Ciencias sociales / Arqueología

The End of Days

de Zecharia Sitchin

Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?

Is history destined to repeat itself?Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when?

It has been more...

How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

de Peter S. S. Wells

The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate...

The Legacy: South Florida Museum

de Thomas Peter Bennett

This book is an account of the origins, founding, and development in twentieth-century Florida of a people's museum that reflects Florida's changes through Spanish exploration, statehood, tourism, endangered...

Reading Asian Art and Artifacts: Windows to Asia on American College Campuses

de Paul K. Nietupski

Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. These essays by scholars of Asian art, philosophy,...

Sustainable Reform and Development in Post-Olympic China

de Shujie Yao & Wu Bin

Taking the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as an iconic turning-point and exploring key themes such as economic reform and sustainability, innovation and sustainability, globalisation and social development, this...

The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

de Michael Kemper & Stephan Conermann

The Western field of oriental studies and orientalism - criticised by Edward Said among others for encouraging the orient to be viewed in a particular way - has a counterpart in Russia and the Soviet Union....

The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization

de Michael Balter

Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists...

Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

de Graham Hancock

From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that’s been hidden for...

Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

de Timothy R. Pauketat

The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization

While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric...

Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist

de Donald P. Ryan

From the known to the unknown . . .

With its spectacular temples, tombs, monuments, and mummies, as well as esoteric metaphysics, legendary historical characters, and connections to the Bible, ancient Egypt...

The Invisible Sex

de J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer & Jake Page

Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent...

The Archaeology of Household Activities

de Penelope Allison

This pioneering collection engages with recent research in different areas of the archaeological discipline to bring together case-studies of the household material culture from later prehistoric and classical...

Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible: A Basic Guide

de John D. Currid

A popular introduction to archaeology and the methods archaeologists use to reconstruct the history of ancient Israel.

Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece

de Susan Heuck Allen

"Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected."...

The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade: Holy War and Colonisation

de Aleksander Pluskowski

The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13^th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order...

Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations

de David Frankel, Susan Lawrence & Jennifer Webb

Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment,...

Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation

de Jr., Charles E. Orser

Charles E. Orser, Jr. argues that since race has been used implicitly in archaeology for more than 100 years, the issue must be addressed directly despite the long history of debate, denial, and ignorance.

Icons of Power: Feline Symbolism in the Americas

de Nicholas J. Saunders

Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years.

The jaguar and the puma epitomize...

Places in Mind: Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology

de Paul A. Shackel & Erve J. Chambers

This edited volume provides a cross-section of the cutting-edge ways in which archaeologists are developing new approaches to their work with communities and other stakeholder groups who have special interest...

Studies in Crime: An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology

de Carol Heron, John Hunter & Geoffrey Knupfer

The study of forensic evidence using archaeology is a new discipline which has rapidly gained importance, not only in archaeological studies but also in the investigation of real crimes. Archaeological evidence...