Bøger udgivet af JAS Arqueologia

In the midst of the crisis, Cadiz's Phoenician past became the axis of a project of economic, political and cultural transformation that aroused both adherence and discontent. The objective was to move from an industrial city to a model of urban development based on tourism.

The texts in this book are autobiographical. Unlike so many academic writings, they do not hide, but rather make visible, everything that happens between the carrying-out and the writing-up of archaeological fieldwork: a space so productive but so contentious that it is usually eliminated, denied, altered.

This book serves as a general introduction to archaeogaming: it describes the intersection between archaeology and video games, and applies archaeological theory and method to understand video games as sites as well as artifacts. It is also history, sociology and ontology; and everything that is necessary to define a culture, that of videogames.

With a very literary style and an unusual depth in current archaeology, the author makes a journey between metaphor and reality that questions and challenges our fundamental understanding of archaeology as a discipline.

This book brings together historians, anthropologists and archaeologists to rethink colonialism in a cross-sectional way, from ancient times to contemporary times.

An analysis of public archaeology in Spain through the texts of 25 authors and collectives actively working in the topics covered. The book consists of three sections in which public archaeology is explained from its different approaches to more specific examples of work within communities and management.

Did you ever think animals built tools? This book offers a long list of examples of instrumental behaviour in animals, analysing concepts like `culture' and questioning tool-making as an exclusive human ability.

The first novel by Spanish archaeologist Pablo Guerra, introducing Lancaster Williams, a young archaeologist that will have to struggle in the world of commercial archaeology. In a story that will remind us our daily life in the field he highlights the process and the problems of archaeology until the inevitable finale.

As screenwriters, archaeologists have been elaborating the plot of the past through material culture, becoming themselves actors in a different play; archaeology. This essay delves into these images projected by professionals and antiquity in the process of interpretation.

Archaeological heritage belongs to the public and its looting is a problem, more when there is private profit from it. This book analyses looting as it happens in Spain, offering an overview of the problem and the legal basis to fight it, also from education and public opinion.

Through the voices of 44 professionals and the reflections of the editor, this volume delves into the different spheres where archaeology happens. It offers an overview of current Spanish archaeology, its problems and some ideas to improve it.

Lovecraft and Archaeology? This essay delves into the beginning of archaeology as a science through the literature of H.P. Lovecraft and his continuous references to this new science and the value of the past in the present.

After years of waiting, with intermittent protests at the Arqueoart and JAS Arqueologia headquarters, we have been able to carry out the edition of the final book on Stratigraphic Love with the entire first season, commented on and full of surprises!

A book about the veil gesture in Ancient Greek iconography and its relations to current society.