Archaeology : what it is, where it is, and how to do it /
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A practical introduction covering all core aspects of archaeology, this book is perfect for anyone looking to get involved in archaeology on a professional level or as a volunteer, or simply wanting an overview of the discipline. Aerial and ground survey, excavation and fieldwork, recording methods, soil sampling and small finds are all discussed.
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1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789695601 (ebook) :
Approaches to the analysis of production activity at archaeological sites /
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Proceedings of a workshop held in Berlin, 2018, focusing on manufacturing activities identified at archaeological sites. New excavation techniques, ethnographic research, archaeometric approaches, GIS, experimental archaeology, and theoretical issues associated with how researchers understand production in the past, are presented here.
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Conference proceedings.
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1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Open access.
Arqueología y téchne : métodos formales, nuevos enfoques = Archaeology and techne : formal methods, new approaches /
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This work presents papers resulting from the EPNet project (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics) which aimed to investigate existing hypotheses about the Roman economy in order to understand which products were distributed through the different geographical regions of the empire, and in which periods.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (vi, 204 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803271828 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume 2: Archaeological Pluridisciplinary Activities and Historical Study /
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In Archaeological Pluridisciplinary Activities and Historical Study, volume 2 of The Oasis of Bukhara, Rocco Rante, Florian Schwarz and Luigi Tronca engage in a strong, pluridisciplinary collaboration and use an innovative approach to offer a new contribution to the history of the oasis of Bukhara from the end of the last millennium BCE to the end of the medieval era. Referencing archaeological, historical and sociological data, the book revisits the history of this Central Asian region, giving the reader, specialist and general reader a detailed description of the political and socio-economical features that characterized the oasis during this long chronological span.
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Archaeological Pluridisciplinary Activities and Historical Study, volume 2 of The Oasis of Bukhara, revisits the history of the oasis of Bukhara, giving the reader, specialist and general reader a detailed description of the political and socio-economical features that characterized this Central Asian region from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the end of the medieval era. :
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Dissent with modification : human origins, palaeolithic archaeology and evolutionary anthropology in Britain 1859-1901 /
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The author's original aim in writing this work was to chronicle the story of a very specific debate in human evolutionary studies that took place between the late 1880s and the 1930s - the 'eolith' debate that had to do with small, natural stones whose shape and edges suggested to our earliest ancestors their use as tools. These were the most primitive of tools, thought to date to the very beginning of human cultural evolution, and therefore suited to our very earliest ancestors. The more the author researched this topic the more he realised that its explanation was rooted in a number of research questions which today are considered separate subjects, and, gradually, a book that was to be about a forgotten Palaeolithic debate became a book that was just as much about 'Morlocks', stone tools, racial difference, and the Anthropological Society of London.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Creating the human past : an epistemology of pleistocene archaeology /
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This text examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different notions of commensurability, ideologies, and purposes. Their various perspectives of what archaeology is and does are considered and the range of views of the human past is illuminated in this book.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Managing archaeological collections in Middle Eastern countries : a good practice guide /
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In this guide, archaeologist Dianne Fitzpatrick sees archaeological collections management as a means of integrating achievable good-practice strategies into research designs and site management plans from the outset.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784914899 (ebook) :
Encounters, excavations and argosies : essays for Richard Hodges /
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Richard Hodges is one of Europe's preeminent archaeologists. He has transformed the way we understand the early Middle Ages, and has put the past to work for the present, through a sequence of paradigmatic excavations in England, Italy and Albania. This book pays tribute to him with a series of reflections on some of the themes and issues which have been central to his work over the last 40 years. The contributors are colleagues, many his students, above all friends of the man whose ideas, example, trust, and loyalty have touched and inspired us all.
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Festschrift for Richard Hodges.
Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (iv, 358 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784916824 (ebook) :
When archaeology meets communities : impacting interactions in Sicily over two eras (Messina, 1861-1918) /
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'When Archaeology Meets Communities' examines the history of 19th-century Sicilian archaeology through the archival documentation for the excavations at Tindari, Lipari and nearby minor sites in the Messina province, from Italy's Unification to the end of the First World War (1861-1918).
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (x, 416 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784917920 (ebook) :
Visualizing cityscapes of classical antiquity : from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models : with a case study from the ancient town of Koroneia in Boeotia, Gre...
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The study presented here makes a practical contribution to a new understanding and use of digital 3D reconstructions in archaeology, namely as 'laboratories' to test hypotheses and visualise, evaluate and discuss multiple interpretations.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918903 (ebook) :
Experimental archaeology : making, understanding, story-telling : proceedings of a workshop in experimental archaeology : Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens with UCD Cen...
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In this text, based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 106 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Tales of three worlds : archaeology and beyond : Asia, Italy, Africa : a tribute to Sandro Salvatori /
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Tales of Three Worlds collects, as a sign of gratitude and affection, a series of papers by many authors who, in different times, contexts and contingencies, had the luck to meet Sandro Salvatori, and share with him a path of knowledge and mutual personal acquaintance. The book is divided in three sections: his long years of work in Middle Asia, from the plains of Sistan to those of the Indus, the coasts of the Omani peninsula and southern Turkmenistan; Sandro's activities in Italy, as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage) of his region; and the prehistory of north-eastern Africa, a context in which Sandro could work in full scientific and familiar ease, as he was prevented from doing in other situations.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789694413 (ebook) :
Networks and monumentality in the Pacific : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), volume 7, session XXXVIII /
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This volume reflects the tremendous progress made in Pacific island archaeology in the last 60 years which has considerably advanced our knowledge of early Pacific island societies, the rise of traditional cultural systems, and their later historical developments from European contact onwards.
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Conference proceedings.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (vi, 89 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789697162 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
New advances in the history of archaeology : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).
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This volume presents papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018) considering the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the history of archaeology.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803270739 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Environment, archaeology and landscape : papers in honour of Professor Martin Bell /
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'Environment, Archaeology and Landscape' is a collection of papers dedicated to Martin Bell on his retirement as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Reading. Three themes outline how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using multi-method approaches.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270852 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
In pursuit of ancient Cyrenaica... : two hundred years of exploration set against the history of archaeology in Europe (1706-1911) /
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This work examines travellers' accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
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9781784913212 (ebook) :
Working with the past : towards an archaeology of recycling /
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Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like the incorporation of the past into the present. What archaeology has not insisted upon is the dimensional scale of the process, which operates from the micro-scale of the recycling of the ancestors' material, up to the macro-scale of the landscape. It is well known that there are direct relations between artefacts and landscapes in what concerns the materiality and mobility of objects. An additional relation between artefact and landscape may be the process of recycling. In many ways artefact and landscape can be considered as one aspect of material culture, perceived at a different scale, since both have the same materiality and suffer the same process of reutilisation.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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9781784916305 (ebook) :
Archaeological heritage policies and management structures : proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain).
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This volume presents proceedings from sessions A15a, A15b, A15c of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain). Collectively this volume presents perspectives of archaeological heritage management in various countries and continents.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (vi, 130 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784917395 (ebook) :