Book Description
The fascinating story behind twenty of Oxford's most important archaeological digs, and the finds they produced, as told by the Oxford City Council Archaeologist.
Author : David Radford
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445680866
The fascinating story behind twenty of Oxford's most important archaeological digs, and the finds they produced, as told by the Oxford City Council Archaeologist.
Author : Michael Nevell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445694298
A fascinating look at Manchester's history and heritage, written by the head of archaeology at the University of Salford.
Author : James Dinn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445694034
A fascinating look at the city's history and heritage, written by Worcester's archaeological officer.
Author : Helena Hamerow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199212147
Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.
Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191650390
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
Author : Liz Stewart
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1398109517
Published in association with the Museum of Liverpool, this book explores 20 significant archaeological digs on Merseyside and what they uncovered.
Author : David K. Pettegrew
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0199369046
"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--
Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0199271011
This handbook provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological activities past and present. It will give the reader a sense of the history of the subject and of the main theoretical debates, as well as a taste of the excitement generated by archeological exploration.
Author : Bethany Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199987882
Born from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. With its roots in the colonial periods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its rapid development since the 1980s warrants a reevaluation of where the field stands today. This Handbook represents for the first time a survey of Islamic archaeology on a global scale, describing its disciplinary development and offering candid critiques of the state of the field today in the Central Islamic Lands, the Islamic West, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. The international contributors to the volume address such themes as the timing and process of Islamization, the problems of periodization and regionalism in material culture, cities and countryside, cultural hybridity, cultural and religious diversity, natural resource management, international trade in the later historical periods, and migration. Critical assessments of the ways in which archaeologists today engage with Islamic cultural heritage and local communities closes the volume, highlighting the ethical issues related to studying living cultures and religions. Richly illustrated, with extensive citations, it is the reference work on the debates that drive the field today.
Author : Mike Parker Pearson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0750999039
The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way of life, their social organisation and their view of the world. This ambitious book reviews the latest research in this huge and important field, and describes the sometimes controversial interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our understanding of life and death in the distant past. A unique overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past, it covers archaeology's most breathtaking discoveries, from Tutankhamen to the Ice Man, and will find a keen market among archaeologists, historians and others who have a professional interest in, or general curiosity about, death and burial.