Featured Books
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Badanj: Epipaleolithic Excavations in Herzegovina, 1986-1987
Excavations at Badanj, a rockshelter in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina, exposed a sequence of about 20 levels, including occupation, activity or refuse, and geologically deposited levels, covering a period between about 16,000 and 13,000 cal BP.
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100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Michigan: Essays on the past, present, and future of the discipline
Anthropological Papers, Brian Stewart, Featured, Henry T. Wright, John M. O’Shea, Michael L. Galaty, North America
In 2022, to celebrate a century of existence, the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA) hosted an international conference to explore possibilities for a middle way: an archaeology for the next 100 years, combining humanistic and scientific approaches, which allows for both agents and systems, description and explanation, science and heritage. This volume…
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Gheo-Shih: An Archaic Macroband Camp in the Valley of Oaxaca
Gheo-Shih, an Archaic site in the Valley of Oaxaca, was a 1.5 hectare open-air macroband camp near the Mitla River. It was repeatedly occupied in the summer rainy season during the period (cal.) 7500–4000 BC, possibly by 25–50 people. At other times of the year the local population dispersed in smaller, family-sized groups, occupying microband…
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As a museum and as scholars and authors, we are in the process of changing how we do research on human remains and how we present the results of that research. We thank the Native Americans who have worked with us over the years to institute these changes and who continue to collaborate with us, via the NAGPRA process, to bring their Ancestors home.
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New Book
Badanj: Epipaleolithic Excavations in Herzegovina, 1986-1987
By Robert Whallon
This monograph presents the results of excavations made from 1986 to 1987 at the Epipaleolithic site of Badanj, which lies near the town of Stolac in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina. The purpose of the excavations was to provide a detailed picture of the occupation at Badanj, to define the faunal assemblages as indicators of the changing ecology of the site, and to place the site within its regional cultural context. The excavations exposed a sequence of some ten occupation levels, seven activity or refuse levels, and three geologically deposited levels, covering a period from approximately 16,000 to 13,000 cal BP.
Order from the University of Michigan Press.
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Year of Publication: 2025
Monograph Series / Number: Memoirs 67
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Pages: 298
Images: 255 b&w maps, charts, and photographs
Price: $80
- Print ISBN: 978-1-951538-81-1
- Ebook ISBN: 978-1-951538-82-8
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