Bøger i Archaeological Series serien

This book presents preliminary results of excavations by the University of Minnesota at the Late Iron Age oppidum settlement of Kelheim, Bavaria, 1987-1991. It includes analytical studies of materials studied

Grasshopper Pueblo is a fourteenth-century settlement site situated on the Salt River drainage in the White Mountains of east-central Arizona.

This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca 5000 bp) hunter-gatherers in Japan. A model is proposed which links regional settlement patterns and intersite lithic assemblage variability to residential mobility.

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a central methodology for archaeologists interested in the social, political and economic organisation of chiefdoms and states, and a key theoretical and methological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity.

This massive volume contains papers from a recent symposium on the late Pleistocene Natufian culture, which is one of the most important precursors of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant.

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic, 4000-2000 years ago, in the Western Great Lakes are examined to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials, access to and benefits from exchange networks, and social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction ...

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a central methodology for archaeologists interested in the social, political and economic organisation of chiefdoms and states, and a key theoretical and methological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity.

These eighteen papers on the archaeology of tribal societies are derived from a Symposium held at the Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1999.

The last decade has witnessed a sophistication and proliferation in the number of studies focused on the evolution of human cognition, reflecting a renewed interest in the evolution of the human mind in anthropology and in many other disciplines such as cognitive ethnology and evolutionary psychology.

Subtitled `The dynamics of prehistoric adaptations within the arid zone of Australia' this book reports on the author's research within the semitropical desertlands at the interphase of the Little and Great Sandy Deserts of north-western Australia.