Archaeology

Social Approaches to an Industrial Past is a pioneering collection which addresses the social context of mining communities. This collection considers social context using ethnographic and ethnohistoric records of various cultures...

The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency, identity and social meaning...

Social Relevance Circa 2012..

This volume brings together for the first time a significant body of Professor Barnes' scholarly writing on Japanese early state formation. The writings are, in some cases, the only studies of these topics available in English...

Statements in Stone..

Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation in the Mediterranean as part of the mounting evidence that our ancestors developed sailing skills early in prehistory...

Swigart’s novel provides both a basic reconstruction of Neolithic lifeways and a primer on contemporary archaeological politics and practice...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project, that of the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England...

This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism, and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos and what it shows about the power dynamics of heritage and ecotourism...

A brief, lively introductory archaeology textbook that teaches the basic principles of the field through an “excavation” and analysis of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades and the beads thrown there...

The scope of this book is wide-ranging and includes methods of searching for and locating buried remains, their practical recovery, the decay of human and associated death scene materials, the analysis and identification...