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Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology / 1st edition
2006 || Paperback || James Conolly e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Geographical Information Systems has moved from the domain of the computer specialist into the wider archaeological community, providing it with an exciting new research method. This clearly written but rigorous book provides a comprehensive guide to that use. Topics covered include: the theoretical context and the basics of GIS; data acquisition including database design; interpolation of elevation models; exploratory data analysis including spatial queries; statistical spatial analysis; map...
An Introduction to Museum Archaeology / 1st edition
2007 || Paperback || Hedley Swain || Cambridge University Press
An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum practice in relation to the discipline of archaeology. Drawing heavily on examples it deconstructs the different challenges posed by trying to tell archaeological stories in museum buildings, and on related sites. The final section sums up the state of museum archaeology in the early 21st century and discusses the major issues it is currently confronting.
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Natuurwetenschappen en archeologie. Methode en Interpretatie. / Druk 2
methode en interpretatie
2021 || Paperback || Patrick Degryse e.a. || Acco
Natuurwetenschappen en archeologie brengt een overzicht van de analysemethoden die gebruikt worden binnen ecologisch-archeologisch onderzoek. Die invalshoek is in het Nederlandstalig taalgebied uniek.
Archeologie bestudeert het menselijk handelen in het verleden aan de hand van opgegraven stoffelijke resten. Sinds de jaren zestig kregen natuurwetenschappelijke benaderingen daarbij steeds meer aandacht. Een reconstructie van de mens in zijn omgeving is niet mogelijk zonder een studie van plant...
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age / 1st edition
2018 || Paperback || Haidy Geismar || UCL Press
Among the challenges museums face when displaying digital objects are widely held assumptions about the nature of these objects and the material, social, and political foundations of digital art practices.
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age urges readers to question their assumptions through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object—a box, a pen, an effigy, and a cloak. The book begins with an introduction exploring the legacies of older forms of media and earlier m...
Bigger Than History / 1st edition
Why Archaeology Matters
2020 || Paperback || Brian Fagan e.a. || Thames & Hudson Ltd
Why does archaeology matter? How does studying prehistory help us understand climate change? How can archaeological discoveries challenge contemporary assumptions about gender? How has archaeology been used and misused to support political and nationalist agendas - and how can it help build a more diverse and inclusive picture of our world by examining the people left out of written history? Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani address these and other questions, exploring how archaeology's long-term...
Archaeology
Theories, Methods and Practice
2020 || Paperback || Colin Renfrew e.a. || Thames & Hudson Ltd
New to this Edition * Updated treatment of postcolonial approaches and indigenous archaeology, with coverage of the ontological turn in archaeology, and new examples of community archaeology in southern Africa and Australia. * New discoveries and research across the globe, such as archaeological evidence of social hierarchies at the ancient city of Liangzhu, China, and recent evidence of Neanderthal art in France and Spain. * A more inclusive picture of archaeology, raising the profile of wom...
Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics
A Practical Philosophy of Prehistoric Archaeology
2023 || Paperback || Konrad Ott || Sidestone Press Academics
This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part is epistemological. It explains why there must be theoretical investments if past ways of human life are to be understood and explained. This insight is specified to a ladder-model (sensu Hawkes) with conceptual scaffoldings on each step. Stepwise, sets of concepts are introduced. This constitutes ...