Archaeology: Books & eBooks

The guidelines were derived from discussions at a workshop and are intended to show the paths that archaeologists should take when either coming across a chance artefact.

Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World offers a vivid account of early European experience in these islands, through material evidence offered by the archaeological record.

This work presents case studies from nations developed from British settlement so as to allow historical archaeologists to examine differences and similarities between the histories of modern colonial societies worldwide.

Kohika was a late Maori lake village in the Bay of Plenty occupied for a period in the latter half of the 17th century and unusually preserved. Abandoned because of flooding, it remained untouched until 1974.

This richly documented and illustrated survey offers a state-of- the-art description of the formative phase of Levantine societies, as they perfected the Mediterranean village economy and began to interact with neighboring civilizations in Egypt and Syria, on the way to establishing their first towns and city-state polities.

Globalization forces have created a need for contextualizing knowledge to address complex issues and collaboration across and beyond academic disciplines, using more integrated methodologies that include the participation of non-academics and increased stakeholder involvement.

Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global.

This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display.

Indigenous Counseling is based in universal principles/truths that promote a way to think about how to live in the world and with one another that extends beyond the scope of Western European thought. Intricately interwoven into the relationships that we establish on multiple levels in our lives, those that we establish with ourselves, with others, and with the external environments with which we live.

This book, translated from the original Spanish, first offers a summary of the main theories about what we today call the `State', a category that draws together various interests in the research into the past of human societies and, at the same time, inspires passionate political and ideological debate.

This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.

This is a truly global introduction to archaeology and includes examples from every part of the world. New boxes include coverage of the discovery of Richard III's burial; excavations at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar in the Orkney Islands; snow patch archaeology on mountain tops and in the far north; Roman glassware traded to ancient Japan; the Museum of London's excavation of a Roman and later medieval site in the heart of the city; fresh analysis of Grauballe Man, a Danish Iron Age bog body; and work on the origins of farming at Jerf el Ahmar, Syria.

Into the Light is a serious, but readable history of photography in New Zealand. It provides a comprehensive survey of New Zealand's most significant photographers and is aimed at a general audience.

This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships.

Imagining our pasts : writing our histories / Michael Reilly and social history and collections from an array of academics looking at NZ's social and cultural histories, from museums to textiles.

From 1919 to 1923, at Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Maui The North Island to record tikanga Maori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might be disappearing.

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass presents an up-to-date description of the physico-chemical methods suitable for determining the composition of glass and for speciation of specific components.

The digital data are much more fragile than paper and can easily evaporate. The last decade we have been told to avoid information islands and the slogan has been “Open the data silos”. Is it easier to find a needle in an enormous haystack than in many small?

In response to public and private development, surveying is needed to accurately inventory the cultural resources of a region and provide guidance for their preservation and management.

The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data.