An examination of how ancient environments were socio-culturally constructed as responsive living entities that could undermine or even challenge humankinds sense of control....Loe edasi...
Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypts New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or on the contents of papyrus copies of the Book...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...Loe edasi...
An archaeometric study of iron ore and slag from Przeworsk Culture, employing the most up-to-date archaeological and statistical approaches....Loe edasi...
Explores how material culture is represented in archaeological fiction and media and what it reveals about the cultural practices involved in representing and recognizing objects designated as artefacts. Investigating the represe...Loe edasi...
This book studies the history of twentieth-century Chinese architecture, focusing on the integration of modern transformational works and ideas. It is an essential resource for understanding modern Chinese architecture. It showcases the remarkable a...Loe edasi...
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media and highlights the potential in I...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197948)
This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative...Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It f...Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
The Conservation and Sustainable Development of Architectural and Urban Heritage: Methods, Strategies and Policies offers an interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary strategies for the understanding and conservation of architectural and urban h...Loe edasi...
This short book unites seven case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to offer new solution-oriented ways of thinking about seemingly insurmountable social problems. These solution-oriented ways of thinking, as detailed in each of the seve...Loe edasi...
This book retraces the story of the Dragon, a corvette of the French Navy of the king Louis XVI, engaged in secret against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War. Taking an inductive approach, the work begins by describing the unidentified w...Loe edasi...
Through a range of case studies, this book traces how death shaped cities, and vice versa. It argues that by focusing on death and the city, we can open up new avenues of research into religious, political and cultural change.Dying in a cit...Loe edasi...
This book examines the pasts and presents of some of the world’s most persecuted peoples, in search of answers to the question of why minorities living in Asia’s Highlands, with ancient roots in their homelands, have been continually oppressed by...Loe edasi...
This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources.A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket...Loe edasi...
This book is intended as a reference guide for aspiring researchers and postgraduate students of West African history, as well as anyone fascinated by the regions material culture. Rarely encountered or studied, edged weapons from the Kingdom of Dah...Loe edasi...
This book offers an innovative perspective on cultural heritage, blending theory, practice, and management through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary lens. It proposes a systemic approach to understanding heritage as a dynamic and evolving entity, e...Loe edasi...
This book integrates field archaeology with multidisciplinary research on the Erlitou site. Beyond its significant archaeological discoveries, Erlitou represents the site subjected to the most extensive analysis by the various scientific and technol...Loe edasi...
This book serves as a sacred site that empirically attests to the 5,000-year-long history of Chinese civilization. It represents an earthen construction-based civilization, a water conservancy-oriented civilization, and a rice cultivation-centered c...Loe edasi...
This book reviews the information provided by an artificial intelligencebased methodology for the characterization of artworks and the attribution of a piece to a particular artist. Until now, such approaches have been applied mainly to oil painting...Loe edasi...
This book highlights critical developments in maritime research focusing on transformations brought about by the establishment of the Blue Economy as well as the increasing recognition of the value of heritage for contemporary communities. It brings...Loe edasi...
This publication enables to realize the full potential of herbaria as archives of scientific information. The book focuses on the most important aspects of the collections condition which is crucial for planning further research using its resources....Loe edasi...
This volume contains eight philological, linguistic, and archaeological essays on Aramaic, Phoenician, and Demotic sources from Persian (Achaemenid) period Egypt....Loe edasi...
This book uses cuneiform tablets from MIddle Babylonian Nippur to investigate how ancient institutions and governments perceived and recorded the world they governed....Loe edasi...
An examination of how ancient environments were socio-culturally constructed as responsive living entities that could undermine or even challenge humankinds sense of control....Loe edasi...
Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypts New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or on the contents of papyrus copies of the Book...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...Loe edasi...
An archaeometric study of iron ore and slag from Przeworsk Culture, employing the most up-to-date archaeological and statistical approaches....Loe edasi...
Explores how material culture is represented in archaeological fiction and media and what it reveals about the cultural practices involved in representing and recognizing objects designated as artefacts. Investigating the represe...Loe edasi...
This book studies the history of twentieth-century Chinese architecture, focusing on the integration of modern transformational works and ideas. It is an essential resource for understanding modern Chinese architecture. It showcases the remarkable a...Loe edasi...
Brad H. Koldehoff, Adrian Burke, Henry T. Wright, Christopher J. Ellis, Melissa I. Pardi, Christopher C. Widga, Ryan M. Parish, Scott Eckford, D. Bryan Deller, William Fox...
Sari: Peopling of the Americas Publications
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648432170)
Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interact...Loe edasi...
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media and highlights the potential in I...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270967)
Women, Fertility, and North American Archaeology brings together more than three decades of Cheryl Claassens groundbreaking work on gender and archaeology. Featuring articles originally published between 1989 and 2023, the volume makes available th...Loe edasi...
Sumeromania uncovers the dramatic and complex story behind one of the British Museums most important holdings: its vast collection of objects from the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern Tello, Iraq). From statues of rulers to thousands of cuneif...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197948)
This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112253106)
Millennium transcends boundaries between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch, the Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. The editorial...Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It f...Loe edasi...
Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence and transgressive nature. This volume aims to recuperate the living image, t...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
The Conservation and Sustainable Development of Architectural and Urban Heritage: Methods, Strategies and Policies offers an interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary strategies for the understanding and conservation of architectural and urban h...Loe edasi...
