Author: Hattula Moholy-Nagy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Keywords: tikal, artifacts, material, unworked, utilitarian, report, 27b
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1931707405
ISBN-13: 9781931707404

Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands. This book provides a major body of primary data. The artifacts, represented by such raw materials as chert and shell are classified by type, number, condition, possible ancient use, form, material, size, and such secondary modifications as decoration and reworking, as well as by spatial distribution, occurrence in the various types of structure groups, r

Author: Lar Hothem
Publisher: Collector Books
Keywords: midwest, artifacts, indian
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1574323261
ISBN-13: 9781574323269

Lar Hothem’s first four books on this subject have been great sellers, and Book V, the first of the series in full color, will sell even better with nearly as many photographs as the first two books combined, and no repeats from any of the other books! There are over 2,150 full-color photographs featuring thousands of specimens from our ancient past. Hothem, widely known for his research and publications in the field of Indian artifacts, gives the collector all the necessary facts about each item featured, such as important details, size, date, location found, and current collector value

Author: Brian S. Middleditch
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Keywords: artifacts, analytical
Number of Pages: 1030
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $421.00
ISBN-10: 0444871586
ISBN-13: 9780444871589

This encyclopaedic catalogue of the pitfalls and problems that all analysts encounter in their work is destined to spend more time on the analyst’s workbench than on a library shelf. The author has dedicated the book to ``the innumerable scientists who made mistakes, used impure chemicals and solvents, suffered the consequences of unanticipated side-reactions, and were otherwise exposed to mayhem yet were too embarrassed to publish their findings’’. Traditionally, the mass spectroscopist or gas chromatographer learnt his trade by participating in a 4-6 year apprenticeship as

Author: Jim Bennett
Publisher: Collector Book
Keywords: artifacts, indian, ancient, authenticating
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1574325558
ISBN-13: 9781574325553

The popularity of collecting ancient Indian artifacts is at an all-time high, bringing with it thousands of new collectors. This increase in demand for authentic ancient artifacts has brought with it a huge increase in the number of fraudulent reproductions and modernly altered artifacts. Written for collectors of all experience levels, Authenticating Ancient Indian Artifacts takes a look at the history of fakes in the marketplace, and provides an in-depth tutorial on how to scientifically identify and avoid reproductions and modernly enhanced artifacts. Microscopic surface analysis, patinatio

Author: Charles R. Ewen
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: toolkit, archaeologist, artifacts
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2003-06
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0759100225
ISBN-13: 9780759100220

How can you ensure that you are learning everything your artifacts have to teach you? Ewen explores a variety of methods and techniques used to prepare, protect, and analyze artifacts once they are in the lab. In brief, user-friendly sections, he outlines the basic principles of identification, classification, quantification, data manipulation, and analysis. Students will find that Ewen’s suggestions point out fruitful areas of analysis, yet do not dictate the researcher’s approach. Examples drawn from 16th century Spanish sites in the Americas introduce students to the hows and wh

Author: Nicholas Thomas
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: histories, artifacts, visions, oceania
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 1997-10
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822319985
ISBN-13: 9780822319986

Australian scholar Nicholas Thomas documents and analyzes "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people of the Pacific themselves to demonstrate how Oceanic identities have been represented over time. The picture Thomas paints of Oceania shows that interactions between indigenous cultures and European influences created entirely new Oceanic identities. 62 illustrations .

Author: Bruce Trigger
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: archaeology, essays, ideas, artifacts
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0765801655
ISBN-13: 9780765801654

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects or directly access their ideas; both must be inferred from what survives of the material objects they made and used. In recent decades this has led to a partisan approach to the history and method of archaeology. From an empirical discipline stressing data, classification, and chronology, it has given way to a behaviorist approach interpreting finds as products of ecologically adaptive strategies and then to an idealist, cultural-relativist epistemology stressing belief and cultural traditions. Most recently, Darwinian or evolution