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This textbook provides full coverage of archaeology in the Aztec and Maya areas, and refocuses ideas on writing, architecture, murals, and the Olmec.

This volume considers exciting new directions for considering an archaeology of religion, offering examples from theory, tangible archaeological remains, and ethnography.

Scholars from a wide range of disciplines assess the significance of Egypt within the settings of its past.

This second edition of the best-selling textbook and anthology, Reflecting on America, again focuses on American "mainstream" culture - from heroin addiction and Big Business's efforts to shape the identities of children to Civil War reenactments and the popularity of striptease burlesques in the Midwest.

Written by two presidents of the World Archaeological Congress, this volume introduces the readers to the various theoretical and methodological frameworks available for the social archaeology of the past and their implications for contemporary societies.

Assessing fifty years of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), passed in 1966, this volume examines the impact of this key piece of legislation on heritage practices in the United States. The editors and contributing authors summarize how we approached compliance in the past, how we approach it now, and how we may approach it in the future. Using case studies authored by well-known heritage professionals based in universities, private practice, tribes, and government, this volume provides a critical and constructive examination of the NHPA and its future prospects. Archaeology students and scholars, as well heritage professionals, should find this book of interest.

This book explores the history of children s toys and games bearing racial stereotypes, and the role these objects played in the creation and maintenance of structures of racialism and racism in the United States, from approximately 1865 to the 1930s."

This is the first summary of archaeological contributions to our understanding of the War of 1812. The contributors of original papers discuss recent excavations and field surveys that present an archaeological perspective that enriches-- and often conflicts with-received historical narratives.

In accessible, informed, and often humorous prose, the author examines contemporary medical, legal, and bioethical debates on death and dying, to argue that modern America is not a death-denying culture; on the contrary, we have placed issues regarding end-of-life at the very center of public conversations about what it means to be human.

Features articles on ICOMOS rules on dispute resolution, Section 47 of the Internal Revenue Code, risk and fair market value of antiquities, the visual artists rights act, and religious free exercise and historic preservation.

This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.

With contributions from 70 experienced practitioners from around the world, this second edition of the authoritative Handbook of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology provides a solid foundation in both the practical and ethical components of forensic work. The book weaves together the discipline¿s historical development; current field methods for analyzing crime, natural disasters, and human atrocities; an array of laboratory techniques; key case studies involving legal, professional, and ethical issues; and ideas about the future of forensic work--all from a global perspective. This fully revised second edition expands the geographic representation of the first edition by including chapters from practitioners in South Africa and Colombia, and adds exciting new chapters on the International Commission on Missing Persons and on forensic work being done to identify victims of the Battle of Fromelles during World War I.

This book presents a much-needed review of commercial closures for bottles and jars used in America prior to World War II.

This is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in North American archaeological sites.

This fascinating volume reviews Lower and Middle Pleistocene African prehistory and presents a model in which the onset of the Middle Stone Age (before 285,000 years ago) marks the origins of landscape use patterns resembling those of modern human foragers.

In the revised and updated second edition of The Tone of Teaching, bestselling author Max van Manen defines sound pedagogy for both teachers and parents as the ability to distinguish effectively between what is appropriate, and what is less appropriate, in our communications and dealings with children and young people.

In The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every level an original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots in the experience of in loco parentis.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

Why did ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa, demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs.

Rico's critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the post-destruction narratives that accompanied it, showing the sociocultural, historical, and political agendas these discourses raise.