UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
Ceramics Before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil
October 15, 2011
A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together ...
Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies: A Dialogue
1st Edition
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By Ethan Cochrane, Andrew Gardner
June 01, 2011
This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics—agency, violence, social groups, diffusion—from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives. These two strands represent the major current theoretical poles in the discipline. By comparing and contrasting the insights ...
Archaeology, History and Science: Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials
1st Edition
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By Marcos Martinon-Torres, Thilo Rehren
May 31, 2009
Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these sources of information relate to each other, or explicit attempts at developing successful strategies for ...
Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
1st Edition
By Gustavo Politis
May 15, 2009
From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously ...
The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration
1st Edition
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By Russell McDougall, Iain Davidson
April 30, 2009
No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and ...
Archaeology and the Media
1st Edition
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By Timothy Clack, Marcus Brittain
March 15, 2009
The 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...
Archaeological Displays and the Public: Museology and Interpretation, Second Edition
2nd Edition
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By Paulette M McManus
January 15, 2009
This volume is a set of a dozen case studies of innovative programs designed to attract the public to both archaeological sites and exhibits of archaeological artifacts. Papers deal with general issues of interpretation and presentation and cover British, Australian, European, and American settings....
Beyond the Glass Case: The Past, the Heritage and the Public, Second Edition
1st Edition
By Nick Merriman
January 15, 2009
The book is the result of a nationwide survey in the UK that measured public use of and attitudes to the past, archaeology and collecting. The author reviews this research in the light of contemporary theory on ideology and representation and goes on to develop a convincing explanation for the ...
Gender & Italian Archaeology: Challenging the Stereotypes
1st Edition
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By Ruth D Whitehouse
January 15, 2009
The original research papers in this volume represent the first attempt to address issues of gender in the archaeology of Italy. Ranging from prehistoric to early classic periods, the authors address theoretical and methodological issues, as well as present a series of cases using both traditional ...
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany: Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone
1st Edition
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By Sarah L.R. Mason, Jon G Hather
January 15, 2009
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ...
Identification Guide for Near Eastern Grass Seeds
1st Edition
By Mark Nesbitt
January 15, 2009
Archaeobotanical studies constantly encounter the carbonized grains of grasses, cultivated and wild, but the vast diversity of wild species that are potentially present has made identification of archaeological material fraught with difficulties. This volume provides an invaluable tool for ...
Issues in Environmental Archaeology
1st Edition
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By Nicholas Balaam, James Rackam
January 15, 2009
Collection of original research articles by European scholars assessing the state of environmental archaeology and its relationship to the field; along with discussions on how to present environmental issues in prehistory to the public....