New Books in Archaeology
Interviews with Archaeologists about their New Books
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- Interviews with Archaeologists about their New Books
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- last modified
- 2024-11-24 16:38
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- 2024-11-24 09:00
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- 31.47 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-24 |
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024) When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at âthe edge of the worldâ lost its permanent population after five millennia. It has long been accepted that the islandersâ failu... |
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| 2024-10-28 | In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduct... |
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| 2024-09-30 |
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020) Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders of their urban centres in the Nile Valley. Regarded as angels and warriors, the wisdom of the Desert As... |
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| 2024-09-29 |
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024) From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world w... |
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| 2024-09-15 | 'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required. The adjective 'wicked' describes the... |
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| 2024-09-14 |
Theodore Papakostas, "How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator" (William Collins, 2024) Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isnât. A simple question, âWhat do you do?â, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that weaves a fascinating tale. In How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator (William... |
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| 2024-07-30 | Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. Where Men No... |
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| 2024-05-19 | Archaeology as a discipline has undergone significant changes over the past decades, in particular concerning best practices for how to handle the vast quantities of data that the discipline generates. As Shaping Archaeological Archives: Dialogues betw... |
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| 2024-05-01 |
Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024) In Xiongnu: The Worldâs First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xiongnu empire, which controlled the Eastern Eurasian steppe from ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. Through a close ... |
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| 2024-03-31 | Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehi... |
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