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Photography and archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (2012)

Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what are we looking at in an archaeological photograph? Archaeological photography is often largely deserted, to be scanned with a ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-5484

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

A. J. B. Humphreys, Colin Renfrew, Paul G. Bahn • The South African Archaeological Bulletin (1992)

The text is organized around the key questions that archaeologists ask about the past and details the practical and theoretical ways in which answers to those questions are sought. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3888999

Time and Archaeology

• Routledge eBooks (2004)

The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203203019

The Archaeology of Animals

Simon Davis • Routledge eBooks (2012)

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203060131

The Archaeology of Rank

Paul K. Wason • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1994)

Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological da...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511521195

The Archaeology of Human Bones

Simon A. Mays • Routledge eBooks (2010)

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the scientific analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. This completely revised edition reflects the latest developments in scientific techniques for stud...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851777

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

Hisao Mabuchi, Edward V. Sayre, Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik et al. • Studies in Conservation (1991)

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1506337

Models in Archaeology

David L. Clarke • Routledge eBooks (2014)

This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748474

Archaeologies of Complexity

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203451779

Emotion in Archaeology

Sarah A. Tarlow • Current Anthropology (2000)

Despite the establishment of significant traditions of emotion research in many disciplines, there has been little discussion of the state and potential of the archaeological study of emotion. This paper aims to review archaeological approa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/317404

The archaeology of death and burial

• 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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-6337

Symmetrical archaeology

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240701679676

Archaeology

Kevin T. Greene • Routledge eBooks (1996)

This bestselling book has firmly established itself as the most accessible guide to archaeology available. It features: * an explanation to the discovery and excavation of sites * a helpful outline of the major dating methods * clear explan...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203447208

Understanding the Archaeological Record

Gavin Lucas • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2012)

This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511845772