Author: Andrew L. Christenson B.A. M.A. Ph.D.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: archaeology, series, publications, past, tracing, historiography
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1989-10-16
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0809315238
ISBN-13: 9780809315239

In 17 critical essays, the first book to address the historiography of archaeology evaluates how and why the history of archaeology is written.The emphasis in the first section is on how archaeologists use historical knowledge of their discipline. For example, it can help them to understand the origin of current archaeological ideas, to learn from past errors, and to apply past research to current questions. It can even be integrated into the new liberal arts curricula in an attempt to instruct students in critical thinking.The second section considers the sociopolitical context within which p

Authors:Valerie Pinsky, Alison Wylie,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: archaeology, politics, socio, new, directions, history, philosophy, traditions, contemporary, essays, critical
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1990-05-25
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0521321093
ISBN-13: 9780521321099

Bringing together innovative recent research in the history, philosophy and socio-politics of archaeology, the aim of this collection is to consolidate new initiatives in archaeological theory and to examine questions recently brought to prominence by and in response to the New Archaeology.

Author: Peter S. Wells
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Keywords: archaeology, duckworth, debates, europe, identity, scythians, celts, germans
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-08-20
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0715630369
ISBN-13: 9780715630365

Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Celts, Germans, Scythians: these are among the names that come to mind. But such names and the characteristics associated with them, come to us from outside observers - Greek and Roman writers - not from the native peoples themselves. To understand how late prehistoric groups constructed and expressed their identities, we need to examine the rich archaeological evidence left by the Iron Age Europeans themselves. Recent theoretical and methodological advances in anthropology, archaeology and history, together with results of archaeological research all o

Authors:J. D. Richards, N. S. Ryan,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: archaeology, manuals, cambridge, data, processing
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1985-06-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0521257697
ISBN-13: 9780521257695

Specifically written for readers with no previous experience of computing, this book aims to give archaeologists a non-technical but thorough grounding in the use of computers. Every aspect of the subject is covered, from what computers actually look like to computer jargon which is lucidly explained. The authors deal with every stage of a computer project, from the recording and management of data to the presentation of results. They discuss the purpose and value of program packages, such as SPSS and GINO, and analyse the relative merits of individual programming languages. This book does not

Authors:Christopher Chippindale, Paul S. C. Taçon,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: archaeology, directions, new, art, rock
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1999-01-28
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0521576199
ISBN-13: 9780521576192

Rock art--prehistoric pictures--gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock art as a material record of distant times by adapting the proven methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock art.

Author: Tim Champion
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: archaeology, one, world, studies, periphery, comparative, centre
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1995-11-15
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0415122538
ISBN-13: 9780415122535

This volume uses the concepts of centre and periphery, especially as formulated by Wallerstein to explain the rise of European capitalist world systems, and applies them to archaeology. The studies in this volume consider how these concepts can be adapted to illuminate our understanding of pre-capitalist societies and long term social transformations.

Author: Sarah Tarlow
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: archaeology, social, mortality, bereavement, commemoration
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 0631206140
ISBN-13: 9780631206149

This book provides an historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the present.