Archeologia

Wydawnictwo: Taylor & Francis

Explores the errors of judgment made by ancient and modern civilizations across the worldAnalyzes works from a scientific and historically-sensitive perspectiveHighlights the hydro-geological background to repeated infamous disasters such as the leaning Tower of PisaContains numerous illustrations t...

Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacl...

Wydawnictwo: Wadsworth Publishing Company

This up-to-date, brief exploration of the field of archaeology pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names--Robert L. Kelly of the University of Wyoming and David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History. With their passionate, down-to-earth writing style, the authors emphasize do...

Wydawnictwo: Brill Academic Publishing

This is one of two volumes introducing the sources of Judaism in late antiquity to scholars in adjacent fields, such as study of the Old and New Testaments, ancient history of Classical Antiquity, earliest Christianity, the ancient Near East and the history of religion.

Wydawnictwo: University of Texas Press

The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in April of 2003 provoked a world outcry at the loss of artefacts regarded as part of humanity's shared cultural patrimony. But though the losses were unprecedented in scale, the museum looting was hardly the first time that Iraqi heirlooms had been plundered...

Wydawnictwo: Indiana University Press

The importance of temple ritual in constituting political dominance in South India has been well documented. In this vivid and compelling study of caste and ritual in rural Tamilnadu, Diane P. Mines focuses not only on the temples of the socially powerful, but even more so on the powerful temples of...

Wydawnictwo: Indiana University Press

Dinosaur Provincial Park, located in Alberta, Canada, is one of the grand natural locales in the world. It has also produced an abundance of dinosaur fossils, including specimens from every known group of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. This book, published in celebration of the site's 50th a...

Wydawnictwo: McGill-Queen's University Press

Richard Salisbury (1926-1989) was a pioneer in development anthropology and one of the founders of McGill University's anthropology department. His work had immense influence in the areas of economic anthropology, ethnographic practice (New Guinea, northern Canada) and policy formation. This volum...

Wydawnictwo: Academic Press

Archaeology is a subject that fascinates us. From Egyptian tombs to a frozen Alpine wayfarer, from cities buried under volcanic ash to stone arrow heads turned up by the plow, archaeology is in the news and in our backyards. It is paradoxical that a subject that so easily captures the imagination is...

Wydawnictwo: Wadsworth Publishing Company

This text pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names: Robert L. Kelly and David Hurst Thomas, who together have over 70 years of experience leading excavations. The fifth edition of "Archaeology, International Edition" reflects the most recent research and changes in the field, while covering ...

Wydawnictwo: Brepols N.V.

Recent archaeological excavations in Scandinavia provide us with a fascinating insight into the household and its function as a social focus for people of different medieval social estates. This book investigates four excavated Swedish sites - the castles of Saxholmen and Edsholm, and the rural sett...

Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press

Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology brings together 35 authors - all specialists in their own fields - to explain what archaeology is reall...

Wydawnictwo: Broadman & Holman Publishers

Haviland, Walrath, Prins and McBride present evolution and prehistory in vivid, accessible terms, and show students how the field is relevant to understanding the complex world around them. The authors present the fundamental concepts from a holistic perspective using three unifying themes to frame ...

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson LTD

'I have never had any hesitation in telling anyone who is looking for a good introduction to Tutankhamun that this is the one book to get' - Ancient EgyptThe classic work on Tutankhamun, now available in a handsome, great value hardback editionThe tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasur...

Wydawnictwo: BAR International

Just over two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar set into motion events that would culminate in the conquest of the tribes of Gaul. It is to the coins of one of these tribes that this book addresses itself. The Coriosolites inhabited what is now Cotes-d'Armor in Brittany. The tribe has left a large n...

Wydawnictwo: BAR International

The 7 sections in this volume represent the proceedings of the three-day international conference 'Regional Pathways to Complexity' held in April 2000 at the University of Groningen. They bring togethre expert contributions on a broad range of common themes in Mediterranean landscape archaeology - i...

Wydawnictwo: BAR International

Al Mina, at the mouth of the Orontes, some 75 km SW of Chatal Huyuk, has long dominated Greek-Levantine discussions in the Geometric Period (c. 1000-700 BC); the site was the first to reveal an abundance of Greek pottery generally, and still is the findspot of the greatest quantity of Greek Geometri...

Wydawnictwo: BAR International

An extensive study of city planning in the Greek Archaic colonies (Sicily and Southern Italy) from Hippodamus and beyond. The author sets out to consider the legacy of the great planner and those projects he may have contributed to. The first section of the work focuses on 12 specific sites (Syracus...

Wydawnictwo: Brepols N.V.

This is the first monograph that deals with the Middle Assyrian remains at Tell Sabi Abyad, northern Syria. It offers a detailed description of the ceramics excavated between 1991 and 1998 in the project of Leiden National Museum of Antiquities. The study integrates technological, morphological, sty...

Wydawnictwo: Academic Press

"The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease" provides a comprehensive and invaluable source of information on this important group of diseases. It is an essential guide for those engaged in either basic recording or in-depth research on human remains from archaeological sites. The range of potenti...

Wydawnictwo: Dorling Kindersley Publishers

Experience a story 3.8 billion years in the making, with this unparalleled visual guide to prehistoric life. Unprecedented visual detail, comprehensive entries on hundreds of species and the latest research provide the whole picture of the creatures and plants that represent Earth's prehistoric life...

Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press

Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are represented to determining whether one collectio...

Wydawnictwo: BAR International

The focus of this study (number 55 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) is the impact of developments from the 13th-19th centuries on the Ilare District of Central Yorubaland, SW Nigeria. The author's goal is to explain how the panregional interaction networks and historical processes...

Wydawnictwo: BAR International

The Poseidonian chora encompasses the plain South of the Sele River, which formed the ancient boundary between the Greek lands and the Etruscan territory to the North, East to the Alburnus Mountains and South to the Punta Licosa. The aim of this study is to understand the nature of the relationship ...

Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press

The volume is well structured, and begins with an absorbing overview of the development of zooarchaeology ... The book gives a discursive introduction, with sufficient substance to hold the attention of those with some background knowledge, whilst remaining accessible to general readers.' Antiquity ...

Wydawnictwo: Elsevier Science Publishers

Written by highly-qualified Argenitne scientists and scholars, this book focuses on the uninterrupted geological and palaeontological record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego since the Miocene-Pliocene boundary to the arrival of Man and Modern Times. This region is an outstanding area for research, ...

Wydawnictwo: University of Toronto Press

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing...

Wydawnictwo: Oxbow Books Ltd

During the Graeco-Roman period, Berenike served as a gateway to the outside world together with Myos Hormos. Commodities were imported from Africa south of the Sahara, Arabia, and India into the Greek and Roman Empire, the importance of both harbours evidenced by several contemporary sources. Betwee...

Wydawnictwo: Princeton University Press

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 per cent of all living species died out - a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise, 65 million years ago. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theor...

Wydawnictwo: University of Washington Press

In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems--intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels--for their rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed villa...