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The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean (Peabody Museum ...

Peabody Museum Press, 2001

During the Middle Paleolithic, various populations ancestral to modern Hone sapiens inhabited Africa, while Europe was homeland to the Neandertals. Recent archaeological investigations have provided data showing that the abrupt transition from the Middle to the Upper Neolithic, during which these populations met and interacted, was a fast-moving period of change for both groups. In this volume, the expansion of modern humans and their impact on ...

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50, Spring/Autumn 2006 (Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics)

Peabody Museum Press, 2006

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetic is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal brings together, in an anthropological perspective, contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res ...

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 46, Autumn 2004: Polemical Objects (Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics)

Peabody Museum Press, 2005

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the ...

Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film (Peabody Museum)

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Robert Gardner

Peabody Museum Press, 2008

Making Dead Birds
Is a fascinating collection of pictures, journal entries and correspondence from the 1960's and written by the one of worlds most important and influential filmmakers Robert Gardner. Gardner's chronicle is an honest and intimate piece of literature, which takes the reader through the joys, and tribulations he encountered during the creation of his incredible film of the Dani people of West ...

Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from
William White Howells

Peabody Museum Press, 1995

Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs Cranial Variation in Man and Skull Shapes and the Map , Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic purposes.

Feeding the Ancestors: Tlingit Carved Horn Spoons (Peabody Museum Collections Series)
Anne-Marie Victor-Howe

Peabody Museum Press, 2007

Feeding the Ancestors presents an exquisite group of carved spoons from the Pacific Northwest that resides in the collections of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Carved from the horns of mountain goats and Dall sheep, and incorporating elements of abalone shell and metal, most of the spoons were collected in Alaska in the late nineteenth century and were made and used by members of the Tlingit tribe. Hillel Burger's ...

Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3, Part 3, Yaxchilan (Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic ...
Ian Graham

Peabody Museum Press, 1982

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the Corpus will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 ...

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 39, Spring 2001: African Works (Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics)

Peabody Museum Press, 2001

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the ...

Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest (Peabody Museum Collections Series)

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Steven A. LeBlanc

Peabody Museum Press, 2005

Great Book on the Mimbres
Total quality reference and educational resource. Quality writing and good graphics. Excellent overview reference on the Mogollon Mimbres.

Imazighen!: Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life (Peabody Museum Collections Series)
Lisa Bernasek

Peabody Museum Press, 2008

Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. From ancient times to the present day, working with limited materials but an extensive vocabulary of symbols and motifs, Imazighen (Berbers) across North ...

Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection (Peabody Museum ...
John H. House

Peabody Museum Press, 2005

In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the wild St. Francis River region of northeastern Arkansas to collect archaeological specimens for the Peabody Museum. By the time Curtiss completed his fifty-six days of Arkansas fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1,000 pottery vessels to Cambridge and had put the Peabody on the map as the repository of one of the world's finest collections of Mississippian artifacts. John House brings us a lively account of the ...

A Guide to the Measurement of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites (Peabody Museum Bulletins)
Angela von den Driesch

Peabody Museum Press, 1976

Von den Driesch's handbook is the standard tool used by faunal analysts working on animal and bird assemblages from around the world. Developed for the instruction of students working on osteoarchaeological theses at the University of Munich, the guide has standardized how animal bones recovered from prehistoric and early historic sites are measured.

Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961 (Peabody Museum Collections Series)
Kevin Bubriski

Peabody Museum Press, 2007

From April to August 1961, recent Harvard graduate Michael Clark Rockefeller was sound recordist and still photographer on a remarkable multidisciplinary expedition to the Dani people of highland New Guinea. In five short months he produced a wonderful body of work, including over 4,000 black-and-white negatives. In this catalogue, photographer Kevin Bubriski explores Rockefeller's journey into the culture and community of the Dani and into ...

Makers and Markets: The Wright Collection of Twentieth-Century Native American Art (Peabody Museum)

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Patricia Capone

Peabody Museum Press, 1998

An excellent presentation of an important collection
As a dealer in Southwestern American Indian fine arts and hand crafted, traditional items, I am always on the lookout for books I can recommend to our collectors and students of the indigenous arts here in America. The Peabody Museum Press has produced a work that should be included the library of every serious collector of traditional Southwestern American Indian handcrafted arts. For ...

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 31, Spring 1997: The Abject (Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics)

Peabody Museum Press, 1997

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the ...

Remembering Awatovi: The Story of an Archaeological Expedition in Northern Arizona, 1935-1939 (Peabody Museum ...
Hester A. Davis

Peabody Museum Press, 2008

Remembering Awatovi is the engaging story of a major archaeological expedition on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. Centered on the large Pueblo village of Awatovi, with its Spanish mission church and beautiful kiva murals, the excavations are renowned not only for the data they uncovered but also for the interdisciplinary nature of the investigations. In archaeological lore they are also remembered for the diverse, fun-loving, and ...

Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, IV, Peripheral Survey and Excavation, Settlement and ...
Gair, III Tourtellot

Peabody Museum Press, 1990

Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 and the results of many years of subsequent data analysis. The volumes also report on explorations ...

Osteology for the Archaeologist: American Mastadon and the Woolly Mammoth; North American Birds: Skulls and ...
Stanley J. Olsen

Peabody Museum Press, 1972

This comparative analysis aids the fieldworker in identifying fossil proboscidean bones from early man sites. It also describes the skulls, mandibles, and posteranial skeletons of forty families of birds frequently found in archaeological excavations in the United States.

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society ...
Mary C. Stiner

Peabody Museum Press, 2006

A decade of zooarchaeological fieldwork (1992-2001) went into Mary Stiner's pathbreaking analysis of changes in human ecology from the early Mousterian period through the end of Paleolithic cultures in the Levant. Stiner employs a comparative approach to understanding early human behavioral and environmental change, based on a detailed study of fourteen bone assemblages from Hayonim Cave and Meged Rockshelter in Israel's Galilee. Principally ...

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