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Ester Salgarella
Writing in Bronze Age Crete

The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally …

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Robin Derricourt
Five Innovations That Changed Human History

Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, this book explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on human lives.…

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Mohammad Zaman
Anatomy of Resettlement

Anatomy of Resettlement: Ethnographic Accounts and Stories in Retrospect examines resettlement as a development strategy and the ongoing controversies and debate on resettlement as a development model. It…

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Ricardo Santos Alexandre
The Task of Having to Be

At the heart of the anthropological project lies a need to tackle the conundrum of the human condition. And yet, the conundrum persists. Actually, the reflection over the conditions and possibilities of t…

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Richard Hodges
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia - London, Ipswich, Southampton and Yo…

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Maren Elisabeth Schwab, Anthony T Grafton
The Art of Discovery

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains o…

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Intertidal Shipwrecks

This volume presents a global array of case studies on the management of shipwreck sites in intertidal zones, including strategies for conservation, archaeological research, and public outreach focused on…

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Robin Derricourt
Five Innovations That Changed Human History

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human h…

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Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra
Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, c…

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Tony Waldron
Palaeopathology

An evidence based account of how to recognise and diagnose pathological lesions in human remains.

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Traces of the Distant Human Past

Traces of the Distant Human Past offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing for a more scientific, theoretically informed approach to archaeolo…

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Eric J. Harvey
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader …

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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Markus Eberl
War Owl Falling

Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, this book shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies

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Julian Heath
Prehistoric Europe

A full-color examination of 50 fascinating and important archaeological discoveries from prehistoric Europe.

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Irmgard Hein, Mustafa Kibaro¿lu, Michaela Schauer
Ceramic Analysis

This Element, authored by a team of specialist researchers, provides an overview of the various analytical techniques employed in the laboratory for the examination of archaeological ceramic materials. Po…

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Ester Salgarella
Writing in Bronze Age Crete

The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally …

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Laura Feldt
Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness

Ancient wilderness mythologies have been criticised for their role in forming anthropocentric outlooks on the natural world, and idealising human separateness from the rest of the living world. Laura Feld…

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Monica L. Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Fredrik Hagen
Hieratic

Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, …

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