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  • Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

    Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence

    Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in many cases, skeletal trauma. The contributors to this edited collection seek to close this gap by ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Wretched Kush

    Ethnic Identities and Boundries in Egypt's Nubian Empire

    Professor Smith uses Nubia as a case study to explore the nature of ethnic identity. Recent research suggests that ethnic boundaries are permeable, and that ethnic identities are overlapping. This is particularly true when cultures come into direct contact, as with the Egyptian conquest of Nubia in the second millennium BC.By using the tools of anthropology, Smith examines the Ancient Egyptian ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Studies in Culture Contact

    Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

    People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

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  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of Bruce Trigger

    Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory an Egyptologist and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he ... Read more

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  • Alternative Pathways to Complexity

    A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

    Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.A group of highly distinguished scholars takes up ... Read more

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  • Archaeological Theory Today

    by Ian Hodder ...
    Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over recent decades. It summarizes the latest developments in the field and looks to its future, exploring some of the cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of the discipline.The volume captures the ... Read more

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  • The Sumerian World

    Edited by Harriet Crawford ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and the natural sciences. This broad treatment will also make the volume of interest to students looking ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    by J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Greater Ethiopia

    The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

    Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite its political, religious, and linguistic diversity?Donald Levine's interdisciplinary study makes a ... Read more

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  • Questioning Collapse

    Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

    Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Egyptian World

    Edited by Toby Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overvi ... Read more

    $67.99 USD