Archaeology

30 Mar 2023 10:46

Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder

(I should probably create a notebook for the pre-historic southwest...) See also: C. J. Cherryh; Central Asia; Cities and Urbanism; Historical Genetics; Historical Materalism; History; Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology; The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Dark Age; Maya Civilization; Memes and Cultural Evolution; Mesopotamia; Social Science Methodology; Sociology; World History, Macrohistory

Daniel Glyn and Colin Renfrew, The Idea of Prehistory
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy, Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage [A bunch of archaeologists start excavating modern American garbage dumps, with surprising results. A proper archaeological dissection of modern America would be a fascinating and I suspect frightening and unpublishable thing.]
Colin Renfew and Paul Bahn, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice [Excellent introductory textbook; somebody stole my copy.]

Guillermo Algaze, "The Sumerian Takeoff", Structure and Dynamics 1 (2005): forthcoming [See comments under Mesopotamia]
Samuel Bowles and Jung-Kyoo Choi, "Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 110 (2013): 8830--8835
Nicholas Clapp, The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands ["Weeks later, a courteous yet understandably skeptical American Express agent allowed that losing-one's-checks-while-paying-a-ransom-for-goats-frightened-to-death was surely the most unusual explanation he had ever heard."]
Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris, Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and the Evidence [Review]
John Kantner, Ancient Puebloan Southwest
E. C. Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power
Amy Dockser Marcus, The View from Nebo [Popular survey of recent-in-2000 Biblical archaeology]
Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, W. R. Haas, Jr., John M. Roberts, Jr., J. Brett Hill, Deborah L. Huntley, Lewis Borck, Ronald L. Breiger, Aaron Clauset, and M. Steven Shackley, "Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest", PNAS forthcoming (2013)
Colin Renfrew, Prehistory: Making of the Human Mind
Lynne Sebastian, The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest
David Wengrow, The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

W. Alva and C. B. Donnan, Royal Tombs of Sipan
David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (eds.), The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000--3500 B.C.
Andrew W. Baggaley, Richard J. Boys, Andrew Golightly, Graeme R. Sarson, and Anvar Shukurov, "Inference for population dynamics in the Neolithic period", Annals of Applied Statistics 6 (2012): 1352--1376
Brian Bracegirdle, The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution (1973)
David L. Carlson, Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Using R
Matthew A. Chamberlin, "Symbolic Conflict and the Spatiality of Traditions in Small-scale Societies", Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16 (2006): 39--51
V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself
Grahame Clark, Archaeology and Society: Reconstructing the Prehistoric Past
Graham Connah, African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective
George L. Cowgill, "Origins and Development of Urbanism: Archaeological Perspective", Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004)
John Darlington, Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
Robert Drews, The End of the Bronze Age
Kenneth L. Feder, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas (eds.), Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies [Review by Donald C. Haggis in American Scientist]
Chris Gosden, Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present
Charles Higham, The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia
Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology [3rd ed. 2003]
John Janusek, Ancient Tiwanaku
Justin Jennings, Globalizations and the Ancient World
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime
Carl Knappett (ed.), >Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction
Kristian Kristiansen, Europe Before History ["Attempts to explain why societies of the European Bronze Age, while producing elaborate artifacts and trading across the whole of Europe, were economically and politically undiversified. Most coherent overview of this period of European prehistory."]
Nayanjot Lahiri, Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered
Mark E. Madsen, "Unbiased Cultural Transmission in Time-Averaged Archaeological Assemblages", arxiv:1204.2043
Herbert Donald Graham Maschner (ed.), Darwinian Archaeologies
Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5,000 BC [Review in American Scientist]
Michael J. O'Kelly, Newgrange: Archaeology, Art and Legend
Adrian Praetzellis, Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaelogical Theory
Neil Price (ed.), The Archaeology of Shamanism
Himanshu Prabha Ray, Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia
Stephen Shennan, Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution
Adam T. Smith, The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities
Michael E. Smith, "The Archaeology of Ancient State Economies", Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004)
Michael E. Smith, Gary M. Feinman, Robert D. Drennan, Timothy Earle, and Ian Morris, "Archaeology as a social science", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 109 (2012): 7617--7621
Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies
Trigger, Artifacts and Ideas
Vera Warmuth, Anders Eriksson, Mim Ann Bower, Graeme Barker, Elizabeth Barrett, Bryan Kent Hanks, Shuicheng Li, David Lomitashvili, Maria Ochir-Goryaeva, Grigory V. Sizonov, Vasiliy Soyonov, and Andrea Manica, "Reconstructing the origin and spread of horse domestication in the Eurasian steppe", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 109 (2012): 8202--8206
Peter S. Wells, How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times [Sounds like heroic over-interpretation from the blurb, but "to be shot after a fair trial"]
Rita Wright, Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy and Society
Xiaohong Wu, Chi Zhang, Paul Goldberg, David Cohen, Yan Pan, Trina Arpin, and Ofer Bar-Yosef, "Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China", Science 336 (2012): 1696--1700
Norman Yoffee, Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations [Review in Science]