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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Evaluating myths, sagas, and legends -- Debunking the "lost races" myth -- Did the Norse beat Columbus to the Americas? -- King Solomon's mines -- Complementing historical evidence -- The confederate submarine, H.L. Hunley -- The "poor" potter of Yorktown, Virginia -- Nuclear archaeology in the Nevada desert -- Enhancing cultural tourism and heritage awareness -- Mount Vernon and George Washington's whiskey distillery -- Kourion, a Roman town in Cyprus -- The World Heritage site of Stonehenge -- Collaborating with communities -- The Levi Jordan plantation project -- The Ozette site and the Makah Indian Nation -- Thurstan Shaw and Nigeria's enigmatic bronzes -- Pursuing an activist agenda -- Remembering the Ludlow Massacre -- Advocating for homeless people -- Promoting the electric car revival -- Reviving ancient technologies -- Chipped stone scalpels -- Raised-field agriculture in the Andes -- Ancient pots and modern potters in the American Southwest -- Managing cultural resources -- Federal agencies and cultural resource management -- Tribal archaeology : the Seminole Indians of Florida -- Archaeology in the city of Alexandria, Virginia -- Participating in judicial and diplomatic processes -- California Indians v. United States -- Antiquities acts and the looting of the GE Mound -- The international antiquities trade -- Doing fieldwork in a forensic context -- Solving a murder in the Midlands of England -- A Nazi-era mass grave in Ukraine -- Recovery of missing American military personnel -- Expanding the social sciences -- The Garbage Project -- The "material-culture turn" in the social sciences -- Undocumented migrants face the Arizona desert -- Contributing to the physical sciences and engineering -- The mysterious pigment : Maya blue -- Radiocarbon dating -- Nuclear waste disposal -- Bolstering biological sciences -- Origin of the domesticated sunflower -- The pygmy rabbit and applied zooarchaeology -- Microbiota of the human gut and coprolites -- Furnishing tools for environmental sciences -- Tree-ring dating and dendroclimatology -- Dating Sunset Crater -- Mass extinctions of animals : the human role -- Revealing our prehistoric past -- In the beginning -- From foragers to farmers -- The urban revolution. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social archaeology.
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Social archaeology. |
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Archaeology and history.
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Archaeology and history. |
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Archaeology -- History.
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Archaeology. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781607815334 1607815338 (DLC) 2016034793 (OCoLC)955275243 |
| ISBN |
9781607815341 (electronic book) |
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1607815346 (electronic book) |
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1607815346 |
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9781607815334 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1607815338 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40027000982 |
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