Archaeology

Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1986 xix, 629 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, 110-page glossary. Out-of-print in hardback. This seminal book reports the state-of-the-art in the archaeology and prehistory of Japan by presenting both original research and reflections by leading scholars on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Reviewers have been unanimous in their high praise for this volume: "a monumental work;" "unprecedented in both its scale and the number of information papers;" "it will remain a milestone for many, many years to come;" "no scholar interested in the history . . . and cultures [of] East Asia can afford to be without this important new text;" "this will, without doubt, be THE book in English on the subject for years to come." Divided into 5 parts (each introduced by one of the editors) and accompanied by an extensive glossary. CONTENTS: PART 1: Background. 1) Vegetation in prehistoric Japan: the last 20,000 years [Matsuo]. 2) Almost archaeology: early archaeological interest in Japan [Bleed]. PART 2: Race, Language, and Culture: Japanese Identity. 3) The origin of the Japanese in relation to other ethnic groups in East Asia [Hanihara]. 4) Physical anthropology of the prehistoric Japanese [Howells]. 5) Linguistic evidence and Japanese prehistory [Miller]. 6) Relationships between Japan and Asai in ancient times: introductory comments [Higuchi]. 7) Mounded tombs in East Asia from the 3rd to the 7th centuries A.D. [Okauchi]. 8) Continental culture and Hokkaido [Kikuchi]. 9) Convergence and common heritage: some parallels in the archaeology of Japan and western North America [Aikins and Dumond]. PART 3: Prehistory, Culture, History, and Society. 10) The paleolithic age of Japan in the context of East Asia: a brief introduction [Serizawa]. 11) Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene technologies [Ikawa-Smith]. 12) The origins and characteristics of Jomon ceramic culture: a brief introduction [Esaka]. 13) Community habitation and food gathering in prehistoric Japan: an ethnographic interpretation of the archaeological evident [Watanabe]. 14) Clay figurines and Jomon society [Nagamine]. 15) Jomon shell mounds and growth-line analysis of molluscan shells [Koike]. 16) Discriminant function analysis of later Jomon settlements [Akazawa and Maeyama]. 17) Rules of residence in the Jomon period, based on the analysis of tooth extraction [Harunari]. 18) The evidence for social change between the Early and Late Yayoi [Kanaseki]. 19) The keyhole tumulus and its relationship to earlier forms of burial [Kondo]. 20) Political interpretations of stone coffin production in protohistoric Japan [Wada]. 21) Two inscribed swords from Japanese tumuli: discoveries and research on finds from the Sakitama-Inariyama and Eta-Funayama tumuli [Anazawa and Manome]. 22) Reflections on the development of historical archaeological in Japan [Yamamoto]. 23) Cultural contacts between Japan and China as reflected by Tang Sansai [Kamei]. PART 4: Typological Studies in Japanese Archaeology. 24) A study of Late Early Jomon Culture in the Tone River area [Nishimura]. 25) The structure of Yayoi and Haji ceramic typologies [Barnes]. PART 5: Japanese Cultural Resource Management. 26) Problems concerning the preservation of archaeological sites in Japan [Tsuboi]. 27) Trends in administrative salvage archaeology [Kobayashi]. Book in as new condition except for a short, illegible, 2-word pen inscription on the rear free endpaper and very minor shelf soiling to bottom of book block. Very minor overall rubbing to dustjacket. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 29 x 23 cm. more information

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Serdicae (Sofia), Bulgaria: Academia Litterarum Bulgarica [Jusautor Publishers], 1980 301 pp. Illustrations, maps, footnotes. This scarce book in this series (an occasional publication) contains contributions in French, English, German, and Russian. CONTENTS: Nécropole tumulaire près de village Belogradec du VIIe s. av. n.ère [Tonceva]. Thrakische Sprachreste im Bulgarischen Einleitung [Vlahov]. Nekotorye aspekty deleniia dvusostavnykh frakiiskikh lichnykh imen [Boiadzhiev]. Zolotoi nagrudnik iz Tolstoi mogily [Mantsevich]. Srednee Podnestrov'e i Nizhnee Pedunav'e v predskifskoe vremia [Smirnova]. Samothrace and its peraia (from the 7th till 3rd century B.C.) [Markov]. Die Tradition in den Absidenbauten in Bulgarien [Nikolov]. Les rites funéraires pendant l'age du bronze en Bulgarie [Katincarov]. Bronze rapiers, swords and double axes from Bulgaria [Panayotov]. On the etymology of Deultum [Todorov]. Imitations de monnaies antiques du Ive s.av.n. ére faites en Bulgarie [Jouroukova]. Thrakische Gruft aus der Frühhelenistischen Zeit im Sakargebirge [Dimitrova]. Témoignages archéologiques sur les Thraces pendant la basse antiquité [Stanceva]. La montagne Orbélos selon Claude Ptolémée [Spiridonov]. On the ethno-cultural aspect of the Thracians in the Late Antiquity [Miteva]. L'unité de mesure de longueur dans les constructions thraces [Vasileva]. CONDITION: Light overall rubbing and soiling to cloth covers. Several tiny holes in cloth along side edge of rear board. Small bumps to lower corners of boards.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 25 x 18 cm. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927 xv, 243, v (index). Plates, illustrations, bibliographical footnotes, index. This volume continues the author's survey and analysis, begun in the book "Villanovans and Early Etruscans," of the Iron Age in Italy. It discusses Northern Italy (Venetia and Lombardy), Central Italy (Picenum and Part of Umbria), and Southern Italy (Sicily, Campania, Calabria, Apulia). CONDITION: Edges of pages untrimmed. Pages moderately darkened due to age. Light overall handling wear: bumps to corners and some light fraying at extremities. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24 x 29 cm. more information

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Denver, CO: Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 1938. 54 pp. Bibliography, appendix, 12 photographic plates. Double-sided text in typescript. This report, which continues the investigations discussed in the Seventh Report (1933), reviews the 1935-1937 archaeological surveys (from the Second and Third Denver-Wyoming Expeditions) focusing on the palaeolithic Black's Fork Culture in Southwestern Wyoming. Light overall rubbing, soiling and discoloration to stapled card covers. Light wear to all edges and corners. Brittle paper along spine chipped at ends. Abbreviated title written neatly along spine. Former owner's last name stamped on front card cover and written on first leaf.. First Edition. Paperback. 22 x 28 cm. more information

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Denver, CO: Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 1935 Four reports bound together (mimeographed typescript manuscripts). 1) Reconnaisance Work in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, Colorado and New Mexico, Season 1942 (Archaeological Series, 3rd Paper) [pub. 1942; 35 pp.; bibliography, 1 plate]. 2) Archaeological Sites of the Chucara Drainage, Southern Colorado (co-author Janet Chatin; pub. 1943; Archaeological Series, 4th Paper) [62 pp.; bibliography, 4 plates]. 3) The Archaeological Survey of the High Western Plains, Seventh Report, Summer 1935 (pub. 1935) [21 pp.; 2 plates]. 4) Archaeological Survey of the High Western Plains, Ninth Report, Seasons 1929, 1934 and 1935 (pub. 1937) [67 pp.; bibliography, 1 plate]. Bound in utilitarian, undecorated, black cloth covers. "Denver University Reports" and "Renaud" written neatly on spine. CONDITION: Cloth along spine lightly sunned. Light overall handling wear. Cloth puckering in several places (due to binding, not dampness). OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 22 x 28 cm. more information

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Denver, CO: Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, 1938. 93 pp. Figures, bibliography, 3 photographic plates. Double-sided text in typescript. This report continues the investigations (begun in the Seventh and Tenth Reports (1933 and 1938)), reviews the archaeological surveys (from the Fourth and Fifth Denver-Wyoming Expeditions) focusing on the palaeolithic Black's Fork Culture in Southwestern Wyoming. Light overall rubbing, soiling and discoloration to stapled card covers. Light wear to all edges and corners. Creasing to one plate. Superficial water stain to upper outside corners of front and back card covers (also appears to slightly affect first interior leaf). Brittle paper along spine chipped. Abbreviated title written neatly along spine. Former owner's last name stamped on front card cover. Former owner's typewritten "Remarks on Renaud's Material" included (single loose sheet).. First Edition. Paperback. 22 x 28 cm. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. An authorized reprint of an article from "The Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens," vol. 61 (1967). pp. 33-112. Plates, maps (one fold-out), illustrations, bibliographical footnotes, list of sites (on separate card). A survey of the results of archaeological fieldwork conducted by the authors of primarily Bronze Age sites on Euboea, an island in the southwest Peloponnese. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Bound in card covers with light overall wear, including some light bumps to corners. Gift inscription in upper corner of front cover.. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 25 x 19 cm. more information

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Mackinac Island, MI: Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1985 Scarce. iv, 218 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography. This out-of-print study examines the zooarchaeological remains discarded by the French and British inhabitants of Fort Michilimackinac during the eighteenth century, from its earliest occupation by French missionaries (the Mission of St. Ignace de Michilimackinac, c. 1715-1730s) through the British period (1761-1781). CONDITION: Very light overall handling wear.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 28 x 22 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1984 As new. 27 pp. 12 plates, bibliography. A summary history of African archaeology by an archaeologist. CONDITION: In stapled card covers. As new.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Maputo, Mozambique, and Stockholm, Sweden: Eduardo Mondlane University and Riksantikvarieämbetet (Central Board of National Antiquities), 1987 96 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, appendices, summary in Portuguese. CONTENTS: Introduction; Site description; Previous work; Data collection; Finds; Simulated distribution of finds; Discussion. Minor overall rubbing to card covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 25 x 17 cm. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951 xvi, 111 pp. 18 monochrome plates, textual line illustrations, 3 folding maps, footnotes, bibliography, appendices. This scholarly monograph analyzes Late Bronze-age Mycenaean ceramics excavated from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt. Comparative chapters, relying on previously published studies (esp. Furumark's classification), are also included for similar ceramics in Rhodes, Cyprus, and Mycenaean Greece. CONDITION: Light overall rubbing to cloth covers; small shelf bump across top edges of both boards. Dustjacket lightly discolored and soiled; chipped along edges; tears to front (6 cm and 2 cm) and rear (1.5 cm) edges. Internally, pages uniformly toned and in excellent condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 26 x 20 cm. more information

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American Antiquity / Society for American Archaeology, 1975 v, 131 pp. Figures, references. CONTENTS: Preface. Population, disease, and evolution [Armelagos and McArdle]. The carrying capacity dilemma [Hayden]. Population growth and settlement pattern in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts, 1650-1850 [Swedlund]. A preliminary report on new research on man-land relations in Aboriginal Australia [Birdsell]. Age differentials between spouses and Australian marriage systems [Williams]. Discussion. Demographic disturbance and the use of life tables in anthropology [Weiss]. The use of life tables in paleodemography [Moore, Swedlund and Armelagos]. Population dynamics at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona [Longacre]. The demography of finite populations and the origins of the incest taboo [Wobst]. Human population dynamics in archaeological time: Some simple models [Harpending and Bertram]. Discussion. Demographic studies in Southwestern prehistory [Plog]. Alternative cultural models for demographic change: Southwestern examples [Gumerman]. The cybernetic analysis of human population growth [Blanton]. Population pressure as a non-explanation [Cowgill]. Discussion. Page iii is loose and has been somewhat crudely taped into the book. Minor overall rubbing to card covers. Light crease to lower corner of rear cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 18 x 26 cm. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978 xxxii, 493 pp. + plates. Maps, plates, folding chronological chart, bibliography, index of biblical references, general index. Originally published in 1967 and reprinted in 1969 and 1978. This volume presents a series of essays by archaeologists discussing specific Old Testament sites in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria, and Palestine. Ex-library copy with usual library markings (stamped "withdrawn"). Spine and top of front board moderately sunned. Light wear to edges of boards. Pages darkened due to age.. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 14 x 23 cm. more information

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Serdicae (Sofia), Bulgaria: Academia Litterarum Bulgarica [Jusautor Publishers], 1985 262 pp. Illustrations, maps, footnotes. This scarce book in this series (an occasional publication) contains selected presentations from the 15th Eirene conference held in Nesebar, 2-6 October 1978; contributions in German, French, Russian, English, and Latin. CONTENTS: Les esclaves et les rapports agraires de l'Ancien Orient (Selon les données de la législation cunéiforme) [Popov]. Rimskie bronzovye sosudy v Vostochnoi Evrope [Shelov]. Zur sozialen Lage der landwirtschaftlichen Producenten im Makedonien der hellenistischen Epoche [Kreissig]. L'Asie Mineure et la Méditerranée dans la politique des Parthes [Wolski]. Cicero de agricultura et legibus agrariis quid censuerit [Wikarjak]. De Probleme des "fundus suburbanus" bei Cato [Maróti]. Agrarian and social conditions in Italy in the last century B.C. [Havas]. Organizatsiia sel'skogo khoziaistva v Rimskoi Frakii [Nikolov]. Kolonenwirtschaft und Kolonat [Johne]. Notes sur l'économie des villa en Thrace et en Mésie [Dremsizova-Nelcinova]. Un aspect peu connu de la politique de Rome à l'égard du Bospore sous le règne d'Auguste [Dabrowa]. Etiolingvisticheskaia setuatsiia v Tomi vo vremia ssylki Ovediia [Podosinov]. Frakiiskie peshchernye poseleniia v Strandzhe [Teoklieva]. O sisteme oborony akropolia Pantikapeia [Tolstikov]. Tiurzis vo Frakii [Balabanov]. Der Iphigenie-Krater in Varna--ein Restitutionsstück [Schindler]. Burial customs and riturals s evidenced in Thracian necropolises in the regions of the Greek colonies on the western Black Sea coast [Kilitanova-Komitova]. Römische Statdtstrassen von Anchialos [Saselov]. Gnosticheskie gemmy s iuga SSSR [Neverov]. Die Principia des spätrömischen Limeskastells Iatrus (Moesia inferior) [Döhle]. Spetsifeka poeticheskikh tropov v gimnakh Kallimakha [Zav'ialova]. K voprocu o poeticheskoi grammatike gomerovskogo iazyka [Slaviatinskaia]. Die literarischen Schicksale derAgathyrsen [Borszak]. "Pis'ma Anakharsisa" i problema edinstva antichnogo mira [Nakhov]. Semanticheskaia spetsefika imen, oboznachaiushchekh protsessy myshleniia v sol'nomelicheskoi i deklamatsionnoi poezii VII-VI vv. do n. e. [Savel'eva]. Le syntagme adjectif+infinitif dans les Carmina Latina epigraphica [Popova]. Quelques considérations sur les témoignages d'Apollonius de Rhodes dans ses "Argonautiques" [Dimitrov]. Sallusts Angaben ber die Donau und die angrenzenden Germanen (zu hist. Fr. 3, 79, 80. 96 D. 104; 4, 40) [Perl]. Der Brief von Ovid an den Thrakischen Konig Kotys [Gandeva]. The change of functions of the Latin and Greek languages in the final period of Roman law [Scillag]. "Ich fragte sie au thrakisch" [Werner]. Der Flussname "Tonzos" und der Frikativlaut Z im Thrakischen [Duridanov]. War Konstantinopel im IV. Jahrhundert eine lateinischen Sprachinsel? [Salamon]. La langue albanaise dans les documents latins [Kacori]. Light overall wear to cloth covers. Tiny nick in cloth at side edge of rear board.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 25 x 18 cm. more information

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