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Explores how some of North America's earliest people used the Rocky Mountain landscape 10,000 to 7,500 years ago. Based on research comparing more than 600 painstakingly documented late Paleoindian projectile points from Colorado and Utah, this book reveals profound regional differences along three axes of projectile point variability.
The Carnegie Institution of Washington sponsored archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical investigations in the Maya region of southern Mexico and northern Central America between 1914 and 1957. This is a set of reports from Carnegie Institution's Maya program that collects hundreds of documents from a World archaeological project.
The Carnegie Institution of Washington sponsored archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical investigations in the Maya region of southern Mexico and northern Central America between 1914 and 1957. This set of reports from Carnegie Institution's Maya program collects in one CD-ROM hundreds of documents from an archaeological project.
This encyclopedic work covers some of the major discoveries throughout ancient Mesoamerica from the last 100 years. The results of previous and continuing research and explorations, plus recent interpretations of ancient cultures and new work at archaeological sites in Mesoamerica are summarized here.
In this volume are six papers, presented at the ASOR Jubilee Symposium in November 1997, which reveal the current state of Dead Sea Scrolls research and the tremendous impact it is having on biblical studies and on our understanding of Early Christianity, and First-Century Judaism.
Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology and ancient landscapes. This book contains papers that were selected from the 34th Chacmool Archaeological Conference to examine human interaction with the environment.
An illustrated instructional guide that explains the examination and analysis of stone tools and stone-tool sites anywhere in the world. It explores the production, function, and context of stone tools to understand how human cultures used lithic tools at particular sites and to give readers the practical skills for lithic and site analysis.
This volume of RIM focuses on the Second Dynasty of Lagas, and concentrates mainly on the inscriptions of Cylinders A and B of the most important king of that dynasty, Gudea.
Part of an occasional series covering a range of topics relating to the Arabian Peninsula, including religion, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture and language. Each volume provides authoritative information and presents the results of new observations and original research.
A panoramic overview of Mayan civilization, interweaving essays by experts in the field with illustrations of the objects that the Mayan people left behind. The book illuminates topics including cities, architecture, script, the calendar, gods, ceramics, murals, trade, politics and the Maya today.