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Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology's engagement with economic theory.

Green A: Cities and Citadels

Cities and Citadels

An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth

1.Pasts: toward a critical paleoeconomics; 2.Cities: archaeology and egalitarian urbanism; 3.Citadels: the low-growth birth of stratified economies; 4.Measurement: a deep history of political metrology, money and value; 5.Merchants: Bronze Age millionaires and the rise of the affluent classes; 6.Billionaires: the Iron Age origin of oligarchy; 7.Futures: summarizing critical paleoeconomics

Bloomsbury Egyptology

Helmets and Body Armour in New Kingdom Egypt

Material Engagement and the Creation of Self-Consciousness

People Are STRANGE

Debates in Archaeology

The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility

Negotiating Migrations

Cambridge Latin American Studies

A Study in Ethnographic and Spatial History

The Making of Brazilian Amazonian Societies

Interdisciplinary and provocative study between an archaeologist and an artist discussing the disciplines' principles, while providing ways to rethink archaeology, the visual arts and the two subjects' shared themes.

Excavation and Contemporary Painting

Disrupting Archaeology and Art

The Emergence of States and Empires

Ancient Civilizations

This text bridges freshman introductory texts on archaeology and junior/senior archaeology courses by building students' comfort with some of the tools of archaeological research and how archaeologists make plausible inferences about the past. How do archaeologists learn what happened thousands of years ago when all they have to work with are clusters of broken artifacts or patterns of post holes? Are their explanations any better than theories about ancient civilizations that we see in social media or popular streaming services? This book focuses on the ways archaeologists draw conclusions from evidence, recognizing that those interpretations will change as new evidence comes into play. Readers will learn more about the methods and research strategies that archaeologists use to understand ancient economies, social and political systems, or help date or classify sites, artifacts, or whole societies. The first chapter discusses the nature of inference and explanation in archaeology, or "how archaeologists figure things out." It emphasizes that observations and measurements that archaeologists make are samples subject to various kinds of error, and to future revision in the light of new evidence. Subsequent chapters cover how archaeologists use lithic technology, experiments, and classification, how styles of pottery decoration help us identify social groups, and the intricacies of dating events. The book then turns to social archaeology, from the household scale, through settlements, to landscapes and regions, and mobility and sedentism over such regions. The next two chapters consider research on trade, wealth, status, and mortuary practices. Chapter 11 focuses on food and cuisine, and the last one on the archaeology of labor. There are also 12 exercises, with fictitious case studies from around the world and different research traditions. These build students' confidence in how to interpret data, without any expectation of statistical background. They help students think critically about how to draw reasonable conclusions from what are often rather messy data.

A Guide

Archaeological Reasoning

China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict

Conquering the North

DK Read-Alouds

Read-Alouds World Folklore

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient world, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia, Judith Barringer provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world, where athletic competitions took place alongside—and were closely connected with—crucial religious and political activities. Barringer describes the development of the Altis, the most sacred area of Olympia, where monuments to athletes successful in the games joined those erected to the gods and battlefield victories. Rival city-states and rulers built monuments to establish eminence, tout alliances, and join this illustrious company in a rich intergenerational dialogue. The political importance of Olympia was matched by its place as the largest sanctuary dedicated to Zeus, king of the gods. Befitting Zeus’s role as god of warfare, the Olympian oracle was consulted to ensure good omens for war, and the athletic games embodied the fierce competition of battle. Other gods and heroes were worshipped at Olympia too, Hera, Artemis, and Herakles among them. Drawing on a comprehensive knowledge of the archaeological record, Barringer describes the full span of Olympia’s history, from the first monumental building around 600 BC to the site’s gradual eclipse in the late Christianized Roman empire. Extensively illustrated with maps and diagrams, Olympia brings the development of Olympia vividly to life for modern readers.

A Cultural History

Olympia

"A marvellously engaging writer." The Times Discover the story of life on our planet as you have never seen it before, from winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize, Henry Gee. The perfect gift for the curious of any age. In 30 bite-size chapters, Nature editor and author of the award-winning A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth Henry Gee charts the incredible, unlikely story of life on our planet, with vibrant colour illustrations from artist Raxenne Maniquiz. Life began billions of years ago, as tiny bubbles sheltering from toxic seawater began to spring up on the ocean floor. What follows is the ultimate survival story: faced with supervolcanoes, toxic air and asteroids - life adapted. The Wonder of Life on Earth condenses billions of years of evolution into one exquisite 80-page book, giving a broad overview that focuses on some of the most pivotal moments in the story of life: including mass extinctions, the egg, the seed, the spine and the ear. These are near misses for the existence of life, and evolutionary crossroads that paved the way for the world we know today. Artwork from talented botanical illustrator and designer Raxenne Maniquiz brings to life a cavalcade of strange and marvellous creatures: travel back in time to look inside bacteria and the first cells, to the planet's first trees and plants, to the odd, soft-bodied rangeomorphs, and on to armoured fishes, dinosaurs, nimble mammals and endlessly adaptable apes and primates. Henry's gripping writing makes it easy to understand complex processes like the carbon cycle, natural selection, fossilisation and the galactic fluctuations that have shaped our planet and its inhabitants. This astonishing and readable natural history is perfect for younger readers and anyone looking for an accessible introduction to the biggest topic around: LIFE. Complete with a glossary, a timeline and a view into the future.

The story of our planet, evolution and you by the winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize

The Wonder of Life on Earth

We are not who we think we are

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