Sökt på: Serie New Studies in Archaeology
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr …
Thoughtful Foragers
Thoughtful Foragers is about hunter-gatherer decision making. The author explores the implications of the human mind as a product of biological evolution for the way in which …
Forest Farmers and Stockherders
Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most radical transformation in all …
Symbols in Action
Material culture - the objects made by man - provides the primary data from which archaeologists have to infer the economies, technologies, social organization and ritual practices …
Religion and Empire
Religion and Empire is an innovative and provocative study of the two largest states of the Precolumbian Americas, the Aztec and Inca Empires.
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
A study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. Proceeds of cultural change are analyzed, including colonization, …
Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes
In this 1996 volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have …
The Chinese Neolithic
This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, ca. 7000–1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted …
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Jacques Cauvin has spent many years researching the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Near East, excavating key sites and developing new ideas to explain the hugely significant …
An Ethnography of the Neolithic
Archaeological research in Sweden and Denmark has uncovered a startling array of evidence over the last 150 years, but until now there has been no comprehensive synthesis and …
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Jacques Cauvin has spent many years researching the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Near East, excavating key sites and developing new ideas to explain the hugely significant …
Nomads in Archaeology
This book addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques.