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54 produkter
Archaeology
Theories, Methods and Practise
Av Paul Bahn, Elizabeth DeMarrais m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
659 kr
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This authoritative survey of archaeological practice takes a unique approach by launching each chapter with an important question that archaeologists consider. In this edition, new co-author Elizabeth DeMarrais, an expert in the archaeology of the Americas, introduces recent discoveries and …
Prehistory
The Making Of The Human Mind
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
151 kr
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A brief and original prehistory of the worldPrehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the discovery of a remote human past and the …
Archaeology: The Key Concepts
Inbunden, 2004
2198 kr
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From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method.Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written …
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership
The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
Av Colin Renfrew, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2000
400 kr
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In this account, Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious product of archaeology is the information that controlled and well-published excavations can give us about our shared human past. Clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain - ie looting - destroys the context …
Prehistoric Farming in Europe
Av Graeme Barker, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
720 kr
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Drawing upon his own extensive knowledge of European archaeology, Graeme Barker has impressively integrated the full range of archaeological data to produce in this book a masterly account of prehistoric farming in Europe on a unique scale. He makes use of modern archaeological techniques to …
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
Av Patrick Vinton Kirch, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 1989
1005 kr
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This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological …
The Sapient Mind
Archaeology meets neuroscience
Av Colin Renfrew, Chris Frith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1388 kr
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The turn of the twenty-first century has seen a new era in the cognitive and brain sciences that allows us to address the age-old question of what it means to be human from a whole new range of different perspectives. Our knowledge of the workings of the human brain increases day by day and so does …
Archaeology: The Key Concepts
Häftad, 2004
487 kr
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From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method.Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written …
House and Society in the Ancient Greek World
Av Lisa C. Nevett, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
737 kr
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This 1999 book re-examines traditional assumptions about the nature of social relationships in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Through detailed exploration of archaeological evidence from individual houses, Lisa Nevett identifies a recognisable concept of the citizen …
The Chinese Neolithic
Trajectories to Early States
Av Li Liu, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
972 kr
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This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, c. 7000-1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analytic methods in settlement and burial patterns. Both agency …
An Island Polity
The Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos
Av Colin Renfrew, J. Malcolm Wagstaff
Häftad, 2009
804 kr
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The Greek island of Melos in the Cyclades has been inhabited for at least five thousand years. Two periods of its history are well documented: the late Bronze Age, when it supported an important urban centre at Phylakopi and the late fifth century BC, when as an independent city-state it briefly …
Ranking, Resource and Exchange
Aspect of the Archaeology of Early European Society
Av Colin Renfrew, Steven Shennan
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Ranked societies are characterized by disparities in personal status that are often accompanied by the concentration of power and authority in the hands of a few dominant individuals. They stand between the sophistication of developed, states and the relative simplicity of most hunter-gatherer …
Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change
Av Colin Renfrew, John F. Cherry m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into …
The Archaeology of Measurement
Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies
Inbunden, 2010
1296 kr
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The construction of formal measurement systems underlies the development of science, technology, economy and new ways of understanding and explaining the world. Human societies have developed such systems in different ways, in different places and at different times, and recent archaeological …
The Archaeology of Measurement
Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies
Häftad, 2010
321 kr
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The construction of formal measurement systems underlies the development of science, technology, economy and new ways of understanding and explaining the world. Human societies have developed such systems in different ways, in different places and at different times, and recent archaeological …
World Industrial Archaeology
Av Kenneth Hudson, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
542 kr
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Since the 1950s, when the phrase 'industrial archaeology' was coined, there has been an enormous growth of interest in what have come to be seen as the monuments of our more recent past. One result of this is that all kinds of old industrial plant, once valued only for what it could produce or do, …
Maritime Archaeology
Av Keith Muckelroy, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 1979
871 kr
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Archaeology has made enormous advances recently, both in volume of discoveries and in its character as an intellectual discipline; new techniques have helped to further the range and rigour of enquiry, and encouraged interdisciplinary communication. The aim of this series is to make available to a …
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Av Ian Hodder, Clive Orton m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
586 kr
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This 1976 text is a pioneering study in the applications to archaeology of modern statistical and quantitative techniques. The authors show how these techniques, when sensitively employed, can dramatically extend and refine the information presented in distribution maps and other analyses of …
Living Archaeology
Av Gould, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 1980
586 kr
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'Living archaeology,' says Richard Gould, 'is ethnoarchaeology in the active voice'. Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology. He demonstrates a reliable way to infer adaptive behavior in …
Religion and Empire
The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism
Av Geoffrey W. Conrad, Arthur A. Demarest m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
770 kr
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Religion and Empire is an innovative and provocative study of the two largest states of the Precolumbian Americas, the Aztec and Inca Empires. By examining the causes of the formation and expansion of these two empires, the authors identify similar patterns and processes underlying their rise and …
Burial and Ancient Society
The Rise of the Greek City-State
Av Ian Morris, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
636 kr
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This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and …
The Ancient Mind
Elements of Cognitive Archaeology
Av Colin Renfrew, Ezra B. W. Zubrow
Häftad, 1994
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
770 kr
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One of the most troubling problems in archaeology is to determine the manner and content of prehistoric thought. A fundamental challenge is to develop the theory, methodology and tools to understand human cognition. Cognitive archaeology as a subject is still in its infancy, and archaeologists are …
A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves
A Study in Historical Archaeology
Av Anne Elizabeth Yentsch, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
905 kr
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Analysing the material remains left by Maryland's colonists in the eighteenth century in conjunction with historical records and works of art, archaeologists have reconstructed the daily life of the aristocratic British family of the governor of Maryland. In this large household people from …
Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community
Av Dean E. Arnold, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
748 kr
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Following the theoretical perspective of his earlier book, Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process (1985), Dean Arnold's ethnoarchaeological study explores the relationships of ceramic production to society and its environment in the Peruvian Andes. The book traces these contemporary linkages through …
Nomads in Archaeology
Häftad, 2004
687 kr
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Nomads in Archaeology addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. It therefore deals not only with the prehistory and archaeology of nomads but also with current issues in theory and methodology, particularly the concept of 'site structure'. This is the …
Domestic Ceramic Production and Spatial Organization
A Mexican Case Study in Ethnoarchaeology
Av Philip J. Arnold III, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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This pioneering ethnoarchaeological study is of contemporary ceramic production and consumption in several villages in the Los Tuxtlas region of Mexico. While many archaeologists have identified ceramic production zones in the archaeological record, their identifying criteria have often been vague …
Style and Society in Dark Age Greece
The Changing Face of a Pre-literate Society 1100-700 BC
Av James Whitley, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
687 kr
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In this innovative study, James Whitley examines the relationship between the development of pot style and social changes in the Dark Age of Greece (1100-700 BC). He focuses on Athens where the Protogeometric and Geometric styles first appeared. He considers pot shape and painted decoration …
The Archaeology of Political Structure
Settlement Analysis in a Classic Maya Polity
Av Olivier de Montmollin, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
770 kr
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This innovative analysis of archaeological settlement patterns as a guide to ancient political structure focuses on the Maya of Southeastern Mexico. Working principally with data from the Classic Period in the Rosario Valley, Dr de Montmollin relates problem orientation and theory to themes with …
Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes
The Archaeology of Public Buildings
Av Jerry D. Moore, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1677 kr
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In this 1996 volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have invested enormous effort in excavating and documenting prehistoric buildings, but analytical approaches to architecture …
