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Jane Borden
Cults Like Us

An author and culture journalist argues that doomsday beliefs, deeply rooted in American history, have shaped the nation's culture, from its fascination with heroism and consumerism to its susceptibility …

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Joel W Palka
Classic Maya Social Inequality, Networks, and Collapse at DOS Pilas, Petén, Guatemala

Household archaeology and the unraveling of Classic Maya powerThe Classic Maya collapse (ca. CE 800) in Mesoamerica has been the focus of much scholarly debate over the last century. In Classic Maya Socia…

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Eileen O'Brien
Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts

"For activists working for racial justice for decades, the year 2020 stood out from the rest. More people seemed to care about racism than ever before. Due to this unprecedented surge, was anything m…

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A César González-García
Archaeoastronomy

How does archaeoastronomy assist archaeologists in comprehending the past of human societies? Archaeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary field that combines scientific principles and astronomical measuremen…

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With Grit and Determination

Spanning more than one hundred years of women's careers and lives, this collection illuminates what it was and is to be a female archaeologist. These personal accounts of researchers, ethnographers, and f…

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Emma Gooch
Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens

Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and …

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Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic

Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalitarianis…

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Pedro A López-García, Denisse L Argote
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data

Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing…

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Song Hou
A Chinese Discourse of Heritage

This Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed cultural, historical ideas of heritage. It focuses on the Chinese term guji, one today p…

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Her Cup for Sweet Cacao

Presenting new data from leading scholars in the field, this collection uses evidence from archaeology, hieroglyphic texts, chemical analyses, and art to explore the many ways food was integral to Classic…

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Benjamin W Porter
Against Moab

Known as a place, a people, and a kingdom at various points in the second and first millennia BCE, Moab has long sustained the attention of archaeologists, philologists, and historians, in part because of…

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Valdimar Tr Hafstein, Jón Þór Pétursson
Heirloom Cultures and Heritage Branding

Heritage branding and heirloom cultures are twin strategies for building brands in global markets. In this Element, the authors analyze these strategies through skyr; a traditional, sour dairy from Icelan…

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Søren Michael Sindbæk
Trelleborg

When Trelleborg was excavated in the 1930s as the first of the great ring fortresses of the Viking Age, it was a true archaeological enigma. Why was it built, and by whom? Today we know that the strange, …

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A César González-García
Archaeoastronomy

How does archaeoastronomy assist archaeologists in comprehending the past of human societies? Archaeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary field that combines scientific principles and astronomical measuremen…

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Scott F Anfinson
Practical Heritage Management

This comprehensive updated edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses updates in laws and new practices in heritage management, using perspectives from archaeology, history, and architecture.Cultu…

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Richard Bradley
Insularity and Identity

The Element considers historiography - the extent to which insular prehistorians have integrated their findings with the archaeology of mainland Europe; and the ways in which Continental scholars have dra…

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Arretium (Arezzo)

A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.

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The Falls Creek Rock Shelters

An important reanalysis of archaeological materials excavated and curated decades ago, with lessons for similar investigations in the future.

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Persis B Clarkson
Caravan Trails of Tamentica

An anthropological and narrative exploration of ancient llama caravans and their associated geoglyphs in the Chilean Atacama DesertCaravan Trails of Tamentica is a vivid exploration of ancient Andean llam…

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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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