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Nature and antiquities : the making of archaeology in the Americas
Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.
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- 9780816539253
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- X, 246 p.
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- 930.1 NAT n
Cyberresearch on the ancient Near East and neighboring regions : case studies…
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation. Eleven chapters present a rich array of material, spanning the fifth through the first millennium BCE, from Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. Customized cyber- and general glossaries support reader…
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- 9789004375086
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- xxviii, 458p. : ill.
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- 939.400285 CYB c
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra : transformations in early historic and e…
This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these changes, the excavations revealed a sequence of palaeobotanical and palaeofaunal evidence that give insight into the econom…
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- 9783110653540
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- XX, 386 p.
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- Beyond Boundaries, 5
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- 956.94 KER e
Communication and materiality. Written and unwritten communication in pre-mod…
This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefacts are understood and interpreted. By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines such as archaeology, medieval studies, and Islamic studies, this volume provides the specialist and non-specialist with insights on how humans express themselv…
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- 9783110371758
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- v, 133 p.; 22 cm.
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- Materiale Textkulturen ; Vol. 8
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- 302.230935 COM c
Dutch ships in tropical waters: the development of the Dutch East India Compa…
The end of the 16th century saw Dutch expansion in Asia, as The Dutch East India Company (the VOC) was fast becoming an Asian power, both political and economic. By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen. This landmark study looks at perhaps the most important tool in the Company' trading - its ships. In order to reconstruct the complete shipping activities of the…
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- 9789048501236
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- 217 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.
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- Amsterdam studies in the Dutch golden age
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- 387.50959809032 PAR d
The archaeology of death in post-medieval Europe
Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing social relationships, values and aspirations.In the last decades, the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement to un…
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- 9783110439731
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- V, 227 p.
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- 393.094 TAR a
Scattered finds : archaeology, Egyptology and museums
Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post…
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- 9781787351400
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- XIII, 304 p.
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- 932 STE s
Man Bac : the excavation of a neolithic Site in northern Vietnam
The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the …
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- 9781921862236
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- XIV, 231 p.
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- Terra Australis
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- 959.701 MAT m
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
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- 9781920942960
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- XXVII, 314 p.
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- 994.01 ULM c
Architecture and asceticism: cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia i…
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints. Readership: This work is aimed at specialists in Oriental and Eastern Christianity, Late Antique material culture, Syrian (and S…
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- 9789004375314
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- 254 p.; 23 cm.
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- Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity ; Vol. 13
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- 281.63094758 LEE a
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