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X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology
Springer 2010; US$ 54.99Since the 1960s, x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), both wavelength and energy-dispersive have served as the workhorse for non-destructive and destructive analyses of archaeological materials. Recently eclipsed by other instrumentation such as LA-ICP-MS, XRF remains the mainstay of non-destructive chemical analyses in archaeology, particularly... more...
A Consumer's Guide to Archaeological Science
Springer 2010; US$ 47.99Many archaeologists, as primarily social scientists, do not have a background in the natural sciences. This can pose a problem because they need to obtain chemical and physical analyses on samples to perform their research. This manual is an essential source of information for those students without a background in science, but also a comprehensive... more...
Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry
Springer 2011; US$ 299.99The book contains the Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 12th May 2008, Siena, Italy. The aim of the Symposium is to promote the development and use of scientific techniques in order to extract archaeological and historical information from cultural heritage and the paleoenvironment. It involves all Natural Sciences and... more...
Landscapes of Clearance
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95This volume examines landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants—for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, by choice or by force—and the social impacts of clearance on their populations. Using cases from five continents, and ranging from prehistoric, through colonial and post-colonial times, the contributors show landscapes... more...
Ancient Health
UPF 2007; US$ 49.95Confirming earlier conclusions that human health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilization, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars. more...
Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies
Left Coast Press 2011; US$ 36.95This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics—agency, violence, social groups, diffusion—from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives. These two strands represent the major current theoretical poles in the discipline. By comparing and contrasting the insights they provide into major archaeological themes,... more...
Social Bioarchaeology
Wiley 2011; US$ 109.95Illustrates new methodological directions in analyzing human social and biological variation Offers a wide array of research on past populations around the globe Explains the central features of bioarchaeological research by key researchers and established experts around the world more...
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 26.00Part of a resurgence in the comparative study of ancient societies, this book presents case studies of states, empires and chiefdoms. more...
North Sea Archaeologies
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 44.99This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the archaeology of the North Sea. Robert Van de Noort traces the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500. Van de Noort draws upon archaeological research from many countries, including the UK, the Netherlands,... more...
Surviving Sudden Environmental Change
University Press of Colorado 2012; US$ 5.99Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities?ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory?faced, and... more...









