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101 Things To Do With A Stone Circle
The History Press 2009; US$ 15.29The strange and varied uses of stone circles through the ages more...
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF ART
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce... more...
ARCHAEOLOGY AND CAPITALISM
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline’s history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly... more...
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95The public’s fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional... more...
ARCHAEOLOGY AND WOMEN
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to... more...
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LOWER OHIO RIVER VALLEY
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 49.95Although it has been occupied for as long and possesses a mound-building tradition of considerable scale and interest, Muller contends that the archaeology of the lower Ohio River Valley—from the confluence with the Mississippi to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky – remains less well-known that that of the elaborate mound-building cultures... more...
ARCHAEOLOGY TO DELIGHT AND INSTRUCT
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95This book presents novel and interesting ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. Seeking alternatives to the formal lecture format, the various contributions seek better ways of communicating the complexities of human behavior and of engaging students in active learning about the past. This collection... more...
ARCHAIC HUNTERS AND GATHERERS IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 46.95This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time. more...
ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both... more...
AVOIDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISASTERS
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 26.95You think it can’t happen to you, but it can. One day, months into your construction project, your front end load operator runs into bones and wooden slats. Your county coroner says it is not a crime scene, and refers you to the local archaeology department. The archaeologist tells you that it is a very important discovery. Work stops. Archaeological... more...









