"Explores various methods archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence it had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community in past Andean societies. How ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, …
This collection of thirteen original essays by leading archaeologists and historians - as well as by specialists on material culture - amounts to the first collection of articles for some time to focus on the contributions of archaeology to the study of the Crusades. The Crusade…
"Although most ceramic studies describe vessel production and use, the causes and rates of pottery discard are often neglected in archaeological studies. Michael Shott presents analytical methods for determining pottery use life and demonstrates why use life should not be overlo…
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (stupas), and some of the most…
"When the Celts First arrived in Ireland around 250 BC, the island had already been inhabited for over 7,000 years. These pre-Celtic peoples have left no written records: they are literally pre-historic. But they have left extensive archaeological evidence, of which Newgrange is…
by Papadopoulos, John K., Smithson, Evelyn Lord
fromAthenian Agora
