An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

THE DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 'Even better than before, the Dictionary is an
essential tool for all human geographers and over the years has provided an invaluable …

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Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt
than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era …

What is historical archaeology and why is it important? Well-known archaeologist Barbara
Little addresses these key questions for introductory students in this concise, inexpensive …

More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these
urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that …

▪ Abstract History is of critical importance for anthropology because, in human affairs, the
present is intimately linked to the past. Archaeology is important to the study of history …

The practice of historical archaeology has exploded over the past two decades, and
especially since 2000. Methodological advances and new theoretical insights mean that …

This volume provides an important new synthesis of archaeological work carried out in
Australia on the post-contact period. It draws on dozens of case studies from a wide …

The theory and methods of space syntax can help to rebalance the prevailing cultural
perspective, which views maps as ideological representations, with an analytical approach …