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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history--more than five thousand years of complicated history--all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in...
Author
Publisher
Southwater
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This is a unique book for the practical archeaologist, going beyond the initial discovery and excavation to the key processes of analysis that take place in the next stages. Discover what happens post dig, how all the information is linked together and analyzed, and the different people involved in the process. Learn how to study artefacts to provide dating evidence and the range of techniques used including dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating....
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
Author
Series
Culture and history of the ancient Near East volume Volume 120
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"How many female Viking warriors does it take to make a fact? When archaeologist Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson discovers that the bones contained in the most significant Viking warrior grave ever opened are in fact female, she and her team upend centuries of historically accepted conclusions and ignite a furious debate around the reality of female Viking warriors and the role of gender in both ancient and modern times. In The Bones of Birka, author...
13) Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995-2010): areas A, J, F, H, D and L, final report
Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Series
Archaeological volume 20
Publisher
International Monographs in Prehistory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Archeological report volume no. 12
Publisher
Dept. of Argriculture, Forest Service, Southwestern Region
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Series
Archeological report volume no. 8
Publisher
Dept. of Argiculture, Forest Service, Southwestern Region
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English