Archaeology: Theories, Methods and PracticeThames & Hudson, 2008 - 656 pages This best-selling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it has now been completely revised. Structured according to the key questions that archaeologists ask themselves, it provides coverage of all the major developments in methods, science, technology, and theory.For the fifth edition, the voices of indigenous archaeologists have been included, and there is updated coverage of archaeological ethics and Cultural Resource Management. Recent findings are discussed, and there is expanded coverage of topics such as bioarchaeology and geoarchaeology. |
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... suggested that each mound was the focal point of the territory of a group of people permanently established there - a symbolic center for the community . The very act of creating a fixed area for the repeated disposal of the dead ...
... suggested that each mound was the focal point of the territory of a group of people permanently established there - a symbolic center for the community . The very act of creating a fixed area for the repeated disposal of the dead ...
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... suggested by the frequency of spindle whorls . While spinning is not necessarily a female occupation , there is a long record of women being the primary spinners in this region . Only women were buried beneath the lowermost house floors ...
... suggested by the frequency of spindle whorls . While spinning is not necessarily a female occupation , there is a long record of women being the primary spinners in this region . Only women were buried beneath the lowermost house floors ...
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... suggested by baked clay figurines found at Jarmo . Çatalhöyük to Ali Kosh This impression of a more complex story was reinforced by James Mellaart's excavations in the 1960s at Çatalhöyük on the Konya Plain of Turkey , a 13 - ha ( 32 ...
... suggested by baked clay figurines found at Jarmo . Çatalhöyük to Ali Kosh This impression of a more complex story was reinforced by James Mellaart's excavations in the 1960s at Çatalhöyük on the Konya Plain of Turkey , a 13 - ha ( 32 ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 9 |
How Did They Make and Use Tools? | 10 |
BOX FEATURES | 11 |
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absolute dating activity Africa American analysis ancient animals Antiquity archae archaeological record archaeological sites archaeology artifacts bones Bronze Age burial buried calibration Calusa Çatalhöyük cave century Chapter chronology climate cognitive cognitive archaeology context copper cores culture deposits early environment environmental Europe evidence example excavation groups hominin human hunter-gatherer Ice Age identified important indicate individual interpretation isotope Kent Flannery landscape layers Lewis Binford London material Maya Mesoamerica modern monuments mounds Museum Neanderthal Neolithic objects obsidian Optical Dating organic Paleolithic past pattern percent period phytoliths plant Pleistocene pollen population pottery prehistoric preserved Press processual archaeology produced radiocarbon dates recent reconstruction region remains revealed Roman sample sediments sequence settlement social societies soil species stone tools stratigraphic structures surface survey symbolic techniques Teotihuacán tomb tree-ring Univ Upper Paleolithic York