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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene-an era many date to…

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Norman Finkelstein
Method and Madness

In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar…

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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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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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Arretium (Arezzo)

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love Apocalypse

Marriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In Love Apocalypse, anthropologists present their insights into this society-a…

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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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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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