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Reshaping Museums Space: Architecture, Designs, Exhibitions
Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics, highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum spac, and provides reflections upon recent …
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that …
Hands-On Exhibitions: Managing Interactive Museums and Science Centres
The development of interactive displays has transformed the traditional museum world in the last decade. Thrust into intense competition for the public's time and money with all branches of the leisure industry, museums must operate with …
Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans
Pagan rituals at Stonehenge. Modern day druids and witches. White Americans who claim to be healers in the Native American spiritual tradition. Are these legitimate manifestations of ancient religious practice, or simply a sham? Shamans and Neo-…
Collecting in a Consumer Society
With a new preface, this new paperback edition outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertising, department stores, mass merchandising, consumer desire,…
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
This comprehensive survey of Egyptian society and history transforms our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Fully illustrated and based on decades of excavation evidence, this is an original, thought-provoking and important book. For …
Interpreting Objects and Collections
This volume brings together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections. Together these collected writings examine the part that objects play in our lives, how people relate to material culture and why they …
Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the most absurd lie in literature, now, "Atlantis Destroyed" explores how Plato's account can be perceived as historically true. Atlantis has hovered between fable and folk tale, …
Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective
Using a broad comparative approach combined with a refreshing theoretical diversity, this volume employs a wide range of case studies to address the importance of the community (as opposed to the individual household, or the larger polity) in …
Liberating Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation, and Heritage Preservation
Using international examples, the author shows that most societies preserve objects of special value and meaning, though they may not be easily recognizable as "museums" to an outsider. Christina Kreps advocates the liberation of culture from the …
This ambitious study documents the underlying features which link the civilizations of the Mediterranean—Phoenician, Greek, Etruscan and Roman—and the Iron Age cultures of central Europe. Themes presented include: the spread of iron-working over …
In this companion volume to Gisela Richter's Handbook of Greek Art, the subject of Roman art is treated by a team of eleven experts. Extending in time from Early Rome to Late Antiquity, and including the provinces as well as Rome and Italy, the …
The Offerings of the Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan
Between 1325 and 1521, the Mexica people of the Aztec capital ritually buried hundreds of offerings to their gods in the depths of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, where for more than five hundred years these gifts lay undiscovered. In complex …
Southwestern Minnesota Archaeology: 12,000 Years in the Prairie Lake Region
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the arrival of European explorers. The area of focus is on southwestern Minnesota, north-central Iowa, and …
Science for Conservators Series: An Introduction to Materials
The Science for Conservators series provides non scientists with the essential theoretical background used in the conservation of artifacts. Volume 1 is a basic introduction to the language of science, identifying materials, and basic chemistry.
Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History
Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern, but Minoan civilization as it has been popularly imagined is largely an invention of the early …
Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches
At a time when archaeology generally is experiencing a surge of popularity, our understanding of medieval settlement, artifacts, environment, buildings and landscapes has been revolutionized. Chris Gerrard looks at the people and excavations that …
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and …
The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe
The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments—including Stonehenge— were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Students of prehistory have long found the highly theoretical interpretations of the period …
Forbidden Archeology: The Full Unabridged Edition
Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has suppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a …
The Past in Prehistoric Societies
"The Past in Prehistoric Societies" presents case studies which extend from the Paleolithic to the early Middle Ages and from the Alps to Scandinavia. It examines how archaeologists might study the origin of myths and the different ways in which …
This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still dominate our approach to the material remains …
"Archaeology of Natural Places" is the first book to examine the special importance that unaltered features of the landscape held for prehistoric peoples. This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers …
Educational Role of the Museum: 2nd Edition
In this updated and revised second edition, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill incorporates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. "The Educational Role of the Museum" covers broad themes …
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England
This work provides a survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms - Kent, the East Saxons, the East Angles, Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex - and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field. Barbara Yorke moves beyond …
When Cremo's book "Forbidden Archaeology" was published in 1993, the scientific world was shocked by its extensive evidence for extreme human antiquity—pushing the origin of the human race back tens of millions of years. "Forbidden Archeology's …
Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete
Since their rediscovery in the early 1900s, Minoans have been defined by a series of cultural traits: elegance, gracefulness and sophistication, lovers of nature, in harmony with their neighbors. But how far does the later work of archaeologists …
The Archaeology of Identity: Approaches to Gender, Age, Status, Ethnicity and Religion
The "Archaeology of Identity "presents an overview of five of the key areas which have recently emerged in archaeological social theory: gender, age, ethnicity, religion and status. This book reviews the research history of each area, and the …
Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context
Cave archaeology in the New World, now a focus of intense research, was still a peripheral area of inquiry just fifteen years ago. Stone Houses and Earth Lords is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the use of caves in the Maya lowlands, …
Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America
This revolutionary archeological synthesis argues an alternative model of the earliest human population of North America. E. James Dixon dispels the stereotype of big-game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge and paints a …