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Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology
Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). The only archaeology museum that is part of an American high school, it also did cutting-edge research from the 1930s through the 1970s, ultimately returning to its core mission of teaching and learning in the twenty-first century. Essays explore the early history and notable contributions of the museum's directors and curators, including a tour de force chapter by James Richardson and J. M. Adovasio that interweaves the history of research at the museum with the intriguing story ...
Where the Land Meets the Sea
This landmark, interdisciplinary volume on the excavation of one of the longest-occupied yet most enigmatic sites in human history sheds new light on how civilization began among farmers and fishermen some fourteen thousand years ago.
Gaining Ground
Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shape...
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Over 80 archaeologists from four continents create a benchmark volume of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework.
Documentary Archaeology in the New World
It outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America.
Catalogue: Authors
Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology
ContributorsLawrence E. AtenElin C. DanienDon D. FowlerAlice B. KehoeFrances Joan MathienJerald T. MilanichRobert L. SchuylerSteven ConnRegna DarnellCurtis M. HinsleyEleanor M. KingDavid J. MeltzerJeremy A. SabloffDavid R. Wilcox
