Product Description: Salt is an invisible object for research in archaeology. However, ancient writings, ethnographic studies and the evidence of archaeological exploitation highlight it as an essential reference for humanity. Both an edible product and a crucial element for food preservation, it has been used by the first human settlements as soon as food storage appeared (Neolithic)...read more

Product Description: An Archaeology of Religion challenges traditional conventions by refusing to respect the geographic and temporal boundaries with which archaeologists too often define their field. This book is an ambitious attempt to survey how scholars approach the identification of religious sites and practices in the archaeological record...read more

Product Description: The relationship between archaeology and conservation has long been complex and, at times, challenging. Archaeologists are often seen as interested principally in excavation and research, while conservators are concerned mainly with stabilization and the prevention of deterioration...read more

Product Description: Digging through History follows rabbi and archaeologist Richard Freund's journey through some of the most fascinating archaeological sites of human history—including the mysterious Atlantis, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the long-buried Holocaust camp Sobibor...read more

Product Description: A practical and professional guidebook to in-the-field archaeology, packed with detailed illustrations and information to take you from beginner to advanced level.

For one semester courses in Introductory Archaeology and Prehistory that combine theory and methods.   Ancient Lives is aimed at general courses in archaeology and prehistory that cover archaeological methods and theory, as well as world prehistory. The first half of the book covers the basic principles, methods, and theoretical approaches of archaeology. The second half is devoted to a summary of the major developments of human prehistory: the origins of humankind and the archaic world, the origins and spread of modern humans, the emergence of food production, and the beginnings of civilization. This is a book for complete beginners, written in a narrative style.

Product Description: This title collected papers presented at the Archaeological Leather Group's 'Have We Got a Tannery? The Archaeology of the Skin Processing Industries' Conference.

Product Description: Since its first publication, Field Archaeology: An Introduction has proved to be a key handbook for all those undertaking introductory courses in archaeology or volunteering on their first excavation. In this revised second edition, key developments in technology, theory and changes in the law are included, bringing it up to date with the most recent fieldwork practices...read more

Product Description: How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone, the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology, urges archaeologists to view their discipline as an activist pursuit...read more

Product Description: Place and territoriality have become key archaeological concepts over the last decade or so, and in this volume sixteen essays explore the ways in which place is created and how it reflects and shapes ancient societies. Case studies are mostly prehistoric with a global scope, including the phenomenology of rock art in New South Wales, the use of fire as a ritual marker of place in prehistoric Europe and Papua New Guinea, the design of irrigation systems in Chile, sacred space and heritage in Wisconsin, the transmission of symbols from late Mesolithic material culture to the Neolithic LBK, the siting of holy wells in medieval England, the organisation of space in late Bronze Age and Iron Age Slovenia, the siting of cursus sites, as well as more theoretical papers, which seek to define terminology and are in some cases critical of the way that place and territoriality have previously been used...read more

Product Description: This publication investigates the role of fire in prehistory. Dragos Gheorghiu is professor of cultural anthropology and prehistoric art at National University of Arts, Bucharest. Since 2000 he directed the Vadastra project on experimental archaeology focused on pyrotechnologies...read more

From cold war bunkers to Civil War sieges - Britain is littered with sites of military significance. This book shows the amateur enthusiast how to unlock the drama of a battlefield in his or her own area. It explains how to read a military map and apply it to the ground, how to interpret the clues in the landscape and where to find the evidence.

Describes the efforts of Darryl Greenamyer to salvage a B-29 Superfortress that had crashlanded in Greenland a half century earlier and of other individuals who search for, collect, salvage, and restore vintage World War II aircraft. Reprint.