Archaeology 97

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and a……続きを見る

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant……続きを見る

The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lensーa cognitive process based on traditional practices in art histo……続きを見る

Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these sources of inf……続きを見る

This book is the first economic history of ancient Egypt covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE, and employing a New Institutional Economics approach. It argues that the ancient Egyptian ……続きを見る

Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, an……続きを見る

Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Ci……続きを見る

This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Athribis' i……続きを見る

This book analyses the instruments and approaches offered by public international law to resolve cultural heritage related disputes and facilitate the return of illicitly transferred objects to thei……続きを見る

L'exposition La Gloire d'Alexandrie a mis, du 7 mai au 26 juillet 1998, Paris à l'heure de la métropole de l'Égypte gréco-romaine. Des objets spectaculaires, comme la statue colossale d'un roi Ptolé……続きを見る

En dépit de l'importance de ses vestiges architecturaux et bien que civilisation de l'écrit, l'Égypte pharaonique a paradoxalement laissé peu d'informations sur la vie quotidienne et le mode de pens……続きを見る

Alors que les grandes nécropoles de l'Ancien Empire comptent parmi les sites les mieux connus du grand public, aucune exposition n'avait été consacrée à l'art si riche de cette époque... À PROPOS DE……続きを見る

The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these t……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Eine Frau reist durch die Welt (Sozialreportagen aus Amerika)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Dieses We……続きを見る

The remains of hunter-gatherer groups are the most commonly discovered archaeological resources in the world, and their study constitutes much of the archaeological research done in North America. I……続きを見る

The Seventh annual Current Research in Egyptology Symposium (CRE 2006) was held on 6-8 April 2006, at the University of Oxford, and brought together graduate and postgraduate students of Egyptology ……続きを見る

In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion ha……続きを見る

Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-cultural exchanges, cooperation, abuses, and misunders……続きを見る

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology ……続きを見る

Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume series of accompanying scientific publications have m……続きを見る

In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric set……続きを見る

In ancient Egypt, one of the primary roles of the king was to maintain order and destroy chaos. Since the beginning of Egyptian history, images of foreigners were used as symbols of chaos and thus s……続きを見る

How did agriculture come about in the American Southwest? What environmental and social factors led to the cultivation of plants? How, in turn, did the use of these new agricultural products affect ……続きを見る

The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the manage……続きを見る

In the long tradition of the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean bodies have held a prominent role in the form of figurines, frescos, or skeletal remains, and have even been responsible for spa……続きを見る

Ein fesselnder Countdown in den letzten Stunden Pompejis – wissenschaftlich fundiert und erzählerisch packend. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt kurz vor ihrem Untergang – und entdecken Sie Pompeji neu. ……続きを見る

This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a thou……続きを見る

We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still ……続きを見る

Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island altered monumentally. Emily Anderson turns light on the……続きを見る

From the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century, the world of the ancestral Pueblo people (Anasazi) was in transition, undergoing changes in settlement patterns and community organization that re……続きを見る