Anthropology

ISBN: 9781901992915
Published by : Museum of London Archaeology
Series: MOLAS ARCHAEOLOGY STUDIES SERIES
Volume: 21
The City Bunhill burial ground on Golden Lane, London, operated as a Nonconformist burial ground between 1833 and 1853. Archaeological investigations included the excavation in 2006 of a sample area, from which 248 burials were recovered. All t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842173527
Published by : Oxbow Books
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they fail to do.



To understand the inner-workings a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900396
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: MEDEDELINGEN VAN HET RIJKSMUSEUM VOOR VOLKENKUNDE
Volume: 38
Central Javanese temples were not built anywhere and anyhow. On the contrary: their positions within the landscape and their architectural designs were determined by socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. This book explores the correl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088900136
Published by : Sidestone Press
A veritable veterinary museum, a large collection of historical objects used in treating animal diseases in the past brought to life with the stories about their use and collection. Farmer Servais Hutschemakers illuminates a lost world. (Dutch ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521574877
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book focuses on the development of Egypt in its formative phase, from ca. 5200 BC, when Egyptians first began farming wheat and barley, until 2160 BC, as Egypt's central government weakened and appears to have fallen into disorder. During ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691122373
Published by : Princeton University Press
Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845532260
Published by : Equinox
This thought provoking work combines anthropological, historical and archaeological research to offer some reflections on the dynamics and anatomy of what Arbel terms "intense religious movements". Through a series of case studies he examines ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598744972
Published by : Left Coast Press
What does being an archaeologist mean to Indigenous persons? How and why do some become archaeologists? What has led them down a path to what some in their communities have labeled a colonialist venture? What were are the challenges they have ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598744989
Published by : Left Coast Press
What does being an archaeologist mean to Indigenous persons? How and why do some become archaeologists? What has led them down a path to what some in their communities have labeled a colonialist venture? What were are the challenges they have ... .... Learn More