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Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies
Wiley 2009; US$ 125.00Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene... 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...
Ethnozooarchaeology
Oxbow Books 2011; US$ 45.00This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional societies. Topics covered include the theoretical... more...
Lithic Technology
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 32.00This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools. more...
Between Dirt and Discussion
Springer 2007; US$ 99.99Interpretations of the past are under constant critical scrutiny in archaeology. The cases presented in this volume revisit old methods and previous scholarly approaches with new perspectives, along with incorporating the technologies available to understanding the past. more...
Community-Based Archaeology
University of California Press 2012; US$ 29.95Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required of them will differ dramatically from those of... more...
Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit - Auswertung und Neufunde
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 293.00With their rich iconography and runic inscriptions, the gold bracteates are one of the most important sources for research into Germanic religion. This volume combines contributions on the history of scholarship, iconography, chronology, the inscriptions and the names mentioned, as well as on the cultural and religious background to the bracteates.... more...
A Slice Through Time
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 64.95The dramatic development of European oak chronologies over the last ten years parallels and supplements the bristlecone-pine chronology in the United States. Dendrochronologists can now provide a wood sample - a time capsule of biological material - for any calender date over the last seven millennia from two continents. For archaeologists, resigned... more...
The Funeral Kit
Left Coast Press 2012; US$ 36.95Studies of mortuary archaeology tend to focus on difference—how the researcher can identify age, gender, status, and ethnicity from the contents of a burial. Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach begins from the opposite point: how can you recognize the commonalities of a culture from the “funeral kit” that occurs in all burials,... more...
Het gasthuis voorbij
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 10.50Piet Bakker gaat tijdens zijn oratie in op de ontwikkelingen in de zorg. Als hoogleraar Procesinrichting en Procesinnovatie in de zorg probeert Bakker een bijdrage te leveren aan de verdere ontwikkeling en de systematische verbetering van de zorg. In het bijzonder wil hij zich richten op de onderliggende processen die van invloed zijn op de kwaliteit... more...









