{"id":12566,"date":"2019-04-08T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:16:14","slug":"berghahn-books-at-saa-2019-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/berghahn-books-at-saa-2019-conference","title":{"rendered":"Berghahn Books at SAA 2019 Conference!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ImageWe are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the Society for American Archaeology<\/a> (SAA) 84th annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 10 – 14, 2019. Please stop by our Booth #302<\/strong> to browse our latest selection of books at special discounted prices and pick up free journal samples.<\/p>\n

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If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount<\/strong> on all Archaeology titles found on our website<\/a>. At checkout, simply enter the discount code SAA2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Visit our website\u00ad to browse new enhanced subject searching features\u00ad for a complete listing of titles and don’t forget about our expanding list of eBooks available for download directly via our site. Visit our Archaeology eBook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"Archaeogaming:ARCHAEOGAMING<\/a>
\nAn Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
\nAndrew Reinhard<\/p>\n

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This book serves as a general introduction to “archaeogaming”; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.<\/p>\n

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\"PublicPUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION<\/a>
\nDeveloping and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future
\nEdited by Katherine M. Erdman<\/p>\n

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Contributors to this volume share effective approaches for engaging and educating learners of all ages about archaeology and how one can encourage them to become stewards of the past.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Opening a Dialog: Bringing Archaeology to the Public<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS<\/a>
\nThe Adventures of Eug\u00e8ne Boban
\nJane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn excellent biography of a little-known but important figure in the nineteenth-century history of American archaeology\u2026\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Norman Hammond<\/strong>, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0On the Trail of Crystal Skulls<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AtAT HOME ON THE WAVES<\/a>
\nHuman Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
\nEdited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson<\/p>\n

Volume 24, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0At Sea in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ArchaeologiesARCHAEOLOGIES OF RULES AND REGULATION<\/a>
\nBetween Text and Practice
\nEdited by Barbara Hausmair, Ben Jervis, Ruth Nugent, and Eleanor Williams<\/p>\n

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Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"HouseHOUSE OF THE WATERLILY<\/a>
\nA Novel of the Ancient Maya World
\nKelli Carmean<\/p>\n

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Set in the Maya civilization\u2019s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily<\/em> is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik\u2019s personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n

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\"IslandISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY<\/a>
\nSocionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
\nEdited by Peter E. Siegel<\/p>\n

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In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology<\/em> addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations.<\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE SOUTHEAST ASIA CONNECTION<\/a>
\nTrade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC\u2013AD 500
\nSing C. Chew<\/p>\n

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This book recalibrates these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than of marginal interest.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Southeast Asia in World History: Macrohistorical Considerations and World System History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"WorldWORLD HERITAGE CRAZE IN CHINA<\/a>
\nUniversal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
\nHaiming Yan<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>World Heritage Craze in China makes a unique contribution to Chinese heritage preservation, demonstrating the application and impact of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage and the present state of the art in this area\u2026 This monograph challenges the reader and the profession to reconsider Chinese cultural heritage preservation, and its characteristics and relations with politics and society in China.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Antiquity<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"SocialSOCIAL DNA<\/a>
\nRethinking Our Evolutionary Past
\nM. Kay Martin<\/p>\n

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Social DNA<\/em> presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory \u2013 what made them human \u2013 was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Some Givens<\/a><\/p>\n

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International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological<\/em> Series<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"Communities,Volume 20<\/p>\n

COMMUNITIES, LANDSCAPES, AND INTERACTION IN NEOLITHIC GREECE<\/a>
\nEdited by Apostolos Sarris, Evita Kalogiropoulou, Tuna Kalayci, and Evagelia Karimali<\/p>\n

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This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization.<\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"NatufianVolume 19<\/p>\n

NATUFIAN FORAGERS IN THE LEVANT<\/a>
\nTerminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
\nOfer Bar-Yosef and Fran\u00e7ois R. Valla<\/p>\n

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This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.<\/p>\n

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\"TheVolume 18<\/p>\n

THE BENEFIT OF THE GIFT<\/a>
\nSocial Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic
\nMark Andrew Hill<\/p>\n

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Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction in this period.<\/p>\n

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For a full selection of volumes in the series and manuscript submission procedure please visit series webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"CoverMuseum Worlds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Advances in Research<\/p>\n

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Responding to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in its field,\u00a0Museum Worlds: Advances in Research\u00a0contributes to the ongoing formation of Museum Studies as an academic and practical area of research that is rapidly expanding and alive with potential, opportunity, and challenge that parallels the\u00a0rapid growth of museums in just about every part of the world.<\/p>\n

Featured Issue: Current Approaches to Museum Archaeology<\/a><\/p>\n

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