Archaeology

A unique volume that brings together contributors from all over the world to provide the first truly global perspective on archaeological theory, and tackle the crucial questions facing archaeology in the 1990s. Can one practice without theory?..

This volume is the first summary and synthesis of the rock art of the American High Plains, from Archaic times to the historic period, linked to holistic archaeological research in the region...

This pioneering collection illustrates and explores the diversity of archaeological approaches to time. The contributors contrast a scientific understanding with social, cultural and religious ideas of time...

Classical archaeology is examined in the light of current theoretical archaeology and anthropology, so making it more relevant and valuable to the study of archaeology in the 1990s. An innovative and wide-ranging overview of the subject...

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities...

This book establishes a new, interdisciplinary ground for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of sustainable thinking and practice...

Archaeology for whom? The dozen well-known contributors to this innovative volume suggest nothing less than that transformation of the discipline into a service-oriented, community-based endeavor...

Transforming Practice, a comprehensive collection of articles from Museum Education Roundtable's Journal of Museum Education, presents a rich and exemplary selection of recent writing on museum education in one accessible resource...

Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum...

Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times...

The analysis of tree-ring patterns, or dendrochronology, is a very exact science and an important dating technique. This book, published originally in 1982, traces the development of a specific project from its inception to the successful completion of some of the longest chronologies in Europe. It ..

This volume presents a sophisticated set of archival, forensic, and excavation methods to identify both individuals and group affiliations—cultural, religious, and organizational—in a multiethnic historical cemetery...