Hodder Ian, Hutson Scott. Reading the Past

Penguin Books, 2009 - 240 p. ISBN10: 0140296026 ISBN13: 9780140296020 (eng) Historians relying on written records can tell us nothing about the 99.9 per cent of human evolution which preceded the invention of writing. It is the study of genetic variation, backed up by language and archaeology, which provides concrete evidence about the spread of farming, the movements of peoples across the globe, the precise links between races - and the sheer u...

Routledge, 2011 - 504 p. Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the cities, their architecture and natural topography, and...

An introduction to themes, sites, methods and skills. - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008, Third Edition, 448 pp. Fully updated and restructured, this third edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a comprehensive guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and case studies, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the...

Hodder Ian Arhaeological theory today. Книга основателя Постпроцессуальной археологии посвящена современным теоретическим направлениям в зарубежной археологии.

Publisher: Acаdemic Prеss: 2006 - 298 p. ISBN: 0124969518 Designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technologies, archaeometry, and field procedures. This text may also serve as a common introduction as nicely as a reference for archaeologists, material culture specialists in socio-cultural discipline...

The Getty Conservation Institute, The J. Paul Getty Trust, 1991, 155 Pages This book provides an introduction to the structure and morphology of ancient and historic metallic materials. It deals extensively with many practical matters relating to the mounting, preparation, etching, polishing, and microscopy of metallic samples and includes an account of the way in which phase diagrams can be used to assist structural interpretation. The text is...

Cambridge University Press, 2006 - 268 p. ISBN10: 0521840198 ISBN13: 9780521840194 (eng) How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400-1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological d...