Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 548 p. Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers in ways quite different from other, non-imperial societies. Appearing in all parts of the globe, and in many different epochs, empires invite comparative analysis - yet few...
Allchin, Frank Raymond. Cambridge University Press, 1995. 392p. ISBN-10: 0521376955, ISBN-13: 978-0521376952. Cities and states developed in South Asia between c. BC 800 and AD 250, as Hinduism and Buddhism arose and spread. Drawing on archaeological studies and also on texts and inscriptions, this book explores the character of the early Indian cities, paying particular...
Samarkand: IICAS, 2014. — 228 p. The monograph makes the first step to generalize numerous materials on archaeology, history and architecture of Ustrushana, a medieval possession located in the geographical centre, between Sogd and Bactria, on the one hand, and Chach and Fergana, on the other. Note that this possession played a significant part in the social-economic and...
With introductions by Brian M. Fagan. — San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976. — 334 p. — (Readings from Scientific American). — ISBN: 0-7167-0542-7. Designed as supplementary reading for introductory archaeology and world prehistories courses, this collection of thirty articles from Scientific American highlights the major controversies, discoveries, and research...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 416 p. Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. A Hellenistic foundation later held by the Parthians and then the Romans, Dura had a Roman military garrison installed within its city walls before it was taken by the Sasanians in the mid-third century. The Inner...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 513 p. — ISBN: 1785700707, 978-1785700705 Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on...
Würzburg: Curt Kabitzsch (A. Stuber's Verlag), 1910. — 65 S., XXI Bl. Mit 1 Übersichtskarte und 20 Tafeln, enthaltend 27 Lagepläne und 227 Abbildungen. — (Mannus-Bibliothek, 4). orliegende Arbeit, das Ergebnis langjähriger, mühevoller Untersuchungen, ist als ein Beitrag zur Heimatkunde unseres Kreises gedacht. Tief im Herzen wurzelt jedem Menschen die Liebe zur Heimat, die aus...
Eisenbrauns, 2001. — 320 p. Since the 1960s, intensive research has demonstrated that Phoenician colonization on the Iberian Peninsula was far more widespread than formerly believed, with known Phoenician coastal settlements extending from the mouth of the Sado River, past Gilbratar, to the Segura River in the province of Alicante, Spain. This collection of articles translated...
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999. — 280 p. — (The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes; 1). — ISBN: 1-900188-62-7. Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of archaeological techniques and methods of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-5418-5. The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the fields traditional focus on art and architecture has been...
Koszalin: Muzeum w Koszalinie, 2011. — 317 s. — (Źródła archeologiczne do dziejów miast Pomorza Środkowego, tom I). — ISBN: 978-89463-16-6. Ze wstępu: "Początki historii znalezisk archeologicznych na terenie Koszalina datować można już na XVII wiek. Przez długie dziesięciolecia były to pojedyncze i przypadkowe odkrycia, o których można było niewiele powiedzieć, a ich wartość...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 250 p. — ISBN: 0-521-38446-X. This book is a study of a remarkable body of material: the fine objects that were so often buried in hoards or deposited in watery locations such as rivers or bogs. Such finds are made throughout northern and western Europe and characterize the entire sequence from the Mesolithic to the early historical period....
Natur & Kultur, 2010 (Stockholm). Arkeologernas uppfattning om forntidens människor, deras inbördes relationer och deras sätt att leva har i grunden förändrats under det senaste decenniet. Med ny metodik och med hjälp av tvärvetenskapligt forskningsarbete kan den moderna arkeologin nu dokumentera, analysera och tolka förhistoriska samhällsförhållanden på ett helt annat sätt än...
Natur & Kultur, 2010 (Stockholm). Arkeologernas uppfattning om forntidens människor, deras inbördes relationer och deras sätt att leva har i grunden förändrats under det senaste decenniet. Med ny metodik och med hjälp av tvärvetenskapligt forskningsarbete kan den moderna arkeologin nu dokumentera, analysera och tolka förhistoriska samhällsförhållanden på ett helt annat sätt än...
Springer, 2014. — 114 p. his volume presents case studies from around the world aiming to serve as a hands-on book for management and treatment of archaeological World Heritage properties. It comprises not only sites inscribed as World Heritage due to their archaeological character but also World Heritage properties where the analysis of their archaeological dimension provides...
Routledge, 1993. — 305 p. — ISBN: 0-415-08513-6. Every generation has created its own interpretation of Stonehenge, but rarely do these relate to the physical realities of the monument. Rodney Castleden begins with those elements which made possible the building of this vast stone circle: the site, the materials and the society that undertook the enormous task of transporting...
Translated from the French by Anne Ward. — New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0-600-75451-2. Heinrich Schliemann at Troy; Arthur Evans at the Palace of Minos at Knossos; the excavation of Pompeii; the decipherment of the ancient Minoan script Linear B by Michael Ventris; the tomb of Tutankhamun; the great palace of Sargon at Khorsabad; the temples of Angkor -...
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1969. — 272 p. — (Everyday Handbooks). — SBN 389-00203-8. Professor Clark describes how archaeologists go about their work — how ancient sites are found, what methods are used to explore them, how finds are dated, and within what limits archaeological evidence is able to tell us how people lived before the dawn of recorded history. "The writing...
University of California Press, 1970. — xiv, 161 p. — ISBN: 0-520-01584-3. The worldwide application of prehistoric research has made it possible for the first time to visualize the antecedents and emergence both of preliterate societies and of all the various civilizations of men. No one can survey so vast a panorama without meditating both on its meaning for ourselves and on...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — x + 126 p. — ISBN: 0-521-30264-1. Pithily written, rich in anecdote and superbly illustrated with examples of ancient craftsmanship, this book by an archaeologist of world renown ranges freely over the civilisations of the last five thousand years. The theme is a fascinating one. Why is it, Professor Clark asks, that human beings value...
London and New York: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1983. — xvi + 184 p. — ISBN: 0-416-33560-8. Men and Primates in fossils and in life. Approaches to archaeology. The genesis of cultural diversity. The findings of ethnography. High culture in hierarchical societies. Homogenization and dehumanization.
An Illustrated Third Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 574 p. — (In New Perspective). — ISBN: 0-521-29178-X. 'To qualify as human, a hominid has, so to say, to justify himself by works: the criteria are no longer biological so much as cultural'. In this 1977 book, Professor Grahame Clark goes on to trace the origins and development of human culture, in all its...
Routledge, 2004. — 207 p. — ISBN: 0-415-30590-X. Forgotten Africa introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa’s past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence. It covers four million years of history across the continent, examining important aspects of Africa’s momentous human story. The author is concerned to...
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2017. — 288 p., 45 illus. — ISBN: 978-1-934536-89-6. Since the days of V. Gordon Childe, the study of the emergence of complex societies has been a central question in anthropological archaeology. However, archaeologists working in the Americanist tradition have drawn most of their models for...
Editori: Livia Sîrbu, Nicolae Telnov, Larisa Ciobanu, Ghenadie Sîrbu, Maia Kașuba. — Chişinău: S. n., 2016 (Tipogr. "Garamont-Studio"). — 345 p. Culegerea este dedicata dlui dr.hab. Oleg Levitki, Directorul Centrului de Arheologie al Institutului Patrimoniului Cultural al Academiei de Stiinte a Moldovei, la cea de-a 60-a aniversare. Publicatia contine contributii ale...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. — 208 p. “When we speak of the origins of civilization,” explains Glyn Daniel, “we mean the origins of the first literate town dwellers.” Some five thousand years ago, Sumer, the earliest civilization so far known to man, took root in southern Mesopotamia. The Sumerians had city states, specialized craftsmen, co-operative irrigation...
Sidestone Press, 2016. — 332 p. Every year thousands of archaeological objects and artefact scatters are discovered by the public, most of them by metal-detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening, or going about their daily work. Once recorded, these finds hold enormous potential in helping us understand the past. In England and Wales these finds are...
Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la recherche scient, 1976. — p. 765-1531. — ISBN: 2-222-01968-0. Publié à l’occasion du IXe Congrès de l’U.I.S.P.P., Nice, 1976. Les premières industries humaines. Les premières industries humaines en Provence, par Henry de Lumley. Les premières industries humaines en Languedoc méditerranéen et en Roussillon, par Henry de Lumley, Jacques...
Springer, 2018. — 272 p. This edited volume gathers contributions focused on understanding the environment through the lens of Historical Archaeology. Pressing issues such as climate change, global warming, the Anthropocene and loss of biodiversity have pushed scholars from different areas to examine issues related to the causes, processes, and consequences of these phenomena....
Springer, 2018. — 272 p. This edited volume gathers contributions focused on understanding the environment through the lens of Historical Archaeology. Pressing issues such as climate change, global warming, the Anthropocene and loss of biodiversity have pushed scholars from different areas to examine issues related to the causes, processes, and consequences of these phenomena....
Paris — Montréal: L'Harmattan, 1998. — 368 p. Delneuf M., Essomba J.-M., Froment A. (eds.) Paleo-anthropology of Central Africa Essay on the archeology of Cameroon (in French) Table des matières: Le peuplement de l'Afrique centrale: contribution de l'anthropobiologie. Bilan des Recherches Archéologiques de l'Orstom au Cameroun. État des lieux et avenir. Archéologie et...
Springer, 2012. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-2002-6; e-ISBN: 978-1-4614-2003-3; DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-2003-3. The evolution of humanity has been a long and steady process in which stone tool technology played a prominent role for the bulk of human history. Through advancements in lithic technology, humans were able to adapt to different climates, colonize new territories, and...
W.J.Raudonikas. Die Normannen der Wikingerzeit Series: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academiens Handlingarm Del 40:3 Stockholm, 1930 På Akademiens Förlag
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 144 p. Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 144 p. Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary...
Northern Archaeological Consultancy, 2016. — 226 p. Major developments by TransportNI have seen the A4 and A5 between Dungannon and Ballygawley upgraded. These developments allowed archaeologists to uncover and investigate many features that would have previously been hidden. The sites ranged in date from the Late Mesolithic (c.5500BC) through to the end of the post-medieval...
Northern Archaeological Consultancy, 2015. — 200 p. Major developments by TransportNI have seen the A1 between Lisburn and the border with the Republic of Ireland upgraded. These developments presented an opportunity for archaeologists to uncover and investigate many features that were previously hidden. A large number of archaeological sites were recorded. These sites were...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 192 p. Jonathan Eaton has provided the essential volume for all students of Archaeology, Classical Civilisations and Ancient History by condensing the entire archaeological history of Britain into one accessible volume. The Archaeological History of Britain takes us from the earliest prehistoric archaeology right up to the contemporary archaeology of the...
AltaMira Press, 2006. — 214 p. Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and...
W. W. Norton Company. September 17th, 1995. 334 p. ISBN10: 0393313484. ISBN13: 978-0393313482. New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an...
Translated and edited by Roderick Whitfield and Wang Tao. — London: Saffron, 1999. — 286 p. — (International Series in Chinese Art and Archaeology; No 1). — ISBN 1-872843-20-4. Students of Chinese art and archaeology in the West face two major hurdles: the lack of a general overview of current developments in Chinese archaeology, and the daunting amount of material published...
Oxford University Press, 1996. - 864 p. - (Oxford Companions). — ISBN 978-0-19-507618-9. (in file p. 1-82). Named as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by CHOICE. When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at...
Roma: Media Geo, 2013. — 260 p. Carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari e materiali. Unità geografica. Bacino del torrente S. Venera. Il torrente S. Venera solca da quota 820 m s.l.m. i ripidi pendii del versante Ne del monte di Gioiosa, per incidere poi le calcareniti plioceniche e i depositi alluvionali olocenici in prossimità della costa tirrenica dove sfocia a O di...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 734 p. With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. — 319 p. — ISBN: 0-674-89202-X. The notion of progress still bedevils our conception of prehistory, with human evolution persistently seen as a movement from inferior to superior, primitive to advanced, simple to complex. Timewalkers extricates prehistory from the myths and distortions created by this view of the past....
Routledge, 2018. — 324 p. — ISBN: 9781138577138. Maps have always been a fundamental tool in archaeological practice, and their prominence and variety have increased along with a growing range of digital technologies used to collect, visualise, query and analyze spatial data. However, unlike in other disciplines, the development of archaeological cartographical critique has...
Routledge, 2017. — 294 p. — (Routledge Studies in Archaeology). — ISBN10: 1138941131. — ISBN13: 978-1138941137. Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete "cultures", which have been conventionally treated...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 500 p. For almost forty years the study of the Iron Age in Britain has been dominated by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe. Between the 1960s and 1980s he led a series of large-scale excavations at famous sites including the Roman baths at Bath, Fishbourne Roman palace, and Danebury hillfort which revolutionized our understanding of Iron Age society,...
Ljubljana: Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, 2017. — 1041 s. — (Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije, 52/1). — ISBN: 978-961-6990-09-7. Arheološko izkopavanje na najdišču Nova tabla pri Murski Soboti sodi s 40 ha med daleč najobsežnejšo strnjeno raziskano površino. Odkriti so bili sledovi razpršene poselitve skozi zelo dolgo časovno obdobje (od bakrene dobe do...
Springer, 2017. — 771 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4939-6519-9, 978-1-4939-6521-2 (eBook) The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities....
Bielefeld und Leipzig: Verlag von Delhagen & Klafing, 1933. — 70 S. Mit 49 Abbildungen und Skizzen. Deutsche und Germanen. Urzeit. Nacheiszeit. Jungere Steinzeit. Indogermanen. Bronzezeit. Vorgeschichtliche Eisenzeit. Zeit der Kelten. Zeit der Romer. "Germania" des Tacitus. Fruhgeschichte und Ausblick.
London: English Heritage, 1994. — 170 p. — (Archaeological report 1). — ISBN: 1-85074-477-7. Archaeological surveys of the Fenland of eastern England were initiated in the 1930s after it became clear that centuries of drainage and cultivation had seriously reduced the archaeological deposits. These studies were among the first to take a multi-disciplinary approach to...
Aarhus University Press, 2002. — 352 p. This is the first volume of the complete publication on Panskoye I, a rural settlement in North-Western Crimea dating from the period ca 400-270 B.C. Panskoye was founded by the city of Olbia, but half a century later its fortress was destroyed and the settlement subordinated to another Greek city, Chersonesos. After the incorporation of...
Research projects of the Eurasia Department. — Berlin: German Archaeological Institute, 2017. — 124 p. The spectrum of current studies of the Eurasia Department presented in this booklet extends geographically from the western Black Sea area as far as Japan, while covering the time span from the Neolithic to the early Mediaeval period. Svend Hansen. Foreword. Judith Thomalsky....
Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 2017. — 332 S. — (Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie. Band 308; Human Development in Landscapes 11). — ISBN: 978-3-7749-4132-8. Social inequality - but in particular also social resistance against corresponding social hierarchies - occupies a prominent position in almost all current societies. In order to continue to advance in...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. — 120 p. — ISBN: 0-684-14593-6. Through modern scientific methods it is now becoming possible to learn what Ireland was like long before history was written. A skeleton found in a cave at Kilgreany in southern Ireland has shown that man may have lived in Ireland as early as 9000 BC, at a time when most of the country lay under a blanket...
Routledge, 2015. — 200 p. Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites. Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 454 p. This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic, and political...
London: Oxford University Press, 1935. — 112 p. + 20 pl. — (The Schweich lectures on biblical archaeology, 1934). "The first of these lectures is printed in a larger form than it was possible to give to the lecture, which had to be cut down to suit the time-limit. The two others are printed almost exactly as they were delivered. Of the pictures shown, only a part could be...
2nd Revised edition — Pen and Sword, 2013. — 240 p. This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodder's original and classic 1982 work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record. There has long been a need for archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and methods for interpreting the material culture of past...
Routledge, 2016. — 994 p. This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. BP to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, complex connectivities between communities and groups, and...
Taylor & Francis, 01.11.2002 - 232 p. From the Palaeolithic to the later Roman period, The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily explores all the main topics of archaeological interest. These range from Greek colinization, sancyuaries and burial, the architecture of temples, houses, theaters, and military sites, to sculpture, the cities of the island and the Sicels. Separate sections...
With introductions by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. — San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979. — 306 p. — (Readings from Scientific American). — ISBN: 0-7167-1073-0. "This volume of selected readings from Scientific American replaces the earlier one entitled Old World Archaeology: Foundations of Civilization ". Palaeolithic Hunters and Gatherers. The Idea of Man's Antiquity...
Translated by Joan F. Davidson. — Copenhagen: National Museum, 1998. — 144 p. — (Guides to the National Museum). — ISBN: 87-89384-26-1. The National Museum’s collection of prehistoric finds is one of the oldest in Europe. It was established in the year 1807, when King Frederik VI (1768-1839) set up a royal commission for the preservation of antiquities; the collections were...
The British School at Athens, 1986. — 938 p. A huge collection of studies, many leading to the identification of the provenance of particular wares. The initial intention of this book, which arose out of discussion with H.W. Catling in 1979, was to discuss the progress made in the rapidly advancing science-based research that had since the 1950s been attempting to relate...
Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2009. — 191 p. — (Archaeological Studies Leiden University 19). — ISBN: 978-90-8728-076-5. The Jordan Valley was and still is a place of many different facets: a barrier as well as a demographic centre, a steppe region as well as a fertile agricultural zone, and a region with a mix of different ethnic groups, cultures and ideas. The area forms a...
Rzeszów: Mitel, 2014. — 290 s. — (Via Archaeologica Ressoviensia. Tom V). — ISBN: 978-83-7667-182-6. W okresie od 1 września 2009 roku do 30 września 2010 roku na stanowisku nr 27 w miejscowości Rozbórz, gmina Przeworsk, woj. podkarpackie przeprowadzono ratownicze, szerokopłaszczyznowe badania wykopaliskowe, wyprzedzające inwestycję związaną z budową autostrady A4 na odcinku...
Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series, 1998. — 247 p., 4 color and 101 black and white pls. Preface and Acknowledgements Zeugma, the South-East Anatolia Development Project, and fieldwork on the Turkish Lower Euphrates / David Kennedy Fieldwork Geography and environment / David Kennedy and Judith Bunbury The twin towns and the region / David Kennedy, with a...
University Press of Florida, 2016. — 320 p. In this innovative study, Jun Kimura integrates historical data with archaeological findings to examine a wide array of eleventh- through nineteenth-century ships from China, Korea, and Japan. Chinese junks and Japanese sailing ships were known throughout the world, and this work illustrates why their innovative designs have survived...
Poznań: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, 1998. — 172 p. — (Baltic-Pontic Studies, vol. 5). — ISBN: 83-86094-04-4. This volume contains the majority of the papers presented during a conference that took place on 16th-21st May, 1997 in Łódź, Poland. The conference was organized by the Institute of Archaeology, University of Łódź and Departement d'anthropologie, Universite de...
Jena: Nornen Verlag, 1918. — 40 S. Es gibt in heutigen Zeitlauften niemand unter uns Deutschen - mag nun fein Tun und Streben in den Niederungen des Ulltagsgetriebes sich bewegen oder sein Denken auf den Hohen allgemeiner Betrachtung wandeln - dem nicht zu jeder Stunde im Vordergrunde aller seiner Vorstellungen und Gefuhle das eine Gewaltige stande: Der Weitkrieg, der ungeheure...
Koszalin: Muzeum w Koszalinie, 2013. — 235 s. — (Źródła archeologiczne do dziejów miast Pomorza Środkowego, t. III). — ISBN: 978-83-89463-21-0. W roku 2014 przypada 800-letnia rocznica pojawienia się Koszalina na kartach historii. Znamiennym jest, iż przy tej okazji również po raz pierwszy wymieniona została Góra Chełmska. Dnia 23 października 1214 roku książę Bogusław II...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 357 p. — ISBN 0-521-40643-9. American archaeology today encompasses a huge range of approaches and draws eclectically on a multitude of academic disciplines. Until now, however, there has been no book seeking to separate the main strands and traditions of research and present a rounded picture of American archaeological thought in all its...
Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Instytut Archeologii, 1999. — 188 s.: ill. Archeologia egejska to część archeologii Grecji i obszarów położonych na obrzeżach Morza Egejskiego (a więc także fragmentów obecnej Turcji), która zajmuje się badaniem okresu od pojawienia się pierwszych ludzi aż po początki klasycznej cywilizacji greckiej, która zrodziła m.in. Partenon czy też...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. — (Archaeological Histories). From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the modern world,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. — (Archaeological Histories). From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the modern world,...
BAR Publishing, 1983. — 212 p. — (BAR International Series 168/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 6). The Excavations at Taskun Kale. The Kale. The Church Area. Other Areas. The Pottery. The Small Finds.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 376 p. — ISBN: 1405167335. Christopher Mee presents an extensive examination of the material culture of the Greek world from its Neolithic roots in 7000 B.C. to the close of the Hellenistic period in 146 B.C. Features a unique thematic approach to the study of Greek archaeology. Includes extensive use of illustrations, many of which are not commonly...
Catalogue of the exhibition held in Saarbrücken, Munich and Dresden in 1995. — Saarbrücken: Museum für Vor- und Fruhgeschichte, 1995. — 343 S. — ISBN: 3-8062-1192-2. Die archäologischen Funde in Georgien stellen im Allgemeinen nur ein Randgebiet dar und man hört nur selten über sie, wenn man nicht gerade aktuelles Insiderwissen besitzt und sich dafür interessiert. Aber dieses...
BAR Publishing, 1980. — 282 p. — (BAR International Series 80/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 1). Historical and Geographical Introduction. The Site of Asvan. The Architecture. The Excavated Material from Asvan Kale. The Pottery. The Small Finds. Phasing.
Dolní Věstonice: Institute of Archeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2015. — 626 p. Human lives and their evolution are spanned throughout different times and various spaces. Nevertheless, their destiny might seem inexorable, for the witnesses, their memories or tangible evidences are slowly forgotten. Tis book displays two main efforts – on one hand in collecting and...
Einfluss der orientalischen Cultur auf Europa bis zur Mitte des letzten Jahrtausends v. Chr — Stockholm: Kungl. Hofboktryckeriet, Iduns Tryckeri Aktiebolag, 1900. — 186 S. Zu einer Zeit, wo die Völker Europas so zu sagen noch aller Civilisation haar waren, befand sich der Orient, und besonders das Euphratgebiet und das Nilthal, im Besitz einer blühenden Cultur. Diese Cultur...
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner Imprimerie Royale, 1875. — 120 p. A l'époqiic de la naissance de Jésns-Christ ou un peu plus tard, commence en Suède, avec l'emploi du fer, une ère nouvelle que l'on a nommée VAge du fer. Comme l'on comprend sous ce terme la partie des temps -payens pendant laquelle le fer fut en usage, l'âge du fer se termine avec la consolidation du...
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner. Imprimerie Royale, 1873. — 96 p. Nous ignorons encore l'époque où la Suède reçut ses premiers habitants, de même que la race à laquelle ils appartenaient. Nous savons seulement avec certitude, que la Suède est peuplée depuis plusieurs milliers d'années, et que ses populations primitives n'avaient aucune connaissance des métaux. Leurs armes,...
Zweiten Auflage. — Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1885. — VII, 198 S. Mit 190 Holzschnitten. Das Steinzeitalter (Bis zur Mitte des zweiten Jahrtausends vor Christi Geburt.). Das Bronzezeitalter (Von der Mitte des zweiten Jahrtausends bis zum fünften Jahrhundert vor Christi Geburt.). Das Eisenzeitalter (Vom fünften Jahrhundert vor Christi Geburt bis zur zweiten Hälfte des elften...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 208 p. Every day millions of people enter public buildings of many forms and functions: Notre-Dame in Paris, Grand Central Station in New York, the British Museum in London, that are decorated with recessed doorways. None of them is likely to be aware that this style of decoration has been continuously employed for 6500 years in temples, royal palaces,...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 436 p. Dedicated to the investigation of fortifications as important and integral elements of ancient built space, the present volume results from the activity of the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. Ancient Fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean and is intended as a guide to research on ancient fortifications and a...
Bern und München: Francke Verlag, 1966. — 516 Seiten, 22 Tafeln. Das hier vorgelegte «Handbuch der Urgeschichte» sucht einen Mittelweg zu finden zwischen den vorhandenen kurzen Einführungen und Gesamtkonzeptionen und einem umfänglichen Kompendium oder Lexikon für den Gebrauch des Fachmannes. Dementsprechend wendet es sich vornehmlich an einen Leser, dessen Interesse über einen...
Bern und München: Francke Verlag, 1975. — 863 S. Das hier vorgelegte «Handbuch der Urgeschichte» sucht einen Mittelweg zu finden zwischen den vorhandenen kurzen Einführungen und Gesamtkonzeptionen und einem umfänglichen Kompendium oder Lexikon für den Gebrauch des Fachmannes. Dementsprechend wendet es sich vornehmlich an einen Leser, dessen Interesse über einen derartigen...
Princeton University Press, 2008. 319 p. King Agamemnon’s Capital How Earthquakes Happen History, Myth, and the Reliability of the Written Record Clues to Earthquakes in the Archaeological Record Under the Rubble: Human Casualties of Earthquakes Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Destruction That Preserves? Expanding the Earthquake Record in the Holy Land Earthquake Storms and...
Łódź: Fundacja Badań Archeologicznych Imienia Profesora Konrada Jażdżewskiego, 2018. — 602 s. — ISBN: 978-83-948140-4-5. Wprowadzenie (Piotr Papiernik). Sytuacja geomorfologiczna stanowiska Redecz Krukowy oraz środowiskowe uwarunkowania jego lokalizacji (Jacek Forysiak). Charakterystyka uwarunkowań glebowych oraz interpretacja pedostratygrafii stanowiska archeologicznego...
London, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. — 214 p. — (Harper's Library of Living Thought). The aim of this volume is to enable those who are interested in Stonehenge and other great stone monuments of England to learn something of the similar buildings which exist in different parts of the world, of the men who constructed them, and of the great archaeological system of which...
Hames and Hudson, 2019. — 304 p. An up-to-the-minute account of ten of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in Britain over the past decade. Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten, but our understanding of our past is changing. In the...
Praeger, 2001. — 264 p. Archaeological sites often seem to be idyllic, even romantic, places where scientists recover and analyze fascinating data that can inform us of past times and the past lives of our recent historical and ancient prehistoric human forebears. Too often, however, unrecognized dangers lie within: bacterial and viral infections hidden in the soil, concealed...
Craiova: Sitech, 2012. — 167 p. Asezarea si necropola daco-romana de la Diosti se afla la circa 2,5 km spre nord-est de sat, in punctul Dealul Nucilor. termenul de "deal" este impropriu, dar fata de campia neteda din jur, locul acesta, mai ridicat cu circa 8-9 m, este perceput ca atare de localnici. Vestigiile arheologice de pe Dealul Nucilor au fost mentionate pentru prima...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 494 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–023197–2. Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans arrive and...
Chelsea House, 2011. — 116 p. — (Lost Worlds and Mysterious Civilizations). — ISBN: 978-1-60413-972-3. Easter Island is a true land of mystery. One of the most remotely inhabited places on Earth, this 64-square-mile speck in the South Pacific is more than 1,000 miles from anywhere else, yet Polynesian voyagers managed to settle Easter Island a thousand years ago. No one knows...
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1998. — 202 p. Figures Tables Mind and matter Hominid enculturation Paltolithic origins of artificial memory systems Material artefacts and its symbolism
2nd Edition — Oxbow Books, 2011 — 634 p. Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry (Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology, Brown University), in order to make this landmark publication available once again to the scholarly...
2nd Edition — Oxbow Books, 2011 — 634 p. Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry (Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology, Brown University), in order to make this landmark publication available once again to the scholarly...
T.: TDSHI, 2014. – 140 b. Ushbu o‘quv qo‘llanma Markaziy Osiyo xalqlarining eng qadimgi davridan, ya’ni mintaqada kishilik jamiyatini paydo bo‘lishidan to Arab xalifaligigacha bo‘lgan tarixini o‘z ichiga oladi. Ma’lumki, Markaziy Osiyo insoniyat sivilizatsiyasining eng qadimiy o‘choqlaridan bo‘lib, keyingi yillarda olib borilgan arxeologik va ilmiy tadqiqot izlanishlari buni...
Second (integrated) Edition. — Penguin Books, 1985. — 510 p. — (The Pelican History of Art). — ISBN: 0-14-0560-30-7. Until around 10,000 B.C. art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world, and throws a valuable, if intermittent, light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition...
University of Utah Press, 2017. — 288 p. Although all archaeologists subscribe in principle to building strong cases in support of their inferences, behavioral archaeology alone has created methodology for developing strong cases in practice. The behavioral version of the strong case approach rests on two main pillars: (1) nomothetic (generalizing) strategies, consisting of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 599 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology; 31). — ISBN 9781119055488. A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts. - The most...
Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore – 1985. – 163p. – ISBN: 8876890890. INDICE. Vorwort. Vorbemerkung. Einleitung. Die Minerva-Tempel in Rom. Der Tempel auf dem Aventin (reg. XIII). Das Heiligtum der Minerva Capa (reg. II). Das Heiligtum der Minerva Medica (reg. V). Der Minerva-Tempel auf dem Forum Transitorium (reg. VIII). Der Tempel der Minerva Chalcidica (reg. IX). Atrium...
Routledge, 2004. — 224 p. This edited volume provides a cross-section of the cutting-edge ways in which archaeologists are developing new approaches to their work with communities and other stakeholder groups who have special interest in the uses in the past.
The American University in Cairo Press, 2008. — 424 p. This work contains a detailed survey of the ancient sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea. For thousands of years, Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, however, has also played a crucial - though until now little understood - role in Egyptian history....
Second Edition. - Oxford University Press, 2012. - ISBN 978-0-19-973578-5. (On file pp. 1-180). Since its publication in 1996, the Oxford Companion to Archaeology has firmly established itself as the standard reference work in the field of archaeology, remaining a favorite among students, scholars, and anyone interested in archaeology. In close to 800 entries, the second...
Second Edition. - Oxford University Press, 2012. - ISBN 978-0-19-973578-5. (On file pp. 181-248). Since its publication in 1996, the Oxford Companion to Archaeology has firmly established itself as the standard reference work in the field of archaeology, remaining a favorite among students, scholars, and anyone interested in archaeology. In close to 800 entries, the second...
Second Edition. - Oxford University Press, 2012. - ISBN: 978-0-19-973578-5. (The file contains 126 p.). Since its publication in 1996, the Oxford Companion to Archaeology has firmly established itself as the standard reference work in the field of archaeology, remaining a favorite among students, scholars, and anyone interested in archaeology. In close to 800 entries, the...
With contributions by Alan Greene and Leah Minc. — Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2009. — Pp. XVI + 410; 72 figures, 82 plates, 7 tables. — (Oriental Institute Publications; Volume 134). — ISBN: 978-1-885923-62-2. Until recently, the South Caucasus was a virtual terra incognita on Western archaeological maps of southwest Asia. The conspicuous absence of marked places - of...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 358 p. Part of a resurgence in the comparative study of ancient societies, this book presents a variety of methods and approaches to comparative analysis through the examination of wide-ranging case studies. Each chapter is a comparative study, and the diverse topics and regions covered in the book contribute to the growing understanding of...
Eisenbrauns, 2014. — 344 p. Dr. Seymour Gitin is completing his tenure as Director and Dorot Professor at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Much of his long career has been spent helping young scholars expand their contacts and hone their skills. This volume is a collection of articles by some of the many developing scholars and Albright...
4. Aufl. — Frankfurt a. M.: Verlag von Moritz Diesterweg, 1935. — 122 S. Die Erde im Weltraum. Die Geschichte der Erde. Eiszeitalter (Diluvium). Die Entdeckung des Urmenschen. Zeitalter und Rassen. Die Neandertalrasse. Die Lößrasse von Aurignac. Die Renntierjager (Cro-Magnon-Rasse). Die Kunst der Eiszeit. Religion des Eiszeitmenschen. Rassen der Nacheiszeit. Mittlere Steinzeit....
Linz: Nordico, 2008. — 276 S. — (Linzer Archäologische Forschungen 38/1). — ISBN: 978-85484-437-9. Als der erste Band der Schriftenreihe „Linzer Archäologische Forschungen“ ( = LAF) vor über vier Dezennien herausgegeben wurde – damals bestand zwar nominell ein Museum der Stadt Linz, das jedoch erst 1973 in einem adaptierten Barockhaus, dem sogenannten Nordico, einer einstigen...
Linz: Nordico, 2008. — 276 S. — (Linzer Archäologische Forschungen 38/2). — ISBN: 978-85484-437-9. Als der erste Band der Schriftenreihe „Linzer Archäologische Forschungen“ ( = LAF) vor über vier Dezennien herausgegeben wurde – damals bestand zwar nominell ein Museum der Stadt Linz, das jedoch erst 1973 in einem adaptierten Barockhaus, dem sogenannten Nordico, einer einstigen...
Springer, 2015. — 154 p. This volume provides case studies about successful strategies employed in diverse world areas for the protection of archaeological heritage resources. Some chapters focus on a search for solutions arrived at by diverse groups of people working in specific areas rather than simply describing loss of cultural heritage. Other chapters provide a long-term...
Vilnius: Society of the Lithuanian Archaeology, 2017. — 88 p. Hillforts are the best known and the most beautiful archaeological monuments in Lithuania. Hillforts represent an important part of archaeological legacy in the present and former Baltic lands covering not only Lithuania and Latvia, but also Belarus and parts of Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Several thousand hillforts...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — xviii + 285 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-14338-5. The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 496 p. This is the first of two volumes dealing with the major research excavations on the Chester Amphitheatre in 2004–2006. The amphitheatre was discovered in 1929 and partially excavated in the 1970s, after which the northern half was laid out as a public monument. Subsequent questions about the future of the site and the original interpretation prompted...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 676 p. The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology,...
Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών, 2015, σελ. 256, ISBN: 978-960-603-037-6. Το γνωστικό αντικείμενο της αρχαιολογίας των Ανατολικών Πολιτισμών έχει εισαχθεί σχετικά πρόσφατα στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (2009 κ.ε.) και αποτελεί ένα από τα Υποχρεωτικά Μαθήματα Κατεύθυνσης του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας. Στην Ελληνική βιβλιογραφία είναι ελάχιστα δυστυχώς τα βιβλία...
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