Archaeology

This teaching novel by archaeologist Peter Bleed demonstrates the complexities of contemporary collecting of archaeological antiques and delves into the world of 14th century Japan...

Nicholas Dorochoff offers the heritage management community the benefit of decades of thinking on negotiation from the business world in a brief, practical guidebook...

This easy-to-read textbook introduces reader to the Neolithic era, the dawn of agriculture and the origins of modern culture. Lavishly illustrated, this enjoyable book is an ideal introduction for archaeology students and anyone interested in our past...

Examines Ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. This book follows a chronological arrangement, from early Egypt to the attitudes of the Coptic population in the Byzantine Period. It asks what access the Egyptians had to information about the past, what use was made of it, what we..

Exploring the history and modern day practice of object-based learning, Shaffer outlines the rationale for endorsing this approach in both formal and informal learning spaces. She argues that museums, as collecting institutions, are learning spaces uniquely positioned to allow children to make meani..

Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact...

An invaluable field text, this book examines nine detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can be used to study ancient artefacts...

An invaluable field text, this book examines nine detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can be used to study ancient artefacts...

Open(ing) Authority Through Community Engagement..

Most Americans agree that our heritage—both natural and cultural—should be protected. Then why does development run rampant, aided—rather than limited—by government inaction? Tom King has been a participant in and observer of this system for decades, as a government worker, heritage consultant, and ..

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This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People’s Republic of China...