Archaeology

Through accessible entries this Dictionary provides a scholarly guide to this complex and fascinating area. The wide-ranging bibliography makes use of unfamiliar sources, and there is an extensive index for ease of reference...

Examines some of the most important events in the development of a socially engaged archaeology concerned with issues in the contemporary world...

Flinders Petrie, known for his extensive work in Egypt, was also a pioneer of scientific archaeology in Palestine early in the 20th century. This volume offers an analysis of Petrie's contributions to the archaeology of Palestine and the role his collection of artifacts plays in modern studies of th..

This is the indispensable reference tool for everyone in museums and galleries who has to deal with copyright. It is a user-friendly resource which comprehensively addresses all aspects of copyright law and usage...

A comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and the rest of the world...

Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist, Leo S. Klejn, has been generally unrecognized by western scholars. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology...

A Season's Work at Ur, Al-'Ubaid, Abu Shahrain-Eridu-and Elsewhere..

Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. The author discusses the latest developments...

This book considers modern museum collection stewardship and argues that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Exploring issues such as ‘quality over quantity’, emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship, the book a..

Nineteen internationally renowned scholars discuss nine theoretically based case studies ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the US. Essential reading for all archaeologists...

This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology using examples from European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka and other Andean cultures...

This volume contains a collection of twenty four fully-refereed papers that examine the wealth, diversity and quality of cultural and environmental archaeological remains preserved in alluvial environments...