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Exploring Human Behavior Through Isotope Analysis

Melanie M. Beasley , Andrew D. Somerville

This edited volume compiles a series of chapters written by experts of isotopic analysis in order to highlight the utility of various isotope systems in the reconstruction of past human behaviors. Rather than grouping contributions by specific isotopes or analytical...



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Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America

André Carlo Colonese , Rafael Guedes Milheira

This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and landscape diversity.This geographic area has supported human populations since at least the transition from the...



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Isotopic Proveniencing and Mobility

T. Douglas Price

This volume provides a state-of-the-art presentation and discussion of procedures, especially what works and what doesn’t — on isotopic proveniencing, learned over the last 30 years. The volume focuses on application, not method, to emphasize to the reader the wide...



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Prehistoric Herders and Farmers

Ethel Allué , Patricia Martín , Josep Maria Vergès

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the El Mirador cave located on the Atapuerca karstic system, one of the longest Pleistocene and Holocene archaeopaleontological deposits in Iberia.This book presents the results including new unpublished and...



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Origins of Cattle Traction and the Making of Early Civilisations in North China

Minghao Lin

This book is the first to apply systematic palaeopathological, archaeological and historical investigations (using bones as a focus as well as other supporting lines of information) to Chinese osteological materials in order to answer the question about the origins of...



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Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Karina Grömer , Magdalena Öhrman , Agata Ulanowska , Ina Vanden Berghe

The diverse developments in textile research of the last decade, along with the increased recognition of the importance of textile studies in adjacent fields, now merit a dedicated, full-length publication entitled “Ancient Textile...



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Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas

Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk , Shannon Tushingham

This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts...



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Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes

Nicholas Tripcevich , Kevin J. Vaughn

?Over the millennia, from stone tools among early foragers to clays to prized metals and mineral pigments used by later groups, mineral resources have had a pronounced role in the Andean world. Archaeologists have used a variety of analytical techniques on the materials...



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