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The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Space, Hardcover/Teresa Bergman
Description The Commemoration of Women in the United States examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth…Catre Magazin
Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation Into a College, Hardcover/Lynn Rainville
Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women's college in 1906. This volume…Catre Magazin
Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, Hardcover/Anna Marie Prentiss
Description Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology. The book will provide a single source for introduction and overview of basic…Catre Magazin
Ancient Lives. An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory, Paperback/Nadia Durrani
Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii de carti online, de dragoste si beletristica,…Catre Magazin
The House of the Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, Hardcover/Patricia L. Crown
The House of the Cylinder Jars details the archaeological excavations led by Patricia L. Crown at Pueblo Bonito's famed Room 28 in Chaco Canyon in 2013. Originally excavated in 1896…Catre Magazin
The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family, Hardcover/Astrid Van Oyen
In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of…Catre Magazin
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory: Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine, Hardcover/Peter Jordan
Description Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to…Catre Magazin
The Materiality of Remembering: An ethnographic study of the living spaces in a Nahua municipality in Veracruz, Mexico/Julieta Flores-Muñoz
Although oral narrations are the way in which history has survived in Mexican indigenous contexts, they have been long disregarded as a valid source of information for archaeological research. The…Catre Magazin
Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples, Hardcover/Amanda G. Henry
Archaeological investigations increasingly rely on specialist identification of microscopic remnants found in sites. These micro-particles can provide information about the site environment and human activities that may not be apparent…Catre Magazin
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two: Codical Texts, Hardcover/Martha J. Macri
This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid,…Catre Magazin
Death in the Diaspora. Gravestones and Memorial Markers Across the British World, Hardback/***
Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii de carti online, de dragoste si beletristica,…Catre Magazin
The Crimson Cowboys: The Remarkable Odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition, Paperback/Jerry D. Spangler
Description Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history…Catre Magazin
Colonial Landscape of the British Caribbean, Hardback/Louis P. Nelson
New research on the archaeology of the colonial landscapes of the Caribbean.Catre Magazin
Spatial Patterns in Landscape Archaeology: A GIS Procedure to Study Settlement Organization in Early Roman Colonial Territories, Paperback/Anita Casarotto
Description This 43rd volume of the ASLU series presents a useful GIS procedure to study settlement patterns in landscape archaeology. In several Mediterranean regions, archaeological sites have been mapped by…Catre Magazin
Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings, Paperback/Gyles Iannone
Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death.…Catre Magazin
Sumer and the Sumerians/Harriet Crawford
Description Mesopotamia produced one of the best-known ancient civilizations, with a literate, urban culture and highly-developed political institutions. Harriet Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region…Catre Magazin
The Archaeology of Early China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty, Paperback/Gideon Shelach-Lavi
This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese archaeology. It covers an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification…Catre Magazin
Echoes in the Canyons: The Archaeology of the Southeastern Sierra Ancha, Central Arizona, Paperback/Richard C. Lange
The Sierra Ancha is a rugged mountain range in east-central Arizona. Emil Haury first documented the cliff dwellings there more than 70 years ago, and wood from the cliff dwellings…Catre Magazin
Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice, Paperback/Rosemary A. Joyce
Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of "itineraries" to trace the places in which objects come to rest or are active,…Catre Magazin
Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between Humans and Things, Paperback/Ian Hodder
A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material…Catre Magazin
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture, Paperback/Dennis J. Stanford
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned…Catre Magazin
Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices, Paperback/Barbara J. Mills
Description Memory making is a social practice that links people and things together across time and space and ultimately has material consequences. The intersection of matter and social practice becomes…Catre Magazin
The Organization of Ancient Economies: A Global Perspective, Hardcover/Kenneth Hirth
In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their environments, not as individuals…Catre Magazin
The Competition of Fibres: Early Textile Production in Western Asia, South-East and Central Europe (10,000-500bce), Paperback/Wolfram Schier
The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the…Catre Magazin
Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Tyrant King [With CDROM], Hardcover/Peter L. Larson
With its massive head, enormous jaws, and formidable teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the young person's favorite creepy carnivore in the Mesozoic zoo. Nor has T. rex been ignored…Catre Magazin
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe, Paperback/Alice E. Blackwell
Description This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a 'dark…Catre Magazin
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Hardcover/Stephen Jay Gould
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of…Catre Magazin
Cultural Resource Management: A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists, Paperback/Thomas F. King
Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely "applied archaeology," this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists. Drawing on fifty-plus…Catre Magazin
Chaco Canyon: Archeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society, Hardcover/Brian M. Fagan
Description Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeologists for…Catre Magazin
Figurines. Figuration and The Sense of Scale, Hardback/***
As touchable objects, figurines have potential for a potent agency in relation to those who use them. This volume considers the figurine as a key conceptual and material problematic in…Catre Magazin
New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida/Neill J. Wallis
Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal…Catre Magazin
The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC), Paperback/Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Although Syria has been the focus of intensive…Catre Magazin
Adventures in Archaeology: The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations, Paperback/P. J. Capelotti
Remnants of the curious and peculiar ways humankind has marked the archaeological landscape are abundant but often ignored: wrecked aircraft, abandoned airfields, old highway billboards, derelict boats, movie props, and…Catre Magazin
Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection, Paperback/Agnete W. Lassen
Description A stunning guide to the treasures housed within the Yale Babylonian Collection, presenting new perspectives on the society and culture of the ancient Near East The Yale Babylonian Collection…Catre Magazin
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp, Paperback/Daniel O. Sayers
"Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These communities represent a largely unrecognized, alternative declaration of independence. They are…Catre Magazin
Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna/Alan Turner
Description The Garden of Eden as the ideal and untouched site of life's creation persists in popular thought, even as we have uncovered a lengthy fossil record and developed a…Catre Magazin
Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist/C. G. Yeager
This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely…Catre Magazin
The Arrowhead in Virginia, Paperback/Wm Jack Hranicky
This publication presents the basics of Virginia projectile points. It has descriptions, illustrations, drawings, distributions, and presents an overview of Virginia prehistory. The book can be used to identify most…Catre Magazin
The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour, Hardcover/Mark A. Norell
Dinosaurs have held sway over our imaginations since the discovery of their bones first shocked the world in the nineteenth century. From the monstrous beasts stalking Jurassic Park to the…Catre Magazin
In Search of the Indo-Europeans, Paperback/J. P. Mallory
Contributor(s): Author: J. P. Mallory An archaeological and linguistic monograph on the origins and expansion of the Indo-European Catre Magazin
Olmec Archaeology Early Mesoamerica, Paperback/Christopher Pool
Between 1500 and 500 BC the Olmecs flourished in the tropical lowlands of Mexico's Gulf Coast, creating the most complex of Mesoamerica's early societies and its first monumental art. Emphasising…Catre Magazin
The Living Goddesses, Paperback/Marija Gimbutas
The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original-and originally…Catre Magazin
Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills, Hardcover/Rex Buchanan
Long before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state&fsquo;s…Catre Magazin
Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: Understanding the Life of Giants, Hardcover/Nicole Klein
Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic…Catre Magazin
Uncovering History: Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn, Paperback/Douglas D. Scott
Description Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with…Catre Magazin
Ancient Mesopotamia, Paperback/Susan Pollock
This is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first flourescence of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC.…Catre Magazin
Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate, Paperback/Ivor Noël Hume
The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778-1824) was all of these before…Catre Magazin
Death by Theory. A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory, Paperback/Adrian Praetzellis
This thoroughly updated version of an archaeological classic, featuring the fictional archaeologist Hannah Green and her shovelbum nephew, allows students to learn the basics of archaeological theory while puzzling out…Catre Magazin
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy, Paperback/Russell K. Skowronek
"The first comprehensive, scholarly look at the artifactual evidence of real pirates, recovered at both shipwrecks and known pirate bases."-- Archaeology Magazine "The reader unused to digesting professional publications will,…Catre Magazin
Great Archaeologists, Hardback/***
A gripping account of 200 years of archaeological research, excavation and thought, told through the life stories of 70 of the world's greatest pioneers and practitioners.Catre Magazin
Egyptology Today, Paperback/Richard H. Wilkinson
Egyptology Today examines how modern scholars examine all aspects of ancient Egypt, one of the greatest of all ancient civilizations. In essays by a team of archaeologists, curators, scholars and…Catre Magazin
World Rock Art: The Primordial Language. Third Revised and updated edition, Paperback/Emmanuel Anati
Emmanuel Anati was heavily involved with the UNESCO and ICOMOS assessments into the state of world research into rock art. Here he presents some of his thoughts and feelings about…Catre Magazin
Primitive Technology II – Ancestral Skills, Paperback/David Wescott
The Stone Age is the common denominator of mankind, and through experimental archeology--the relearning and replication of ancient skills--we take a step of discovery and understanding into this rich past.…Catre Magazin
The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies, Hardcover/Jeremy a. Sabloff
Description Like many other sciences, archaeology is experiencing a data deluge. The recent accumulation of accessible data on early urban societies, coupled with the re-emergence of comparative studies, puts modern…Catre Magazin
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery, Hardcover/Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. Glob's seminal publication The Bog People , published in 1969, in the light of vastly improved scientific techniques and newly found bodies. Approached…Catre Magazin
New Perspectives on the Rock Art and Prehistoric Settlement Organization of Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Arizona, Paperback/Gayle Harrison Hartmann
Tumamoc Hill is a prominent landmark west of downtown Tucson, and has a rich diversity of archaeological remains associated with a long-term use of the hill. It is a cerro…Catre Magazin
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life/***
Visitors to a natural history museum could not explore the number of examples contained here - Booklist Fascinating and authoritative, this book is an unprecedented survey of millions of years…Catre Magazin
Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce’s Forgotten Record of Ancient America, Paperback/John Van Auken
Since 1997, a series of astounding developments have shattered American archaeology's most cherished beliefs. Excavations have uncovered solid evidence that acient America was settled at least 50,000 years ago. Genetic…Catre Magazin
From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites, Paperback/Brian M. Fagan
Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science…Catre Magazin
The Secret of the Great Pyramid, Paperback/Bob Brier
The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells…Catre Magazin
Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History, Paperback/William Ryan
Contributor(s): Author: William Ryan Author: Walter Pitman Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths…Catre Magazin

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