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Rebecca Sweetman
The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods

The Cycladic islands have traditionally been considered as backwaters during the Roman and Late Antique periods. Through analysis of the material culture produced from the late first century BCE through t…

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Robin Derricourt
Five Innovations That Changed Human History

Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, this book explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on human lives.…

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Mohammad Zaman
Anatomy of Resettlement

Anatomy of Resettlement: Ethnographic Accounts and Stories in Retrospect examines resettlement as a development strategy and the ongoing controversies and debate on resettlement as a development model. It…

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Ricardo Santos Alexandre
The Task of Having to Be

At the heart of the anthropological project lies a need to tackle the conundrum of the human condition. And yet, the conundrum persists. Actually, the reflection over the conditions and possibilities of t…

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Janice Newberry
Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory

This book describes the Raising Spirit project, a seven-year collaboration examining child-raising values among Blackfoot peoples in southern Alberta. Dilemmas faced by young Indigenous researchers led to…

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Pierre Zalloua
Ancestors

"In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to find out where your ancestors came from. But accl…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Fredrik Hagen
Hieratic

Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, …

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Elizabeth J. Reitz, Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman, Elizabeth S. Wing
Zooarchaeology

This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the pre…

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Shelley Hales
Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire.The complex and multifaceted roles pla…

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Georgia Mouroutsou
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers i…

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
The World of Homer

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origin…

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Antioch on the Orontes

Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence sp…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Peter Mitchell
The Archaeology of Southern Africa

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states an…

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Maya Nadkarni
Remains of Socialism

Охватывая в своем исследовании более двух десятилетий политической, социальной и экономической трансформации, в ходе которых Венгрия прошла путь от оптимизма конца восьмидесятых и до недавнего правого пов…

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Elizabeth J. Reitz, Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman, Elizabeth S. Wing
Zooarchaeology

This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the pre…

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Anna Lucille Boozer
At Home in Roman Egypt

What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a …

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Roderick Campbell
The Shang Economy

This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeol…

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Michael B. Toffolo
Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the characterization of archaeological sedimentary contexts has produced invaluable insights…

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