UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context
1st Edition
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By Elizabeth Pye
February 28, 2008
Despite the fact that we have a range of senses with which to perceive the world around us, museums and other cultural institutions have traditionally used sight as the main way to convey information. In everyday life, though, we use touch constantly in conjunction with sight. Why, then, does it ...
Egyptology: The Missing Millennium: Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings
1st Edition
By Okasha El Daly
February 15, 2008
Egyptology: The Missing Millennium brings together for the first time the disciplines of Egyptology and Islamic Studies, seeking to overturn the conventional opinion of Western scholars that Moslims/Arabs had no interest in pre-Islamic cultures. This book examines a neglected period of a thousand ...
Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology
1st Edition
By Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton, Christopher Tilley
February 15, 2008
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The ...
A Future for Archaeology
1st Edition
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By Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter Stone
April 12, 2016
Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic ...
An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers and Society in Late Roman Britain
1st Edition
By Andrew Gardner
August 15, 2007
What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire in the 4th and 5th centuries? Did they withdraw, defect, or go native? More than a question of military history, this is the starting point for Andrew Gardner’s incisive exploration of social identity in Roman Britain, in ...
Agency Uncovered: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human
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By Andrew Gardner
March 15, 2012
This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or ...
Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues
1st Edition
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By Sue Hamilton, Ruth D Whitehouse, Katherine I Wright
May 15, 2007
Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link ...
The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage
1st Edition
By Joost Fontein
February 17, 2006
This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. The controversy that surrounded the site in the early part of the 20th century, between colonial antiquarians and professional archaeologists, is well ...
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach
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By Ruth Mace, Clare J Holden, Stephen Shennan
February 04, 2010
Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of ...
Lithic Analysis at the Millennium
1st Edition
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By Norah Moloney, Michael J Shott
January 01, 2003
The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively, they increase our understanding of issues ...
The Later Roman Empire Today: Papers given in honour of Professor John Mann
1st Edition
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By D.F. Clark, Margaret M Roxan, J.J. Wilkes
January 01, 1993
A collection of original research articles relating to Roman historical and epigraphic studies presented in honor of Professor John Mann. Supported by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies....
Modelling Ecological Change: Perspectives from Neoecology, Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
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By David R Harris, Kenneth D Thomas
January 01, 1991
A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science....