Many societies use architecture for symbolic expression, and often buildings or other
constructions constitute maps of a culture's worldview. Archaeological identification of such …

Regional studies are of growing importance in anthropology. There is a continuing need for
expansion of spatial and temporal frameworks for the study of many aspects of human …

Rapoport is concerned with the meanings which buildings, their contents, and their
inhabitants convey, and the conclusions which can be drawn therefrom for procedures of …

Space and place together define the nature of geography. Spatial analysis or the
explanation of spatial organisation is at the forefront of geographical research. Geographers …

Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-
political processes-notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material …

This book is about a new and different way of approaching and studying the history of the
built environment and the use of historical precedents in design. However, although what I …

Mesoamerica has become one of the world's most important areas for research into the
emergence of complex human societies. Between 10,000 years ago and the arrival of the …

In the second century AD, Corinth was the largest city in Roman Greece. A center of
learning, culture, and commerce, it served as the capital of the senatorial province of Achaea …

Three major agricultural revolutions, each closely associated with the origins of great
civilizations, have occurred within the last 10,000 years. These subsistence changes …

The Greek island of Melos in the Cyclades has been inhabited for at least five thousand
years. Two periods of its history are well documented: the late Bronze Age, when it …