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Amulets, Stones & Herbs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

Amulets, Stones & Herbs

  • Categories: Art

A comprehensive guide to the history and religious significance of amulets, stones, runes and herbs found throughout Germanic and Teutonic cultures. Amulets is Gundarsson’s finest work on the subject, providing an immense depth of knowledge on each and every amulet uncovered, giving you all the historical information needed to create your very own piece of history.

Excavations at Tepe Guran in Luristan
  • Language: en

Excavations at Tepe Guran in Luristan

Luristan in Western Iran was largely inaccessible to foreigners until the construction of a new road in the 1960s permitted a Danish archaeologucal team to investigate the Luristan Bronze culture. This volume examines the Protohistoric finds, the settlement, tombs and graves from the centuries around 1000 BC and includes reports on animal bone and human remains. The Neolithic and other prehistoric finds will be published by Peder Mortensen. This volume also records the last century's mismanagement and exploitation of the Luristan cultural heritage.

Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective

Case studies drawn from many different periods and areas develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social contexts of production and artifact.

The Global History of Paleopathology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 817

The Global History of Paleopathology

The first comprehensive global history of the discipline of paleopathology

Archaeological Narratives of the North American Great Plains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Archaeological Narratives of the North American Great Plains

Stretching from Canada to Texas and the foothills of the Rockies to the Mississippi River, the North American Great Plains have a complex and ancient history. The region has been home to Native peoples for at least 16,000 years. This volume is a synthesis of what is known about the Great Plains from an archaeological perspective, but it also highlights Indigenous knowledge, viewpoints, and concerns for a more holistic understanding of both ancient and more recent pasts. Written for readers unfamiliar with archaeology in the region, the book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series emphasizes connections between past peoples and contemporary Indigenous nations, highlighting not only the h...

A World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

A World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth

"Brings together studies from diverse time periods and geographic regions to deliver a comprehensive biocultural treatment of dental modification. The volume amply documents the diversity of ways humans modify their teeth and the variety of reasons they may do so."--Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg, author of What Teeth Reveal about Human Evolution Tooth modification is the longest-lasting type of body modification and the most widespread in the archaeological record. It has been practiced throughout many time periods and on every occupied continent and conveys information about individual people, their societies, and their relationships to others. This necessary volume presents the wide spectrum o...

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 575

Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology

This follow-up to The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth puts methods to use in interpreting human origins and affinities.

Ancient Scandinavia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

Ancient Scandinavia

Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society. In this book, Doug Price provides an archaeological history of ...

Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 847

Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe

Since its development in 1949, radiocarbon dating has increasingly been used in prehistoric research in order to get a better grip on the chronology of sites, cultures and environmental changes. Refinement of the dating, sampling and calibration methods has continuously created new and challenging perspectives for absolute dating. In these proceedings the focus lies on the contribution of carbon-14 dates in current Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. Altogether 40 papers dealing with radiocarbon dates from 15 different countries are presented. Major themes are the typo-technological evolution of lithic and bone industries, changes in settlement patterns, burial practices, demography and subsistence, human impact on the Mesolithic environment and the neolithisation process. Some papers also deal with more methodological aspects of carbon-14 dating (e.g. calculation of various reservoir effects, the use of cumulative calibrated probability distributions), and related techniques (e.g. stable isotope analysis for palaeodiet reconstruction).

The Greenland Norse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

The Greenland Norse

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