Archaeology

A collection of key articles on Syro-Palestinian archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages compiled in honor of archaeologist Olga Tufnell, excavator of the biblical city of Lachish, including contributions by Amiran, Callaway, Dever, Stager, and Ussishkin...

A collection of key articles on Syro-Palestinian archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages compiled in honor of archaeologist Olga Tufnell, excavator of the biblical city of Lachish, including contributions by Amiran, Callaway, Dever, Stager, and Ussishkin...

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders...

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the changing practices of modern museums, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century...

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the changing practices of modern museums, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century...

This comprehensive anthology features 47 selected articles from the Journal of Museum Education plus ten new introductory essays by leaders in museum education and related fields...

The answers to various questions about the life and legacy of the ancient Near East are sought here in this detailed book from 1963, referring to personal documents of the time, in the letters Assyrians wrote to one another rather than in the annals of the rulers...

This critical history of Peruvian archaeology makes a significant contribution to Andean archaeology, to the history of archaeology, and to our understanding of the social context of research...

Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders. This book looks at Memphis. It is accompanied by a C..

Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V. Gordon Childe based upon 10 years of his lectures on the principles of archaeological classification, terminology and interpretive concepts. It examines meanings of technical terms and methodologies used in prehistoric a..

This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view...

Covers recent work on the cultural aspects of past societies, focusing especially on studies of colonisation and migration, and the impact of population growth...