Archaeology (Bookshelf)
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Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek: αρχαίος, archaios, combining form in Latin archae-, "ancient"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.
The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, understand culture history, chronicle cultural evolution, and study human behavior and ecology, for both prehistoric and historic societies. It is considered, in North America, to be one of the four sub-fields of anthropology.
—Excerpted from Archaeology on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Editor's Note: This list is not meant to be exhaustive. It highlights selected authors and works deemed to be of interest to a general audience. Readers are encouraged to look up the authors for additional titles and to explore related topics in the Project Gutenberg collection. Within each category, entries are arranged alphabetically by author's last name.
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Africa
- History of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery
by H.R. Hall
- L'archéologie égyptienne by Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (1846-1916)
- Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (1846-1916)
Europe
- The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893 Issue devoted to classical Greek archaeology.
- Roman Britain in 1914 by F. Haverfield (1860-1919)
North America
- The Mound Builders by George Bryce (1844-1931)
- A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth by Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900)
- Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements by James Owen Dorsey
- Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley by Henry W. Henshaw (1850-1930)
- Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933)
- Prehistoric Textile Art Of Eastern United States by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933)
- Throwing-sticks in the National Museum by Otis T. Mason
- The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
- Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 by Cosmos Mindeleff
- A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola by by Cosmos Mindeleff
- Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona in 1881 by James Stevenson (1840-1888)
- The Problem of the Ohio Mounds by Thomas Cyrus (1825-1910)
- An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow (1840-1929)
