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Human, Apes and Chinese ...
New Implications for Human Evolution
The Hong Kong University Press Occasional Paers' Series is an entirely new series of monographs encompassing the best lectures presented to the University of Hong Kong in recent times.
(2010)
18 Reads
Encyclopedia of Dubious ...
From Atlantis to the Walam Olum
Archaeology attempts to answer the question "where do we come from?" in the broadest sense possible; as a result, it is a highly interesting topic for all mankind. When did human beings first walk the earth? How did civilization develop? What compelled our human ance...
(2010)
20 Reads
Surviving Sudden Environ...
by Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets
Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities—ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rain...
(2012)
2 Reads
Clinical Quiz in Emergen...
by Kam Chuen Shek and Chak Wah Kam
Archaeological investigation began in Hong Kong in the 1920s and showed that the territory had a considerable prehistoric occupation, now known to extend back at least 7,000 years. Sites abound on outlying islands and along the coastline of the New Territories. More than two h...
(2010)
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King Hu's A Touch of Zen
by Stephen Teo
Archaeological investigation began in Hong Kong in the 1920s and showed that the territory had a considerable prehistoric occupation, now known to extend back at least 7,000 years. Sites abound on outlying islands and along the coastline of the New Territories. More than two h...
(2007)
4 Reads
Contemporary Archaeologi...
by Kathryn Venz... and William Walk...
Organized by the theme of place and place-making in the Southwest, Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest emphasizes the method and theory for the study of radical changes in religion, settlement patterns, and material culture associated with population migration, colonia...
(2011)
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Ethnicity in Ancient Ama...
by Jonathan Hill and Alf Hornborg
"A major contribution to Amazonian anthropology, and possibly a direction changer." -J. Scott Raymond,University of Calgary A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and ...
(2011)
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Ancient Households of th...
Conceptualizing What Households Do
by John G. Douglas and Nancy Douglas
In _Ancient Households of the Americas_ archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures--Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustin, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico...
(2012)
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Cooperation and Collecti...
Archaeological Perspectives
"[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."--Micha...
(2013)
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Der Kirchenberg
Archäologie und Geschichte im Bereich der Marienkirche von Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Niederösterreich
In dem vorliegenden Buch werden Ergebnisse alter und neuer Forschung zur Geschichte des Kirchenbergs von Bad Deutsch-Altenburg zusammenfassend dargelegt.
(2012)
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The Menial Art of Cooking
Menial Art of Cooking
by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodr...
Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten pl...
(2012)
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Archaeometallurgy in Mes...
by Aaron N. Shugar and Scott E. Sim...
"This book will be a basic reference on the topic for many years to come, and will remain an essential source even as new field and laboratory studies develop. It is by far the best reference for metallurgy within the ancient Mesoamerican world system, and will be important fo...
(2013)
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