Collection: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA is a premier research organization dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage through the documentation and publication of scholarly archaeological research. Specializing in producing high-quality academic volumes, the Press publishes about ten titles per year in seven different series.
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Economic Trends in China During the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)
About the middle of the first millennium BC, continental East Asia saw the rise of a market economy in which an urban culture developed. The following centuries were a time of unprecedented economic florescence. This book surveys the archaeological evidence of this transformation, following its d...
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A Foraging Nexus
This book explores domestic life at Dunefield Midden, South Africa, one of the world’s largest and best-preserved forager campsites. Spatial analyses of diverse materials afford detailed insights into hunter-gatherer object biographies, social organization, identity, and spirituality.
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Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey
The Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey was an international collaborative archaeological project. This report brings together the data from the survey and synthetic discussions of the prehistory and environment of the region, the first comprehensive, systematic, large-scale regional survey of ar...
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The Construction of Value in the Ancient World
This book brings together the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world.
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Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Studies a sample of more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro, providing insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record ...
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Chavin
This book provides new information on the Chavin phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavin is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a variety of media, including finely carved stone monuments, beautifully formed po...
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Blood and Beauty
The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation ...
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The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project
The project devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992-1997) to an intensive archaeological survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Provides a comprehensive data set including lithics, pottery, site types, and radiocarbon dates. F...
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Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II
This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters.
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Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important locations in the circum-Titicaca Basin, with detailed survey and excavation data indispensable for Andeanists and other scholars interested in the development of complex political, economic, and ritual systems in prehi...
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Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age
Analyzing the complexity of early Chinese culture history, and the variety and development of its urban formations, Roderick Campbell explores East Asia's divergent developmental paths and re-examines its deep past to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of China's Early Bronze Age.
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The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkend, Albania
The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.
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Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico
Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico's Postclassic period. This book provides an innovative new classification of Cholula ceramics, based on artifact assemblages recovered from excavations. A detailed and well-illustrated description of ceramic types is provided to ...
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Agricultural Strategies
Includes chapters on the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, South America. Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management. An invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification ...
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Archaeology Outside the Box
Archaeology Outside the Box makes contemporary archaeology germane to the general public as well as to researchers in other disciplines. Thirty-one richly illustrated chapters provide an examination of archaeology from some surprising and unexpected points of view by anthropologists, archaeologis...
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First Kings of Europe
In this wonderfully illustrated book, which accompanies an international exhibition, scholars synthesize archaeological data and present artifacts from the most important museum collections across south-eastern Europe to illustrate the evolution of political hierarchy, power and status in this re...
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The Wari Enclave of Espiritu Pampa
This book describes the discovery and excavation of a major new Wari site in the subtropical region of Vilcabamba (Cuzco), in Peru. The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands; emerging in the area of modern Ayacucho around AD 650; the Wari expanded to con...
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The Archaeology of Solvieux
Few sites have the same complexity and diversity of deposits, as was found at the site of Solvieux in southwest France. The history of the project, methodologies, results and analysis of finds arepresented, with drawings, outlines of typologies and essays on Upper Palaeolithic traditions and the ...
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The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 2
Collection of independent studies and final reports on smaller excavations. Incl. overviews of archaeological research in Jaffa, historical and archaeological studies of Medieval and Ottoman Jaffa, reports on excavations at the Postal and Armenian Compounds, and studies of the excavations of Jaco...
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Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca - the world's highest navigable lake - was home to some of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world. This lavishly illustrated book provides an indispensable guide for any visitor who has an interest in archaeology, history and culture, and for any reader wnating to know more...
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Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity
Brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory. Parsons is a central figure in the development of settlement pattern archaeology, in which the goal is the study of whole social sys...
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Prehistoric Sitagroi
Presents the concluding research on Sitagroi, a prehistoric settlement mound in northeastern Greece, excavated between 1968 and 1970. Sitagroi now becomes one of the most comprehensively published sites from prehistoric Europe and will be indispensable for all those concerned with European prehis...
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Visions of Tiwanaku
Twelve papers from senior scholars, whose contributions discuss subjects from the farthest points of the southern Andes. Provides a platform for each to present an informed view on the nature of this enigmatic place which continues to elude understanding by falling outside our established models ...
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Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria
This is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994--2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia.
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Classic Maya Political Ecology
In the framework of political ecology, together these studies not only shed light on specific class histories of the region. They also advance a theory for understanding the contributions of non-elites to political growth and change over time.
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Crucible of Pueblos
Compares the rise of villages during the early Pueblo period to similar processes in other parts of the Southwest and examines how the study of the early Pueblo period contributes to an anthropological understanding of Southwest history and early farming societies throughout the world.
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Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity
Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain under-explored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these"...
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The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert
Provides an outline of the history and sociology of the Eastern Desert unparalleled in any language for its comprehensiveness. As such, it will be the essential starting point for future research on the Eastern Desert. Includes a CD of eleven audio files with music of the Ababda Nomads, and six s...
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The Early Iron Age Cemetery at Torone (2 vols)
Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize, this volume publishes the excavation and analysis of the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone in Chalkidike, in the north Aegean, Greece spanning the period between the twelfth or eleventh century to c. 850 BC.
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Machu Picchu
Using information gathered from historical, archaeological, and ethnographical sources, shows how the site is situated in the center of sacred mountains and associated with a sacred river, in turn linked with the sun's passage, meaning that Machu Picchu formed a cosmological, hydrological, and sa...
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Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest
Presents case studies of Southwestern ceramic production and distribution in which instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) is used as the primary analytical technique. Explores issues of exchange, migration, social identity, and economic organization, and provide a comparative perspective...
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New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan
Challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbors, such as ancient Israel. Excavations and radiometric dating establish a new chronology for Edom, adding almost 500 more years to the Iron Age, incl...
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The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island
Focusing on the five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of California's northern Channel Islands. Topics include coastal adaptation, emergent cultural complexity, historical ecology...
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Gallinazo
Authors with different perspectives and backgrounds reconsider the nature of the Gallinazo culture and its position within north coast cultural history, while addressing wider issues about the development of complex societies in this area and within the Andean region in general.
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Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas
Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. This study focuses on five extraordinary Moche tombs that were archaeologically excavated at the site of Dos Cabezas and provide an unusual opportunity to understand aspects of Moche funerary practice t...
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The Archaeology of Mobility
There have been books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide co...
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Paso de la Amada
This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexico, which was among the earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages of Mesoamerica.
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Archaeology of Three Springs Valley, California
Site reports and data analyses for LAn-807, -808, and -1031 (Los Angeles County), with a chapter comparing data from similar sites in southern California. This comparative study reassesses conclusions of earlier excavations and submits new hypotheses concerning various site functions
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Empires and Diversity
For more than 4,000 years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth. The case studies demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions.
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Bikeri
This book describes the multi-disciplinary research of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project in southeastern Hungary. Centred around two Early Copper Age villages in the Great Hungarian Plain, the research incorporated excavation, surface collection, geophysical survey and soil chemistry to i...
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The South American Camelids
Bonavia's landmark study of the South American camelids. This first English edition includes an updated analysis and comprehensive bibliography. The Ayacucho's Project's faunal analysts, Elizabeth S. Wing and Kent V. Flannery, have added appendices on the Ayacucho results to this English edition.
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