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eBook available Published August 2013
About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies
eBook available Published April 2023
Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
Forthcoming December 2023
Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and importance is often overlooked.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published March 2021
Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)

Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published March 2023
Amnesia Remembered

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Aycock, J.

As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published June 2018
Archaeogaming

An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Reinhard, A.

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published January 2018
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)
Published March 2002
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

Parkinson, W. A. (ed)

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. This volume explores social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published December 2019
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
Published June 2008
Archives, Ancestors, Practices

Archaeology in the Light of its History

Schlanger, N. & Nordbladh, J. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Heritage Studies
eBook available Published February 2019
At Home on the Waves

Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today

King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)
Published April 2012
The Benefit of the Gift

Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic

Hill, M. A.

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction in this period.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies
eBook available Published November 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer

Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend

Mallios, S.

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published October 2020
Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople

Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900

Palmer, R.

This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological research to compare Malta’s experience under the regimes of the Knights of St. John from 1530 to 1798 and afterward as a maritime outpost of the British Empire in terms of such topics as slavery, the control of resources, and globalization.

Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology
eBook available Published September 2011
Civilizations Beyond Earth

Extraterrestrial Life and Society

Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)

“For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology
eBook available Published June 2020
Communities and Place

A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

Framing the emergence of queer enclaves in reference to place, this volume explores the physical and symbolic spaces of LGBTQ Americans. Authors provide an overview of the concept of “place” and its role in informing identity formation and community building. The book also includes interactive project prompts, providing opportunities to practically apply topics and theories discussed in the chapters.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies
Published August 2018
Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T., & Karimali, E. (eds)

This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece, and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published February 2022
Contested Holdings

Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

Bodenstein, F., Otoiu, D., & Troelenberg, E.-M. (eds)

Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published September 2022
Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)
eBook available Published February 2020
Cultural Resource Management

A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists

King, T. F. (ed)

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely “applied archaeology,” this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies
Forthcoming March 2024
Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Collins, B. & Nowell, A. (eds)

The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published August 2022
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
Published April 2003
Discerning Palates of the Past

An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India

Reddy, S. N.

This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis. New directions are provided for discerning archaeologically how pastoralism and agriculture may be integrated in complex economic systems.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
Published December 1992
The Dutch Hunebedden

Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture

Bakker, J. A.

Hunebedden are the megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture in the Netherlands. Jan Albert Bakker is one of the few archaeologists in Holland to have excavated a Dutch megalithic tomb, and here he not only draws on and presents the knowledge acquired through excavations, but gives also an overview of the history of Dutch megalithic tomb investigations and an abundantly illustrated compendium of data on all the known megalithic tombs in Holland.

Subject: Archaeology
Published March 1996
Emergent Complexity

The Evolution of Intermediate Societies

Arnold, J. E.

Serious interest in the evolution and dynamics of intermediate societies has grown by leaps and bounds during the past decade. The purpose of this volume is to suggest new ways to model the many stimuli and processes by which cultural complexity emerges, emphasizing major organizational changes, not the appearance and disappearance of specific traits.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology

Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence

Graham, S.

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
Published January 2001
Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America

Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory

Kuznar, L. A. (ed)

The papers in this volume present detailed studies of highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists in Andean South America, including taphonomy and sacred landscapes. This volume will be of use to anyone who studies human adaptations to highland or arid environments, and to those interested in pastoral societies, as well as Andean South America.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
Published October 2019
Experiencing Archaeology

A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology

Homsey-Messer, L., Michaud, T., Lockard Reed, A., & Bobo, V.

This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Subject: Archaeology
October 2019
Experiencing Archaeology

A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology, Instructor's Edition

Homsey-Messer, L., Michaud, T., Lockard Reed, A., & Bobo, V.

This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. This Instructor's Edition provides detailed explanations for activities ranging in length from five to thirty minutes that are designed to break up traditional classroom lecture, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published March 2012
Extreme Collecting

Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums

Were, G. & King, J. C. H. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology
eBook available Published July 2022
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Augé , C. R.

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion
Published December 1999
Folsom Lithic Technology

Explorations in Structure and Variation

Amick, D. S. (ed)

This book offers a series of studies focused on the analysis of stone tool technology of the Folsom Culture. The analyses presented here use comparative methods to identify patterns of lithic assemblage structure and variation that provide insights into the organization of Folsom technology and lifeways, considering multiple aspects of Folsom technology.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published January 2017
Food Research

Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology
eBook available Published September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
eBook available Published November 2020
The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published September 2017
House of the Waterlily

A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

Carmean, K.

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
Published July 2006
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Sobel, E. A., Gahr, D. A. T., & Ames, K. A. (eds)

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
Published December 1993
Human Adaptation at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona

Social and Ecological Perspectives

Ezzo, J. A.

A detailed study of the bone chemistry of individuals buried at the 14th century Grasshopper Pueblo site is presented in this volume. This is a data-rich study which provides much information for social and economic reconstructions of prehistoric Pueblo adaptation to their environment.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published December 2010
Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective

Past Meets Present

Moffat, T. & Prowse, T. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published May 2023
Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Snake Anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

Mukhopadhyay, T. P. & Garfinkel, A. P.

The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published November 2019
Identities and Place

Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies
Published January 2001
In the Mind's Eye

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition

Nowell, A. (ed)

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming January 2024
Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology

Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot

Mallios, S., Gonzalez, S. L., Grone, M., Hull, K. L., Nelson, P., & Siliman, S. W. (eds)

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published July 2023
Innovation and Implementation

Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published June 2019
Invisible Founders

How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College

Rainville, L.

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies
Published December 1996
The Iron Gates Mesolithic

Radovanovic, I.

The Mesolithic sites in the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danube River, between Yugoslavia and Romania are reviewed in this volume. The author offers fundamental re-analyses and interpretations of stratigraphies, relative and absolute chronologies, architecture and settlement organization, the placement and styles of altars and sculptural elements, the chipped and polished stone industries, the bone and antler artifacts, the mortuary practices, ecology, and social organization of this remarkable archaeological culture.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published January 2018
Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
Published December 1993
Islands in the Interior

The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia

Veth, P. M.

In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.

Subject: Archaeology
Published June 2011
The Lives of Chinese Objects

Buddhism, Imperialism and Display

Tythacott, L.

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published February 2023
The Long Shore

Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Meniketti, M. (ed)

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming July 2024
Machine-Created Culture

Essays on the Archaeology of Digital Things and Places

Reinhard, A.

Machine-Created Culture offers archaeologists of any level new ways of interpreting electronic and digital artifacts, sites, and landscapes. Playfully told through the misadventures of a reluctant digital archaeologist, this book gently leads readers into emerging topics including quantum archaeology, entropy, psychogeography, complexity science, and more.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published April 2019
Magical House Protection

The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft

Hoggard, B.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published April 2021
Making Scenes

Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Davidson, I. & Nowell, A. (eds)

In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published November 2018
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Adventures of Eugène Boban

MacLaren Walsh, J. & Topping, B.

Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology
Published January 2003
Migration Control in the North-atlantic World

The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period

Fahrmeir, A., Faron, O. & Weil, P. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Archaeology
eBook available Published May 2017
The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination

Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology
eBook available Published December 2019
Mixed Harvest

Stories from the Human Past

Swigart, R.

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
Published December 1994
Mobile Farmers

An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Settlement Organization Among the Raramuri of Northwestern Mexico

Graham, M.

This ethnoarchaeological study of the settlements of the Rarámuri focuses primarily on their mobility strategy. This group presents a case where the common equation of agriculturalists = sedentary, and hunter-gatherers = mobile is broken. The Rarámuri are agriculturalists with a pattern of mobility between two or more settlements during the course of any year.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published March 2023
Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.

Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published September 2022
Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative

Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities

Bünz, A.

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published December 2022
Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas

Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
Published December 2013
Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

Bar-Yosef, O. & Calla, F. R.

This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

Subject: Archaeology
Published December 1995
The Origins of Complex Societies in Late Prehistoric Iberia

Lillios, K. T.

A series of papers by a wide range of authors from different countries and backgrounds focuses firmly on the question of the origin and development of social complexity, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age, in Iberia writ large. A wide range of specific topics is covered with this specific focus, from results of field projects, laboratory analyses, and theoretical overviews.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published October 2019
Playing with the Past

Exploring Values in Heritage Practice

Clark, K.

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Archaeology
eBook available Published January 2023
Polarized Pasts

Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization

Niklasson, E. (ed)

When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. From different ends at the political spectrum, people invoke the past to validate their stance on immigration, equality and security. Together, the texts pave the way for a better understanding of the role of the heritage in society.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published October 2023
Poverty Archaeology

Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law

Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
Forthcoming May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming

Reinhard, A.

As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published September 2019
Preservation and Place

Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

Historically significant archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies
eBook available Published February 2019
Public Engagement and Education

Developing and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future

Erdman, K. M. (ed)

Public Engagement and Education shares effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past. Offered are applied examples that are not bound to specific geographies or cultures, but rather, are approaches that can be implemented almost anywhere.

Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies
Published February 2017
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Volumes I-III

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology
eBook available Published November 2013
Science, Seti, and Mathematics

DeVito, C. L.

Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the basis for mutual communication. This book discusses, in a conversational way, the role of mathematics in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The author explores the science behind that search, its history, and the many questions associated with it, including those regarding the nature of language and the philosophical/psychological motivation behind this search.

Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
Published December 1993
Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age

Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987-1992

Wells, P. S.

This volume presents preliminary results of excavation at the Late Iron Age oppidum settlement of Kelheim. The volume addresses some major questions about late prehistoric Europe from the perspective of these excavations and the analytical results. It presents investigations into ritual behavior in the Kelheim region and uses this theme to argue for strong continuity of tradition from prehistoric times into the Middle Ages.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published October 2018
Social DNA

Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

Martin, M. K.

Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available Published September 2019
The Sound of Silence

Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism

Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. The volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published March 2018
The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

Chew, S. C.

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
Published March 1993
Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics

Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies

Holl, A. & Levey, T. E. (eds)

The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published July 2023
The Spirit of Matter

Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

Pels, P.

A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of “mind over matter”.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Museum Studies
Published December 1996
Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley

From Hunter-Gatherer Camps to Agricultural Villages

Odell, G. H.

A detailed comparative analysis of standardized lithic data from 10 Illinois Valley components spanning 7500 years from the Early Archaic through the Mississippian is presented in this volume. The results provide significant information on prehistoric mobility and technological organization in mid-continental North America, revealing clearly for the first time a number of significant behavioral trends.

Subject: Archaeology
Published January 2001
Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan

Habu, J.

This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis seasonally. The implications of this result are discussed in the context of the development of hunter-gatherer cultural complexity in general and the course of Japanese prehistory in particular.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published December 2022
Taking Our Water for the City

The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities

Beisaw, A. M.

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
Published December 2007
Telling Children About the Past

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Galanidou, N. & Dommasnes, L. H. (eds)

This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and critically assess the many ways in which contemporary societies and an increasing number of commercial agents construct and use the past.

Subjects: Archaeology Educational Studies Heritage Studies
eBook available Published September 2023
These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published June 2020
Timber, Sail, and Rail

An Archaeology of Industry, Immigration, and the Loma Prieta Mill

Meniketti, M.

While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies, lime production, and other lesser enterprises.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Transport Studies
eBook available Published August 2013
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

A Critical Synthesis

Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology
eBook available Published January 2021
Unlocking the Love-Lock

The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom

Houlbrook, C.

A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published August 2022
Unusual Death and Memorialization

Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North

Kallio-Seppa, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. (eds)

Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
Published December 1993
Villages in the Steppe

Late Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria

Akkermans, P. M.

In this book, Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published May 2023
War Stories

Reading Plains Indian Biographic Rock Art

Keyser, J. D. & Kaiser, D. A.

Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alberta through ten U.S. states, and into the Mexican state of Coahuila.

Subject: Archaeology
eBook available Published March 2018
World Heritage Craze in China

Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory

Yan, H.

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism
eBook available Published April 2016
World Heritage on the Ground

Ethnographic Perspectives

Brumann, C. & Berliner, D. (eds)

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies

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About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Amnesia Remembered

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Aycock, J.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Archaeogaming

An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Reinhard, A.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)

The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

Parkinson, W. A. (ed)

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Archives, Ancestors, Practices

Archaeology in the Light of its History

Schlanger, N. & Nordbladh, J. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Heritage Studies

At Home on the Waves

Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today

King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)

The Benefit of the Gift

Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic

Hill, M. A.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies

Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer

Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend

Mallios, S.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople

Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900

Palmer, R.

Subjects: Colonial History Archaeology

Civilizations Beyond Earth

Extraterrestrial Life and Society

Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology

Communities and Place

A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States

Crawford-Lackey, K. & Springate, M. E. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Sarris, A., Kalogiropoulou, E., Kalayci, T., & Karimali, E. (eds)

Subject: Archaeology

Contested Holdings

Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

Bodenstein, F., Otoiu, D., & Troelenberg, E.-M. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)

Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)