Archaeology

Rarely do archaeological studies provide critical consideration of how historical, archaeological, and scientific data relate to each other, or explicit attempts at demonstrating successful strategies for these kinds of interdisciplinary research. The authors in this volume provide such a critical ..

This book re-examines the definitions of 'religion' and 'ritual' through a range of archaeological examples drawn from around the world and across time. It serves as an introduction to the theory and methodology of the archaeology of religion..

This volume brings together articles that reveal the Archaic period of the American Midwest to be one of innovation and technological achievement...

This book offers contributions ranging from studies of hunter-gatherer camp organization to the use of space in Classical and Medieval worlds...

In this issue, human occupation of the arctic is examined, making essential reading for anyone curious about how people and creatures survived in these icy climes...

In this issue, human occupation of the arctic is examined, making essential reading for anyone curious about how people and creatures survived in these icy climes...

Dwight Read offers a methodology for producing systematic classifications of objects that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for archaeologists...

Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account...

Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account...

Bitgood, a leading visitor researcher, offers an important new model of visitor attention and shows how museum practitioners can apply it to create more effective museum environments that capture and sustain visitor attention...

This book offers a methodology for studying sound, providing a flexible and widely applicable set of elements that can be adapted for use in a broad range of archaeological and heritage contexts...

This book is for project engineers and managers, government staff and consultants to help avoid unforseen archaeological problems in construction and development projects...