Browse by Subject: Anthropology and Archaeology

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Cemetery Protections in Urban Environments: Archaeology, Preservation, and the Law

This book illuminates the role of the law in the protection and preservation of urban cemetery spaces, providing a history and analysis of cemetery site protections in the United States and discussing how to prevent future damage and development in these landscapes of grieving and cultural memory.

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The Mann Phase: Hopewell Culture in Southwestern Indiana

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Mann site in southwestern Indiana, which dates to 200-600 CE and is one of the most consequential but enigmatic archaeological sites of the Middle Woodland period.

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The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.

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Roman Bioarchaeology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World

In this book, researchers use human skeletal remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history.

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An Archaeology of Woodland Transformation: Social Movements, Identities, and Pottery Production on the Gulf Coast

In this book, Jessica Jenkins provides a detailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in the Lower Suwannee region of Florida’s Gulf Coast, drawing on ceramic analysis techniques to explore a period of transformative change.

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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban SanterĂ­a: Speaking a Sacred World

Examining the religious lives of Santería practitioners in Santiago de Cuba, this book explores how practitioners of different backgrounds create and maintain religious communities.

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Monuments and Memory: Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of history to future generations.

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The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila: A Hybrid City in Global History

This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.

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Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World: Bioarchaeological Perspectives

In this volume, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists examine the ways social inequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in ancient Greece.

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Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Iximché

This book reconstructs the history of Iximche, the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in highland Guatemala, based on archaeological and ethnohistorical information.