Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

Deep learning is a powerful tool for exploring large datasets and discovering new patterns.
This work presents an account of a metric learning-based deep convolutional neural …

Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean?
This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in …

The two fundamental words and concepts that have come to delineate the field of cultural
materials conservation—conservation and restoration—represent an essential tension in …

This book is the start of a conversation. It brings together a disparate group of people who,
while working alone, have also begun to ask questions that are of relevance to each other …

This volume forms a collection of papers tracking the emergence of the history of
archaeology from a subject of marginal status in the 1980s to the mainstream subject which …

Today Swedish archaeology and cultural heritage management are embraced by the
xenophobic party Sweden Democrats. This is a problematic situation, and once again it is …

Olov Janse was an archaeologist with a remarkable life. From his birth in Sweden 1892 to
his death in the United States 1985, he travelled several times across the world and was …

Wenn über die Kolonialisierung der Welt geschrieben wird, steht zumeist im Vordergrund,
was die Europäer den Weltregionen an Fortschritt und Zivilisation brachten. Tatsächlich …

The impact of 'global'archaeology on 'local'communities that live upon or beside
archaeological sites is a question of great importance and an emerging topic in …