Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades b...Loe edasi...
This book presents the earliest evidence of the domestication of rice and of human settlement in the Neolithic Era discovered at the Shangshan site. The excavation of the Shangshan site has yielded insights into the origin of Chinese rice culture....Loe edasi...
A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of...Loe edasi...
This Element explores the textile crafts and cloth cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, focusing on excavated textiles (or their imprints) and tools used for yarn production and weaving. Together, these types of material testimonies offer complementar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009679091)
This Element explores the textile crafts and cloth cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, focusing on excavated textiles (or their imprints) and tools used for yarn production and weaving. Together, these types of material testimonies offer complementar...Loe edasi...
Cheshire contains some of the earliest inland saltworks, industrial canals, and purpose-built mechanized textile mills in Britain. The region’s industrial story covers 2,000 years from the Romans to the Victorians and beyond. Drawing upon archaeologi...Loe edasi...
A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of...Loe edasi...
Industrial Archaeology (1972) looks at the nature, methods and materials of the archaeology of industry in the UK, from pre-Roman times to the late twentieth century. It studies topics such as coal and lead mining, textiles, wagon-ways, r...Loe edasi...
Exploring the current clash between the prevailing conceptions of heritage as, on the one hand, something valued and thus worth saving and, on the other, a haunting and unwanted legacy, this book urges a radical reconsideration of our understanding...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190079796)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Archaeology brings together contributions from a global community of leading scholars to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field. The Encyclopedia covers the breadth of t...Loe edasi...
This book addresses the question of variability in backed bladelet-based technologies. It also examines the role of LSA microlithic industries as adaptive strategies for coping with paleoenvironmental changes in North Africa. The multidisciplinary re...Loe edasi...
Illustrated with gorgeous photographs, Abandoned Scotland provides a fascinating pictorial exploration of the little-known corners of this glorious country. An ancient land with a turbulent past and haunting landscape, Scotlan...Loe edasi...
Illustrated with 180 photographs, Abandoned Ireland provides a fascinating pictorial exploration of the remnants of the country’s history that can be found in every corner of this enchanted land, from ancient standing stones to more recen...Loe edasi...
Industrial Archaeology (1972) looks at the nature, methods and materials of the archaeology of industry in the UK, from pre-Roman times to the late twentieth century. It studies topics such as coal and lead mining, textiles, wagon-ways, r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Dec-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231192040)
Through a systematic analysis of the archaeological materials available in both mainland China and Taiwan, Kingly Crafts provides a detailed picture of craft production in Anyang and paves the way for a new understanding of how the Shang capit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Nov-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031182020)
This book addresses the question of variability in backed bladelet-based technologies. It also examines the role of LSA microlithic industries as adaptive strategies for coping with paleoenvironmental changes in North Africa. The multidisciplinary re...Loe edasi...
This book examines the rise of the iron industry during the Warring States and Western Han periods (ca. 400 BCE- 9 CE) in ancient China, which is characterized not only by various technological innovations but also as a remarkable phenomenon, whic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199693962)
Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, ur...Loe edasi...
Alberto García Porras, David J. Govantes-Edwards, Chloë N. Duckworth, David J. Govantes-Edwards, Moisés Alonso Valladares, Miguel Busto Zapico, Chris Casswell, María Elena Díez Jorge, Chloë N. Duckworth, Alberto García Porras...
Sari: Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781783276813)
The Alhambra is one of the most famous archaeological sites worldwide, yet knowledge of it remains very partial, focussing on the medieval palaces. This book addresses the imbalance, examining the Secano, the urban and industrial zone adjacent to the...Loe edasi...
Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches that incorporate and critique memory-work. The chapters in this volume consider four broad questions: What is the relationshi...Loe edasi...
Sari: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487508104)
Using an accessible style and innovative visual methods, The Living Inca Town illustrates how tourism can perpetuate and even exacerbate gendered and global inequalities, while also exploring new avenues in which these can be contested....Loe edasi...
Sari: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487525668)
The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and the starting point for many popular treks to Machu Picchu. Tourism is generally welcomed in O...Loe edasi...
While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the t...Loe edasi...
This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the great acceleration of the second half of the twentieth centurycharacterized by the crisis of the relationship between economic development and civil progres...Loe edasi...
A short guide to the intriguing structures and artifacts that can be found along the routes of disused railways. A short guide to the intriguing structures and artifacts that can be found along the routes of disused railways. ...Loe edasi...
Sari: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487570477)
In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is reve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463724623)
With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds, media feel more unstable than ever. But was there ever a stable moment in media history?...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526126498)
An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period. Examining architecture and material culture, the bo...Loe edasi...
This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90 of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad—but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the bui...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503608290)
The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, pa...Loe edasi...
Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades b...Loe edasi...
This book presents the earliest evidence of the domestication of rice and of human settlement in the Neolithic Era discovered at the Shangshan site. The excavation of the Shangshan site has yielded insights into the origin of Chinese rice culture....Loe edasi...
Sari: Co-published with the Society for Historical Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081533)
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canadas first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmontons Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canadas ea...Loe edasi...
Sari: Co-published with the Society for Historical Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813079608)
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canadas first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmontons Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canadas ea...Loe edasi...
A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of...Loe edasi...
This Element explores the textile crafts and cloth cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, focusing on excavated textiles (or their imprints) and tools used for yarn production and weaving. Together, these types of material testimonies offer complementar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009679091)
This Element explores the textile crafts and cloth cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, focusing on excavated textiles (or their imprints) and tools used for yarn production and weaving. Together, these types of material testimonies offer complementar...Loe edasi...
This monograph presents the 2019 excavation of Fowlers Pottery near Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, revealing a rare 19th-century coarse earthenware site. It details vessel types, kiln structures, and historical records, offering key insights into rural pot...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813079561)
Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identities The North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Amélie Allard examines the Great Lakes...Loe edasi...
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southwest Asia remains a key area of research for archaeologists. For many years, little intensive research was possible in the ‘eastern wing’ of the Fertile Crescent. This volume presents t...Loe edasi...
Cheshire contains some of the earliest inland saltworks, industrial canals, and purpose-built mechanized textile mills in Britain. The region’s industrial story covers 2,000 years from the Romans to the Victorians and beyond. Drawing upon archaeologi...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated, lively and wide ranging celebration of the social, economic, religious and architectural history of Shropshire from the Neolithic to modern times, Volume celebrates the 100th publication of the Shropshire Archaeologica...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nevada Press, ISBN-13: 9781647792466)
An archaeology project unearths the details of daily life in a western mining community The Cortez Hills Expansion Project archaeological excavations uncovered a wealth of information about the Cortez Mining District, fr...Loe edasi...
A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of...Loe edasi...
