Archaeology
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Community-Based Archaeology: Research With, By, and for Indigenous and Local CommunitiesArchaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required of them will differ...
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The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the PyramidsA revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt. In 1993, German robotics engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink discovered a sealed door within the Great Pyramid of Giza--a door left unopened for 4,500 years. With this...
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Tel Miqne 10/1: Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations 1994-1996, Field IV Upper and Field V, the Elite Zone Part 1: Iron Age IIc Temple ComplexTel Miqne-Ekron is one of the largest and most significant Iron Age archaeological sites in Israel. Based on fourteen seasons of excavations, this volume in the Tel Miqne series documents remarkable finds from the late Iron Age II Philistine temple.Immediately before its destruction at...
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Islamic Glass in the Making: Chronological and Geographical DimensionsNew insights into the history of Islamic glassmaking The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent at...
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Ancient Oaxaca: The Monte Albán StateOver two thousand years ago, Oaxaca, Mexico, was the site of one of the New World's earliest episodes of primary state formation and urbanism, and today it is one of the world's archaeologically best-studied regions. This volume, which thoroughly revises and updates the first...
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Political Change and Material Culture in Middle to Late Bronze Age CanaanDo shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (seventeenth-fourteenth centuries BCE)...
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The Archaeology of Childhood, Second EditionThe first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years later, retains the first edition's emphasis on combining sources from archaeology, anthropology, environmental studies, psychology,...
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Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the CaribbeanWhile previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period. It examines the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting living spaces...
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Treasure Hunting and Real-Life Treasure Hunters - Level 2 ReaderThis is a Level 2 Reader book: 4-6 simple sentences per page,1st-2nd grade vocabulary, large type, lots of colorful pictures on every page. Great for kids who have started reading on their own.Everyone enjoys adventure stories about secret vaults, sunken ships, and pirate treasures,...
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The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock CityEach August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest...
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a DynastyDrawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and...
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PetraThis title takes readers to a valley in southern Jordan to discover the amazing city of Petra. Fascinating and historical images, maps, and more facts complete this title. This series is at a Level 3 and is specifically written for transitional readers. Aligned to...
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An Archaeological Map of Hadrian's Wall: 1:25 000 ScaleIt was more than just a wall: it was a whole military zone designed to control movement across the northern frontier of the Roman province of Britannia. Great earthwork barriers survive, along with the remains of forts and temporary camps; watch-towers and fortified gates;...
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Kudzu on the Ivory TowerEducated meets Dispatches from Pluto, but with more explosions. The story of an unlikely journey from a poverty-stricken upbringing in the Mississippi backwoods to a career in academic archaeology. Along the way one encounters homemade cannons, untethered nuclear bombs, zombie cheeseburgers, country music sycophants,...
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Pearl of the Desert: A History of PalmyraPalmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyra's territory into what is...
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a DynastyDrawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and...
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If You Want to Visit a Sea GardenDiscover the wonder of ancient sea gardens on the Northwest Coast Sea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging...
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Archaeologies of the HeartArchaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic critiques of how archaeology is practiced and how science is used to interpret the past lives of people. Inspired by the calls for a different way of doing archaeology, this...
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Agypten - Land Der UnsterblichkeitEnglish summary: This book is divided into four main chapters on the basis of 150 original artifacts from ancient Egypt. The first chapter examines daily life on the ancient Nile, which was dominated by the pharaoh and the literate elite. The second chapter covers...
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Textiles and Clothing, C.1150-1450A model of clarity... It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those interested in the tools and equipment used. TOOL AND TRADES HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER [Linda Woolley, curator of early and medieval textiles...
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