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  • Lithicsby William Jr Andrefsky; Graeme Barker; Elizabeth Slater; Peter Bogucki

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 43.00

    The new edition details key advances in the field related to lithic debitage analysis and lithic tool analysis since publication of the first edition in 1998. It includes new sections on stone tool functional studies, microdebitage analysis and minimal analytical nodule analysis. more...

  • Urukby Mario Liverani

    Equinox Publishing Ltd 2006; US$ 21.80

    Provides historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southern Mesopotamia. This book develops an argument that weaves together an amount of information and places it within a context of contemporary scholarly debates on such questions as the ancient economy and world systems. more...

  • Vikings in Americaby Graeme Davis

    Birlinn 2011; US$ 12.51

    The first book to tackle the subject in forty years, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic and DNA evidence which supplements the historic account. When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological,... more...

  • Archaeology of Medieval Irelandby T. B. Barry

    Routledge 1988; US$ 44.95

    An indispensable guide to the major monuments of the period - earthen and stone castles, moated sites, villages, towns, cathedrals, churches, tower houses, pottery kilns and mills. more...

  • Memory and Material Cultureby Andrew Jones

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 23.00

    An important contribution to the development of archaeological theory and the discussion of European prehistory. more...

  • Evolution of Fossil Ecosystemsby Paul Selden; John Nudds

    Manson Publishing Ltd 2004; US$ 35.20

    Succinct summaries of 14 of the better-known fossil Lagerstätten, beautifully illustrated throughout by over 250 colour photographs and diagrams, of value to a wide range of students and professionals in palaeontology and related sciences, and to amateur enthusiasts. more...

  • In Small Things Forgottenby James Deetz

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99

    History is recorded in many ways. According to  author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully  by studying the small things so often forgotten.  Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical  instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the  cracks between large historical events and depict  the intricacies of daily life. In his completely  revised and expanded edition of In Small  Things Forgotten , Deetz has added new  sections that more fully acknowledge the presence  of women and African Americans in Colonial  America. New interpretations of archaeological finds  detail how minorities influenced and were affected  by... more...

  • Microarchaeologyby Stephen Weiner

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 30.00

    Microarchaeology is about that part of archaeological records not seen by the naked eye, but revealed with instrumentation. more...

  • The Goddess and the Bullby Michael Balter

    Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 17.99

    Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly well-preserved 9,500-year-old village in Turkey. Here lie the origins of modern society -- the dawn of art, architecture, religion, family -- even the first tangible evidence of human self-awareness, the world's oldest mirrors. Some archaeologists have claimed that the Mother Goddess was first worshipped at Çatalhöyük, which is now a site of pilgrimage for Goddess worshippers from all over the world. The excavations here have yielded... more...

  • Iron Age Myth and Materialityby Lotte Hedeager

    Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 39.95

    Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations around AD 400 up until the coming of Christianity around AD 1000 more...