Filter by
Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781926836904.01
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 7 x 10, 565 pages
Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology
This book is designed to act as a readily accessible guide to different methods and techniques of use-wear and residue analysis and therefore includes a wide range of different and complementary essential topics: experimental tests, observation and record methods and techniques and the interpretation of a diversity of tool types and worked raw materials. The onset of use-wear studies was marked…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08257-8
- Collation
- 15 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology
While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent years, few attempt to move beyond a conventional discourse on ethics to consider how a discussion of the social and political implications of archaeological practice might be conceptualized differently. The conceptual ideas about ethics posited in this volume make it of interest to readers outside of the discip…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4939-1689-4
- Collation
- XVII, 140
- Series Title
- Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice
- Call Number
- 301 AFT a
Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield The WWII Battle of Saipan
Battlefields have been the object of fascination for millions of tourists and the subjects of elaborate interpretation projects. This volume will outline the process and results of developing the WWII Maritime Heritage Trail: Battle of Saipan Project. This book will provide examples of how a group of archaeologists, managers and a community took a specific battle and transformed it from a co…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16679-7
- Collation
- 10 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Historic Preservation:Caring for Our Expanding Legacy
This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-04974-8
- Collation
- XXXVII, 383
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300 TOM h
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience
This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile. This examination is done through the lens of Resilience Theory, which has the potential to offer an interpretive framework for ana…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- XIII, 193
- Series Title
- Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
- Call Number
- -
Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic
This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-) species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The cont…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55363-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Imagining Head-Smashed-In Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-897425-04-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 6.5 x 9.25, 361 pages
Landscape in the Longue Durée : A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled…
Pebbles are usually found only on the beach, in the liminal space between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles extend inland and create a ridge brushing against the sky? Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological research project of the east Devon Pebblebed heathlands, a fascinating and geologically unique l…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978- 1- 78735- 081- 6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 930.1 TIL l
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene (ca. 20,000-15,000 years ago). This volume bridges scholarly traditions from Europe, Central Asia,…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-15137-3
- Collation
- XIII, 202
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography