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Summarizes the state of ancient technology studies. This book compares the range of pre-industrial technologies, from stone tool production, fiber crafts, wood and bone working, fired clay crafts, metal production, and glass manufacture. It includes socially contextualized case studies, as well as general descriptions of technological processes.

Suitable for those considering a career in museums, this book outlines the nature of the profession, the types of museums, and the types of jobs within museums, including salary ranges. It tells the reader the kinds of training needed, how to secure a job, and how to move up the ladder once you are working in the field.

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. This title provides evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research.

Archaeologists are bombarded with questions about the "mysteries" of the past. They are also constantly addressing more realistic controversies such as: origins of the First Americans, ownership of antiquities, and national claims to historical territories. This work offers students a method of evaluating and assessing these claims about the past.

Examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. This book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority.

Emphasizes the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form different perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures.

Collaborative projects, or projects directed and conducted by indigenous peoples themselves have become a standard feature of the archaeological landscape. This work features an array of writings around this subject. It contains cases that range from Australia to Arctic Russia, from Africa to North America.

Suitable for project engineers, project managers, construction managers, the staff of affected government agencies, and archaeological consultants. This work provides information, and archaeological perspective, to intelligently work with the various parties involved in your project and avoid an archaeological disaster.

The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens-a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. This work argues that the iconographic approach falls short of understanding how ancient people interacted with their imagery.

Examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, this work shows how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity.

The waters of Latin America and the Caribbean are rich with archaeological sites, including coastal settlements, defensive forts, freshwater sources, fishing-related activities, navigational aids, anchorages, harbours, and shipbuilding sites. This book documents the research interests of maritime archaeologists in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A narrated account of fieldwork from San Juan, Puerto Rico to inner-city New Haven, this title uncovers the clash between scientific models and local experience over schizophrenia, the political workings of community, and the power of serendipity.

A guide that provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in industrial archeology. It includes bridges, railroads, roads, waterways, several types of production and extraction factories, and water and power generating facilities.

Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific techniques is not an uncommon practice in archaeological interpretation. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these data relate to each other. This volume provides such a critical consideration.

Shows the range of activities, issues, and solutions undertaken by managers of heritage sites around the world. This book shows how the linkages between global archaeology and funding organizations, national policies, practices, and ideologies, and local populations and their cultural and economic interests foster complexity of the issues.

Aimed at professional archaeologists and the interested public, this book provides an introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. It also provides a background about the region, as well as a deeper understanding of the people who inhabited it.

Using a mixture of historical documents, mythology, archaeological data, and ethnographic studies of contemporary shamans, this book builds a case for shamans being the driving force behind the blossoming of complex societies. It tells how shamans in East Asia are generally women, who used their access to the spirit world to take leadership roles.

How could archaeology matter in the modern world? Archaeology studies the people of long ago and far away. This book points to ways in which archaeology is also relevant to the understanding and amelioration of modern problems. It is aimed at students and other prospective archaeologists.

What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire? This question acts as the starting point for the author's exploration of social identity in Roman Britain. He shapes an approach that focuses on the central role of practice in the creation and maintenance of identities-nationalist, gendered, class, and ethnic.

Presents different ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. This book offers a collection of imaginative exercises designed by 20 master instructors on three continents, including role-playing, games, simulations, activities, and performance, all designed to teach archaeological concepts.

Leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe.

Fearsome Legacies unites innovative work on the interpretation and management of Cold War heritage from fields including archaeology, history, art and architecture, and cultural studies.

Sex workers, street hawkers, drug sellers, cleaners - they are people living on the margins of urban life who are ubiquitous but widely misunderstood and notably absent from mainstream economic analyses. This book uses ethnographic research to cut through the conventional narratives that romanticize, victimize, or demonize these populations.

The haunting funerary paintings on wood coffins found in Roman Egypt still represent some of the most vivid images that come to us from the ancient world. Acting as a reference for scholars and general audiences, this title presents an authoritative presentation of the restored collection.

How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional archaeologists. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, many with media backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.

Written by one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, this book presents a study of the last ""undiscovered"" people of the Amazon. Through a comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture ""in the making"", it makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies.

This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.

In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD.

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories. This book examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. It offers a methodology for producing classifications that are salient to the cultural groups that produced them.

Aims to provide those in the heritage management world with summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions that affect their work. This volume highlights interviews with John Henry Merryman, emeritus professor at Stanford Law School, and professor Joseph Sax.