What role did plant resources have in the evolution of the human species? Why and how have plants been managed and transported to new environments? Where, how, and why were plants domesticated, and why do the patterns vary in different parts of the w...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, What’s New? puts innovation firmly back on the agenda of archaeological interpretation. This book revives interest in the process of innovation and reinterprets it by drawing on original work done in a variety of di...Loe edasi...
What role did plant resources have in the evolution of the human species? Why and how have plants been managed and transported to new environments? Where, how, and why were plants domesticated, and why do the patterns vary in different parts of the w...Loe edasi...
The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interactio...Loe edasi...
Sarah Byrne, Anne Clarke, Rodney Harrison, Robin Torrence
Sari: One World Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Aug-2012, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781461429173)
Grounded in case studies from individual objects and collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this volume provides a new theoretical framework for examining material culture within museums. Museum co...Loe edasi...
Sarah Byrne, Anne Clarke, Rodney Harrison, Robin Torrence
Sari: One World Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781441982216)
Grounded in case studies from individual objects and collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this volume provides a new theoretical framework for examining material culture within museums....Loe edasi...
Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that dive...Loe edasi...
Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and adaptive from the impacts of volcanic eruptions over human history and prehistor...Loe edasi...
This collection aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology. Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possibl...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, the aim of this important study was to develop methods for reconstructing the processes of prehistoric exchange. Originally published in 1986, the aim of this important study was to develop methods for reconstruc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2008, Hardback, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781598742688)
Grattan (Institute of Geology and Earth Sciences, U. of Wales, UK) and Torrence (anthropology, Australian Museum, Australia) present 12 interdisciplinary case studies exploring the long-term cultural effects of volcanic disaster. Investigating the to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781598740189)
What role did plants have in human evolution? What is the relationship between intensification of food production and the rise of complex societies? Recent studies use starch granules discovered in archeological sites to try to answer these and other...Loe edasi...
Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that dive...Loe edasi...
The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interactio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-1986, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521252669)
The aim of this important study is to develop new methods for reconstructing the processes of prehistoric exchange. Recent archaeological work has concentrated on mapping obsidian finds relative to source areas using trace-element analysis and on inv...Loe edasi...
