Tag: Archaeology

Free Download The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes by Geoff Bailey
English | EPUB | 2020 | 521 Pages | ISBN : 3030373665 | 192.4 MB
This volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with unique conditions of preservation.

Free Download Innes McCartney, "Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet"
English | 2019 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 1472828909 | PDF | 167,7 mb
Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney solves the mysterious fate of the lost ships of Jutland and reveals – for the first time – the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

Free Download Archaeology: An Introduction to the World’s Greatest Sites by Eric H. Cline, The Great Courses
English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01FMS6W92 | 12 hours and 37 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 171 Mb
The work of archaeologists has commanded worldwide attention and captivated the human imagination since the earliest days of exploration, with groundbreaking discoveries such as the treasures of ancient Egypt, the lost kingdoms of the Maya, and the fabled city of Troy. Archaeology brings us face-to-face with our distant ancestors, with treasures of the past, and with life as it was lived in long-ago civilizations.
Despite the fascinating and often romantic appeal of archaeology, many of us have little idea of what the field actually involves. What, exactly, do archaeologists do? What takes place on an archaeological dig? And how does the reality of the work differ from what we see in Indiana Jones movies?

Free Download Soul Archaeology: A (Totally Doable) Approach to Creating a Self-Loving and Liberated Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV4SYS2J | 2023 | 11 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Sarah Sapora
Narrator: Sarah Sapora
With the help of this powerful guidebook, meet your ultimate You and cultivate real self-acceptance and true self-love in the present moment. You want to love yourself. You want to let go of feeling invisible or unworthy or alone. You want to break free of others’ expectations (and your own) and live life on your terms. Let’s do it! Soul Archaeology begins with a simple, illuminating question: "What’s hurting me right now?" Acting as your guide, Sapora helps you through the sticky, liberating process of self-discovery to uncover your Ultimate You. Weaving together practical, transformative guidance with her own deeply personal narrative, Soul Archaeology teaches listeners to cast off the chains of traditional Before-and-After thinking so often found in self-improvement. Instead, it offers a strategy for self-accountability, honesty, and compassion that can help each of us to grow into our greatest selves-a person not defined by weight or age, but by our commitment to a more loving, honest, and powerful life.

Free Download Dr Sara Rich, "Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology: Flat Ontologies, Oceanic Thought, and the Anthropocene"
English | ISBN: 9464270403 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 24 MB
While terrestrial archaeology has engaged with contemporary philosophy, maritime archaeology has remained in comparative disciplinary – or subdisciplinary – isolation. However, the issues that humans face in the Anthropocene – from global warming to global pandemics – call for transdisciplinary cooperation, and for thinking together beyond the confines of the human-centered philosophical tradition. Growing areas such as the "blue humanities" and "oceanic thinking" draw directly on our maritime past, even as they ponder the future. Theoretically engaged maritime archaeologists could contribute significantly to these areas of thought, as this volume demonstrates. The essays collected here serve as jumping off point, which opens new ways for maritime archaeologists to engage with the most important problems of our time and to benefit from the new insights offered by object-oriented and flat ontologies. The book gathers the analytical thinking of archaeologists, philosophers, marine biologists, and media theorists, and pushes those observations deep into the maritime realm.

Free Download The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West by Jean-Paul Demoule
2023 | ISBN: 0197683282, 019750647X | English | 584 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 8 + 52 MB
The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous traits, has been demonstrated for several centuries now. But the underlying factors for this shared heritage have been fiercely debated by linguists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The leading theory, of which countless variations exist, argues that this similarity is best explained by the existence, at one given point in time and space, of a common language and corresponding population. This ancient, prehistoric, population would then have diffused across Eurasia, eventually leading to the variation observed in historical and modern times.

Free Download Swadhin Sen, "The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Medieval South Asia"
English | ISBN: 1138320927 | 2022 | 406 pages | PDF | 162 MB
This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the theories and methods of archaeology are largely ignored in and excluded from the dominating, institutionalized, and hegemonic disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights, polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do this and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology of the alluvial landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, and sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional, and supra-regional intersections.

Free Download Brooke Knorr, "American Biblical Archaeology and Zionism "
English | ISBN: 1032283203 | 2022 | 160 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book examines the relationship between several of the most prominent American biblical archaeologists and Zionism. While these scholars have been studied and historicized to some extent, little work has been done to understand their role in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Free Download The Archaeology of the Royal Flying Corps: Trench Art, Souvenirs and Lucky Mascots by Melanie Winterton
English | October 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1399097261 | 176 pages | PDF (Converted) | 10 Mb
Archaeology provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the aviators of the First World War. Their descriptions of the sensation of flying in the open cockpits of the primitive warplanes of the day, and the artifacts that have survived from these first years of aerial combat, give us a powerful sense of what their wartime service was like and chart the beginning of our modern understanding of aviation. But the subject hasn’t been explored in any depth before, which is why Melanie Winterton’s pioneering book is so timely. Hers is the first study of the trench art, souvenirs and lucky mascots associated with the Royal Flying Corps which, in an original way, tell us so much about the experience of flying on the Western Front a century ago.

Free Download Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics By Takeshi Inomata (editor), Lawrence S. Coben (editor)
2006 | 348 Pages | ISBN: 0759108765 | PDF | 28 MB
Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are as important economics and politics in understanding how ancient communities work. Without sacrificing conceptual rigor, the contributors draw on the wide-ranging literature on performance. Without sacrificing material evidence, they try to see how performance creates meaning and ideology. Drawing on evidence from societies large and small, Archaeology of Performance offers an important new ways of understanding ancient theaters of power.