Exploring Archaeology

Author : James Bayman,Miriam T. Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049995643

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Exploring the Past by James Bayman,Miriam T. Stark Pdf

This collection of readings on anthropological archaeology draws from academic and popular venues to introduce university students to the rapidly changing character of this dynamic field. Selections represent the broad array of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives of archaeology as it enters the 21st century. Exploring the Past is divided into topical sections that define archaeology, identify its goals and purpose, trace its origins, and discuss the relevance of archaeology to contemporary society as it seeks to interpret humanity's past. Bayman and Stark illustrate how archaeological concepts and methods are practically applied, from site discovery through excavation, artifact analysis, and publication. Each major section of readings is prefaced with discussion that orients students to the issue at hand, and each section is followed by an inclusive, synthetic commentary. These commentaries critically evaluate the merits of differing viewpoints and seek to forecast upcoming developments in the field in light of current trends. Exploring the Past addresses the current controversy over cultural patrimony and alerts the student of archaeology to the acceleration of site destruction in the wake of economic development. Lavishly illustrated, Exploring the Past presents the student with several case studies to illustrate key methods and theoretical perspectives employed by archaeologists to document and explain past lifeways.

Author : Patricia Galloway,Evan Peacock
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626746893

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Exploring Southeastern Archaeology by Patricia Galloway,Evan Peacock Pdf

This volume includes original scholarship on a wide array of current archaeological research across the South. One essay explores the effects of climate on early cultures in Mississippi. Contributors reveal the production and distribution of stone effigy beads, which were centered in southwest Mississippi some 5,000 years ago, and trace contact between different parts of the prehistoric Southeast as seen in the distribution of clay cooking balls. Researchers explore small, enigmatic sites in the hill country of northern Mississippi now marked by scatters of broken pottery and a large, seemingly isolated "platform" mound in Calhoun County. Pieces describe a mound group in Chickasaw County built by early agriculturalists who subsequently abandoned the area and a similar prehistoric abandonment event in Winston and Choctaw Counties. A large pottery collection from the famous Anna Mounds site in Adams County, excavations at a Chickasaw Indian site in Lee County, camps and works of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the pine hill country of southern Mississippi, and the history of logging in the Mississippi Delta all yield abundant, new understandings of the past. Overview papers include a retrospective on archaeology in the National Forests of north Mississippi, a new look at a number of mound sites in the lower Mississippi Delta, and a study of how communities of learning in field archaeology are built, with prominent archaeologist Samuel O. Brookes's achievements as a focal point. History buffs, artifact enthusiasts, students, and professionals all will find something of interest in this book, which opens new doors on the prehistory and history of Mississippi.

Author : Deborah L. Swartz,William H. Doelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 1886398216

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Archaeology in the Mountain Shadows by Deborah L. Swartz,William H. Doelle Pdf

Author : Gaynor Aaltonen
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781398809949

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Archaeology by Gaynor Aaltonen Pdf

Spanning multiple eras across the entire globe, this accessible book provides wonderful introduction to archaeology and the discoveries which have changed our world. Piece by painstaking piece, archaeology has helped us to rewrite the history of Homo sapiens. Gaynor Aaltonen digs deep into major expeditions and the artifacts they uncovered, from the forgotten Anasazi empire of the American southwest to the discovery of King Richard III's remains beneath a Leicester car park. Topics include: • Submerged cities, from Jamaica's Port Royal to Italy's Bacoli. • Technological advancements such as carbon dating • Native American structures including "Montezuma Castle" • Mayan and Aztec city-states This book provides an expansive overview of human history, told through the materials we have left behind.

Author : Pam Crabtree,Douglas Campana
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0072978147

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Exploring Prehistory: How Archaeology Reveals Our Past by Pam Crabtree,Douglas Campana Pdf

This new introduction to archaeology integrates world prehistory with discussion of archeological methods and techniques. It introduces archaeological methods gradually and in context through the use of Archaeology in Practice boxes which give students a more complete understanding of the tools archaeologists use to uncover the past and the reasons why they use those tools. Comprehensive Case Studies focus not just on specific sites but also on why these sites are important in the broader archaeological context. Exploring Prehistory has been developed with the aim of offering a better way to introduce students to archaeology’s unique understanding of human societies.

Author : Andrew Reinhard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338748

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Archaeogaming by Andrew Reinhard Pdf

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. Video games also serve as archaeological sites in the traditional sense as a place, in which evidence of past activity is preserved and has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology, and which represents a part of the archaeological record. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.

Author : Robert J. Sharer,Wendy Ashmore
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112013188948

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Archaeology by Robert J. Sharer,Wendy Ashmore Pdf

This introductory text surveys the techniques, methods and theoretical frameworks of contemporary archaeology. Coverage of method and theory resides in the context of an ideal research plan to explain what archaeologists do, how they conduct research, and how they use the results to construct our past. Integration of traditional and recent innovative approaches to archaeology provides a balanced scientific and humanistic perspective.

Author : Carleton Shepherd Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000092856131

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The Burren and the Aran Islands by Carleton Shepherd Jones Pdf

The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in the archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies have shed considerable light on the functions of these monuments and the people who built them. This book presents these archaeological interpretations in an attractive and engaging manner. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into two parts, the Burren and the Aran Islands. Significant sites are highlighted while "panel" features explain more tangential topics, e.g., how to build a wedge tomb. Contents include Colonization and Early Settlement, From Neolithic to Bronze Age. The Celts, The Arrival of Christianity, Early Medieval Chiefs and their Stone Forts, and finally Later Tower Houses and Military Constructions. In this heavily illustrated book, captions are often extensive and can be read separately or with the text. Overall it can be read cover-to-cover or dipped into. Dr. Jones' writing transforms the dry academic material of excavation reports and archaeological inventories into an engaging and understandable story. He is also the author of "Wild Plants of the Burren & Aran Islands which is available from Dufour.

Author : Linda Derry,Maureen Malloy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030246594

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Archaeologists and Local Communities by Linda Derry,Maureen Malloy Pdf

Author : Tim Murray,Penny Crook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030271695

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Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia by Tim Murray,Penny Crook Pdf

This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in Sydney – First Government House. The book is anchored around a detailed comparison of contents of 20 cesspits created during the 19th century, and examines patterns of similarity and dissimilarity, presenting analyses that work towards an integration of historical and archaeological data and perspectives. The book also outlines a transnational framework of comparison that assists in the larger context related to building a truly global archaeology of the modern city. This framework is directly related a multi-scalar approach to urban archaeology. Historical archaeologists have been advocating the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference. The most popular (and most basic) of these has been the household. However, it has also been acknowledged that interpreting the archaeology of households beyond the notion that every household and associated archaeological assemblage is unique requires archaeologists and historians to compare and contrast, and to establish patterns. These comparisons frequently occur at the level of the area or district in the same city, where archaeologists seek to derive patterns that might be explained as being the result of status, class, ethnicity, or ideology. Other less frequent comparisons occur at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, acknowledging that the archaeology of the modern western city is also the archaeology of modern global forces of production, consumption, trade, immigration and ideology formation. This book makes a contribution to that general literature

Author : Shengqian Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819711352

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Exploring Archaeology by Shengqian Chen Pdf

Author : Kelly J. Dixon
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185521

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An Archaeology of Desperation by Kelly J. Dixon Pdf

The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–47. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party’s experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries. Centered on archaeological investigations in the summers of 2003 and 2004 near Truckee, California, the book includes detailed analyses of artifacts and bones that suggest what life was like in this survival camp. Microscopic investigations of tiny bone fragments reveal butchery scars and microstructure that illuminate what the Donner families may have eaten before the final days of desperation, how they prepared what served as food, and whether they actually butchered and ate their deceased companions. The contributors reassess old data with new analytic techniques and, by examining both physical evidence and oral testimony from observers and survivors, add new dimensions to the historical narrative. The authors’ integration of a variety of approaches—including narratives of the Washoe Indians who observed the Donner Party—destroys some myths, deconstructs much of the folklore about the stranded party, and demonstrates that novel approaches can shed new light on events we thought we understood.

Author : D. Rae Gould,Holly Herbster,Heather Law Pezzarossi,Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057330

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Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration by D. Rae Gould,Holly Herbster,Heather Law Pezzarossi,Stephen A. Mrozowski Pdf

Society for American Archaeology Scholarly Book Award Highlighting the strong relationship between New England’s Nipmuc people and their land from the pre-contact period to the present day, this book helps demonstrate that the history of Native Americans did not end with the arrival of Europeans. This is the rich result of a twenty-year collaboration between indigenous and nonindigenous authors, who use their own example to argue that Native peoples need to be integral to any research project focused on indigenous history and culture. The stories traced in this book center around three Nipmuc archaeological sites in Massachusetts—the seventeenth century town of Magunkaquog, the Sarah Boston Farmstead in Hassanamesit Woods, and the Cisco Homestead on the Hassanamisco Reservation. The authors bring together indigenous oral histories, historical documents, and archaeological evidence to show how the Nipmuc people outlasted armed conflict and Christianization efforts instigated by European colonists. Exploring key issues of continuity, authenticity, and identity, Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration provides a model for research projects that seek to incorporate indigenous knowledge and scholarship.

Author : P.J. Capelotti
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813063614

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Adventures in Archaeology by P.J. Capelotti Pdf

Remnants of the curious and peculiar ways humankind has marked the archaeological landscape are abundant but often ignored: wrecked aircraft, abandoned airfields, old highway billboards, derelict boats, movie props, and deserted mining operations. In this book, archaeologist P.J. Capelotti explores places and things that people do not typically think of as archaeological sites and artifacts, introducing readers to the most extreme fieldwork taking place today. Capelotti shows that even seemingly ordinary objects from the recent past hold secrets about the cultural history of humans. He investigates the site where a stunt copy of the Orca, the fishing boat used in the movie Jaws, was stripped to pieces by fans—a revelation of the ways humans relate to popular culture. He takes readers to abandoned base camps near the North Pole that are now used as destinations for Arctic tourism. Retelling the story of Thor Heyerdahl’s research expedition across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa log raft, Capelotti shows how experimental archaeology attempts to reveal cultural connections between continents. And he doesn’t stop at the limits of the planet. He discusses debris floating through outer space and equipment left behind on the surface of the moon, highlighting current efforts to preserve artifacts that exist beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. These discarded materials, says Capelotti, help archaeologists piece together the sweeping story of human cultural expansion and exploitation. He explains how the unusual sites of shorelines, sea, air, and space represent the farthest reaches of human civilization. His enthusiasm will inspire readers to set out on their own to investigate the secret meanings of treasures hiding in plain sight.

Author : Anton Killin,Sean Allen-Hermanson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030610524

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Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy by Anton Killin,Sean Allen-Hermanson Pdf

This volume explores various themes at the intersection of archaeology and philosophy: inference and theory; interdisciplinary connections; cognition, language and normativity; and ethical issues. Showcasing this heterogeneity, its scope ranges from the method of analogical inference to the evolution of the human mind; from conceptual issues in assessing the health of past populations to the ethics of cultural heritage tourism. It probes the archaeological record for evidence of numeracy, curiosity and creativity, and social complexity. Its contributors comprise an interdisciplinary cluster of philosophers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and psychologists, from a variety of career stages, of whom many are leading experts in their fields. Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.