The Americas
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Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America [Paperback]
Robert A. Birmingham (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785700873
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
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Between c. AD 700 and 1100 Late Woodland people of the Upper Midwest used the topography and other features of the natural landscape to create vast ceremonial landscapes consisting of thousands of earthen mounds sculpted into animals a... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology [Hardback]
Barbara Mills (Editor); Severin M. Fowles (Editor)
£115.00ISBN: 9780199978427
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The American Southwest is one of the most important archaeological regions in the world, with many of the best-studied examples of hunter-gatherer and village-based societies. Research has been carried out in the region for well over a century, an... .... Learn More -
Investigating Restricted Knowledge in Lithic Craft Traditions among the Pre-contact Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America [Paperback]
Adam N. Rorabaugh (Author)
£51.00ISBN: 9781407315836
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2863
Understanding the impacts of the emergence of hereditary social inequality in human societies is one of the fundamental questions in archaeology. This book is one case study examining the transitions in craft apprenticeship of formed lithic tools ... .... Learn More -
Continuity and Change in the Native American Village: Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture [Hardback]
Robert A. Cook (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781107043794
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to... .... Learn More -
Semiologie du Temple Maya: Contribution a l'Archeologie des Centres Ceremoniels des Basses Terres Meso-Americaines (200 / 900 Ap. J.-C.) [Paperback]
Alienor Letouze (Author)
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Jamestown: The Truth Revealed [Hardback]
William M. Kelso (Author)
£37.50ISBN: 9780813939933
Published by : University of Virginia Press
What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often... .... Learn More -
The Caribbean Before Columbus [Paperback]
William F. Keegan (Author); Corinne L. Hofman (Author)
£26.49ISBN: 9780190605254
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues ... .... Learn More -
The Pottery Figurines of Pre-Columbian Peru: Volume II : The Figurines of the Central Coast [Paperback]
Alexandra Morgan (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781407315232
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2845
This is the last volume of a comprehensive catalogue of Peruvian Pottery Figurines, from their first appearance around 3,500 BC to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The figurines are described in detail and classified by region, chronologi... .... Learn More -
Material Worlds: Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity [Hardback]
Barbara J. Heath (Editor); Eleanor E. Breen (Editor); Lori A. Lee (Editor)
£110.00ISBN: 9781138101142
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual object... .... Learn More -
Rome and the Classic Maya: Comparing the Slow Collapse of Ancient Civilizations [Paperback]
Rebecca Storey (Author); Glenn R. Storey (Author)
£33.99ISBN: 9781629584584
Published by : Routledge
This volume compares two of the most famous cases of civilizational collapse, that of the Roman Empire and the Classic Maya world. First examining the concept of collapse, and how it has been utilized in the historical, archaeological and anthropo... .... Learn More
