigenous values and archaeological practice has worked well-and some in which it hasn't-both in the United States and around the globe. He surveys the attitudes of archaeologists toward American Indians through an inventive series of of hypothetical scenarios, with some eye-opening results. And he calls for the development of Indigenous Archaeology, in which native peoples are full partners in the key decisions about heritage resources management as well as the practice of it. Watkins' book is an important contribution in the contemporary public debates in public archaeology, applied anthropology, cultural resources management, and Native American studies.

Indigenous Archaeology - American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (Paperback): Joe Watkins Indigenous Archaeology - American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (Paperback)
Joe Watkins
R1,139 Discovery Miles 11 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As a practicing archaeologist and a Choctaw Indian, Joe Watkins is uniquely qualified to speak about the relationship between American Indians and archaeologists. Tracing the often stormy relationship between the two, Watkins highlights the key arenas where the two parties intersect: ethics, legislation, and archaeological practice. Watkins describes cases where the mixing of indigenous values and archaeological practice has worked well-and some in which it hasn't-both in the United States and around the globe. He surveys the attitudes of archaeologists toward American Indians through an inventive series of of hypothetical scenarios, with some eye-opening results. And he calls for the development of Indigenous Archaeology, in which native peoples are full partners in the key decisions about heritage resources management as well as the practice of it. Watkins' book is an important contribution in the contemporary public debates in public archaeology, applied anthropology, cultural resources management, and Native American studies.

The Archaeology of Difference - Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania (Hardcover): Anne Clarke, Robin Torrence The Archaeology of Difference - Negotiating Cross-Cultural Engagements in Oceania (Hardcover)
Anne Clarke, Robin Torrence
R3,894 Discovery Miles 38 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203298810

The Rise of Early Rome - Transportation Networks and Domination in Central Italy, 1050–500 BC (Hardcover): Francesca... The Rise of Early Rome - Transportation Networks and Domination in Central Italy, 1050–500 BC (Hardcover)
Francesca Fulminante
R2,379 Discovery Miles 23 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The trajectory of Rome from a small village in Latium vetus, to an emerging power in Italy during the first millennium BC, and finally, the heart of an Empire that sprawled throughout the Mediterranean and much of Europe until the 5th century CE, is well known. Its rise is often presented as inevitable and unstoppable. Yet the factors that contributed to Rome's rise to power are not well understood. Why Rome and not Veii? In this book, Francesca Fulminante offers a fresh approach to this question through the use of a range of methods. Adopting quantitative analyses and a novel network perspective, she focuses on transportation systems in Etruria and Latium Italy from ca. 1000–500 BC. Fulminante reveals the multiple factors that contributed to the emergence and dominance of Rome within these regional networks, and the critical role they in the rise of the city and, ultimately, Roman imperialism.

The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily (Paperback, Revised): R.Ross Holloway The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily (Paperback, Revised)
R.Ross Holloway
R1,448 Discovery Miles 14 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This accessible book provides the only comprehensive introduction to the wealth of ancient monuments and artefacts discovered on Sicily. From the Paleolithic to the later Roman period it explores all the main topics of archaeological interest including:
* Greek colonisation
* sanctuaries and burial
* the architecture of temples, houses, theatres and military sites
* sculpture
* cities.
With concise and illuminating commentary, over 200 illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily continues to be the standard work on the subject.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203469623

A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo - The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Paperback): Stefan Reif A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo - The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection (Paperback)
Stefan Reif
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


In this readable and intriguing study, Stefan Reif tells a number of remarkable stories. He explains how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a number of colourful figures brought about the connection between the two centres. Also reliably summarised here are the importance of the Genizah material for Jewish cultural history and the manner in which its conservation, decipherment and publication have proceeded in the course of a century.
The book will serve as a helpful reference work for students and teachers of Jewish history and literature. Perhaps more importantly, it will introduce the whole topic to those with an interest in uncovering the secrets of the past but lacking the awareness that the Genizah's contents are at least as important for this purpose as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

An Introduction to English Runes (Paperback, New Ed): R.I. Page An Introduction to English Runes (Paperback, New Ed)
R.I. Page
R737 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R72 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English times, among both indigenous Anglo-Saxons and incoming Vikings. In a scholarly yet readable way it examines the introduction of the runic alphabet (the futhorc) to England in the fifth and sixth centuries, the forms and values of its letters, and the ways in which it developed, up until its decline at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It discusses how runes were used for informal and day-to-day purposes, on formal monuments, as decorative letters in prestigious manuscripts, for owners' or makers' names on everyday objects, perhaps even in private letters. For the first time, the book presents, together with earlier finds, the many runic objects discovered over the last twenty years, with a range of inscriptions on bone, metal and stone, even including tourists' scratched signatures found on the pilgrimage routes through Italy. It gives an idea of the immense range of informationon language and social history contained in these unique documents. The late R.I. PAGE was former Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge.

Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan - An Account of the Activities and Adventures of the Second and Third German Turfan... Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan - An Account of the Activities and Adventures of the Second and Third German Turfan Expeditions (Hardcover)
Albert Von Le Coq; Translated by Anna Barwell
R2,823 Discovery Miles 28 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1928, this volume constituted the results of expeditions by the famous archaeologist and explorer of Central Asia, Albert von Le Coq. Funded by the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, and von Le Coq's own brewing and winery empire, the second and third German expeditions ventured to Turfan in the Xinjiang region of China. Travelling East expecting to find Greek influences, the expedition in fact uncovered extensive networks of Buddhist and Manichaean cave temples in the Northwest China. This volume includes extensive images in addition to a record of the expedition's journeys and discoveries.

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland (Hardcover): Gabriel Cooney Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland (Hardcover)
Gabriel Cooney
R3,889 Discovery Miles 38 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic, using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new insights on the period. Gabriel Cooney argues that the archaeological evidence demonstrates a much more complex picture than the current orthodoxy on Neolithic Europe, with its assumption of mobile lifestyles, suggests. He integrates the study of landscape, settlement, agriculture, material culture and burial practice to offer a rounded, realistic picture of the complexities and the realities of Neolithic lives and societies in Ireland.

The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England - Basic Readings (Hardcover): Catherine E. Karkov The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England - Basic Readings (Hardcover)
Catherine E. Karkov
R3,929 Discovery Miles 39 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Looking back, looking forward - the field of Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Reorganization among the ruins. York 700-1050. Constructions of wood, stone and ink - the churches of 8th-century England. Wearmouth and Jarrow in their continental context, The Anglo-Saxon church at Canterbury. Anglo- Saxon church building - aspects of design and construction. Archaeology and the cult of St Oswald in pre-conquest Northumbria. The Anglo-Saxon cemetary at Sutton Hoo - an interim report. Beowulf and Sutton Hoo - the odd couple. Children, death and the afterlife in Anglo-Saxon England. Repton and the Vikings. An Anglo-Saxon "cunning woman" from Bidford-on-Avon. Questioning the monuments - approaches to Anglo-Saxon sculpture through gender studies. Statements in stone - Anglo-Saxon sculpture, Whitby and the Christianization of the north. Women's costume in the 10th and 11th centuries and textile production in Anglo-Saxon England. The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England - theory and practice.

Every Living Thing - Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel (Paperback): Oded Borowski Every Living Thing - Daily Use of Animals in Ancient Israel (Paperback)
Oded Borowski
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The agricultural world of Old Testament Israel swarmed with animals--birds, insects, fish, pack animals, pets, animals for hunting, and domesticated herds of sheep, goats, and cattle. Using information from the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern documents, anthropology, and archaeology, Borowski synthesizes what we know about the use of animals in biblical times for food, clothing, transportation, and even cultic practices. This comprehensive catalog is a convenient desk resource for any reader_whether biblical scholar, archaeology student, or layperson. Essays on pastoral systems, cult, and agricultural economics, makes this also an important tool for researchers.

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