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  • Behaviour Behind Bones

    The Zooarchaeology of Ritual, Religion, Status and Identity

    by Sharyn Jones O'Day, Wim Van Neer, Anton Ervynck ...
    Series Book 1 - Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference
    This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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  • Before Atlantis

    20 Million Years of Human and Pre-Human Cultures

    by Frank Joseph ...
    A comprehensive exploration of Earth’s ancient past, the evolution of humanity, the rise of civilization, and the effects of global catastrophes• Explores biological evidence for the aquatic ape theory and 20-million-year-old evidence of pre-human cultures from which we are not descended• Traces the genesis of modern human civilization to Indonesia and the Central Pacific 75,000 years ago after a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Elderflora

    A Modern History of Ancient Trees

    by Jared Farmer ...
    **The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal**Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new ... Read more

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  • Prehistoric Rock Art

    Polemics and Progress

    by Paul G. Bahn ...
    Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

    Edited by Sarah Tarlow, Liv Nilsson Stutz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

    Edited by Bruno David, Julian Thomas ...
    Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Not Just for Show

    The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments

    Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Alice M. Choyke ...
    Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical ... Read more

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  • Economic Zooarchaeology

    Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture

    Edited by Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson, Paul Halstead ...
    Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood

    Edited by Sally Crawford, Dawn Hadley, Gillian Shepherd ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Real understanding of past societies is not possible without including children, and yet they have been strangely invisible in the archaeological record. Compelling explanation about past societies cannot be achieved without including and investigating children and childhood. However marginal the traces of children's bodies and bricolage may seem compared to adults, archaeological evidence of ... Read more

    $151.99 CAD

  • Social Zooarchaeology

    Humans and Animals in Prehistory

    by Nerissa Russell ...
    This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of the Night

    Life After Dark in the Ancient World

    Edited by Nancy Gonlin, April Nowell ...
    How did ancient peoples experience, view, and portray the night? What was it like to live in the past when total nocturnal darkness was the norm? Archaeology of the Night explores the archaeology, anthropology, mythology, iconography, and epigraphy of nocturnal practices and questions the dominant models of daily ancient life. A diverse team of experienced scholars uses a variety of methods and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD