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Archaeobotanical studies encounter the carbonized grains of grasses, cultivated and wild, but the vast diversity of wild species that are potentially present has made identification of archaeological material fraught with difficulties. This volume provides a tool for mastering these difficulties.

Examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. This book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority.

What happened to Roman soldiers in Britain during the decline of the empire? This question acts as the starting point for the author's exploration of social identity in Roman Britain. He shapes an approach that focuses on the central role of practice in the creation and maintenance of identities-nationalist, gendered, class, and ethnic.

Includes essays that look back at some of the important events where a role for an archaeology concerned with the past first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical issues central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its future.

Represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. This work is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape.

Presents a collection of articles, drawn from various works being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. The other attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields.

How do we identify and measure human disease in the past? This title outlines the key methods of epidemiology for non-specialists, showing the importance of studying prevalence over incidence, adjustments needed in studying past groups, how to compare studies, and the dangers of assessing occupation based upon bone evidence.

Leading scholars demonstrate the importance of archaeobotanical evidence in the understanding of the spread of agriculture in southwest Asia and Europe.

This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology using examples from European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka and other Andean cultures.

Written by one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, this book presents a study of the last ""undiscovered"" people of the Amazon. Through a comprehensive ethno-archaeological portrait of material culture ""in the making"", it makes methodological and conceptual advances in the interpretation of hunter-gather societies.

This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.

Explores the evidence left by the use of axes on wooden beams and tools found in waterlogged archaeological sites dating over 2000 years old.

The volume describes methods of identifying parenchymous remains of roots and tubers in archaeological sites as a way of analyzing diet among ancient peoples.

This volume is a set of a dozen case studies of innovative programs designed to attract the public to both archaeological sites and exhibits of archaeological artifacts. Papers deal with general issues of interpretation and presentation and cover British, Australian, European, and American settings.

A collection of papers connecting theory and method of archaeology with related disciplines of neoecology, paleoecology, and environmental science.

A collection of research articles by European scholars assessing the state of environmental archaeology and its relationship to the field; along with discussions on how to present environmental issues in prehistory to the public.