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  • - From Prevention to Social Implications
     
    677,95 kr.

    Selected papers from the First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology, held in Menorca in April 2012. (Foreword and page 1).

  • af Elena A.A. Garcea
    531,95 kr.

  • - Pursuing leisure and knowledge from the eighteenth century to World War II
    af Margarita Diaz-Andreu
    619,95 kr.

    This book examines the relationship between archaeological tourism and professional archaeology. Moreover, just as histories of archaeology have largely ignored the connection between archaeology and tourism, so too has tourism in the reverse direction.

  • - Filling 'Empty' Mediterranean Landscapes
    af Stefano R.L. Campana
    560,95 kr.

    This book addresses the true 'landscape' perspective approach that archaeologists in Italy, and in many parts of the Mediterranean, use to study the archaeology of landscapes, marking a departure from the traditional site-based approach.

  • - Engaging Local and Indigenous Heritage
     
    608,95 kr.

    This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies. The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide.

  • af Emily Lena Jones
    643,95 kr.

    The people who inhabited Southwest Europe from 30,000 to 13,000 years ago are often portrayed as big game hunters - and indeed, in some locations (Cantabrian Spain, the Pyrenees, the Dordogne) the archaeological record supports this interpretation.

  • - Pastoralism and Resilience in Central Sahara
    af Stefano Biagetti
    701,95 kr.

    This book focuses on the issues of resilience and variability of desert pastoralists, explicitly challenging a set of traditional topics of the discourse around pastoralism in arid lands of the Old World.

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    723,95 kr.

    They provide an initial account of the dynamic qualities behind large-scale ancient population dynamics, and at the same time represent novel multidisciplinary points of departure towards an integrated reconstruction and understanding of Prehispanic population dynamics in the Maya region.

  • - Ideas and Approaches
     
    810,95 kr.

    The book is organised in four parts: Part 1 offers a summary of field procedures. Part 3 illustrates the huge variety confronted by field workers with a series of exemplary commercial and academic projects enacted in downland, jungle, desert, permafrost, road schemes and towns.

  • - Earliest Sites in the Mariana Islands
    af Mike T. Carson
    694,95 kr.

    This book offers the only synthesis of early-period Marianas archaeology, marking the first human settlement of Remote Oceania about 1500 B.C.

  • - Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World
     
    561,95 kr.

    This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world.

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    559,95 kr.

    This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements. Thus, a central aim of the volume is to gather together some of the most active, Latin American maroon archaeologists in a single volume.

  • - History, nomination processes and representation on the World Heritage List
     
    557,95 kr.

    Ever since the signing of the World Heritage Convention 40 years ago and ratified by 33 African countries, to date, only 43 cultural heritage sites have been successfully proclaimed as World Heritage Sites in Africa.

  • - Global Perspectives
     
    569,95 kr.

    This volume addresses the directions that studies of archaeological human remains have taken in a number of different countries, where attitudes range from widespread support to prohibition.

  • af Masanori Nagaoka
    684,95 kr.

    In the 1970s and 1980s, there was large scale heritage conservation intervention of the Borobudur Temple by UNESCO and a simultaneous attempt of a wider landscapes management at Borobudur.But in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a global heritage discourse of an enlarged value system emerged.

  • - Colonialism, Amazighity and Heritage Management in the Canary Islands
    af A. José Farrujia de la Rosa
    557,95 kr.

    This book analyses the problematics of archaeological heritage management in the Canary Islands, which are echoed in other parts of the world where the indigenous heritage is under-represented.

  • - Europe and the Americas
    af Peter F. Biehl & Christopher Prescott
    558,95 kr.

    Constitutes proceedings of two roundtables and forums organized by Eszter Banffy, Peter Biehl, Douglas Comer, and Christopher Prescott and sponsored by European Association of Archaeologists and Society for American Archaeology held at 76th SAA annual conference in Sacramento in April 2011, and 17th EAA annual conference in Oslo in September 2011.

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    697,95 kr.

    This volume provides case studies about successful strategies employed in diverse world areas for the protection of archaeological heritage resources. Some chapters focus on a search for solutions arrived at by diverse groups of people working in specific areas rather than simply describing loss of cultural heritage.

  • - The WWII Battle of Saipan
     
    498,95 kr.

    It will provide an in-depth view of current maritime archaeological research on submerged battlefield sites, the development of a WWII battlefield maritime heritage trail, as well as the problems and solutions of such an effort.

  • - The Ancient Moche in Trujillo, Peru
    af Jorge Gamboa
    647,95 kr.

    Archaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape evaluates issues about the preservation, social role and management of archaeological sites in the Trujillo area, north coast of Peru, specifically those of the Moche culture (100-800 AD).

  • - Methods of Language and Materials in African History
    af Kathryn M. de Luna & Jeffrey B. Fleisher
    804,95 kr.

    This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data.

  • af Martha Demas, Neville Agnew & Jinshi Fan
    681,95 kr.

    At the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage site near Dunhuang city in Gansu Province, visitor numbers have increased inexorably since 1979 when the site opened.

  •  
    684,95 kr.

    Hadrian's Wall was inscribed as a World Heritage Site (WHS) in 1987 and, with the German Limes, became one of the first two parts of the transnational 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire' (FRE) WHS in 2005.

  • - European Involvement in the Development of a Sovereign United States
    af Douglas C Comer
    605,95 kr.

    The publication explores the ways in which archaeological research can inform us about the manner and motives of European involvement in the development of a sovereign United States.

  • - A Global Perspective on Indigenous African Metallurgy
    af Shadreck Chirikure
    811,95 kr.

    This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects.

  • - a World Heritage Nomination
    af Simon Kaner
    413,95 kr.

    When Okinoshima was placed on Japan's tentative list for World Heritage designation in 2009, an unprecedented amount of new research into the archaeological and historical materials associated with this exceptional complex of sites was generated.

  • - African Maritime Cultural Landscapes
     
    767,95 kr.

    While the concept of a maritime landscape is very broad, a more focused thematic strategy draws together a number of case studies in South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, and Nigeria with a common thread. Specifically, the contributors address the sub-theme of sea ports and sea power as part of understanding the African maritime landscape.