Kategoria BISAC: History >> Expeditions & Discoveries

Heroic endeavour or disaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations. This volume brings together eleven scholars--from both sides of the Atantic and from the disciplines of history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, and biology--to discuss the nature of the European conquest and its consequences. A major theme is the complex process by which Europeans and Amerindians adapted to create new criollo cultures which are distinctively American: the...

John Garstang's Footsteps Across Anatolia aims to highlight the international contributions of John Garstang towards the study of archaeology in Turkey and the Near East. He was one of the first advocates of using photography as a means of documenting procedures and findings of archaeological excavations. In Turkey, Garstang was accompanied on his Anatolia Survey (1907) and Sakcagozu excavations (1908-1911) by his German assistant, Horst Schliephack. The result of over five years of research by The University of Liverpool, this book presents a series of short discursive articles about...