One World Archaeology
About the Book Series
The One World Archaeology series brings together the ideas of archaeologists, anthropologists and academics in a host of related disciplines from around the world. Integral to this unique, worldwide interdisciplinary approach are the contributions made by non-academics from a wide variety of cultures - Inuit, Australian Aborigine and Native American, the result is a contemporary global, cross-cultural approach.
The fourth World Archaeological Congress will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in January 1999, with the Right Honourable Nelson Mandela as Patron.
Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology
1st Edition
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By James McGlade, Sander E. van der Leeuw
June 29, 2010
In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study...
The Emergence of Agriculture: A Global View
1st Edition
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By Peter White, Timothy Denham
December 26, 2006
This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the ...
Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World
1st Edition
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By Henry Cleere
May 19, 2005
Representing the latest thinking in this fast-moving and often emotive field, this book offers a remarkably comprehensive international coverage of the public aspects of archaeology. The process of survey and inventory, rescue and archaeology, conservation and protection have until now been studied...
The Dead and their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
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By Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert, Paul Turnbull
August 25, 2004
Inspired by a key session for the World Archaeological Congress in South Africa, The Dead and their Possessions is the first book to tackle the principle, policy and practice of repatriating museum artefacts, rather than cultural heritage in general. Increasingly, indigenous people world-wide...
Sacred Sites, Sacred Places
1st Edition
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By David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, Audhild Schanche
November 07, 1997
Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means to people in differing cultures. Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes come into conflict with local populations over sites which these communities consider to be sacred. This ...
From the Baltic to the Black Sea: Studies in Medieval Archaeology
1st Edition
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By Leslie Alcock, David Austin
June 27, 1997
Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban ...
Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power
1st Edition
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By George C. Bond, Angela Gilliam
April 17, 1997
Social Construction of the Past examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past and, in creating a people's cultural history, appropriates it and turns it into a form of domination by one group over another.Acknowledgements of the intellectual and scholarly contribution of subjugated ...
Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology
1st Edition
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By Tim Champion
November 15, 1995
There has recently been much interest among geographers, historians and political theorists in concepts of centre and periphery. In this book a wide range of studies consider how such concepts can be used to clarify our understanding of pre-capitalist societies....
Domination and Resistance
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By Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, Chris Tilley
November 15, 1995
The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere, the editors and contributors offer a wealth ...
The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns
1st Edition
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By Bassey Andah, Alex Okpoko, Thurstan Shaw, Paul Sinclair
March 28, 1995
Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology ...
The Excluded Past: Archaeology in Education
1st Edition
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By Robert MacKenzie, Peter Stone
March 28, 1995
A ground-breaking book that examines the uneasy relationship between archaeology and education. Argues that archaeologists have a vital role to play in education alongside other interpreters of the past. Contributors from different countries and disciplines show how the exclusion of aspects of the ...
Signifying Animals
1st Edition
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By Roy Willis
October 18, 1994
A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation....