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Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.

Archaeobotanical studies 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 a tool for mastering these difficulties.

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.

Explores the evidence left by the use of axes on wooden beams and tools found in waterlogged archaeological sites dating over 2000 years old.

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

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.

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.

Includes essays that look back at some of the important events where a role for an archaeology concerned with the past first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical issues central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its future.

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 different theories and material for the first time.

How do we identify and measure human disease in the past? This title outlines the key methods of epidemiology for non-specialists, showing the importance of studying prevalence over incidence, adjustments needed in studying past groups, how to compare studies, and the dangers of assessing occupation based upon bone evidence.

Presents a collection of articles, drawn from various works being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. The other attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields.

A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science.

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.

A collection of 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.

The volume describes methods of identifying parenchymous remains of roots and tubers in archaeological sites as a way of analyzing diet among ancient peoples.

This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.

Provides a collection of papers focusing on the links between archaeology and the study of geological sediments and soils.