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By Andrew Gardner
August 01, 2007
This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or ...
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By Paulette M McManus
January 15, 2009
This volume is a set of a dozen case studies of innovative programs designed to attract the public to both archaeological sites and exhibits of archaeological artifacts. Papers deal with general issues of interpretation and presentation and cover British, Australian, European, and American settings....
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By Anthony J Barham, Richard I Macphail
January 01, 2009
A collection of papers focusing on the links between archaeology and the study of geological sediments and soils....
By Beatrice de Cardi
January 01, 1983
Final report of a key set of archaeological surveys in a previously unstudied area of eastern Iran by one of the pioneer archaeologists of this region....
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By Andrew Bevan, David Wengrow
August 31, 2012
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in various permutations in places as diverse as ...
By Richard Reece
January 01, 1981
This volume contains numerous studies of a medieval religious compound from rescue excavations conducted on the island of Iona, off the coast of Scotland....
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By Peter Jordan
August 31, 2012
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic ‘thick description’ to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased ...
By Simon Hillson
January 15, 2009
This guide is designed as an introduction to the basic methods for identifying mammal bones and teeth. It is intended to highlight for beginners the main points on which identifications can be made on the bulk of bones and teeth from a small range of common Old World mammals....
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By David R Harris, Kenneth D Thomas
January 01, 1991
A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science....
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By Jonathan N Tubb
January 01, 1985
A collection of key articles on Syro-Palestinian archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages compiled in honor of archaeologist Olga Tufnell, excavator of the biblical city of Lachish, including contributions by Amiran, Callaway, Dever, Stager, and Ussishkin....
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By Martin Millett
January 01, 1979
Collection of research papers concerning ceramic and ceramic analysis for archaeologists....
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By D.R. Brothwell, Kenneth D Thomas, Juliet Clutton-Brock
January 01, 1978
Papers from an important conference on zooarchaeology, reflecting state-of-the-art work on the study of human relationship to animals in ancient times....