The Bible s grand narrative about Israel s Exodus from Egypt is central to Biblical religion Jewish Christian and Muslim identity and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic and popular... Lees meer.

There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things places an... Lees meer.

This book examines how computer-based programs can be used to acquire big digital cultural heritage data curate and disseminate it over the Internet and in 3D visualization platforms with the ultimate goal of creating long-lasting digital heritage repositories. Th... Lees meer.

This volume debuts the new scope of Remote Sensing which was first defined as the analysis of data collected by sensors that were not in physical contact with the objects under investigation using cameras scanners and radar systems operating from spaceborne or airb... Lees meer.

This volume debuts the new scope of Remote Sensing which was first defined as the analysis of data collected by sensors that were not in physical contact with the objects under investigation using cameras scanners and radar systems operating from spaceborne or airbo... Lees meer.

For more than three decades preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls this book argues that the privilege philology... Lees meer.

Where did we come from. To answer this question anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural perspectives. Human Antiquity offers an absorbing straightforward explanation of human origins and evolution by th... Lees meer.

This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hidden pre-colonial practices that might well help the... Lees meer.

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 Production from an Interdisciplinary P... Lees meer.

In reconstructing the birth and development of the notion of unconscious historians of ideas have heavily relied on the Freudian concept of Unbewussten retroactively projecting the psychoanalytic unconscious over a constellation of diverse cultural experiences taking... Lees meer.

There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things places an... Lees meer.

An archaeology of Western energy culture that demystifies the role that fossil fuels play in the day-to-day rituals of modern life. Spanning the past two hundred years this book offers an alternative history of modernity that restores to fossil fuels their central r... Lees meer.

This book locates the origins of the modern humanities in the philological practices of late 18th-century British scholars in colonial India offering a radical reappraisal of a range of disciplines and excavating hidden pre-colonial practices that might well help the... Lees meer.

This book looks inward to reveal and analyse problems in archaeology itself. The subject explored in this volume include. humanistic attributes of archaeology various archaeological theory challenges in the development of archaeology China Archaeology paradigms and... Lees meer.

This brief inexpensive introduction to the techniques methods and theoretical frameworks of contemporary archaeology follows the same organizing principle as the text Archaeology. Discovering Our Past but features less detail. Archaeological methods and theory are c... Lees meer.