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• Choice Reviews Online
(2008)
What impact is there on the field to recognize that archaeology is a regular feature in daily life and popular culture? Based upon the study of England, Germany, Sweden and the USA, Cornelius Holtorf examines the commonalities and peculiari...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-4466
Robert Chapman • Routledge eBooks
(2003)
An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social change, and debates the transition from perceived simple, e...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203451779
A. J. B. Humphreys, Edward Cecil Harris • The South African Archaeological Bulletin
(1981)
This book is the only text devoted entirely to archaeological stratigraphy, a subject of fundamental importance to most studies in archaeology. The first edition appeared in 1979 as a result of the invention, by the author, of the Harris Ma...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3888021
• Choice Reviews Online
(2000)
The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we learn not only about prehistoric people's attitudes toward death and the afterlife but also about th...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-6337
David W. Phillipson • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2005)
Research in Africa is now accepted as an integral part of global archaeological studies. As well as providing archaeologists with the oldest material, Africa is also widely recognised as the birthplace of modern man and his characteristic c...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511800313
Michael Shanks • World Archaeology
(2007)
Symmetry is an epistemological and ethical principle developed in the social study of scientific practice. This essay connects a symmetrical archaeology to major trends in the discipline since the 1960s and to key components of archaeologic...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240701679676
• Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1982)
This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558252
Michael Dietler • University of California Press eBooks
(2010)
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek and Roman colonists during the first millennium B.C. Analyzing archaeological data and anci...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520947948
Clive Orton, Michael J. Hughes • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2013)
This revised edition provides an up-to-date account of the many different kinds of information that can be obtained through the archaeological study of pottery. It describes the scientific and quantitative techniques that are now available ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511920066
• Choice Reviews Online
(1997)
When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at Machu Picchu, the cave painti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-6037
M. J. AITKEN • Routledge eBooks
(2014)
Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315836645
Clive Gamble • Routledge eBooks
(2007)
This second edition from our successful Basics series presents another chance to delve into this increasingly popular subject. Fully updated, Archaeology: The Basics has been revised to reflect growth in areas such as material culture, huma...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203007709
Corina Knipper, Susan K. Harris, Lynn Fisher, Rainer Schreg et al. • Journal of Neolithic Archaeology
(2005)
This paper presents goals, methods, and preliminary results of a collaborative project investigating Neolithic settlement and land use of the southeastern Swabian Alb limestone plateau region in southwestern Germany. The project combines sy...
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DOI: 10.12766/jna.2005.12
Ramón Cebrián-Guimerá, María del Carmen Del Arco-Aguilar, María Mercedes Del Arco-Aguilar, José Ángel Afonso-Vargas • Lucentum
(2026)
Las excavaciones en el yacimiento de Lobos 1, de época tardorrepublicana y altoimperial, han proporcionado un importante registro de las herramientas usadas por los trabajadores de la púrpura. Realizamos un estudio, de forma contextual y em...
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DOI: 10.14198/LVCENTVM.29345
Marcia‐Anne Dobres, John Robb • Routledge eBooks
(2014)
Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentio...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315866000
A. Mark Pollard, Carl P. Heron, R. D. Gillard • Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks
(2008)
The application of chemistry within archaeology is an important and fascinating area. It allows the archaeologist to answer such questions as "what is this artefact made of?", "where did it come from?" and "how has it been changed through b...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847558299
Andrew T. Chamberlain • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2006)
Demography in Archaeology, first published in 2006, is a review of current theory and method in the reconstruction of populations from archaeological data. Starting with a summary of demographic concepts and methods, the book examines histo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511607165
Lewis R. Binford, Jeremy A. Sabloff • Journal of Anthropological Research
(1982)
The ways archaeologists view the past--their paradigms--directly influence their interpretations of the archaeological record. Paradigm change need not be irrational or undirected; such change can best be accomplished by focusing attention ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/jar.38.2.3629594
A. Mark Pollard, Carl P. Heron, R. D. Gillard • Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks
(1996)
The application of chemistry within archaeology is an important and fascinating area. It allows the archaeologist to answer such questions as "what is this artefact made of?", "where did it come from?" and "how has it been changed through b...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847550156
Bruce G. Trigger • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2006)
In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511813016