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Societies in transition in early Greece : an archaeological history
Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would …
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- 9780520380547
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- XV, 363 p.
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- 930.16 KNO s
Using ostraca in the ancient world : new discoveries and methodologies
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspect…
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- 9783110712902
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- VI, 245 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen, 32
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- 930 USI u
Archaeological perspectives on warfare on the Great Plains
The Great Plains of the United States have played an influential role in shaping academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because of the well-documented violence that was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement there. However, violence has deep roots on the Plains, and these roots have never been examined systematically across the region as a whole. Coveri…
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- 9781607326700
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- VII, 439 p.
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- 970.00497 CLA a
Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries
This open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption and waste production. The topics covered include the development of sustainable housing models, energy and environmental issues in building design and technical systems, recyc…
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- 9783030333232
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- xii, 167 p.
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- 338.96 INN i
Excavating the future : archaeology and geopolitics in contemporary North Ame…
Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds.’ But more than a well-spring for SF scenarios, the genre’s archaeological imaginary invites us to consider the ideological implications of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of very…
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- 9781786948731
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- XV, 228 p.
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- 791.43615097 MAL e
Human remains in society: curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocid…
Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. This book presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Through a range of …
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- 9781526129338
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- xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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- Human remains and violence
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- 306.9 HUM a
Across space and time: papers from the 41st Conference on Computer Applicatio…
This volume presents a selection of the best papers presented at the forty-first annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. The theme for the conference was "Across Space and Time", and the papers explore a multitude of topics related to that concept, including databases, the semantic Web, geographical information systems, data collection and management,…
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- 9789089647153
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- 515 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
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- Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology
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- 930.1028 ACR a
New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neo…
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- 9781760460952
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- xx, 384p. : ill.
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- Terra australis 45
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- 959.01 NEW n
The Spice Islands in prehistory : archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indon…
This monograph reports the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in the Northern Moluccas Islands (the Indonesian Province of Maluku Utara) by Indonesian, New Zealand and Australian archaeologists between 1989 and 1996. Excavations were undertaken in caves and open sites on four islands (Halmahera, Morotai, Kayoa and Gebe). The cultural sequence spans the past 35,000 years, commen…
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- 9781760462918
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- xiii, 236p. : ill.
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- Terra australis 50
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- 915.985 THE t
The archaeology of Sulawesi: current research on the pleistocene to the histo…
The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from Indonesia and Australia come together to present their research findi…
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- 9781760462574
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- xx, 357 p. : illus ; 29 cm
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- Terra australis 48
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- 930.1 THE t
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