Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology – serie
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European Prehistory
A Survey
Inbunden, 2011
1130 kr
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European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major …
Stone Tools
Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory
Häftad, 2013
2029 kr
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Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory. This volume redresses that balance. In Stone Tools, renowned lithic analysts employ explicitly theoretical constructs to explore the archaeological …
Projectile Technology
Av Heidi Knecht
Häftad, 2013
1692 kr
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Artifacts linked to projectile technologies traditionally have provided the foundations for time-space systematics and cultural-historic frameworks in archaeological research having to do with foragers. With the shift in archae ological research objectives to processual interpretations, projectile …
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society
Av Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina
Häftad, 2008
1804 kr
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The central goal of this book is to contribute to the timely discussion and understanding of Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. Most school children in the US learn about the Maya and their practices based on their cultural and religious beliefs in their Social Studies …
Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America
Inbunden, 1988
1130 kr
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Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not only have illuminated the backdrop against which culture is viewed, but have identi fied many of the conditions that influence or promote …
Interpretation of Archaeological Spatial Patterning
Av Ellen M. Kroll, T. Douglas Price
Inbunden, 1991
1692 kr
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Investigations of archaeological intrasite spatial patterns have generally taken one of two directions: studies that introduced and explored methods for the analysis of archaeological spatial patterns or those that described and analyzed the for mation of spatial patterns in …
Resources, Power, and Interregional Interaction
Av Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban
Inbunden, 1992
1130 kr
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Archaeological research on interregional interaction processes has recently reasserted itself after a long hiatus following the eclipse of diffusion studies. This "rebirth" was marked not only by a sudden increase in publications that were focused on interac tion questions, but also by a diversity …
Pottery Function
A Use-Alteration Perspective
Inbunden, 1992
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There are many ways to study pots or the sherds of pots. In this book James Skibo has focused on the surface wear and tear found on the resin-coated, low-fired cooking pots of the Kalinga people in north western Luzon. This detailed analysis is part of a much larger evalua tion of Kalinga pottery …
Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes
Av Jaqueline Rossignol, LuAnn Wandsnider
Inbunden, 1992
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The last 20 years have witnessed a proliferation of new approaches in archaeolog ical data recovery, analysis, and theory building that incorporate both new forms of information and new methods for investigating them. The growing importance of survey has meant an expansion of the spatial realm of …
Ethnohistory and Archaeology
Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas
Av J. Daniel Rogers, Samual M. Wilson
Inbunden, 1993
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Incorporating both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, this volume reexamines the role played by native peoples in structuring interaction with Europeans. The more complete historical picture presented will be of interest to scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Systems of Prehistoric Exchange
Av Jonathon E. Ericson, Timothy G. Baugh
Inbunden, 1993
1692 kr
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Regional approaches to the study of prehistoric exchange have generated much new knowledge about intergroup and regional interaction. The American South west and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange is the first of two volumes that seek to provide current information regarding regional …
From Kostenki to Clovis
Upper Paleolithic—Paleo-Indian Adaptations
Inbunden, 1993
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From the American Side I went to the USSR for the first time in 1982 to attend the 11th meeting of the International Union for Quaternary research (INQUA) held at the Moscow State University. At that time relations between our two countries were anything but congenial and many restrictions were …
Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast
Inbunden, 1994
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Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic …
Houses and Households
A Comparative Study
Inbunden, 1993
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The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other areas; proposes new methodologies for comparative analyses of houses; and critically examines existing methodologies, theories, and data. His work …
Archaeology of Gender
Separating the Spheres in Urban America
Inbunden, 1994
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Historical archaeologists often become so involved in their potsherd patterns they seldom have time or energy left to address the broader processes responsi ble for the material culture patterns they recognize. Some ofus haveurged our colleagues to use the historical record as a springboard from …
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Av Doris V. Nitecki, Matthew H. Nitecki
Inbunden, 1994
1130 kr
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This volume is based on the Field Museum of Natural History Spring System atics Symposium held in Chicago on May 11, 1991. The financial support of Ray and Jean Auel and of the Field Museum is gratefully acknowledged. When we teach or write, we present only those elements that support our …
Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America
Av Timothy G. Baugh, Jonathon E. Ericson
Inbunden, 1994
2253 kr
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In this unique volume, archaeologists examine the changing economic structure of trade in North America over a period of 6,000 years. Organined by geographical and chronological divisions, each chapter focuses on trade in one of nine regions from the Arachiac through the late prehistoric period. …
Style, Society, and Person
Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives
Av Christopher Carr, Jill E. Neitzel
Inbunden, 1995
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Style, Society, and Person integrates the diverse current and past understandings of the causes of style in material culture. It comprehensively surveys the many factors that cause style; reviews theories that address these factors; builds and tests a unifying framework for integrating the …
Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis
Inbunden, 1995
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In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional …
Chesapeake Prehistory
Old Traditions, New Directions
Inbunden, 1995
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Chesapeake Prehistory is the first book in almost a century to synthesize the archaeological record of the region offering new interpretations of prehistoric lifeways. This up-to-date work presents a new type of regional archaeology that explores contemporary ideas about the nature of the past. In …
Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution
Insights from Southern Jordan
Inbunden, 1995
1692 kr
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Offering the most comprehensive study of southern Jordan, this illuminating account presents detailed data from over a hundred archaeological sites stretching from the Lower Paleotlithic to the Chalcolithic periods. The author uses archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence to reconstruct …
Humans at the End of the Ice Age
The Archaeology of the Pleistocene—Holocene Transition
Av Lawrence Guy Straus, Berit Valentin Eriksen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1692 kr
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Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the …
Stone Tools
Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory
Av George H. Odell, Tulsa Conference in Lithic Analysis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2029 kr
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Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory. This volume redresses that balance. In Stone Tools, renowned lithic analysts employ explicitly theoretical constructs to explore the archaeological …
Hunters between East and West
The Paleolithic of Moravia
Av Jiri Svoboda, Vojen Lozek m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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At first glance, the archaeological record of Moravia has been quite visible in the Anglophone world. Bits and pieces of this record have repeatedly made headlines in both the general and the specialized press for close to a century. First, it was the discovery of a mass grave of some 21 …
Villagers of the Maros
A Portrait of an Early Bronze Age Society
Av John M. O'Shea, John M. O'Shea
Inbunden, 1996
1692 kr
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John M. O'Shea explores this question by employing modern archaeological theory and analysis as well as mortuary theory to build a model of an Early Bronze Age society in the eastern Carpathian Basin. He focuses on the Maros communities and utilizes the densely encoded social information from their …
Darwinian Archaeologies
Inbunden, 1996
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Just over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage. E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, spelt out and developed the implications of ideas that had been quietly revolutionizing biology …
Mississippian Political Economy
Av Jon Muller
Inbunden, 1997
1692 kr
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This book is written from a particular theoretical and practical postnon. The first chapter outlines some of these issues, but a few issues requireemphasis. The first is what is meant by "political economy. " The concept of political econ- omy used here derives from common economic and social …
Mississippian Political Economy
Av Jon Muller
Häftad, 1997
1692 kr
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This book is written from a particular theoretical and practical postnon. The first chapter outlines some of these issues, but a few issues requireemphasis. The first is what is meant by "political economy. " The concept of political econ- omy used here derives from common economic and social …
Projectile Technology
Av Heidi Knecht
Inbunden, 1997
1692 kr
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Artifacts linked to projectile technologies traditionally have provided the foundations for time-space systematics and cultural-historic frameworks in archaeological research having to do with foragers. With the shift in archae ological research objectives to processual interpretations, projectile …
