Bioarchaeology in the Caribbean assembles leading and emerging scholars in Caribbean bioarchaeology, offering an overview of current research in genomic analyses, deathways, demography and health, diet and population mobility, and research ethics....Loe edasi...
Bioarchaeology provides an accessible introduction to the history and general theory of human remains in context from an archaeological and anthropological perspective, as well as their recovery and laboratory treatment....Loe edasi...
Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from contemporary traditional peoples, ancient societies, and our own successes and failures....Loe edasi...
This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patte...Loe edasi...
The book builds on the authors prior books, presenting updated methods and application of the growing array of imaging technology. It includes more than 120 images with an additional 200-plus available from the editors Web site, outlining the use of...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology spans the gap between archaeology and biological anthropology, the field and laboratory, and between francophone and anglophone funerary archaeological approaches to the remains of the dead and the unders...Loe edasi...
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal presents significant interpretive perspectives in Portuguese rock art research and offers an excellent representation of core rock art areas, along with current thinking and interpretations....Loe edasi...
This book examines this startling relationship between the image on the Shroud of Turin and the Miracle of the Holy Fire. As this amazing relationship becomes more broadly known, the world will be shocked and inevitably changed....Loe edasi...
Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity introduces students to key concepts in critical thinking across the four core branches of anthropology: cultural, linguistic, biological, and archaeological. It combines a critical a...Loe edasi...
This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start....Loe edasi...
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge....Loe edasi...
This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains....Loe edasi...
This volume brings together a range of contributors with different and hybrid academic backgrounds to explore, through bioarchaeology, the past human experience in the territories that span Mesoamerica....Loe edasi...
The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used in their urban and agricultural water supply syste...Loe edasi...
This book is the first, long overdue biography on this woman of immense stature in her field. She was the first woman to serve as President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the first woman to be full professor at the Washi...Loe edasi...
This new edition is a go-to reference on forensic taphonomythe actual modifications to an individual bone or assemblage of bones. Expert contributors classify such alterations to remains, explaining their significance, demonstrating how to different...Loe edasi...
The third edition of Archaeological Research introduces the basic methods of archaeological research, including data collection, analysis, and interpretation, as well as considering the state of the field today....Loe edasi...
This volume examines the different ways in which classification is communicated and negotiated in different environments within archaeology. The book looks at the archaeological classification of ceramics as a lens through which to examine the discu...Loe edasi...
Shows how the digitization of archaeological information and its interplay with non-digital practices affects the outcomes of archaeological work and our general understanding of the human past....Loe edasi...
Case Studies for Advances in Paleoimaging as a field manual for future current and researchers in approach similar, or even new cases, that present unique challenges. Cases demonstrate how the varied imaging methodologies can provide data on a varie...Loe edasi...
Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked by the materiality of conflict and its aftermath. The volume positions the industrialized nature of tw...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs past and present, examining humanitys intriguingly complex relationships with, and experiences of, food. The book also expands our understanding of materiality through a fresh focus on material cult...Loe edasi...
Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All...Loe edasi...
While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated i...Loe edasi...
Debating Archaeological Empiricism examines the current intellectual turn in archaeology, primarily in its prehistoric and classical branches, characterized by a return to the archaeological evidence. Each chapter in the book approaches the empirica...Loe edasi...
Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt demonstrates how to integrate scientific methodologies into Egyptology broadly, and in Egyptian archaeology in particular, in order to maximise the amount of information that might be obtained within a study of...Loe edasi...
The Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology organizes the cognitive archaeological landscape into a strong psychological framework, opening the field to scholars across behavioral sciences with contributions from leading experts covering topics in physiol...Loe edasi...
This book presents guidance, theory, case studies and methodologies for analysing tree-rings to accurately date and help preserve historic buildings and landscapes....Loe edasi...
