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Using archival research and archaeological evidence, The Shore Whalers of Western Australia examines the history and operation of this almost forgotten industry on the remote maritime frontier of the British Empire and the role of the whalers in the history of early contact between Europeans and Aboriginal people.

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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the moment that Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon broke open Tutankhamuns tomb, a riveting account of the treasures they found, by one of Britains leading Egyptologists.

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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the moment that Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon broke open Tutankhamuns tomb, a riveting account of the treasures they found, by one of Britains leading Egyptologists.

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This selection of fifty key items chosen by the staff of the Griffith Institute including photographs, letters, plans, drawings and diaries - provides an accessible and authoritative overview of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, and offers an intimate insight into the records of one of the worlds most famous archaeological discoveries.

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Prehistoric children can be seen in footprints and finger daubs, in images painted on rocks and pots, in the signs of play and the evidence of first attempts to learn practical crafts. Readers in archeology and those with interests in childhood will gain new perspectives from this survey of the deep past.

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An adventurous history of archaeology that digs up traps, curses and buried treasure...

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Aerial surveying is an important technique used in archaeology, offering information on large sites or features that are hidden at ground level. This book illustrates the way in which buried sites can be viewed from the air and explains how these artefacts change the appearance of the soil or vegetation, and how they can be mapped and interpreted.

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Roth synthesizes wide-ranging CRM and academic data to explore the factors that led to plant cultivation in the American Southwestand how the adoption of agriculture in turn affected the ancient peoples of the region.

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This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance.

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This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. -- .

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In this work, the discovery, excavation, and interpretation of data on a Transitional Archaic Susquehanna Tradition secondary cremation burial site in the Northeast is chronicled. It outlines the regional, environmental, and cultural contexts, and details the archaeological methodology.

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This study incorporates findings of the 1932-1939 excavations. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important book

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In this collection of essays Nicholas Brooks explores some of the earliest and most problematic sources for early English history. In his hands, the structure and functions of Anglo-Saxon origin stories and charters illuminate English political and social structures.

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Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise's development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space.

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Anthropological Research Framing for Archaeological Geophysics addresses the gap between humanistic anthropological archaeology and geophysical archaeology. It initiates and invites professional dialogue toward providing archaeological geophysics with anthropological premises.