Books published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA

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 Archaic Period (9000 - 2200 BC) in the Cuzco Valley.

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.

Includes chapters on the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, South America. Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management. An invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification and agriculture in the past and present.

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.

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 data sets, over 1,000 images, a tour of K'axob.

This volume presents new information from a program of intensive archaeological survey and surface collection at an important Olmec and Epi-Olmec centre.

Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain under-explored. The chapters in this volume highlight the variable quality of these"middle level settlements".

Provides an outline of the history and sociology of the Eastern Desert unparalleled in any language for its comprehensiveness. As such, it will be the essential starting point for future research on the Eastern Desert. Includes a CD of eleven audio files with music of the Ababda Nomads, and six short videos of Ababda culture.

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway to the Owens Valley, this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Rock Art Archive. Full-colour illustrations throughout.

Brings together the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value.

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.

Lake Titicaca - the world's highest navigable lake - was home to some of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world. This lavishly illustrated book provides an indispensable guide for any visitor who has an interest in archaeology, history and culture, and for any reader wnating to know more about this fascinating place.

The twenty-five contributions to this work constitute the first major book-length publication to address the archaeology of Jaffa in more than sixty years since excavations were initiated at the site.

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 sustainability science, and more..

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 by his former students and collaborators.

Brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory. Parsons is a central figure in the development of settlement pattern archaeology, in which the goal is the study of whole social systems at the scale of regions.

Brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory. Parsons is a central figure in the development of settlement pattern archaeology, in which the goal is the study of whole social systems at the scale of regions.

Presents case studies of Southwestern ceramic production and distribution in which instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) is used as the primary analytical technique. Explores issues of exchange, migration, social identity, and economic organization, and provide a comparative perspective from which to view ceramic circulation patterns.

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 comparative approaches such as ethnographic analogy.

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 ground on which build future research.

Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize, this volume publishes the excavation and analysis of the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone in Chalkidike, in the north Aegean, Greece spanning the period between the twelfth or eleventh century to c. 850 BC.

The project devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992-1997) to an intensive archaeological survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Provides a comprehensive data set including lithics, pottery, site types, and radiocarbon dates. Full colour GIS maps and many colour illustrations.

Includes chapters on the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, South America. Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management. An invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification and agriculture in the past and present.

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 Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.