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Far from Equilibrium
Archaeology is in crisis. Spatial turns, material turns and the ontological turn have directed the discipline away from its hard-won battle to find humanity in the past. Meanwhile, popularised science, camouflaged as archaeology, produces shock headlines built on ancient DNA that reduce humanity's most intriguing historical problems to two-dimensional caricatures. Today archaeology finds itself less able than ever to proclaim its relevance to the modern world. This volume foregrounds the relevance of the scholarship of John Barrett to this crisis. Twenty-four writers representing three generations of archaeologists scrutinise the current turmoil in the discipline and highlight the resolution...
An Ordinary Man
Michael Boyd’s modestly-titled autobiography begins with peaceful memories of growing up in the 1950s in a Somerset village, playing football and going fishing and bird-nesting in the woods and marshes around Chew Valley Lake. After a brief career in the dairy business, Mike found himself plunged into the stormy world of industrial relations as a manager with the brewery giant Courage. His talent for handling negotiations with the trade unions led him to a senior operational job before he finally retired back to the peace of family life and his beloved garden.
From Stonehenge to Mycenae
"We live today in an interconnected world and we are inclined to believe that in earlier times the connections were less extensive and that communities were more isolated from each other. This book looks at the Europe that began to emerge some 4,000 years ago with the beginnings of metallurgy and the debates that have taken place concerning the scales of connections that existed then. Around this time Stonehenge was built from materials that were brought across huge distances. To what extent did geographically extensive connections exist, how might we recognise them and what, if any, were their consequences? Disagreements over these questions have existed in archaeology for nearly a century ...
Final Supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement for an Amendment to the Pacific Northwest Regional Guide: Appendices
Siskiyou County Library has vol. 1 only.
Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
