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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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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K'axob
Now called K'axob, this 800 B.C. Mayan community in northern Belize grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of life has been investigated archaeologically by peeling back the closely stratified layers of homes. An accompanying CD includes comprehensive dat...
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Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)
The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.
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Settlement and Society
Essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflecting his research and themes. Ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. The intellectual threads Adams pioneered tie the volume together, incl. the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems and use of a compara...
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Berenike 1999/2000
Excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbor on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, have provided extensive evidence for trade with India, South-Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, plans, and a large foldout map of Berenike and Sikait.
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Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley
It was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region, until a systematic survey of the valley, when numerous preceramic sites were found. This is the first overview of the Arc...
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Icon, Cult, and Context
Honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The broad temporal and geographic parameters of the volume are expansive, and the juxtaposition of images and analyses leads to surprising new conclusions.
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The Pacatnamu Papers, Volume 1
This volume presents the results of the first three years (1983-1985) of a five-year excavation at Pacatnamu, Peru, combining archaeological excavation with physical anthropology, botany, zoology, textile analysis, ethnography, and ethnohistory. Focuses on the period of Lambayeque occupation. Bil...
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The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria
Grotta Scaloria, in Apulia, first discovered in 1931, excavated briefly in 1967, extensively from 1978-1980 by a joint UCLA-University of Genoa team, but not fully published until now. The project is important as historiography, showing changing trajectory of research across three generations of ...
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Divine Consumption
The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones at Kirikongo in Burkina Faso provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa, from the early first to the mid second millen...
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Last House on the Hill
This is the final report of the 1997-2003 excavations at the Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia, focussing on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultu...
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Yeki bud, yeki nabud
A collection of essays put together by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner to honor his contribution to Iranian archaeology and archaeological field methodology. This volume is published in association with The American Institute of Iranian Studies and The University of Pennsyl...
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Pathways to Prismatic Blades
This volume explores the social and economic processes involved in the manufacture of obsidian prismatic blades, one of the sharpest cutting instruments ever produced in the prehistoric world. Focusing on ancient Mesoamerica, contributors examine the variation in the way the blades were manufactu...
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Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala, Volume 1
First of 3 vols reporting on excavations at Formative-period sites in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Excavations at Amomoloc, Tetel, and Las Mesitas and La Laguna are reported. Ceramics are described in detail. An innovative approach to the classification of figurines is presented, and a Formativ...
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Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance
Vilcabamba was the final stronghold of the Inca empire. This has long been a topic of interest for the public; the results of the first large-scale scientific research conducted in the region will be illuminating for scholars as well as for general readers who are enthusiasts of this period of hi...
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The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors
Vol. I includes an overview of major Chinese dynasties and periods and a brief history of Chinese bronze mirrors by Suzanne E. Cahill; it then presents a detailed catalogue through high-quality images and illustrations of the mirrors. Vol. II is a set of eleven scholarly essays further investigat...
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Village Potters of the Troodos Mountains
This book is a study of four generations of female potters working in a remote Cypriot mountain village; it will serve archaeologists worldwide who are concerned with craft specialization and standardization, learning frameworks, markings on pots, and identifying production locations.
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Talepakemalai
This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from...
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Altera Roma
Explores the confrontation of two cultures, European and Amerindian, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. Eminent historians and archaeologists examine the analogies between empires widely separated in time and place and consider how monumental art and architecture created"theater states".
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The Chanka
The defeat of the Chanka is considered a defining moment in the history of South America as the Inca then continued to expand and establish the largest empire of the Americas. Brian Bauer conducted an archaeological survey of the Andahuaylas region, and includes an archaeological analysis on the ...
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Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology
Addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Contributions from archaeologists, art historians, and historians from four continents offer unusual breadth and depth in the assessment of various claims to patrimonial heritage.
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Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Contains results of research undertaken on Mount Llullaillaco - the world's highest archaeological site. Contributes to understanding of Inca religion and illustrates the importance of archaeological sites ...
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Art
Discusses several case studies where the ideas of conceptual authenticity, aesthetic authenticity, and material authenticity can be incorporated into an informative discourse about art from the ancient to the contemporary, illuminating concerns relating to restoration and art forgery.
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Early Scholars' Visits to Central America
This volume presents translations of essays by three German scholars - Karl Sapper, Walter Lehmann, and Franz Termer - who were preeminent in the social and natural science study of Central America in the early part of the twentieth century. Their research areas included ethnology, archaeology, g...
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Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age
This volume suggests a critical approach to archaeology in a digital world, proposing a purposeful and systematic application of digital tools in archaeological practice. This is a call to pay attention to your digital tools, to be explicit about how you are using them, and to understand how they...
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Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis
Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use.
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Ancient Methone, 2003-2013 (2 volume set)
Excavations since 2003 at ancient Methone in the Northern Aegean have uncovered remains from the Late Neolithic period through the fourth-century B.C. destruction by Philip II of Macedon. This 2-volume work presents results of the project, covering selected artifacts, burials and structures repre...
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Rural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia
Reports on the architecture, pottery, animal bones, plant remains, and other varieties of artifacts and ecofacts enhance our understanding of the role of villages in the formation of urban societies, the economic relationship between small rural sites and urban centers, and status and economic di...
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Andean Civilization
Brings together exciting new field data by Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor. An invaluable addition to any Andeanist's library, the papers in this book demonstrate the breadth and influence of Moseley's work and the vibrant range of exciting new work ...
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Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands
Explores the question of how information is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology to open discussion, and identify common gr...
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An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and Its Entombed Floors
Tlacuachero is the site of a shellmound insouthwest Mexico. Presents investigations of several floors within the site's shell deposits formed over a 600-800 year interval during the Archaic period (ca. 8000-2000 BCE), a crucial timespan in Mesoamerican prehistory when people were transitioning to...
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Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people live their lives at home; it will interest a r...
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Tangatatau Rockshelter
Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island produced one of the richest stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, faunal assemblages, and archaeobotanical materials in Eastern Polynesia. More than 70 radiocarbon dates provide a tight chronology from AD 1000 to European contact in about 1800.
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Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology
Topics include archaeology and text, the future of large-scale archaeological fieldwork at individual sites, interpretation and preservation of archaeological sites and landscapes, past trajectories and new approaches to regional survey, and debates surrounding landscape and settlement archaeology.
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Light and Shadow
The Shala Valley Project presents the highlanders in the full complexity of their lives, and unveils a new, deeper history for the region, back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. For archaeologists, historians, and students of kinship, of the built landscape, of world-systems theory and su...
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Pompeian Households
Studies the contents of 30 atrium houses in Pompeii to investigate the spatial distribution of household activities, both within architectural room type and across the house. Investigates the state of occupancy at the time of the eruption in AD 79. A material cultural approach to the remains and ...
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Chotuna and Chornancap
Explores the legend of Naymlap, founder of a dynasty that ruled the Lambayeque Valley of Peru, said to have built his palace at a place that many believe to be the archaeological sites of Chotuna and Chornancap. Presents the results of excavations at those sites and demonstrates the extent to whi...
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People of Ancient Daunia
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the statue-stelae of Early Iron Age Daunia (north Apulia, Italy), a group of stone slabs, each incised to represent the garb and accoutrements of a person. This is the first time a holistic study of the stelae has been undertaken, and the first presentatio...
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