London: Faber and Faber, 1956. — 245 p. Archaeology, the science by which we learn how men lived in the distant past by studying the relics they left behind them, is a subject that interests young and old at the present time. Yet not much more than a century ago only a handful of enthusiasts cared in the very least what the world had been like before the days of written...
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. — 293 p. This book is, to all intents and purposes, a continuation of the author’s Digging for History , which appeared in 1960 and which surveyed, however imperfectly, the highlights of whatever had been known to have been done in the field of archaeology between the end of the 1939-45 War and, approximately, 1959. Much of the material was...
New York: The John Day Company, 1961. — 318 p. In this book Edward Bacon, who for many years has been responsible for the famous archaeological features of The Illustrated London News , describes the excavations and findings of archaeologists all over the world from 1945 through 1959. The principal and most interesting discoveries are examined in detail, others are more briefly...
Routledge, 2014. — 288 p. The History of Archaeology: An Introduction provides global coverage with chapters devoted to particular regions of the world. The regional approach allows readers to understand the similarities and differences in the history of and approach to archaeology in various parts of the world. Each chapter is written by a specialist scholar with experience of...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 386 p. — ISBN: 0-521-45498-0. Throughout recorded history, humans have displayed keen interest in their own ancient past, collecting and classifying material evidence of long-dead cultures. In modern times archaeology has aspired to become a scientific discipline, pursued by professionals and amateurs alike, and our archive of remains from...
Fonthill Media, 2016. — 256 p. During the 1930s, in the build up to the Second World War, the Nazis established a band of specialists, the SS-Ahnenerbe, under the command of Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Wirth. Their aim was nothing less than to prove the superiority of the Aryan race, and with it the unique right of the German people to rule Europe. The occult figured as a key...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. — 308 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-06554-1. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks and Romans seemed to speak directly to him - not from books but from the physical ruins and inscriptions that lay neglected around the shores of the...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. — 313 p. "Jean Capart, lecturing in America in 1924, expressed his surprise that no one had ever written a book entitled Golden Deeds of Egyptian Excavators , a book that would tell the story of archaeological discoveries in Egypt over the previous century or more. It would make, he thought, a romantic and exciting detective story....
Routledge, 2014. — 266 p. To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both a retrospective and a prospective look at the topic of repatriation. By juxtaposing the divergent views of native peoples, anthropologists, museum...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 424 p. Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and movies like Indiana Jones or The Mummy . This fantastical image has little to do with day-to-day science, yet it is deeply connected to why people are fascinated by the...
New York: Schocken Books, 1973. — 434 p. — ISBN: 0-8052-0374-5. Here is a major documentary history of archaeology by the author of Gods, Graves and Scholars . In collecting the writings of major archaeologists, he not only offers a compendium of significant scientific finds — described in the words of the discoverers — but captures the high adventure involved in more than a...
The Story of Archeology. Second, Revised and Substantially Enlarged Edition. London: Book Club Associates, 1978. - 502 c. Translation from German: Garside E.B., Winkins Sophie Scan 600 dpi The book was originally published in 1949 and has been translated into 26 languages. A terrific introductory look at archeology for those wanting to explore other epochs and achievements in...
The Story of Archeology. Second, Revised and Substantially Enlarged Edition. London: Book Club Associates, 1978. - 502 c. Translation from German: Garside E.B., Winkins Sophie Scan 600 dpi The book was originally published in 1949 and has been translated into 26 languages. A terrific introductory look at archeology for those wanting to explore other epochs and achievements in...
Second Revised and Substantially Enlarged Edition. Translated from the German by E. B. Garside and Sophie Wilkins. — Bantam Books, 1972. — 515 p. — ISBN: 0-553-14268-2. Gods, Graves and Scholars tells the incredible story of science's quest for our mysterious, buried past. As you open the pages of this unique classic adventure — read by millions in 26 languages — you will set...
Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. — New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. — xviii + 326 + vi. "This picture book was planned in conjunction with my first book on the history of archaeology, Gods, Graves, and Scholars . To my surprise, I discovered that although there were any number of picture books which show the riches of past civilizations as revealed by...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — x + 176 p. — ISBN: 0-521-35031-X. Grahame Clark's book examines the development of prehistoric archaeology at Cambridge and the achievements of its graduates, placing this theme against the background of the growth of archaeology as an academic discipline worldwide. Prehistory in Cambridge began to be taught formally in 1920 and emerged as a...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 480 P. From the bestselling author of "1177 B.C.", a comprehensive history of archaeology - from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today. In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 480 p. From the bestselling author of "1177 B.C.", a comprehensive history of archaeology - from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today. In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the...
University of Michigan Press, 2004. — 616 p. This book presents twelve fascinating women whose contributions to the development and progress of Old World archaeology - in an area ranging from Italy to Mesopotamia - have been immeasurable. Each essay in this collection examines the life of a pioneer archaeologist in the early days of the discipline, tracing her path from...
New York City: Galahad Books, 1967. — 298 p. — ISBN: 0-88365-209-9. During approximately the last three centuries archaeology has evolved from treasure hunting and the quaint speculations of antiquarians into a meticulous discipline, absorbing techniques from other sciences in order to abstract the maximum of information from the least fragment of evidence. In this anthology of...
Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2008. — 280 p. — (Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London). — ISBN: 978-1-59874-325-8. Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. In the first full-length biography of Kenyon, Miriam Davis recounts not only...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology). — ISBN10: 0199217173ISBN13: 978-0199217175 Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world. The development of archaeology is placed within...
Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Educational, 1997. — 110 p. — (100 Greatest). — ISBN: 0-7172-7690-2. Brief presentations of one hundred famous archaeological sites and discoveries, including dinosaurs, the first humans, early civilzations, ending with the wreck of the Amsterdam in 1750.
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 96 p. J. P. Droop (1882-1963) was a classical field archaeologist. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1904 he worked as a field archaeologist for the British School at Athens, and was appointed Chair of Classical Archaeology at Liverpool University in 1914. This volume was intended as a guide to practical archaeological...
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1995. — 522 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods. Here Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 392 p. In Incidental Archaeologists , Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the...
Thames & Hudson, 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-500-05149-8. New archaeological treasures and finds that reshape our view of the past, recounted by the discoverers themselves. An unprecedented look inside contemporary archaeology, Discovery! reveals the most exciting, significant, and astonishing finds from the last fifteen years. Many of the book's contributions are written by...
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. — 493 p. — ISBN 0-19-508141-2. Archaeology has an aura of romance and a long history of startling discoveries wrested from clinging soil. Indeed, patience and persistence can lead to spectacular finds, as they did for Howard Carter in November 1922. After seven years searching the Egyptian desert, Carter discovered the tomb of...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 288 p. — (Little History). — ISBN: 9780300224641. The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe. What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art....
Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc., 1988. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-88133-344-1. This revised second edition maintains the objective of the first edition; that is to tell the story of some well-known archaeologists & some remarkable excavations as well as to throw light on some of the ways in which the founders of the discipline unearthed early civilizations, probed the...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 271 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-65707-6. This short account of the discipline of archaeology tells of spectacular discoveries and the colorful lives of the archaeologists who made them, as well as of changing theories and current debates in the field. Spanning more than two thousand years of history, the book details early digs as well as covering...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 192 p. — (Oxford profiles). — ISBN: 0-19-511946-0. Including eccentric professors and adventuring fortune hunters of old and highly trained scientists of today, Archaeologists collects together biographies of more than 30 archaeologists of the past two centuries. In the process, Archaeologists presents an engaging portrait of how digging for...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. — xiv+369 p. — ISBN: 0-684-15124-3. From the time of the conquistadores until the 1900s, archaeology in the Americas witnessed an era of unbridled speculation, frenzied excavations, and conflicting attitudes toward the Indians. Elusive Treasure describes the major controversies surrounding such varied topics as the Spaniards’ treatment...
University of New Mexico Press, 2012. — 544 p. For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the "last explorer" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the...
Frankfurt am Main et al: Peter Lang GmbH, 2000. — 432 p. — (Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel; Bd. 7). — ISBN: 3-631-36707-4. Germany held centre stage in the political turmoils of Europe in the 20 th century, and it is also one of the major countries in European archaeology. What is the role of archaeology in this historical drama? How has prehistory intertwined with...
A Touchstone Book Published by Simon and Schuster, 1975. — 614 p. — SBN 671-22033-0. This now-famous anthology of the history of archaeology, first published in 1963, is here available in paperback for the first time. Here are some of the world's great archaeological discoveries in the words of those who made or interpreted them. Here are the wonder and excitement of the modern...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1959. — 177 p. The story of archaeology is as exciting as any detective mystery tale, secrets in the dust covers the dramatic archaeological finds — amazing cave paintings, the fabulous tombs of Egypt and Mesopotamia, proof of the romantic legend of King Minos and the Minotaur. It tells of lost civilizations of Central America, the accidental...
Routledge, 1999. — 352 p. The Archaeology of Britain is the only concise and up-to-date introduction to the archaeological record of Britain from the reoccupation of the landmass by Homo sapiens during the later stages of the most recent Ice Age until last century. This fully revised second edition extends its coverage, including greater detail on the first millennium AD beyond...
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2002. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0-7607-3082-2. - A journey through the legacy of the great civilizations ol the world, including the Bronze Age, Early Chinese and African archaeology, the empires of Greece and Rome, the Vikings in North America, and the Aztets and Incas ol South America. - Key facts and dates extracted tor easy reference. - Features on...
Skyhorse, 2013. — 528 p. In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh. Nineveh was one of the greatest cities of its time and was an important religious center around 3000 BC. However, the city was sacked in...
Skyhorse, 2013. — 528 p. In the middle of the nineteenth century, British archeologist Austen Henry Layard uncovered parts of several ancient Assyrian cities buried beneath the earth, including the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nineveh. Nineveh was one of the greatest cities of its time and was an important religious center around 3000 BC. However, the city was sacked in...
Springer, 1997. — 272 p. This engaging work describes one of the most important times in the history of American archaeology... The writing and editing are excellent; arguments are presented clearly, concisely, and completely... The material will be of most interest to serious students of archaeological interpretation. Upper-division undergraduates and above. — Choice, February...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 500 p. In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in the history of the discipline of archaeology. Local, national, and international histories of archaeology that deal with institutions, concepts, categories, and the social and political contexts of archaeological practice have begun to influence the development of archaeological...
ABC / Clio, 2007. — 682 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85109-645-9. The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods--Birth of Archaeology (16th-18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An introductory essay...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 480 p. "Finding Time for the Old Stone Age" explores a century of colorful debate over the age of our earliest ancestors. In the mid nineteenth century curious stone implements were found alongside the bones of extinct animals. Humans were evidently more ancient than had been supposed--but just how old were they? There were several clocks for...
University of New Mexico Press, 2007. — 312 p. When Don Patterson's twenty-seven-year-old daughter turned to him for advice about her professional future, Patterson in turn reflected on his almost thirty-year experience working on major archaeological sites in Mexico and Central America. His autobiographical account examines his professional journey, the people and institutions...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 362 p. — (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology). — ISBN 978–0–19–922774–7. We are now familiar with the Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This division, which amounted at the time to a major scientific revolution, was conceived in Denmark in the 1830s. Peter...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. — 256 p. Gauging the impact of one scholar’s contributions to modern archaeology For an appreciation of the growth of American archaeology over the second half of the twentieth century, one need look no further than the career of Gordon R. Willey. A preeminent archaeologist and New World theorist, Willey made innumerable contributions to the...
Rand McNally and Company, 1960. — 224 p. Archaeology deals with the dead, but it is itself very much alive. It has made great contributions to medicine, astronomy, literature, painting, sculpture, and to the study of language, and has in turn received much from them. Nowadays archaeologists must know chemistry and physics, as well as other physical and biological sciences. From...
New York: The Dial Press, 1964. — 402 p. Egypt, Troy, Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, Nippur, Copán — who is not lured by the fabled civilizations of the ancient world? And who has not wanted to accompany those remarkable archaeologists whose skill, imagination, and perseverance unearthed ruined cities and opened long-forgotten monumental tombs? Here, in one superbly readable volume, ten...
Springer Science+Business Media, 1994. — XIV, 234 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4899-0957-2. In this unique volume, twelve pioneers of historical archaeology offer reminiscences of the early part of their respective careers, circa 1920 to 1940. Each scholar had to overcome numerous biases held by historians and archaeologists-thus each chapter documents a step in the field's march from a...
University College London Press, 2019. — 270 p. Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient Egypt’s first rulers at Abydos,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 336 p. "Creating Prehistory" deals even–handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars. - Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the inter–war period - Brings to life many fascinating and controversial personalities and their...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1962. — 118 p. "I have selected for inclusion in this book the discoveries that seem to me to have had the most significance for the world as a whole, in terms of expanding our knowledge about the important periods of human history in the major continents. The first discovery to be discussed in this book is perhaps one of the most...
Basic Books, 2001. — 368 p. The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods...
Routledge, 2004. — 275 p. — ISBN: 0-415-27156-8. Archaeologists have long recognised that they study past worlds which may be quite unlike our own. But how are we to cope with the difference of the past if our own circumstances are unique within human history? What if archaeology itself depends on ways of thinking that are specific to the modern Western world? This is the first...
London: UCL Press, 2018. — 306 p. — ISBN 978–1–78735–259–9. Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 710 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-84076-7. In its original edition, Bruce Trigger’s book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in worldwide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 239 p. Bruce Trigger's new book is the first ever to examine the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting...
2 a Edição. — Editora Odysseus, 2004. — 629 p. — ISBN: 978-8578760175. Publicado em 1989 e várias vezes reimpresso, este livro de Bruce G. Trigger não é apenas uma recensão crítica da história da Arqueologia como uma disciplina. Mais do que isto, o autor oferece uma contribuição significativa sobre a natureza da Arqueologia, acrescentando sua própria opinião em relação a outros...
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1974. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0-7167-0267-3. "American archaeology - as all archaeology - is now in a phase of critical self-appraisal. Recent innovations in method and theory have aroused interest and argument in a way that has never occurred before within the discipline. This is the occasion, we believe, for a review of the full course of...
First published by The Oxford University Press, 1920. Re-issued with two additional chapters. — Jonathan Cape, 1932. — (The Life and Letter Series; No. 29). — 308 + 18 p. Dead Towns and Living Men describes the training that goes to make a fully equipped archaeologist, the sort of places, usually far away from the beaten track, that he lives in, and the sort of men, usually...
Routledge, 2010. — 282 p. Now in present day Iraq, Ur was a city that rose from the 'Mounds of Pitch' half way between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, ten miles west of the Euphrates. Sir Leonard Woolley documents his experience as leader of the great expedition that carried on without interruption until 1934. Before its closure, this significant archaeological dig on the part of...
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