‎Archeologie‎

‎James W. Jr. Mavor‎

‎Voyage to Atlantis: a Firsthand Account of the Scientific Expedition to Solve the Riddle of the Ages‎

‎Putnam 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good 4 of 10// in Good dustjacket 4 of 10. James W. Jr. Mavor - Voyage to Atlantis: a Firsthand Account of the Scientific Expedition to Solve the Riddle of the Ages. The front fly page and 1/2 tp have been clipped at the top corner. The price has been clipped from the corner of the inside flap of the dustjacket. chips tears to DustJacket edges. Likely to ship in an envelope. FREE Media Mail Shipping! Images available for any item just ask. Any images shown next to the listing that have our www.aCastleofBooks.com watermark on them are the exact item you will receive all other images are for reference only. Free delivery confirmation for domestic orders. Books with Author signatures are guaranteed authentic. We understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging. We stand behind our descriptions 100%. All items will be shipped securely to insure that they arrive in exactly the same condition in which they left. May have small easily erasable pencil markings on first page. Our Packing Slips do not contain any pricing information so you may order items as Gifts or for Dropship without concern. We ship every Monday Wednesday & Friday morning. All items subject to prior sale. Why the odd prices We run a percent discount for our Biblio listings which insures Biblio has our lowest prices online but does give odd change. Putnam hardcover‎

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‎George E. MYLONAS‎

‎Ancient Mycenae. The Capital City of Agamemnon. FIRST UK EDITION IN THE DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957. Roy. 8vo. First UK Edition with a title-vignette and 87 photographs maps and plans in the text some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original brown cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter browned at backstrip. A valuable continuation and update of Schliemann Mylonas' classic text was first delivered as the Page-Barbour Lecture of the University of Virginia for 1955. It was published in 1957 in both US and UK editions. The UK edition is far scarcer especially in anything like this condition. Routledge & Kegan Paul, hardcover‎

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‎American Journal of Archaeology‎

‎AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 38 no. 1-4 complete.‎

‎Concord NH: printed by Rumford Press for the Journal of the Archaeological Institute of America 1938. Mildly ex-library from the Reading Public Museum with call number on spine bookplate on front endpaper and name stamp on rear endpaper no other marks and no signs of use; a bright clean near fine copy in an attractive binding. Pp. 624 numerous photo-plates and text-figures. Early blue ribbed cloth with black leather spine label 4to. The complete issue of this journal for 1938. Concord, NH: printed by Rumford Press for the Journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1938. hardcover‎

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‎The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology Illustrated by Assorted‎

‎THEME ISSUE: Archaeology in New Hampshire‎

‎MI: IA 1994 1994 Illustrated Card Wraps. Fine/NA. 1st. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. SCARCE: 176 pges of photos and stories about buildings and industrial feats in NH. From the Amoskeeg Mills to Old Peppersass on Mt. Washington a real treat for any NH Historical buff. MI: IA, 1994 paperback‎

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‎Max MALLOWAN‎

‎Mallowan's Memoirs. Second Impression. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER‎

‎Collins 1977. 8vo. Second Impression with plates maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published three months after the first impression. Mallowan was an eminent archaeologist and Egyptologist and husband to Agatha Christie Collins, hardcover‎

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‎Geoffrey BIBBY‎

‎The Testimony of the Spade.‎

‎Collins 1957 1956. 8vo. First Edition with 54 plates on 34 and 56 illustrations and 16 maps plans and diagrams a number full-page in the text; cloth gilt back a very good copy in worn and price-clipped dustwrapper. Collins, hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 1225

‎DPTO. DE PREHISTORIA ARQUEOLOGIA‎

‎ALMA LITERA. ESTUDIOS DEDICADOS AL PROFESOR JOSÉ MANUEL RUIZ ASENCIO.‎

‎2014. Paperback. Very Good-New. Rare book paperback‎

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‎Congreso de Arqueologia de Chamartin / Hernandez Sanchez Davidcol. / Lopez Garcia Juan Pablocol.‎

‎Nuevos paradigmas en la investigación arqueológica‎

‎2012. Paperback. Very Good-New. Rare book paperback‎

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‎Encuentro de Arqueologia del Suroeste Peninsular Perez Macias Juan Aurelio‎

‎IV Encuentro de Arqueologia del Suroeste Peninsular : celebrado en Aracena Huelva del 27 al 29 de noviembre de 2008‎

‎2010. dvd_rom. Very Good-New. Rare book unknown‎

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‎Jornadas Tematicas Andaluzas de Arqueologia‎

‎Los castillos‎

‎2006. Paperback. Very Good-New. Rare book paperback‎

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‎Encuentros de Historia y Arqueologia 13. 1997. San Fernando Cadiz‎

‎Economía marítima‎

‎1900. Paperback. Very Good-New. Rare book paperback‎

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‎BUCHANAN REX; BURKE GRIGGS AND JOSHUA SVATY‎

‎Petroglyphs Of The Kansas Smoky Hills‎

‎University Press of Kansas Lawrence: 2019. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Long before the coming of Euro-Americans native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state's Smoky Hills. Though noted by early settlers these carvings are little known�and largely found on private property today they are now rarely seen. In a series of photographs Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills offers viewers a chance to read the story that these carvings tell of the region's first people�and to appreciate an important feature of Kansas history and its landscape that is increasingly threatened by erosion and vandalism. To establish the context critical to understanding these petroglyphs the book includes a number of photographs for each of fourteen sites in central Kansas highlighting individual carvings but also the groups and settings in which they occur. An introduction and captions while respecting the privacy of landowners and the fragility of the carvings document what is known of the petroglyphs how and when they were made and what they can tell us of the early people of Kansas. Rex C. Buchanan a native of central Kansas is the director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas and editor of Kansas Geology and coauthor of Roadside Kansas both from the University Press of Kansas. Burke W. Griggs associate professor of law at Washburn University School of Law is a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and an affiliated scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West both at Stanford University. He has published photography in guidebooks for the western United States including David T. Page's Yosemite and the Southern Sierra Nevada Joshua L. Svaty is the fifth generation of his family to farm in Ellsworth County and has worked on natural resource issues with nonprofits and state and federal government. He was the fourteenth Kansas secretary of agriculture. "The only way to preserve rock art�a finite and fragile cultural resource�is to record it. This book is an important contribution toward that goal. The high-resolution photographs stand alone as valuable updates and additions to the existing archaeological records. Buchanan's narrative style makes science approachable to a broad audience. His commentaries are strong on observing things in context within both the natural landscape and human lifeways. The presentation is respectful to Native Americans not presuming to speak for them or co-opt their heritage and the positive role of private landowners is acknowledged. The strong stewardship message is exemplary." �Virginia Wulfkuhle public archeologist emerita at the Kansas Historical Society and editor of The Kansas Anthropologist "Buchanan Griggs and Svaty provide a valuable contribution to the field documenting through detailed photography and descriptions previously unrecorded Native American petroglyph sites and updating conditions observed at several other previously recorded sites in central Kansas. By elaborating on the geological context of these locations they contribute a unique perspective for further research all the while addressing the cultural and historical aspects of approaches archaeologists have employed in analyzing these prehistoric images. The authors achieve a balance by creating a work that is important to professionals and accessible to the public."�Brian L. ONeill PhD senior research associate / archaeologist University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2019 hardcover‎

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‎Thompson J. Eric S. Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson‎

‎The Rise And Fall Of Maya Civilization‎

‎Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. 4th Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and a couple of small chips missing. "Toward the end of the first season at Lubaantun the site of Pusilha was discovered and Thompson was sent to investigate with his guide Faustino Bol. Thompson's subsequent interactions with his guide who was a Mopan Maya would later shed light on how Thompson viewed the ancient Maya and their culture. As a result of their long conversations Thompson concluded that is "was clear that archaeological excavations were not the only means of learning about the ancient ways." This led to his first monograph Ethnology of the Mayas of Southern and Central British Honduras 1930 which gave insight into the problems of Maya archaeological and epigraphic through the use of ethnographic and ethno-historic data. In 1931 Thompson and Gann teamed up to publish The History of the Maya from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Additionally Thompson started on a new field project at the site of San Jose in Belize. Here his research was focused at an "average" Maya center in which the stratigraphy produced a ceramic sequence from the Preclassic Period to the Terminal Classic Period." from Wikipedia . University of Oklahoma Press hardcover‎

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‎West Yorkshire Archaeology Servic‎

‎Roman Castleford‎

‎West Yorkshire Archaeology Service 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9� - 12" tall. 3 volumes Volume 1 The Small Finds Vol 2 The Structural and Environmental Evidence and Vol 3 The Pottery. Fine copies. Hard covers illustrated. Each 30.5 x 21.5 cms. Price for the set. <br/> <br/> West Yorkshire Archaeology Service hardcover‎

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‎PAPADOPOULOS JOHN K. & URTON GARY‎

‎The Construction Of Value In The Ancient World‎

‎Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists archaeologists historians linguists philologists and sociologists on how value was created defined and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value body value object value and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials objects people places and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record Taken as a whole the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes desires sentiments and attitudes that inform the ways people select or give priority to one thing over another. John K. Papadoupoulos is professor of classics and archaeology at the University of California Los Angeles. Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies in the archaeology program of the department of anthropology at Harvard University. 7 x 10 in. 58 color plates 115 figures 11 tables. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press hardcover‎

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‎SCOTT DOUGLAS D.; REECE BOB FOREWORD‎

‎Uncovering History: Archaeological Investigations At The Little Bighorn‎

‎University of Oklahoma Press Norman: . Softcover. Brand new book. Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades however before researchers began to tease information from the battle's debris�and the new field of battlefield archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings. Artifacts found on a field of battle and removed without context or care are just relics curiosities that arouse romantic imagination. When investigators recover these artifacts in a systematic manner though these items become a valuable source of clues for reconstructing battle events. Here Scott describes how detailed analysis of specific detritus at the Little Bighorn�such as cartridge cases fragments of camping equipment and clothing and skeletal remains�have allowed researchers to reconstruct and reinterpret the history of the conflict. In the process he demonstrates how major advances in technology such as metal detection and GPS have expanded the capabilities of battlefield archaeologists to uncover new evidence and analyze it with greater accuracy. Through his broad survey of Little Bighorn archaeology across a span of 130 years Scott expands our understanding of the battle its protagonists and the enduring legacy of the battlefield as a national memorial. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: hardcover‎

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‎Archaeopress Archaeology‎

‎Innovative Approaches and Explorations in Ceramic Studies‎

‎2018-02-28. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

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‎Archaeopress Archaeology‎

‎The Archaeology of Time Travel: Experiencing the Past in the 21st Century‎

‎2017-09-14. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

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‎PEEPLES MATTHEW A‎

‎Connected Communities: Networks Identity And Social Change In The Ancient Cibola World‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson: 2018. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The Cibola region on the Arizona-New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for more than a century. The region's core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the contemporary Zuni people and the area also spans boundaries between the Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon culture areas. The complexity of cross-cutting regional and cultural designations makes this an ideal context within which to explore the relationship between identity and social change at broad regional scales. In Connected Communities Matthew A. Peeples examines a period of dramatic social and political transformation in the ancient Cibola region ca. A.D. 1150-1325. He analyzes archaeological data generated during a century of research through the lens of new and original social theories and methods focused on exploring identity social networks and social transformation. In so doing he demonstrates the value of comparative synthetic analysis. The book addresses some of the oldest enduring questions in archaeology: How do large-scale social identities form How do they change How can we study such processes using material remains Peeples approaches these questions using a new set of methods and models from the broader comparative social sciences relational sociology and social networks to track the trajectories of social groups in terms of both networks of interactions relations and expressions of similarity or difference categories. He argues that archaeological research has too often conflated these different kinds of social identity and that this has hindered efforts to understand the drivers of social change. Matthew A. Peeples is an assistant professor of anthropology and the research director of the Center for Archaeology and Society in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. In his strikingly original approach Peeples combines massive amounts of new data and comparative explorations of contemporary social movements to provide new insights into how social identities formed and changed during this key period. "Peeples one of the brightest emerging scholars in archaeology examines decades of high-quality archaeological research in the Cibola region through a new and original use of theories of identity social networks and social transformation demonstrating the added value of comparative synthetic analysis."�Judith A. Habicht Mauche University of California Santa Cruz "Network thinking is one of the most exciting recent developments in archaeology and nowhere has it been more productively applied than in the U.S. Southwest. Here Peeples continues this emergent tradition with a most impressive book-length treatment that every archaeologist interested in social networks will want to read."�Carl Knappett University of Toronto "A major contribution to Southwest archaeology theories of identity and network analysis. Peeples uses multiple ways of connecting people in the past including artifacts and architecture to show the layered nature of relationships."�Barbara J. Mills University of Arizona University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2018 hardcover‎

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‎TSUKAMOTO KENICHIRO & TAKESHI INOMATA EDITORS‎

‎Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas Of Community And Power‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson: 2014. Softcover. Brand new book. Until now archaeological and historical studies of Mesoamerican plazas have been scarce compared to studies of the surrounding monumental architecture such as pyramidal temples and palaces. Many scholars have assumed that ancient Mesoamericans invested their labor wealth and symbolic value in pyramids and other prominent buildings viewing plazas as by-products of these buildings. Even when researchers have recognized the potential significance of plazas they have thought that plazas as vacant spaces could offer few clues about their cultural and political roles. Mesoamerican Plazas challenges both of these assumptions. The primary question that has motivated the contributors is how Mesoamerican plazas became arenas for the creation and negotiation of social relations and values in a community. The thirteen contributions stress the significance of interplay between power relations and embodied practices set in specific historical and material settings as outlined by practice theory and performance theory. This approach allows the contributors to explore broader anthropological issues such as the negotiation of power relations community making and the constitution of political authorities. Overall the contributions establish that physical interactions among people in communal events were not the outcomes of political machinations held behind the scenes but were the actual political processes through which people created negotiated and subverted social realities. If so spacious plazas that were arguably designed for interactions among a large number of individuals must have also provided critical arenas for the constitution and transformation of society. 272 Pages 7 x 10 Paperback. Kenichiro Tsukamoto is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is co-director of the El Palmar Archaeological Project. His project has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation National Geographic Society and American Philosophical Society. Takeshi Inomata is a professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is the author of several books including Burned Palaces and Elite Residences of Aguateca: Excavations and Ceramics. "A fascinating volume. . . . well illustrated and written Mesoamerican Plazas successfully establishes the outline of current research as well as the challenges for a new generation of fieldwork."�American Archaeology "This is an excellent book on a topic that although widely discussed in Mesoamerican archaeology has never been investigated to any considerable depth."�Choice "The growing community of scholars studying Mesoamerican plazas will welcome this book as important on both theoretical and methodological levels. The authors of Mesoamerican Plazas build a solid theoretical basis for plaza studies establishing their importance in the political lives of communities."�Journal of Field University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2014 paperback‎

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‎THOMSEN CHRISTIAN JURGENSEN. ESTABLISHING SCIENTIFIC ARCHAEOLOGY‎

‎Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed udgiven af det kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab.‎

‎Kj�benhavn Copenhagen: S.L. M�llers Bogtrykkeri 1836. 8vo. Slightly worn contemporary half calf. Wear to upper capital. Previous owner's signature to front free end-paper. Minor brownspotting to titlepage and the last few leaves otherwise a nice and clean copy. Illustrated. 4 100 pp. � Scarce first edition of this milestone publication which laid the foundation of modern archaeology and transformed it into an exact science. With this seminal publication Thomsen was the first to establish an evidence-based division of prehistory into discrete periods and with it he became the originator of the three-age system the division into Stone Age - Bronze Age - Iron Age which is "the basic chronology that now underpins the archaeology of most of the Old World" Rowley-Conwy: From Genesis to Prehistory p.1. This foundational work altered our understanding of our world and our place in it and contains the first use of "culture" in an archaeological context.<br><br>"Christian J�rgensen Thomsen born Dec. 29 1788 Copenhagen Den.-died May 21 1865 Copenhagen Danish archaeologist who deserves major credit for developing the three-part system of prehistory naming the Stone Bronze and Iron ages for the successive stages of man's technological development in Europe. His tripartite scheme brought the first semblance of order to prehistory and formed the basis for chronological schemes developed for other areas of the globe by succeeding generations of archaeologists." Encycl. Britt.<br><br>Up until the beginning of the 19th century our understanding of antiquities had been very loose and fumbling. Studying the artifacts earlier archaeologists had used a great deal of imagination especially when adapting information from written sources to the objects. Only when Thomsen enters the scene this approach changes. He is the first to focus the investigation upon the artifacts themselves. Quickly realizing that this approach must be the only way forward he soon distinguished clearly between objects both similar and different and established what belonged together in time and where there were chronological differences. He was among the first to differentiate between history that could be studied through written sources and prehistory which could only be studied through material culture. He realized - as the first - that in order to interpret findings of prehistoric objects one would have to know their source and the context in which they were found - thus establishing the foundation for modern excavation technique. He trained the great archaeologist J.J.A. Worsaae and sent him on excavation expeditions to acquire artifacts for ethnographic museum that he had founded and thus also founded Danish archaeology. <br><br>Thomsen was the first to perceive typologies of grave goods grave types methods of burial pottery and decorative motifs and to assign these types to layers found in excavation thus combining our different sources of knowledge to establish certainty. <br><br>When in 1836 the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries published Thomsen's illustrated contribution to "Guide to Scandinavian Archaeology" i.e. the present publication in which he put forth his chronology for the first time together with comments about typology and stratigraphy Thomsen already had an international reputation. But this publication gave him more than that - it made him the founder of modern archaeology and arguably the most influential archaeologist of all times. <br> <br>In 1816 Thomsen had been appointed head of "antiquarian" collections which later developed into the National Museum of Denmark. It was while organizing and classifying the antiquities for exhibition that he discovered how much more sense it would make to present them chronologically and so he did using what is now known as the "three-age system". Proposing that prehistory had advanced from an age of stone tools to ages of tools made from bronze and iron was not in itself a novel idea but no previous proposals allowed for the dating of artifacts which Thomsen's system did for the first time and they were all presented as systems of evolution. Refining the idea of stone-bronze-iron phases Thomsen turned it into a chronological system by seeing which artifacts occurred with which other artifacts in closed finds. In this way he was the first to establish an evidence-based division of prehistory into discrete periods. It is this seminal achievement that led to his being credited as the originator of the three-age system.<br><br>He provided for the first time a solid empirical basis for the system that ever since the present publication has laid at the foot of all archaeological research. He showed that artifacts could be classified into types and that these types varied over time in ways that correlated with the predominance of stone bronze or iron implements and weapons. In this way he turned the Three-age System from being an evolutionary scheme based on intuition and general knowledge into a system of relative chronology supported by archaeological evidence.<br><br>"His published and personal advice to Danish archaeologists concerning the best methods of excavation produced immediate results that not only verified his system empirically but placed Denmark in the forefront of European archaeology for at least a generation. He became a national authority when C.C Rafn secretary of the Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab "Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries" published his principal manuscript in "Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed" "Guide to Scandinavian Archaeology" in 1836."<br><br>This groundbreaking publication was immediately translated into German published the following year 1837 in which form it reached a wide audience influencing the archaeologists of all of Europe. In 1848 it was published in English and became highly influential on the development of archaeology theory and practice in Great Britain and the United States.<br><br>In 1849 Thomsen founded the world's first ethnografic museum which continued to contribute significantly to the development of modern archaeology.<br><br>"Throughout the course of the nineteenth century growing amounts of archaeological material were being recovered as the vastly expanding engineering activities of the Industrial Revolution were transforming Central and Western Europe into the "workshop of the world." Indeed much of the popular appeal of archaeology in early Victorian times lay in its seeming demonstration that this contemporary technological advancement which both intrigued and delighted the middle classes was no mere accident but the acceleration of a tendency for "progress" which was innate in humankind. This evidence that cultural evolution as opposed to degeneration from an original state of grace had been a significant feature of human history made archaeology pre-eminently a science of progress. Within the context of the history of the discipline however the birth of this "scientific archaeology" as distinct from the antiquarianism of earlier times is generally associated with the unfolding of the "Three Age System" and the pioneering work of C.J. Thomsen.<br>While in the past a few archaeologists had attempted to subdivide prehistoric materials into various temporal segments it was Thomsen who first envisaged and applied on the basis of archaeological evidence a systematic classification of antiquities according to the criteria of material use and form which could be correlated with a sequence of temporal periods: the Ages of Stone Bronze and Iron familiar to every student of archaeology for the last hundred years. <br>The novelty of this approach however did not lie in the concept of technological development gleaned from his familiarity with the conjectural history of the Enlightenment or in his assumption of a sequence of Stone Bronze or Iron Ages itself a variation of Lucretius' popular model. Rather it lay in his employment of "seriational principles" acquired from his extensive knowledge of numismatics which he used to combine evidence concerning technology grave goods along with the shape and decoration of various artefacts into an internally consistent developmental sequence. Though Thomsen's Museum of Northern Antiquities in Denmark had arranged its collection of artefacts in accordance with this new system as early as 1819 the first written account of his research was not set out in print until the "Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed" "Guide Book to Northern/Nordic Antiquities" was published in 1836. <br>While prior to Thomsen's work thinking about antiquities in both Europe and the United States bas both intellectually fragmented and essentially speculative the publication of the "Ledetraad" and its translation into German a year later unified archaeological studies by providing scholars with an exemplar or "paradigm". For while previously antiquarians and indeed classical archaeologists who were interested in what are now recognized to be prehistoric remains tended to look to written records and/or oral traditions to provide a historical context for their finds it was Thomsen who liberated archaeologists from this restrictive assumption through the creation of a carefully controlled chronology which allowed for the comprehensive study of those periods in history for which NO written records were available. In the second half of the nineteenth century Thomsen's system established itself as THE system as his basic classification of artefacts arranged in periods by virtue of an analogy with the form and function of tools in his own day was modified an elaborated upon by among others Worsaae de Mortillet and John Lubbock." D.A. Nestor: Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity pp. 46-48. unknown‎

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‎LONGACRE WILLIAM A. EDITOR‎

‎Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson: 2016. Softcover. Brand new book. Ethnoarchaeology the study of material culture in a living society by archaeologists facilitates the extraction of information from prehistoric materials as well. Studies of contemporary pottery-making were initiated in the southwestern United States toward the end of the nineteenth century then abandoned as a result of changes in archaeological theory. Now a resurgence in ethnoarchaeology over the past twenty-five years offers a new set of directions for the discipline. This volume presents the results of such work with pottery a class of materials that occurs abundantly in many archaeological sites. Drawing on projects undertaken around the world in the Phillipines East Africa Mesoamerica India in both traditional and complex societies the contributors focus on identifying social and behavioral sources of ceramic variation to show how analogical reasoning is fundamental to archaeological interpretation. As the number of pottery-making societies declines opportunities for such research must be seized. By bringing together a variety of ceramic ethnoarchaeological analyses this volume offers the profession a much-needed touchstone on method and theory for the study of pottery-making among living peoples. William A. Longacre was a prominent archaeologist and the former head of the University of Arizona's anthropology department. He passed away in 2015. University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2016 paperback‎

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‎JENNINGS JUSTIN‎

‎Killing Civilization: A Reassessment Of Early Urbanism And Its Consequences‎

‎University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a "civilization bias" shapes academic explanations of urbanization colonization state formation and cultural horizons. Earlier theorists have criticized the concept but according to Jennings the critics remain beholden to it as a way of making sense of a dizzying landscape of cultural variation. Relying on the idea of civilization he suggests holds back understanding of the development of complex societies. Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences using excavation and survey data from atalh�y�k Cahokia Harappa Jenne-jeno Tiahuanaco and Monte Alban to create a more accurate picture of the turbulent social political and economic conditions in and around the earliest cities. The book will influence not just anthropology but all of the social sciences. 6 x 9 in. 376 pages 30 halftones 11 maps 4 charts. Justin Jennings is the curator of New World archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. His recent books include Beyond Wari Walls: Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru UNM Press Tenahaha and the Wari State: A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley and Globalizations and the Ancient World. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque hardcover‎

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‎WENDRICH WILLEKE EDITOR‎

‎Archaeology And Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge Identity And Communities Of Practice‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson: 2013. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Archaeologists study a wide array of material remains to propose conclusions about non-material aspects of culture. The intricacies of these findings have increased over recent decades but only limited attention has been paid to what the archaeological record can tell us about the transfer of cultural knowledge through apprenticeship. Apprenticeship is broadly defined as the transmission of culture through a formal or informal teacher-pupil relationship. This collection invites a wide discussion citing case studies from all over the world and yet focuses the scholarship into a concise set of contributions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how archaeology can benefit greatly from the understanding of the social dimensions of knowledge transfer. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature to enrich the understanding of the relationship between material remains and enculturation. Each of the authors in this collection looks specifically at how material remains can reveal several specific aspects of ancient cultures: What is the human potential for learning How do people learn Who is teaching Why are they learning What are the results of such learning How do we recognize knowledge transfer in the archaeological record These fundamental questions are featured in various forms in all chapters of the book. With case studies from the American Southwest Alaska Egypt Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia this book will have broad appeal for scholars�particularly those concerned with cultural transmission and traditions of learning and education�all over the world. Archaeology and Apprenticeship Willeke Wendrich is a professor of Egyptian archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. She is the editor of Egyptian Archaeology and the online resource UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2013 hardcover‎

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‎POTTER JAMES M‎

‎Animas - La Plata Project Volume-xvi Bioarchaeology‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson: 2010. Softcover. Brand new book. This volume of the Animas-La Plata series SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10 contains nineteen chapters and two appendixes that summarize the results of the Animas-La Plata ALP Project. This volume has four objectives. The first is to address the research questions posed in the research design. The second is to provide a stand-alone summary of the project results for the scientific community and other interested readers. Third this volume summarizes the conclusions of other ALP project reports and directs the reader to those reports for additional more detailed information on specific research topics. The final goal is to present new ideas and insights concerning the archaeological record of the project area based on the new information generated by the project. University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2010 paperback‎

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