Archaeological theory Books
Oxford University Press Blanks Print Space and Void in English
Book SynopsisBlanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the blank or empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally.Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Archaeology of Absence Landscapes 1: Experiencing the Blank 2: Inky faces and an Empty World: Print, Race, and Cartography 3: Reading the early Modern Page 4: The Social Space of the Page 5: Vacant leaves and Waste Blanks Excavations 6: Reconstructing the Blank Archive 7: Missing Text 8: Poetry and Space in the Seventeenth Century 9: Censored Space 10: Unfinished...
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Archaeological Theory
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures viii Acknowledgments x Preface: The Contradictions of Theory xi 1 Common Sense is Not Enough 1 2 The “New Archaeology” 13 3 Archaeology as a Science 38 4 Middle‐range Theory, Ethnoarchaeology and Material Culture Studies 54 5 Culture and Process 72 6 Thoughts and Ideologies 94 7 Postprocessual and Interpretative Archaeologies 108 8 The Material Turn 132 9 Archaeology, Gender, and Identity 156 10 Archaeology and Cultural Evolution 180 11 Archaeology and Darwinian Evolution 202 12 Archaeology and History 226 13 Archaeology, Politics, and Culture 246 14 Conclusion: The Future of Theory 260 Selective Glossary 284 Further Reading 294 Bibliography 317 Index 358
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University of California Press A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A tale told for everyone. . . . This personal account by Kirch, the world’s foremost authority on the prehistory of the Hawaiian Islands, is based on a lifetime of research. . . . His account is both engaging and accessible. . . . It is a fascinating narrative, impossible to put down.” * CHOICE *"An exemplary prehistory written for a popular audience." * Archaeology in Oceania *"This volume provides a valuable source." * Journal of Historical Geography *"The writing, like the book's title, is engaging; it inspires reflection." * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: Islands out of Time Part One: VoyagesOne: A Trail of Tattooed Pots Two: East from Hawaiki Three: Follow the Golden Plover Four: Voyages into the Past Five: The Sands of Waimanalo Part Two: In Pele’s IslandsSix: Flightless Ducks and Palm Forests Seven: Voyaging Chiefs from Kahiki Eight: Ma‘ilikukahi, O‘ahu’s Sacred King Nine: The Waters of Kane Ten: “Like Shoals of Fish” Part Three: The Reign of the Feathered GodsEleven: ‘Umi the Unifier Twelve: ‘Umi’s Dryland Gardens Thirteen: The House of Pi‘ilani Fourteen: “Like a Shark That Travels on the Land” Fifteen: The Altar of Ku Sixteen: The Return of Lono Seventeen: Prophecy and Sacrifice Epilogue: Hawai‘i in World History Alphabetical List of Hawaiian Historical Persons Glossary of Hawaiian Words Sources and Further Reading Index
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Forbidden Archeologys Impact
Book SynopsisThe author challenges the scientific community's long held beliefs on the theory of evolution and gives evidence for extreme human antiquity.Forbidden Archeology's Impact offers readers an inside look at how mainstream science reacts with ridicule, threats and intimidation to any challenge to its deeply held beliefs.
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The University of Alabama Press The Archaeology of Institutional Life
Book SynopsisInstitutions express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the orthodoxy. This work instigates discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural norms.
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International Monographs in Prehistory Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal
Book Synopsis 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.Table of Contents List of Contributors Preface: The Natufian Culture in the Levant: Twenty Years Later Ofer Bar-Yosef and Francois R. Valla Acknowledgements NORTHERN LEVANT Chapter 1. Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains Nicholas J. Conard, Knut Bretzke, Katleen Deckers, Andrew W. Kandel, Mohamed Masri, Hannes Napierala, Simone Riehl and Mareike Stahlschmidt Chapter 2. The Natufian of Moghr el-Ahwal in the Qadisha Valley, Northern Lebanon Andrew Garrard and Corine Yazbeck Chapter 3. The Natufian of Southwestern Syria Sites in the Damascus Province Kurt Felix Hillgruber Chapter 4. The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria) Xavier Terradas, Juan Jose Ibanez, Franck Braemer, Lionel Gourichon and Luis C. Teira Chapter 5. The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria) Amelia del Carmen Rodriguez Rodriguez, Maya Haidar-Boustani, Jesus E.Gonzalez Urquijo, Juan Jose Ibanez, Michel Al-Maqdissi, Xavier Terradas and Lydia Zapata Chapter 6. Fish in the Desert? The Younger Dryas and its Influence on the Paleoenvironment at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria Hannes Napierala Chapter 7. Preliminary Results from Analyses of Charred Plant Remains from a Burnt Natufian Building at Dederiyeh Cave in Northwest Syria Ken-ichi Tanno, George Willcox, Sultan Muhesen, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Yousef Kanjo and Takeru Akazawa SOUTHERN LEVANT El-Wad Chapter 8. Spatial Organization of Natufian el-Wad through Time: Combining the Results of Past and Present Excavations Mina Weinstein-Evron, Daniel Kaufman and Reuven Yeshurun Chapter 9. The Last Natufian Inhabitants of el-Wad Terrace Noga Bachrach, Israel Hershkovitz, Daniel Kaufman and Mina Weinstein-Evron Chapter 10. Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian: Faunal Evidence from el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel Reuven Yeshurun, Guy Bar-Oz, Daniel Kaufman and Mina Weinstein-Evron Chapter 11. Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and Cultural Implications Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Naomi Porat and Mina Weinstein-Evron Eynan Chapter 12. The Final Natufian Structure 215-228 at Mallaha (Eynan), Israel: an Attempt at Spatial Analysis Francois R. Valla, Hamoudi Khalaily, Nicolas Samuelian, Anne Bridault, Rivka Rabinovich, Tal Simmons, Gaelle Le Dosseur and Shoshana Ashkenazi Chapter 13. A Study of two Natufian Residential Complexes: Structures 200 and 203 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel Nicolas Samuelia Chapter 14. Graves in Context: Field Anthropology and the Investigation of Interstratified Floors and Burials Fanny Bocquentin, Teresa Cabellos and Nicolas Samuelian Chapter 15. Obsidian in Natufian Context: the Case of Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel Hamoudi Khalaily and Francois R. Valla Chapter 16. Flint Knapping and its Objectives in the Early Natufian. The Example of Eynan- Ain Mallaha (Israel) Boris Valentin, Francois R. Valla and Hugues Plisson with the collaboration of Fanny Bocquentin Chapter 17. Searching for the Functions of Fire Structures in Eynan (Mallaha) and their Formation Processes: a Geochemical Approach Ramiro J. March Chapter 18. Avifauna of the Final Natufian of Eynan Tal Simmons Chapter 19. Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha Gaelle Le Dosseur and Claudine Marechal Chapter 20. Reconstruction of the Habitats in the Ecosystem of the Final Natufian Site of Ain Mallaha (Eynan) Shoshana Ashkenazi SOUTHERN LEVANT - OTHER SITES Chapter 21. Wadi Hammeh 27: an open-air ‘base-camp’ on the Fringe of the Natufian ‘homeland’ Phillip C. Edwards, Fanny Bocquentin, Sue Colledge, Yvonne Edwards, Gaelle Le Dosseur, Louise Martin, Zvonkica Stanin and John Webb Chapter 22. Art Items from Wadi Hammeh 27 Janine Major Chapter 23. The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley) Dani Nadel and Danny Rosenberg Chapter 24. Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan Michael Neeley Chapter 25. The Steppic Early Natufian: Investigations in the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan Deborah I. Olszewski Chapter 26. The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal Tobias Richter and Lisa A. Maher Chapter 27. Chert Procurement Patterns And Exploitation Territory: Case Study From Late Natufian Hayonim Terrace (Western Galilee, Israel) Christophe Delage Chapter 28. A Faunal Perspective on the Relationship between the Natufian Occupations of Hayonim Cave and Hayonim Terrace Natalie D. Munro Chapter 29. The Natufian at Raqefet Cave Gyorgy Lengyel, Dani Nadel and Fanny Bocquentin Chapter 30. Hof Shahaf: A New Natufian Site on the Shore of Lake Kinneret Ofer Marder, Reuven Yeshurun, Howard Smithline, Oren Ackermann, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Leore Grosman, Israel Hershkovitz, Noa Klein and Lior Weissbrod Chapter 31. The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave Laure Dubreuil and Leore Grosman GENERAL REVIEWS, CLIMATE AND INTERPRETATIONS Chapter 32. Breaking the Mould: Phases and Facies in the Natufian of the Mediterranean Zone Anna Belfer-Cohen and A. Nigel Goring-Morris Chapter 33. Ruminations on the Role of Periphery and Center in the Natufian A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen Chapter 34. The Natufian and the Younger Dryas Donald O. Henry Chapter 35. Scaphopod Shells in the Natufian Culture Aldona Kurzawska, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Henk K. Mienis Chapter 36. The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications Leore Grosman Chapter 37. Natufian Foragers and the ‘Monocot Revolution’: A Phytolith Perspective Arlene M. Rosen Chapter 38. Lithic Technology in the Late Natufian – Technological Differences between ‘Core-area’ and ‘Periphery’ Hila Ashkenazy Chapter 39. Variability of Lunates and Changes in Projectile Weapons Technology during the Natufian Alla Yaroshevich, Daniel Kaufman, Dmitri Nuzhnyy, Ofer Bar-Yosef and Mina Weinstein-Evron Chapter 40. Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian: Cultural Cause or Climatic Effect? Guy Bar-Oz, Reuven Yeshurun and Mina Weinstein-Evron Chapter 41. Commensalism: was it Truly a Natufian Phenomenon? Recent Cntributions from Ethnoarchaeology and Ecology Lior Weissbrod, Daniel Kaufman, Dani Nadel, Reuven Yeshurun and Mina Weinstein-Evron
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure
Book SynopsisIn 2017 an intense fundraising campaign ensured that what came to be known as 'the Galloway Hoard' was saved for the nation. Since then work has been ongoing to preserve and understand it. Over 5kg of silver bullion, many unique and enigmatic gold objects, the rare preservation of textiles and an unusual range of other materials, make the Hoard the richest collection of Viking-age objects every found in Britain and Ireland. Dr Martin Goldberg and Dr Mary Davis provide the first full description of the Hoard and place the find in a wider historical and geographical context.Table of ContentsForword Introduction Silver bullion The cross The lower bullion deposit A binding contract? A time capsule Unpacking the vessel More Anglo-Saxon connections Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard Exploring the past, looking to the future References Bibliography Acknowledgements
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Oxford University Press, USA Geological Methods for Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the application of geological methods and theory to archaeology. Written as a survey text covering appropriate methods and techniques taken from geology, geophysics, geochemistry, and geochronology, it shows the student the practicality and importance of the techniques'' use in solving archaeological problems. Specific techniques are illustrated by practical results obtained from their use on archaeological digs. The geographical scope is international, drawing on sites from both hemispheres, eg the Franchti Cave (Greece), St. Catherines Island (USA), the Roman site of Drand (France), and Monte Verde (Chile). The authors also address applications in less traditional areas such as underwater, historical, industrial, and conservation archaeology.Trade Review"Herz and Garrison (p viii) state that the purpose of their book . . . is to 'show archaeologists the many ways that geological sciences can help solve their problems.' The authors divide their book into four major sections with multiple chapters in each section. Part I, 'The Archaeological Site and Its Environment,' presents a discussion of geomorphology, sediments, and soils; Part II, 'Dating Techniques,' covers chemical, radioactive, and other methods of dating; Part III, 'Site Exploration,' addresses geophysical and geochemical applications to archaeology; and Part IV, 'Artifact Analysis,' offers a discussion of the analysis of the raw materials used to manufacture artifacts and features."--Geoarchaeology "Herz and Garrison (p viii) state that the purpose of their book . . . is to 'show archaeologists the many ways that geological sciences can help solve their problems.' The authors divide their book into four major sections with multiple chapters in each section. Part I, 'The Archaeological Site and Its Environment,' presents a discussion of geomorphology, sediments, and soils; Part II, 'Dating Techniques,' covers chemical, radioactive, and other methods of dating; Part III, 'Site Exploration,' addresses geophysical and geochemical applications to archaeology; and Part IV, 'Artifact Analysis,' offers a discussion of the analysis of the raw materials used to manufacture artifacts and features."--GeoarchaeologyTable of ContentsForeword ; 1. Scope of Archaeological Geology ; 2. Geomorphology in Archaeology ; 3. Sediments and Soils ; 4. Chemical Methods ; 5. Radioactive Methods: Radioactive Decay and Age Determination ; 6. Radiation Damage, Cosmogenic and Atom Counting Techniques ; 7. Other Chronological Methods ; 8. Archaeogeophysical Exploration ; 9. Soil Phosphate in Archaeological Surveys ; 10. Archaeological Materials - Rocks and Minerals ; 11. Instrumental Analytical Techniques ; 12. Metallic Minerals and Archaeological Geology ; 13. Ceramics ; 14. Applications of Stable Isotopes in Archaeological Geology
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Oxford University Press Shifting Sands
Book SynopsisBefore the 1970s, biblical archaeology was the dominant research paradigm for those excavating the history of Palestine. Today most people prefer to speak of Syro/Palestinian archaeology. This is not just a normal shift but reflects a major theoretical and methodological change. It has even been labelled a revolution. In the popular mind, however, biblical archaeology is still alive and well. In Shifting Sands, Thomas W. Davis charts the evolution and the demise of the discipline. Biblical archaeology, he writes, was an attempt to ground the historical witness of the Bible in demonstrable historical reality.Trade Reviewbalanced, informed and readable...a very good read. * Theology *
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Oxford University Press Inc Empires of the Dead
Book SynopsisWhen the Smithsonian''s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world''s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how ancient Peruvians became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond. In 1532, when Spain invaded the Inca empire, Europeans learned that Inca and Andean peoples made their ancestors sacred by preserving them with the world''s oldest practices of artificial mummification. To extinguish their power, the Spaniards collected these ancestors as specimens of conquest, science, nature, and race. Yet colonial Andean communities also found ways to keep the dead alive, making Inca mummies a symbol of resistance that Spanish American patriots used to introduce Peruvian Independence and science toTrade ReviewTo the Incas, mummies were ever-living ancestors. After colonial clergy hauled them from their caves, law exposed them to looting. Christopher Heaney opens a startling postcolonial chapter in this story. Victorian-age antiquarians traded in 'Inca' bones, believing skulls would reveal Amerindia's 'civilized' or 'primitive' racial nature. Relentlessly, astutely, Heaney tracks our scientific forebears through their bone stampede—and leaves us standing uneasy in our own museums. * Frank Salomon, University of Wisconsin *Heaney deftly analyzes Native Andean, Peruvian, and US and European knowledge-making and the relations among them, showing that to understand ideas about race in the United States and Europe we must consider the experiences of US and European scientists abroad. Foreigners who collected Andean bones and skulls learned from local scientists, and their collecting was indebted as well to Andeans' own ways of dealing with dead ancestors. * Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950 *An outstanding, clear, and insightful examination of the transnational life of Andean mummies that have fascinated scholars for years and continue to do so to this day. * Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro *Archaeology is, of course, always about the past, but only after translation into the present tense. In Christopher Heaney's masterful telling, the sun-bleached mummified Incan crania on the Smithsonian's infamous Skull Wall become active agents in their own history. Their conflicted finders-keepers' legacy bridges the imperialist Golden Age of museum skull-collecting to link modern Peruvian institutions sometimes reclaiming some of those functions for themselves—all underscoring ongoing international debates over what should be done with the dead. * David Hurst Thomas, author of Skull Wars *Empires of the Dead takes us from pre-contact display of emperors and ancestors to the present day...Empires of the Dead should shape current debates, if only by reminding us that today's museum collections are more accurately understood as 're-collections'. * Erin L. Thompson, LRB *Table of ContentsA Note on Orthography A Note on Images Introduction: Death's Heads: Humanity's Peruvian Ancestors at the Smithsonian Part 1: Opening, 1525-1795 1. Curing Incas: Andean Lifeways and the Pre-Hispanic Imperial Dead 2. Embalming Incas: Huayna Capac's Yllapa and the Spanish Collection of Empire 3. Mummifying Incas: Colonial Grave-Opening and the Racialization of Ancient Peru Part 2: Exporting, 1780-1893 4. Trading Incas: San Martín's Mummy and the Peruvian Independence of the Andean Dead 5. Mismeasuring Incas: Samuel George Morton and the American School of Peruvian Skull Science 6. Mining Incas: The Peruvian Necropolis at the World's Fairs Part 3: Healing, 1863-1965 7. Trepanning Incas: Ancient Peruvian Surgery and American Anthropology's Monroe Doctrine 8. Decapitating Incas: Julio César Tello and Peruvian Anthropology's Healing 9. The Three Burials of Julio César Tello; or, Skull Walls Revisited Epilogue: Afterlives: Museums of the American Inca Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Walking Among Pharaohs George Reisner and the
Book SynopsisIn this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western colonialism, racism, and nationalism.Trade ReviewIn recent years, there's been an ongoing debate in the worlds of history and archaeology over the ethics of taking art and artifacts from a particular country and taking possession of it elsewhere. It's an unsettling remnant of colonialism, and its history runs deeply. Peter Der Manuelian's new book Walking Among Pharaohs offers readers an engaging account of the origins of contemporary Egyptology--and how it helps explain some of the debates we're reckoning with decades later. * InsideHook *Walking Among Pharaohs is a lively and uniquely informed biography of the most important American archaeologist of ancient Egypt and one of the founders of his discipline. Drawing expertly on a staggering range of sources, Peter Der Manuelian brings George Reisner, his ideas, and his times compellingly to life. * John Baines, University of Oxford *The definitive biography of G.A. Reisner, who is generally regarded as one of the most important and influential Egyptologists and archaeologists of his day. The story flows with no punches pulled, revealing Reisner in intimate detail, warts and all. A must read for anyone interested in the early days of American Egyptology. * Eric Cline, author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed *Peter Der Manuelian's Walking Among Pharaohs is a thorough examination of the life, career, and legacy of one of the most influential Egyptologists of his era, George Reisner. Presenting Reisner's legacy in all of its complexity—including the colonialist and the racist elements of his work—highlights the indelible mark he left on the field, and how he shaped it for future generations. Walking Among Pharaohs is a worthy contribution to our understanding of the history of Egyptology. * Kathlyn M. Cooney, University of California, Los Angeles *This is an amazingly rich biography of George Reisner, a giant among archaeologists working in the Nile Valley. It's also a powerful reflection on archaeology's many meanings, from celebration of ancient cultures to colonial appropriation. * Geoff Emberling, University of Michigan *George Reisner has long been one of the most influential but least known archaeologists from the 'golden age' of Egyptology. Manuelian has finally done Reisner justice, bringing his long life, extraordinary career, and contested legacy into the spotlight of critical enquiry. Walking Among Pharaohs is a prodigious work of scholarship. * Toby Wilkinson, author of A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology *[Manuelian] is the ideal author for this authoritative first biography of Reisner. It is an essential addition to any Egyptological library, bringing to light the work and accomplishments of Reisner in Egypt and Nubia during the 'golden age' of Egyptology. The extensive, meticulous notes and bibliography are indispensable. * Ancient Egypt Magazine *With this opus magnum (in every sense of the word), Peter Der Manuelian has completed a remarkable achievement, crowning more than twenty years of research... The author is indeed to be commended for truly mastering the 'staggering range of sources'...and the 'thorough examination'-at times painstakingly so-of the complexities of Reisner's biography, addressing the manifold issues of 'colonial appropriation' and 'racism'. * Orientalistische Literaturzeitung *Every chapter contains some gem about the history of Egyptology.... This book will almost certainly remain the definitive biography of Reisner. Professor Der Manuelian is a careful and thorough researcher and for a book this long (1,000+ pages) we can only say 'Thank god he can write!' * Bob Brier, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt *Table of ContentsPreface Egyptian Chronology and Nubian Comparative Chart Map Introduction I. Early Years (1867-1899) 1 Midwestern Beginnings and Endings 2 Go East, Young Man 3 Conversion in Germany 4 "Somebody Needed an Archaeologist" II. The Path to the Pyramids (1899-1905) 5 The Road Taken 6 Chance of a Lifetime: Giza 7 Devastation and Realignment: The Birth of the HU-MFA Expedition (1904-1905) III. Egypt, Palestine, Nubia, America (1905-1913) 8 Multitasking across Cultures 9 King Menkaure versus the "Pestiferous Sheikhs" of Palestine 10 Back to the Classroom 11 Giza Politics, Giza Discoveries IV. War Years (1913-1918) 12 Focus on Nubia: The Kerma Kingdom 13 Archaeology in Wartime: Kerma, Gammai, Deir el-Bersha 14 A Mystery Solved: The Nubian Pyramids of Gebel Barkal and Nuri 15 The Near-Destruction of Two American Expeditions V. Archaeology and Politics (1919-1926) 16 "The Work is his God:" Gebel Barkal, el-Kurru, and Meroe 17 (Mis)interpreting the Nubians in the Shadow of Tutankhamun 18 Secrets of a Giza Queen 19 Excursus: Showdown with Breasted over Egyptian Archaeology VI. Nubian Fortresses and Giza Tombs (1927-1937) 20 Hoisting Sarcophagi 21 Looking Back and Taking Stock 22 Septuagenarian Archaeology VII. Legacies at Home and Abroad (1938-1947) 23 Virtual and Actual Homecomings 24 Finale 25 Endgame: Transforming The HU-MFA Expedition 26 Epilogue: Revered or Reviled? Reisner and his Archaeological Impact Endnotes List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Reisner Bibliography General Bibliography Abbreviations Expedition Chronology and Staff Glossary of Arabic and other Foreign Words Index
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology
Book SynopsisLight plays a crucial role in mediating relationships between people, things, and spaces, yet lightscapes have been largely neglected in archaeology study. This volume offers a full consideration of light in archaeology and beyond, exploring diverse aspects of illumination in different spatial and temporal contexts from prehistory to the present.Table of Contents1: Costas Papadopoulos and Holley Moyes: Illuminating Sensory Archaeologies Section I. Darkness 2: Paul Pettit, Stefanie Leluschko, and Takashi Sakamoto: Light, Human Evolution, and the Palaeolithic 3: Efrosyni Boutsikas: The Role of Darkness in Ancient Greek Religion and Religious Practice 4: Athanasia Zografou: Constructing the Invisible: Light and Darkness in the Topography of Hades 5: Holley Moyes, Lillian Rigoli, Stephanie Huette, Daniel R. Montello, Teenie Matlock, and Michael J. Spivey: Darkness and the Imagination: The Role of Environment in the Development of Spiritual Beliefs 6: Gail Higginbottom and Vincent Mom: Illuminating Time: The Visibility of Temporality in Prehistory Section II. Light in Myth, Ritual, and Cosmology 7: Robert Hensey: Rediscovering the Winter Solstice Alignment at Newgrange, Ireland 8: A. César González-García: Light and Shadow Effects in Megalithic Monuments in the Iberian Peninsula 9: Lucy Goodison: Sunlight, Divination, and the Dead in Aegean Ritual Tradition 10: Timothy R. Pauketat: Illuminating Triangulations: Moonlight and the Mississippian World 11: Ruth M. Van Dyke: The Chacoan World: Light and Shadow, Stone and Sky 12: Kevin Conti and William Walker: Animate Shadows of Bears and Giants Section III. Light in Sacred Architecture 13: Giulio Magli: The Beautiful Face of Ra: The Role of Sunlight in the Architecture of Ancient Egypt 14: Iakovos Potamianos: The Handling of Light: Its Effect on Form and Space in the Greek Temple and the Byzantine Church 15: Mikkel Bille and Tim Flohr Sørensen: In Visible Presence: The Role of Light in Shaping Religious Atmospheres 16: Maria Sardi and Ioannis Motsianos: Lighting in Muslim and Christian Religious Buildings: A Comparative Study Section IV. The Meaning of Light 17: Emília Pásztor: Prehistoric Light in the Air: Celestial Symbols of the Bronze Age 18: Bissera V. Pentcheva: Phenomenology of Light: The Glitter of Salvation in Bessarion's Cross 19: Eleni Bintsi: The Light of the Flame: Use and Symbolism of Light and Lighting Devices in Traditional Greek Culture 20: Eric C. Lapp: Encountering Photoamulets and the Use of Apotropaic Light in Late Antiquity Section V. Light in Private, Domestic, and Working Environments 21: Mary Shepperson: Visibility, Privacy, and Missing Windows: The Lighting of Domestic Space in Ancient Mesopotamia 22: Jean-Philippe Carrie: Lighting the 'Good Life': The Role of Light in the Aristocratic Housing System during Late Antiquity 23: Peter Dawson and Richard Levy: Thirty Days of Night: The Role of Light and Shadow in Inuit Architecture North of the Arctic Circle 24: David Griffiths: Household Consumption of Artificial Light at Pompeii 25: Ian West: Industrialising Light: The Development and Deployment of Artificial Lighting in Early Factories Section VI. Simulations and Reconstructions of Light 26: Aaron Watson and Ronnie Scott: Materialising Light, Making Worlds: Optical Image Projection within the Megalithic Passage Tombs of Britain And Ireland 27: Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone, Michael Anderson, and Robert Barratt: Light and Dark in Prehistoric Malta 28: Matt Gatton: The Eleusinian Projector: The Hierophant's Optical Method of Conjuring the Goddess 29: Dorina Moullou and Fragiskos V. Topalis: Reconstructing Artificial Light in Ancient Greece 30: Dragoş Gheorghiu: Lighting in Reconstructed Contexts: Experimental Archaeology with Pyrotechnologies 31: Eva Bosch: Çatalhöyük: A Study of Light and Darkness - A Photo-Essay Section VII. Light in Object Curation and Knowledge Production 32: Eleni Kotoula: Light and its Interaction with Antiquities and Works of Art: A Conservator's Perspective 33: Malcolm Innes: Lighting and Museum Exhibits 34: Nessa Leibhammer: Modalities of Meaning: Light and Shadow in Archaeological Images Tim Ingold: Afterword: On Light
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network
Book SynopsisNetwork research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity, exchange, and much more. This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical trends and covering the archaeological application of network methods and theories. This is elaborately demonstrated through substantive topics and case studies drawn from a breadth of periods and cultures in world archaeology. It highlights and further develops the unique contributions made by archaeological research to network science, especially concerning the development of spatial and material culture network methods and approaches to studying long-term network change. This is the go-to resource for students and scholars wishing to explore how network science can be applied in archTable of Contents1: Matthew A. Peeples, Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, and Tom Brughmans: Introduction Part I: Archaeological Networks in Practice 2: Clara Filet and Fabrice Rossi: Network Methods and Properties 3: Matthew A. Peeples, John M. Roberts, Jr, and Yi Yin: Challenges for Network Research in Archaeology 4: Benjamin Bach and Mereke van Garderen: Beyond the Node-Link Diagram: A Fast Forward about Network Visualization for Archaeology 5: Per Östborn and Henrik Gerding: Inference from Archaeological Similarity Networks Part II: Material Culture Networks 6: Jennifer Birch: Material Networks and Culture Change 7: Elliot H. Blair: Material Culture Similarity and Co-occurrence Networks 8: Daniel Sosna: Mortuary Archaeology Networks 9: Mark Golitko: Geochemical Networks 10: Sarah M. Griffin and Florian Klimm: Networks and Museum Collections Part III: Geographical Networks 11: Diego Jiménez-Badillo: Nearest and Relative Neighbourhood Networks 12: Ray Rivers, Tim Evans, and Eleftheria Paliou: Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models 13: Irmela Herzog: Transportation Networks and Least-Cost Paths 14: Mu-Chun Wu: Space Syntax and Pedestrian Modelling 15: Zoran %Cu%ckovi'c: Visibility Networks 16: Eduardo Apolinaire and Laura Bastourre: Hydrographic Networks Part IV: Network Simulation 17: Iza Romanowska: Complexity Science and Networks in Archaeology 18: Wendy H. Cegielski: Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, and Archaeology 19: Viviana Amati: Random Graph Models Part V: Biological Networks 20: Kent M. Johnson: Biodistance Networks 21: Stefani A. Crabtree and Jennifer A. Dunne: Food Webs Part VI: Text-Based Networks 22: Claire Lemercier: Historical and Archaeological Network Data 23: Diane Harris Cline and Jessica Munson: Epigraphic Networks in Cross-Cultural Perspective 24: Valeria Vitale and Rainer Simon: Linked Data Networks: How, Why and When to Apply Network Analysis to LOD 25: Allison Mickel, Anthony Sinclair, and Tom Brughmans: Knowledge Networks 26: Vojt%ech Ka%se, Tomá%s Glomb, and Jan Fousek: Networks and Religious Transformations Part VII: Cultural Transmission and Human Evolution 27: Valéria Romano and Sergi Lozano: Perspectives on Human Behavioural Evolution from Primate Networks 28: Claudine Gravel-Miguel, and Fiona Coward: Palaeolithic Social Networks and Behavioural Modernity 29: Briggs Buchanan and Marcus J. Hamilton: Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Part VIII: Movement, Exchange, and Flows through Networks 30: Justin Leidwanger: Maritime Networks 31: Barbara J. Mills and Matthew A. Peeples: Migration and Archaeological Network Research 32: Marek Vlach: Network Modelling of the Spread of Disease 33: Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer: The Antiquities Trade and Digital Networks: Or, the Supercharging Effect of Social Media on the Rise of the Amateur Antiquities Trader Part IX: Assessing the Structural Characteristics of Networks 34: Matthew Pailes: Social Networks and Inequality 35: Erik Gjesfjeld: Networks and Catastrophes 36: Jelena Gruji'c and Miljana Radivojevi'c: Community Detection 37: Scott G. Ortman: Settlement Scaling Analysis as Social Network Analysis 38: Jacob Holland-Lulewicz: Networks and Sociopolitical Organization Part X: Looking Ahead and Beyond 39: Ulrik Brandes: Archaeological Network Science 40: John Edward Terrell: Network Models and the Past: Relational Thinking and Contingency Analysis 41: Carl Knappett and Angus Mol: Network Epistemologies in Archaeology 42: Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, Tom Brughmans, and Matthew A. Peeples: Anticipating the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research
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OUP USA Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings
Book SynopsisThis handbook offers an invaluable and up-to-date resource on this criticial and fascinating World Hertiage siteTrade ReviewThis is the definitive guide, with over 600 pages covering the Valley's history, exploration, analysis, conservation and management. * Ancient Egypt *the essays offer a complex and comprehensive insight into the history, exploration and critical study of the Valley of the Kings * Emmet Jackson, Astene Bulletin *Table of ContentsContributors ; Abbreviations ; Preface ; Part I: Introduction ; Richard H. Wilkinson and Kent R. Weeks ; Part II: The Natural Setting ; 1. Geology of the Valley of the Kings ; Judith M. Bunbury ; 2. Toponyms of the Valley of the Kings and its Approaches ; Kent R. Weeks ; 3. The Hydrology of the Valley of the Kings: Weather, Rainfall, Drainage Patterns and Flood Protection in Antiquity ; Andreas Dorn ; Part III: The Development of the Royal Necropolis ; 4. The Egyptian Concept of a Royal Necropolis ; John H. Taylor ; 5. Earlier Royal Tombs, the Royal Cemeteries of Thebes and the Beginnings of the Valley of the Kings ; Aidan Dodson ; Part IV: Tomb Construction and Development ; 6. The Royal Necropolis Workmen of Deir el-Medina ; Robert J. Demaree ; 7. Choosing the Location for a Royal Tomb; The Workmen's Techniques and ; Tools; Units of Measurement; KV Huts and Work Places ; Andreas Dorn ; 8. The Component Parts of KV Royal Tombs ; Kent R. Weeks ; 9. Collisions, Abandonments, Alterations, Tomb Commencements/Pits and Other Features in the Valley of the Kings ; Lyla Pinch-Brock ; Part V: Royal Tomb Decoration ; 10. The Technology of Royal Tomb Decoration ; Stephen Rickerby and Lori Wong ; 11. Iconography; Palaeography; Decorative Elements; Distribution and Development of Scenes ; Heather L. McCarthy ; Part VI: Individual KV Tombs ; 12. Royal Tombs of Dynasty Eighteen ; Catharine H. Roehrig ; 13. Royal Tombs of the Nineteenth Dynasty ; Hartwig Altenmueller ; 14. Royal Tombs in Dynasty Twenty ; Aidan Dodson ; 15. Other Tombs: Queens and Commoners in KV ; Susanne Bickel ; Part VII: Contents of Royal KV Tombs ; 16. Sarcophagi ; Aidan Dodson ; 17. Canopics ; Aidan Dodson ; 18. Other Tomb Goods ; Campbell Price ; Part VIII: Getting to the Afterlife ; 19. Mortuary Ritual in the Valley of the Kings ; Alexandra von Lieven ; 20. Symbolic Aspects of Royal Tombs ; Richard H. Wilkinson ; 21. The Royal Funerary Books: The Subject Matter of Scenes and Texts ; Joshua Roberson ; Part IX: Destruction, Desecration and Reuse ; 22. Damnatio Memoriae in the Valley of the Kings ; Richard H. Wilkinson ; 23. Usurpation and Reuse of Royal Tombs ; Richard H. Wilkinson ; 24. Intrusive Burials and Caches ; John H. Taylor ; Part X: Human Remains from the KV and their Study ; 25. Early Study and the Unwrapping of Mummies ; Rosalie David ; 26. Modern Biomedical Studies ; Rosalie David and Ryan Metcalfe ; 27. Recent Identity and Relationship Studies, Including X-Rays and DNA ; Ryan Metcalfe ; Part XI: The Administration of the KV in Dynastic Times ; 28. The Temples of Millions of Years at Western Thebes ; Martina Ullmann ; 29. Policing and Site Protection; Guard Posts; Enclosure Walls ; Carola Vogel ; 30. Tomb Robberies in the Valley of the Kings ; Ogden Goelet ; Part XII: The KV from the End of the New Kingdom to the Late 20th Century ; 31. Late Dynastic, Graeco-Roman and Christian Times; Post-New Kingdom Graffiti ; Filip Coppens ; 32. The History of KV Exploration Prior to the Late 20th Century ; Joyce Tyldesley ; Part XIII: The KV in the Late 20th and the 21st Century and Beyond ; 33. Remote Sensing in the Valley of the Kings and its Hinterlands ; Sarah H. Parcak and Gregory D. Mumford ; 34. The Search for Other Tombs ; Stephen W. Cross ; 35. Tomb Recording: Epigraphy, Photography, Digital Imaging, 3-D Surveys ; Adam Lowe ; 36. Conservation and Flood Protection ; Michael Jones ; 37. Tourism in the Valley of the Kings ; Kent R. Weeks ; 38. The Valley of the Kings in the Lives of Modern Egyptians: The People of Qurna ; Kees van der Spek ; Appendix ; Index
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MIT Press Ltd Flintstone Modernism or The Crisis in Postwar
Book SynopsisAncient history, midcentury modernism, Cinemascope, humanism and monumentality, totalitarianism and democracy: transformations in American culture and architecture.In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s—including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs, Helen of Troy, and The Egyptian—and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects Cinemascope and other widescreen technologies to the architectural “glass curtain wall,” arguing that both represented the all-encompassing eye of American Enterprise. Lieber reminds us that until recently midcentury modern American architecture was reviled by architectural historians but celebrated by design enthusiasts, just as sword-and-sandal epics are alternately hailed as cult clas
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and
Book SynopsisThis unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. bp to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, cultural change, and the complex connectivities between communities and groups. In considering social practices shared between different historic groups, and also the expression of their respective identities, the papers in this volume illustrate the potential of globalization thinking to bridge the local and global in material culture analysis.The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization is the first such volume to take a world archaeology approach, on a multi-period basis, in order to bring together the scope of evidence for the significance of material culture in the processes of globalization. This work thus also provides a means to understand how material cuTrade Review"Refreshingly, the book forgoes the type of synthetic narratives usually associated with archaeological handbooks, instead presenting a series of vignettes, many of which represent fresh engagements of burgeoning theoretical concepts with lesser-known geographic arenas. (…) For readers not deeply entrenched in globalisation frameworks, the chapters at the bookends provide excellent introductions and reflections on the subject of what is and is not globalisation." – Current World Archaeology"Tamar Hodos, Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Bristol, has assembled a fascinating and unique work in the Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization. Usually considered a modern-era phenomenon, Hodos and her collaborators demonstrate that globalization has been with us since complex ancient societies first developed." - Reference & User Services Quarterly"The volume as a whole constitutes a highly original and innovative work, with papers whose strength is to be found in the explicit comparative perspective, and stemming from established scholars within their respective fields." -ArchaeopressTable of ContentsSection 1: Introduction1.1. Globalization: some basics. An introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization. Tamar Hodos1.2. Distinguishing Past GlobalizationsJustin Jennings1.3. Globalization, Connectivities and Networks: an archaeological perspectiveCarl Knappett1.4. Economic Aspects of Globalization in the Past Material WorldGary M. Feinman1.5. Globalization Thinking and the PastRobbie RobertsonSection 2: Africa2.1. Africa in and of the World: Archaeological Perspectives on Globalization in the Longue DuréePaul J. Lane2.2. Exploring Aegyptiaca and their Material Agency throughout Global History Miguel John Versluys 2.3. GLOBALIZATION: CONTACT BETWEEN WEST AFRICA, NORTH AFRICA AND EUROPE DURING THE EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL PERIOD Scott MacEachern2.4. The Swahili and Globalization in the Indian OceanChapurukha Kusimba 2.5. European Colonialism and Globalization in Africa in the Nineteenth Century CELydia Wilson Marshall2.6. Future Material Culture: Chinese Construction in Africa and the Consequences for African Cultural HeritagePaul Lane, Cornelia Kleinitz & Yongilang Gao2.7. The Mobile Phone – A Global Good? Modern Material Culture and Communication Technology in AfricaJulia VerneSection 3: Americas3.1 Globalization Processes as Recognized in the AmericasAlexander Geurds3.2 Olmec Globalization: a Mesoamerican Archipelago of ComplexityRobert M. Rosenswig3.3 On the Horizon: Art, Valuables and Large-Scale Interaction Networks in the Ancient Andes George F. Lau3.4 Foreigners from Far-Off Islands: Long-Distance Exchange between Western Mesoamerica and Coastal South America (600-1200 CE): a Globalization AnalysisAlexander Geurds3.5 Globalization without Markets? Population Movement and Other Integrative Mechanisms in the Ancient AndesBill Sillar3.6 Conquest Worlds: Aztec and Spanish Experiences in Mexico, 1428-1570 CEFrances Berdan3.7 Globalization and the Early Modern Atlantic World, c. 1500-1700 CECharles E. Orser, Jr.Section 4: Australasia and Oceania4.1. Globalization Thinking in Australasia and OceaniaIan Lilley4.2. The Tongan Maritime State: Oceanic Globalization, Polity Collapse and Chaotic InteractionGeoffrey Clark4.3. Australian Lithic Technology: Evolution, Dispersion and ConnectivityPeter Hiscock & Tim Maloney4.4. Edges of Worlds: Torres Strait Islander Peripheral Participation in Ancient Globalizations Ian J. McNiven4.5. Melanesia Maritime Middlemen and Pre-Colonial GlocalizationIan Lilley 4.6. Disentangling the Lapita Interaction Spheres: the Global, the Provincial and the LocalChristophe Sand4.7. East Polynesian Connectivity Marshall Weisler & Richard Walter Section 5: East Asia5.1. East Asia as a Laboratory for Early GlobalizationGideon Shelach-Lavi5.2. The Spread of Domesticated Plant Resources in Prehistoric Northeast AsiaGyoung-Ah Lee 5.3. Prehistoric Networks across the Korea Strait (5000-1000 BCE): ‘Early Globalization’ during the Jomon Period in Northwest Kyushu? Ilona R. Bausch5.4. Colonialism in the Time of Globalization – the Western Zhou Yan State RevisitedYitzchak Jaffe5.5. Globalization at the Crossroads: the Case of Southeast China during the Pre- and Early Imperial PeriodFrancis Allard5.6. Global Dynamics in Local Processes of Iron Age Inner AsiaBryan K. Miller & Ursula Brosseder5.7. Tombs of Xianbei Conquerors and Central Asians in Sixth Century CE Northern China: a Globalizing PerspectiveMandy Jui-man Wu Section 6: Europe6.1. Deep Histories of Globalization and Europe: beyond EurocentrismMartin Pitts6.2. Small, Medium, and Large: Globalization Perspectives on the Afro-Eurasian Bronze Age Helle Vandkilde6.3. Local Elites Globalized in Death: a Practice Approach to Early Iron Age Hallstatt C/D Chieftains’ Burials in Northwest EuropeDavid Fontijn & Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof6.4. Connectivity and Social Change. Roman Goods outside the Empire (100 BCE – 400 CE)Mariana Egri6.5. URBANISM AND EXCHANGE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC/BALTIC, 600-1000 CESøren M. Sindbæk6.6. Globalization and China. Materiality and Civilité in Post-Medieval EuropeMartin Pitts6.7. Connecting the Global with the Local through the Prism of Imprisonment: the Case of Kilmainham Gaol, IrelandLaura McAtackneySection 7: Mediterranean7.1 The Global Mediterranean: a Material-Cultural PerspectiveMiguel John Versluys7.2 A Globalizing Bronze and Iron Age MediterraneanSusan Sherratt7.3 Classical Connections and Mediterranean Practices: Exploring Connectivity and Local InteractionsPeter van Dommelen7.4 THE GLOBALIZED ROMAN WORLDROBERT WITCHER7.5 The Rise and Fall of Empires in the Islamic Mediterranean (600-1600 CE): Political Change, the Economy and Material CulturePetra Sijpesteijn7.6 The Renaissance in Material Culture: Material Mimesis as Force and Evidence of GlobalizationMarta Ajmar7.7 France and the Enlightenment MediterraneanChristopher Drew ArmstrongSection 8: Southeast Asia8.1 Globalizing Early Southeast Asia Miriam T. Stark8.2 How Rice Failed to Unify Asia: Globalization and Regionalism of Early Farming Traditions in the Monsoon WorldDorian Q. Fuller, Cristina Cobo Castillo & Charlene Murphy8.3 Globalization at the Dawn of History: the Emergence of Global Cultures in the Mekong and Red River DeltasAlison Kyra Carter & Nam C. Kim8.4 TRACING MARITIME CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLDTom Hoogervorst 8.5 Globalizing Indian Religions and Southeast Asian Localisms: Incentives for the Adoption of Buddhism and Brahmanism in First Millennium CE Southeast AsiaStephen A. Murphy & Leedom Lefferts8.6 Globalization in Southeast Asia’s Early Age of Commerce: Evidence from the Thirteenth Century CE Java Sea ShipwreckLisa C. Niziolek & Amanda Respess8.7 Spheres of Ceramic Exchange in Southeast Asia, Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries CEJohn N. Miksic & Goh Geok Yian Section 9: West Asia9.1 Globalizing Ideas in West Asian Material HistoryTamar Hodos9.2 Globalizing the HalafOlivier P. Nieuwenhuyse9.3 Connectivity and Globalization in the Bronze Age of AnatoliaNaoíse Mac Sweeney9.4 Globalization and the Study of the Achaemenid Persian EmpireHenry P. Colburn9.5 Lapis Lazuli, Homer and the Buddha: Material and Ideological Exchange in West Asia (c. 250 BCE - 200 CE)Rachel Mairs9.6 The Global OttomansJoanita Vroom9.7 Pre-modern Globalization and the Rediscovery of Iranian AntiquityDaniel T. Potts Section 10: Conclusion10.1 Long Histories of GlobalizationJan Nederveen Pieterse
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology
Book SynopsisTheoretical Approaches in Bioarchaeology emphasizes how several different theoretical perspectives can be used to reconstruct the biocultural experiences of humans in the past.Over the past few decades, bioarchaeology has been transformed through methodological revisions, technological advances, and the inclusion of external theoretical frameworks from the social and natural sciences. These interdisciplinary perspectives became the backbone of bioarchaeology and strengthened the discipline's ability to address questions about past biological and social dynamics. Consequently, how, why, and when to apply external theory to studies of past populations are central and timely questions tied to future developments of the discipline. This book facilitates ongoing dialogues about theoretical applications within the field and interdisciplinary connections between bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, and other disciplines. Each chapter highlights how a theoretical Table of ContentsForeword; Chapter 1 – Theory in Bioarchaeology: An Introduction; Chapter 2 – Embodying Bioarchaeology: Theory and Practice; Chapter 3 – Gender; Chapter 4 – Bioarchaeological Applications of Intersectionality; Chapter 5 – Life Course Approaches and Life History Theory: Synergistic Perspectives for Bioarchaeology; Chapter 6 – Reconstructing Immune Competence in Skeletal Samples: A Theoretical and Methodological Approach; Chapter 7 – Niche Construction Theory in Bioarchaeology; Chapter 8 – Live Through This: Developing a Sustainable Pathway for Resilience Theory in Bioarchaeological Research; Chapter 9 – Structural Violence and Political Economy: Epistemological Considerations for Bioarchaeology; Chapter 10 – Making Silenced Voices Speak: Restoring Neglected and Ignored Identities in Anatomical Collections; Chapter 11 – Theoretical Approaches to Bioarchaeology: The View from Across the Pond; Chapter 12 – Towards a Bioarchaeology beyond Nature and Culture: Potentials and Possibilities in Contemporary Theoretical Bioarchaeology
£35.14
Taylor & Francis Ltd Infrastructures of Religion and Power
Book SynopsisThis book explores the central role of religion in place-making and infrastructural projects in ancient polities. It presents a trilectic approach to archaeological study of religious landscapes that combines Indigenous philosophies with the spatial and semiotic thinking of Lefebvre, Peirce, and proponents of assemblage theories. Case studies from ancient Angkor and the Andes reveal how rituals of place-making activated processes of territorialization and semiosis fundamental to the experience of political worlds that shaped power relations in past societies. The perspectives developed in the book permit a reconstruction of how landscapes were variably conceived, perceived, and lived in the spirit of Henri Lefebvre, and how these registers may have aligned or clashed. In the end, the examination of built environments, infrastructures, and rituals staged within specialized buildings demonstrates how archaeologists can better infer past ontologies, cosmologiTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Excavating the Theoretical Landscape: The Archaeological Search for Significance; Chapter 3: Sublime Infrastructures: Emplacing Ritual, Religion, and Power; Chapter 4: Ceremonial Architecture as Semiotic Machines; Chapter 5: Sacred Infrastructures and Rituals of Place Making in the Ancient Andes; Chapter 6: A Tale of Three Temples: The Changing Religious Landscape of the Southern Jequetepeque Valley, Peru; Chapter 7: Karma Ecologies: Khmer Place-Making, Infrastructures, and Ideologies of Space; Chapter 8: the Āśrama and Hospital Foundations of Ancient Angkor; Chapter 9: Conclusion: Landscapes of History; Index.
£35.14
Taylor & Francis Assembling Past Worlds
Book SynopsisAssembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment in the emergence of new ways of living, as well as new relationships between materials, people and new forms of architecture. It achieves two things. First, it identifies the major challenges that archaeology faces in the light of current theoretical shifts. New ideas place new demands on how we write and think about the past, sometimes in ways that can seem contradictory. This volume identifies seven major challenges that have emerged and sets out why they matter, why archaeology needs to engage with them and how they can be dealt with through an innovative theoretical approach. Second, it explores how this approach meets these challenges through an in-depth study of Neolithic Britain. It provides an insightfTable of ContentsPart I: Assembling a Posthumanist Archaeology; 1. Assembling Past Worlds: An Introduction; 2. Seven Challenges for a Posthumanist Archaeology; 3. Fragments from Philosophy; Part II: Assembling Neolithic Britain; 4. What Were Neolithic Materials Capable of Becoming?; 5. What Could a Dead Neolithic Body Do?; 6. What Worlds did Neolithic Architecture Create?; Part III: Assembling Past Worlds; 7. Time, History and Memory: Towards an Ontography of the Neolithic; 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Communal Forms
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of social theory, as well as empirical inputs from studies of work, neighbourhoods, events, meeting places and online self-help groups, this book suggests that communal forms are constructed on the basis of communicative, material, biographic-cultural, practice-based, and situational layers. The concept of community has long provided an important point of departure for the discipline of sociology, with the conflicting conceptions of community before and into modernity embodied in Ferdinand TÃnniesâ Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and in Emile DÃrkheimâs Mechanical and Organic Solidarity, providing the focus for debate. Other contributors have maintained an interest in communities as communions, interactional competencies, symbolic identification, tribal connection, and more recently communication. Drawing on such theoretical contributions, as well as empirical inputs, the authors develop a more nuanced concept of community, based on tTrade Review"In Communal Forms Aksel Tjora and Graham Scambler take us on a sociological journey into the meaning and significance of ‘community’ in the contemporary context. They masterfully traverse and weave together key social theories on this critical topic and draw from an extraordinarily diverse and intriguing series of case studies to illuminate the highly diversified communal forms of the 21st Century. This is a book for our time, where the need to understand the power of community, has never been more acute." - Alex Broom, The University of Sydney, Australia"The question of community becomes relevant anew with each social shift and transformation, and at the heart of this important book lies a concern with the quality of human life. Writing in a clear and engaging manner, Tjora and Scambler investigate the nuances of community as it is theorised and lived. A key strength of the book is the authors’ knack for bringing to life insights from key sociological theories of community with the help of contemporary empirical examples from a rich variety of contexts and settings, including co-working spaces, rock festivals and online self-help groups." - Vanessa May, University of Manchester, UKTable of Contents1. The Phenomenon of Community 2. Community as Solidarity 3. Community as Integration 4. Community as Interaction 5. Community as Identification 6. Community as Communication 7. Community as Work 8. Community as Proximity 9. Community as Possibility
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ethics in Archaeological Practice
Book SynopsisEthics in Archaeological Practice focuses on the ethics of archaeological work in a European context.This book covers all aspects of the archaeological profession, including archaeological advisors employed by state national, or regional heritage agencies, commercial archaeologists (consultants and contractors), and academics. It considers all archaeologists as professionals and situates ethical practice at the heart of what it means to be a professional archaeologist. It works as a practical handbook organised around the main areas of activity that archaeologists undertake allowing the book to be used as a reference work when required.Ethics in Archaeological Practice will appeal to professional archaeologists, academics and students, as well as those involved in professional training.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Working with and for Ancestors
Book SynopsisWorking with and for Ancestors examines collaborative partnerships that have developed around the study and care of Indigenous ancestral human remains. In the interest of reconciliation, museums and research institutions around the world have begun to actively seek input and direction from Indigenous descendants in establishing collections care and research policies. However, true collaboration is difficult,?time-consuming, and sometimes awkward. By presenting examples of projects involving ancestral remains that are successfully engaged in collaboration, the book provides encouragement for scientists and descendant communities alike to have open and respectful discussions around the research and care of ancestral human remains. Key themes for discussion include new approaches to the care for ancestors; the development of culturally sensitive museum policies; the emergence of mutually beneficial research partnerships; and emerging issues such as those of intelTable of ContentsPart 1 Building Relationships: Proceed with Respect and Patience 1 Bearing Witness: What Can Archaeology Contribute in an Indian Residential School Context? 2 Pathway to Decolonizing Collections of Ainu Ancestral Remains: Recent Developments in Repatriation Within Japan 3 The Brandon Indian Residential School Cemetery Project: Working Towards Reconciliation Using Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology 4 Washington’s Non-Forensic Human Skeletal Remains Law and the State Physical Anthropologist: A Collaborative Process and Model for Other States 5 Bii-Azhe Ḡiiwé Iná Daanig (Let’s Bring Them Home): Lessons in Humility, Relationships, and Changing Perspectives Part 2 Caring for the Ancestors: Developments in Museum Collaborations 6 Why We Repatriate: On the Long Arc Toward Justice at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science 7 the Importance of Kaitiakitanga (Guardianship and Care) and Rangahau (Research) for the Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme 8 Toward a Twenty-First-Century Model for the Collaborative Care and Curation of Human Remains 9 The Southern African Human Remains Management Project: Making (P)Reparations in Year One 10 Caring for the Ancestors at the Royal BC Museum Part 3 Learning From the Ancestors: Collaborative Research Projects 11 The Journey Home: Sto:Lō Values and Collaboration in Repatriation 12 the Joy of the Souls: the Return of the Huron-Wendat Ancestors 13 Building Relationships to Shift Accountability: Doing Paleogenomic Research with Indigenous Nations and Ancestors 14 Learning from Ancestors Caring for Ancestors: The Antiquity of Reburial On Bkejwanong 15 New Insights from Old Dog Bones: Dogs as Proxies for Understanding Ancient Human Diets Part 4 Developing Conversations: Doing Better Together 16 The Digital Lives of Ancestors: Ethical and Intellectual Property Considerations Surrounding the 3-D Recording of Human Remains 17 What Next? Changing Ethical Protocols for Human Remains in Museums 18 Provenancing Australian Aboriginal Ancestors: The Importance of Incorporating Traditional Knowledge 19 Ancient Human DNA: Surveying the Evolving Ethical, Social, and Political Landscape Part 5 Moving Forward: There’s Still Work To Do 20 Identity in Applied Repatriation Research and Practice 21 Decolonizing Bioarchaeology? Moving Beyond Collaborative Practice
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Conflict Landscapes Materiality and Meaning in
Book SynopsisConflict Landscapes explores the long under-acknowledged and under-investigated aspects of where and how modern conflict landscapes interact and conjoin with pre-twentieth-century places, activities, and beliefs, as well as with individuals and groups.Investigating and understanding the often unpredictable power and legacies of landscapes that have seen (and often still viscerally embody) the consequences of mass death and destruction, the book shows, through these landscapes, the power of destruction to preserve, refocus, and often reconfigure the past. Responding to the complexity of modern conflict, the book offers a coherent, integrated, and sensitized hybrid approach, which calls on different disciplines where they overlap in a shared common terrain. Dealing with issues such as memory, identity, emotion, and wellbeing, the chapters tease out the human experience of modern conflict and its relationship to landscape. Conflict Landscapes will appeal tTable of ContentsPart I The First World War 1 1 The Dead and their Spaces: Origins and Meanings in Modern Conflict Landscapes 2 Cutting the Landscape: Investigating the 1917 Battlefield of the Messines Ridge 3 Garden Landscapes of the Great War 4 Conflict Gas-Scape: Chemical Weapons on the Eastern Front, January 1915 5 Controversy in the Julian Alps: Erwin Rommel, Landscape, and the 12th Battle of the Soča/Isonzo 6 First World War Landscapes on the Alpine Front Line: New Technologies between Wish and (Augmented) Reality 7 Engaging Military Heritage: The Conflict Landscape of Val Canale, Italy 8 Conflict, Mobility, and Landscapes: The Arab Revolt in Southern Jordan, 1916–1918 9 Life and Death in a Conflict Landscape: Visitor and Local Perspectives from the Western Front Part II The Second World War 10 Who Owns the ‘Wilderness’? Indigenous Second World War Landscapes in Sápmi, Finnish Lapland 11 Operation Northern Light: Remote Sensing a Second World War Conflict Landscape in Northern Finland 12 Power of Place and Landscape: The US 10th Mountain Division, from Colorado to the Apennines 13 War in the Normandy Bocage: British Perceptions and Memory of a Militarized Landscape 14 Archaeology, D-Day, and the Battle of Normandy: ‘The Longest Day’, a Landscape of Myth and Materiality 15 ‘An Example of Nazi Kultur’: Paradigmatic and Contested Materiality at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 16 Campscapes and Homescapes of the Mind’s Eye: A Methodology for Analyzing the Landscapes of Internment Camps Part III Beyond World Wars 17 Imagining Maritime Conflict Landscapes: Reactive Exhibitions, Sovereignty, and Representation in Vietnam 18 People, Barriers, Movement, and Art: Contested Sandscapes of Western Sahara 19 A Parthian City in the Iran–Iraq War: Incorporating the Ancient Site of Charax Spasinou into a Modern Conflict Landscape 20 Abstract Landscapes: Learning to Operate in Conflict Space
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Taylor & Francis Matters of Conflict Material Culture Memory and
Book SynopsisIn its multidisciplinary approach and wide-ranging contributions, the book looks at trench art and postcards through museum collections to prosthetic limbs, and examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind.Table of Contents1. Materialities of Conflict: The Great War, 1914-20032. Art, Material Life and Disaster: Civilian and Military Prisoners of War3. 'Sacred Relics': Objects in the Imperial War Museum 1917-1939 4. Prostheses and Propaganda: Materiality and the Human Body in the Great War5. 'Nagelfiguren': Nailing Patriotism in Germany 1914-18 6. Shattered Experiences - Recycled Relics: Strategies of Representation and the Legacy of the Great War 7. The Great War Re-remembered: The Fragmentation of the World's Largest Painting8. Death and Material Culture: The Case of Pictures during the First World War9. A Material Link Between War and Peace: World War One Silk Postcards 10. Thanks for the Memory: War Memorials, Spectatorship and the Trajectories of Commemoration 1919-2001 11. The Lion, the Angel and the War Memorial: Some French sites re-visited 12. The Internet and the Great War: The impact on the making and meaning of Great War history 13. The Ocean Villas Project: Archaeology in the Service of European Remembrance 14. Aftermath: Materiality on the Home Front, 1914-2001
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Taylor & Francis The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial
Book SynopsisHumans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Ice Age. The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial takes a novel approach to the long-term development of human mortuary activity the various ways we deal with the dead and with dead bodies. It is the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language. Observations in the modern world as to how chimpanzees behave towards their dead allow us to identify core' areas of behaviour towards the dead that probably have very deep evolutionary antiquity. From that point, the palaeontological and archaeological records of the Pliocene and Pleistocene are surveyed. The core chapters of the book survey the mortuary activities of early hominins, archaic members of the genus Homo, early Homo sapiens, the Neanderthals, the Early and Mid Upper Palaeolithic, and tTrade Review'This volume by Pettitt, which represents the first comprehensive survey of Palaeolithic mortuary activity in the English language..., is a long overdue, and very welcome, addition to the large corpus of literature on the subject... [it] forms a useful scholarly text; both for the Palaeolithic student and researcher, and on discussion with colleagues, those interested in burial archaeology as a whole. While the title suggests a clear focus on Palaeolithic human burial, this actually undersells the scope of the volume, whose striking feature is the consideration of the full range of past hominin mortuary activity.' - Archaeological Review from CambridgeTable of Contents1. Introduction: death and the Palaeolithic 2. Primate roots for early hominid morbidity and mortuary activity 3. From morbidity to mortuary activity: developments from the australopithecines to Homo heidelbergensis 4. From funerary caching to the earliest burials of early Homo sapiens 5. The Neanderthals 6. The first Homo sapiens populations in Europe: Early and Mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary activities ~ 35,000 – 21,000 BP 7. From fragmentation to collectivity: human relics, burials and the origins of cemeteries in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic 8. The dead as symbols: the evolution of human mortuary activity
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Taylor & Francis Law and Religion
Book SynopsisThe intersection of law and religion is a growing area of study for academics working in both subject areas. This book draws together research on several collisions between the two arenas, including a study of religious clauses in the US constitution and the interplay between religion and law in Canada, Australia and South Africa. With an emphasis on common law traditions, this book will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students of law and religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction Peter Radan, Denise Meyerson and Rosalind Atherton 1. International Law and Religion: Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Peter Radan 2. The Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution Russell L. Weaver 3. The Free Exercise Clause of the United States Constitution Russell L. Weaver 4. Religion and Australian Constitutional Law Tony Blackshield 5. Religion and the South African Constitution Denise Meyerson 6. Between liberté and égalité: Religion and the State in Canada M. H. Ogilvie 7. The Constitutional Significance of the Church of England Andrew Lynch 8. Blasphemy Lawrence McNamara 9. Charity Law and Religion G. E. Dal Pont 10. Clergy Confidentiality and Privileges: Themes and Propects Simon Fisher 11. The Sanctity of Life in Law: Comparisons between Jewish, Catholic, Islamic and Common Law Approaches Cameron Stewart 12. Law and Religion - Religion and Death in the Common Law Prue Vines and Roslaind Atherton
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making
Book SynopsisMaking creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or correspond', with one another in the generation of form. Making offers a series of profound reflections on what it means to create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand. It draws on examples and experTrade Review"In his latest book, Tim Ingold persuasively argues for anthropology’s transformational capacity and promotes serious reflection on the need for anthropologists to correspond with the world. His focus on handwork in art, building, and the making of tools beautifully illustrates ‘thinking through making’ and learning by doing. This accessible book makes an excellent and timely contribution to a core area of anthropological research, and invites the reader to engage with the fascinating work emerging from it." - Trevor Marchand, School of Oriental & African Studies, UK"Ingold is a joy to read. With Making, he continues to enliven the social sciences with his distinctively compelling and critical reflections on anthropological, archaeological, architectural and artistic practices. This volume will be useful to all who are striving to integrate art and research, making and thinking, practice and theory." - Ian Alden Russell, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, USA"For architects it is an absolute must to discover and absorb the work of this friendly outsider whose ideas touch the heart of what we do." - Lars Spuybroek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA"Unafraid to ask bold questions and propose daring answers, Tim Ingold has developed a distinctive voice. In the process, he has staked out an increasingly influential position that touches on a wide range of disciplines." - Webb Keane, University of Michigan, USATable of Contents1. Knowing from the inside 2. The materials of life 3. On making a hand axe 4. On building a house 5. The sighted watchmaker 6. Round mound and earth sky 7. Bodies on the run 8. Telling by hand 9. Drawing the line
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making
Book SynopsisMaking creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or correspond', with one another in the generation of form. Making offers a series of profound reflections on what it means to create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand. It draws on examples and experTrade Review"In his latest book, Tim Ingold persuasively argues for anthropology’s transformational capacity and promotes serious reflection on the need for anthropologists to correspond with the world. His focus on handwork in art, building, and the making of tools beautifully illustrates ‘thinking through making’ and learning by doing. This accessible book makes an excellent and timely contribution to a core area of anthropological research, and invites the reader to engage with the fascinating work emerging from it." - Trevor Marchand, School of Oriental & African Studies, UK"Ingold is a joy to read. With Making, he continues to enliven the social sciences with his distinctively compelling and critical reflections on anthropological, archaeological, architectural and artistic practices. This volume will be useful to all who are striving to integrate art and research, making and thinking, practice and theory." - Ian Alden Russell, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, USA"For architects it is an absolute must to discover and absorb the work of this friendly outsider whose ideas touch the heart of what we do." - Lars Spuybroek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA"Unafraid to ask bold questions and propose daring answers, Tim Ingold has developed a distinctive voice. In the process, he has staked out an increasingly influential position that touches on a wide range of disciplines." - Webb Keane, University of Michigan, USATable of Contents1. Knowing from the inside 2. The materials of life 3. On making a hand axe 4. On building a house 5. The sighted watchmaker 6. Round mound and earth sky 7. Bodies on the run 8. Telling by hand 9. Drawing the line
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) An Archaeology of the Immaterial
Book SynopsisAn Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these âdematerialisationsâ, this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and 3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is, like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised. Table of Contents1. Introduction Chapter 2: Immateriality and the Ascetic Object in late Antiquity 3: The Christian Ascetic Object and the Reformation 4. The Reformation 5. The Twentieth Century
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Bayesian Approach to Intrepreting Archaeological
Book SynopsisStatistics in Practice A new series of practical books outliningthe use of statistical techniques in a wide range of applicationareas: Human and Biological Sciences Earth and Environmental Sciences Industry, Commerce and Finance The authors of this important text explore the processes throughwhich archaeologists analyse their data and how these can be mademore rigorous and effective by sound statistical modelling. Theyassume relatively little previous statistical or mathematicalknowledge. Introducing the idea underlying the Bayesian approach tothe statistical analysis of data and their subsequentinterpretation, the authors demonstrate the major advantage of thisapproach, i.e. that it allows the incorporation of relevant priorknowledge or beliefs into the analysis. By doing so it provides alogical and coherent way of updating beliefs from those held beforeobserving the data to those held after taking the data intoaccount. To illustrTable of ContentsThe Bayesian Approach to Statistical Archaeology. Outline of the Approach. Modelling in Archaeology. Quantifying Uncertainty: The Probability Concept. Statistical Modelling. Bivariate and Multivariate Distributions. Bayesian Inference. Implementation Issues. Interpretation of Radiocarbon Results. Spatial Analysis. Sourcing and Provenancing. Application to Other Dating Methods. The Way Forward. References. Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Community Identity and Archaeology
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University of California Press Archaeologies of Colonialism Consumption
Book SynopsisAnalyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, this book explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. It also shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each.Trade Review"An important and valuable addition to current studies in postcolonial theory and the colonial phenomenon in the ancient Mediterranean." Archaeological Review "Recommended." Choice "Dietler has produced an outstanding work of scholarship that is sophisticated, intelligent, and insightful, and that deserves the close attention of scholars." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History "Dietler's book is full of interesting ... insights woven from a particular anthropologically driven perspective." -- http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/02/how-istanbul-became-one-europes-safest-city/1103/#.TyrGDhZDBSY.mailto American Journal Of Archaeology "Dazzling... Dietler offers in this utterly captivating study ... an account of a colonial entanglement like nothing you have ever read." -- Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University H-France Review Of Books "An excellent account." European Jrnl Of Archaeology "Substantial and highly informative... A detailed study." -- Richard Hingley, Durham University Britannia Magazine
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University of California Press Constructing Frames of Reference
Book SynopsisMany consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the New Archaeology changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called ethnoarchaeologythe study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological recordand this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.
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University of California Press The Fifth Beginning What Six Million Years of
Book SynopsisI have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow. This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizesThe Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitive, no-turning-backchange for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls afifth beginning, one that started about AD 1500. Some might call it globalization, but the author places it in its larger context:a five-thousand-year arms race, capitalism's global reach, and the cultural effects of a worldwide communication network. Kelly predicts that the emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of capitalism as we know it, the widespread shift toward world citizenship, and the rise of forms of cooperation that will end the near-sacred status of nation-states. It's the end of life as we have known it. However, the author is cautiously optimistic: he dwells not on the coming chaos, but on humanity's great potential. Trade Review"This closely argued and beautifully written book is a brilliant statement as to why archaeology, and an archaeological perspective, are of central importance in today’s world. . . . It’s a cliché these days to remark that a book belongs on everyone’s bookshelves, but in this case it’s the truth. Everyone interested in the past and the future will find this a wonderful starting point for their thinking. Above all, it talks about archaeology in fluent and jargon-free language that will appeal to a very broad audience indeed. This isn’t a book about the romance of archaeology or spectacular discoveries. It’s, quite simply, the best essay on archaeology I’ve ever read. I hope it becomes a classic." -- Brian Fagan * Current World Archaeology *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The End of the World as We Know It 2. How Archaeologists Think 3. Sticks and Stones: The Beginning of Technology 4. Beads and Stories: The Beginning of Culture 5. Bread and Beer: The Beginning of Agriculture 6. Kings and Chains: The Beginning of the State 7. Nothing Lasts Forever: The Fifth Beginning Notes Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press Archaeologcl Typology Prac Reality A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting
Book SynopsisA study of the various ways in which field archaeologists set about making and using classifications to meet a variety of practical needs.Trade Review'… an excellent book … Because it contains an excellent overview of past archaeological classifactory approaches and critiques of typology as well as a clear discussion of what typology is, this book should be required reading for all graduate students.' AntiquityTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; The archaeologist's preface; The philosopher's preface; Part I. Introductory: 1. Beginning points; 2. Introductory theses; Part II. The Nature of Types and Typologies: 3. Dimensions and elements of 'typehood'; 4. Perceptual and conceptual foundations; 5. The dialectics of type formulation; 6. The nature of types; 7. The structure of typologies; 8. A synthetic definition of typology and type; Part III. Typology in Action: The Medieval Nubian Pottery Typology: 9. Origin and development of the Nubian typology; 10. Basic features of the Nubian typology; 11. The uses of the Nubian Typology; 12. Philosophical implications; Part IV. Pragmatics of Archaeological Typology: 13. The starting point: purpose; 14. The determinants of types: variables and attributes; 15. The making of types: formulation, designation and description; 16. The uses of type: typing and sorting; 17. The ordering of types: taxonomy and seriation; 18. Variation and variability in archaeological classifications; 19. The bottom line: practicality; 20. Principles of practical typology; 21. Information-theoretic formulations; Part V. Classification, Explanation and Theory: 22. The Typological Debate; 23. Issues and non-issues in the Typological Debate; 24. Conceptual problems; 25. The use and abuse of theory; 26. Paradigms and progress; Appendices; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press ideologypowerandprehistory
Book SynopsisThis book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice. Ideology, Power and Prehistory therefore seeks to reinstate the primacy of social theory and the social nature of the past worlds that archaeologists seek to understand. The contributors to this book argue that past peoples, the creators of the archaeological records, should be understood as actively manipulating their own material world to represent and misrepresent their own and others' interests. Thus the concepts of ideology and power, long discussed in social and political science yet largely ignored by archaeologists, must henceforward play a central role in our understanding of the past as a social creation. ArcTable of ContentsPart I. Theoretical perspectives I: 1. Ideology, power and prehistory: An introduction Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley; Part II. Ideology and Power in the Present and historical Past: 2. Endo ceramics and power strategies Alice Welbourn; 3. Interpreting ideology in historical archaeology: The William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland Mark Leone; 4. Modernism and suburbia as material ideology Daniel Miller; Part III. Ideology and Power in Prehistory: 5. Burials, houses, women and men in the European Neolithic Ian Hodder; 6. Economic and ideological change: Cyclical growth in the pre-state societies of Jutland Michael Parker Pearson; 7. Ritual and prestige in the prehistory of Wessex c. 2200–1400 BC: A new dimension to the archaeological evidence Mary Braithwaite; 8. Ideology and the legitimation of power in the Middle Neolithic of Southern Sweden Christopher Tilley; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Ideology, power, material culture and long-term change Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley.
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Cambridge University Press The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology Dating Methods and Dating Systems in NineteenthCentury Scandinavian Archaeology New Studies in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe development of European archaeology as a scholarly discipline in the nineteenth century was closely connected with the appearance of systematic methods for dating archaeological materials and these methods evolved largely in Scandinavia. Professor GrÃslund's book is the first in-depth study of what is now recognised as a crucial stage in the history of archaeology. Beginning with an analysis of the basic elements of archaeological dating systems, he traces the origin and subsequent development of these systems, examining in detail how they were built up and refined. The Three Age System, methods of dating by find associations and the applications of typology for relative dating are themes that receive particular attention. Individuals, however, are never lost from sight. Throughout the book the author seeks to assess the contribution of the often colourful personalities involved and the volume concludes with a valuable biographical appendix.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The conceptual framework; 3. The museum background; 4. C. J. Thomsen and the Three-Age System; 5. The works of Magnus Bruzelius; 6. The Stone Age: the division into two and three periods; 7. The Bronze Age: the division into two periods; 8. The Iron Age: the division into two and three periods; 9. The pre-Roman Iron Age; 10. The Roman Iron Age: the division into two periods; 11. Coins and Iron Age chronology; 12. Dating in the Bronze Age with special reference to Scandinavia; 13. Montelius' own account of his chronological method; 14. The origin of typology as chronological method; 15. General aspects; Biographical notes; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Archaeological Theory
Book SynopsisThis volume assesses current archaeological theories and considers how they relate to our understanding of the past.Trade Review'I recommend this provocative volume, in which I found much to think about, not least Sherratt's plea that archaeologists - not the media, tour managers or politicians - should be the ones who set the agenda.' Nick Saunders, New ScientistTable of ContentsIntroduction: The sources of archaeological theory Norman Yoffee, and Andrew Sherratt; Part I. The Social Context of Archaeological Theory: 1. Limits to a post-processual archaeology (or The dangers of a new scholasticism) Philip L. Kohl; 2. A proliferation of new archaeologists 'Beyond objectivism and relativism' Alison Wylie; 3. Ambition, deference, discrepancy, consumption; the intellectual background to a post-processual archaeology Christopher Chippendale; Part II. Archaeological Theory from the Paleolithic to the State: 4. Ancestors and agendas Clive Gamble; 5. After social evolution: a new archaeological agenda? Stephen Shennan; 6. Too many chiefs? (or, Safe texts for the 90s) Norman Yoffee; Part III. Case-Studies in Archaeological Theory and Practice; 7. When is a symbol archaeologically meaningful? Meaning, function and prehistoric visual arts Kelley Hays; 8. Re-fitting the 'cracked and broken facade': the case for empiricism in post-processual ethnoarchaeology Miriam Start; 9. Communication and the importance of disciplinary communities: who owns the past? Tim Murray; Part IV. Postscript and Epilogue: 10. The relativity of theory Andrew Sherratt; 11. Archaeology: the loss of nerve Richard Bradley.
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Cambridge University Press Reading the Past Third Edition Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method has been fully updated to address the burgeoning of theoretical debate throughout the discipline. Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson argue that archaeologists must bring to bear a variety of perspectives in the complex and uncertain task of constructing meaning from the past. While remaining centred on the importance of hermeneutics, agency and history, the authors explore cutting-edge developments in areas such as post-structuralism, neo-evolutionary theory and whole new branches of theory such as phenomenology. With the addition of two completely new chapters, the third edition of Reading the Past presents an authoritative, state-of-the-art analysis of contemporary archaeological theory. Also including new material on feminist archaeology, historical approaches such as cultural history, and theories of discourse and signs, this book represents essential reading for any student or scholar with an interest in tTrade Review"...must be read by all those who would perform as well as critique post-processual archaeology, for it will provide powerful stimuli for a necessary dialogue within archaeology." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsPreface to the third edition; 1. The problem; 2. Processual and systems approaches; 3. Structuralist, post-structuralist and semiotic archaeologies; 4. Marxism and ideology; 5. Agency and practice; 6. Embodied archaeology; 7. Archaeology and history; 8. Contextual archaeology; 9. Post-processual archaeology; 10. Conclusion: archaeology as archaeology; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Archaeological Thought
In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns.
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Cambridge University Press Lithics
Book SynopsisThe new edition details key advances in the field related to lithic debitage analysis and lithic tool analysis since publication of the first edition in 1998. It includes new sections on stone tool functional studies, microdebitage analysis and minimal analytical nodule analysis.Trade Review' … for a mostly technical reference work, the text is highly readable and well-illustrated. the book must be recommended as an indispensable and relatively comprehensive overview of lithic analysis.This edition of Lithics clearly illustrates that the discipline is growing stronger with increase emphasis on theoretical and methodological rigour.' South African Archaeological BulletinTable of Contents1. A brief introduction to lithic analysis; 2. Basics of stone tool production; 3. Lithic raw materials; 4. Getting started in lithic analysis: identification and classification; 5. Flake debitage attributes; 6. Approaches to debitage analysis; 7. Approaches to stone tool analysis; 8. Artifact diversity and site function; 9. Lithic analysis and prehistoric sedentism; 10. Concluding remarks.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Archaeological Process
Book Synopsis* The latest contribution to debates about archaeological theory by this leading figure in the field. * Provides a provocative, yet accessible, overview of the most important new school of archaeological thought and practice to have emerged over last 20 years.Trade Review"The most important study of its kind to have appeared since Wheeler's Archaeology from the Earth in 1954...Prof. Hodder has issued a clear and cogent challenge to which our profession should respond." Antiquity.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface: Digging Outside the Shelter. Acknowledgements. 1. Crises in Global Archaeology. 2. Archaeology - Bridging Humanity and Science. 3. How do Archaeologists Reason?. 4. Interpreting Material Culture. 5. Towards a Reflexive Method. 6. The Natural Sciences in Archaeology. 7. Using the New Information Technologies. 8. Windows into Deep Time: Towards a Multiscalar Approach. 9. Archaeology and Globalism. 10. Can the New Technologies Deliver a Reflexive Methodology?. 11. Conclusion: Towards Non-dichotomous Thinking in Archaeology. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Archaeologies of Landscape
Book Synopsis* Wide--ranging geographical and historical coverage. * Includes new research data. * Includes contributions from a variety of perspectives. .Trade Review"Good insights for landscape historians and archaeologists." Landscape History "The varied contributions and stimulating interpretations combine with a strong and thought-provoking introduction by the editors and useful concluding commentaries on sacred landscapes and everyday places and cosmologies to produce a well-structured book of unusually powerful appeal." LandscapesTable of Contents1. Archaeological Landscapes: Constructed, Conceptualized, Ideational: A. Bernard Knapp and Wendy Ashmore. Part I: Ethnographic and Historical Cases:. 2. Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From Physical to Social: Paul S. C. Taçon. 3. Creating Social Identity in the Landscape: Tidewater, Virginia 1600-1750: Lisa Kealhofer. 4. Conceptual Landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley: Janet E. Richards. 5. Buddhist Landscapes in East Asia: Gina L. Barnes. 6. Mountains, Caves, Water: Ideational Landscapes of the Ancient Maya: James E. Brady and Wendy Ashmore. Part II: Protohistoric / Ethnohistoric Cases:. 7. The Inca Cognition of Landscape: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Aesthetic of Alterity: Maarten van de Guchte. 8. The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the Northern Rio Grande: James E. Snead and Robert W. Preucel. Part III: Prehistoric Cases:. 9. Centering the Ancestors: Cemeteries, Mounds and Sacred Landscapes of the Ancient North American Midcontinent: Jane E. Buikstra and Douglas K. Charles. 10. Ideational and Industrial Landscape of Prehistoric Cyprus: A. Bernard Knapp. 11. The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age: John C. Barrett. Part IV: Commentaries:. 12. Sacred Landscapes: Constructed and Conceptualized: Carole L. Crumley. 13. Exploring Everyday Places and Cosmologies: Peter van Dommelen. Index.
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Princeton University Press From Ancient to Modern
Book SynopsisAs archaeologists unearth the past, they seek meaning or purpose for the objects they uncover by looking at the objects themselves and their archaeological context. Art historians, on the other hand, primarily focus on aesthetics, asking why a particular object stimulates our senses, and what that tells us about ourselves. From Ancient to Modern ofTrade Review"Indispensable."--Ken Johnson, New York TimesTable of Contents6 Letter from Julian Siggers Williams Director, University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 8 Letter from Roger S. Bagnall Leon Levy, Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 10 Acknowledgments Jennifer Y. Chi, Exhibitions Director and Chief Curator, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 16 From Ancient to Modern: A Chronology 20 Map 22 1 Glam-UR-ous: The Art of Archaeology and Aesthetics Jennifer Y. Chi, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Pedro Azara, Polytechnic University of Catalonia 54 2 The Golden Image of Archaeology before the Second World War Pedro Azara, Polytechnic University of Catalonia Marc Marin, Polytechnic University of Catalonia 86 3 Magnificent with Jewels: Puabi, Queen of Ur William B. Hafford, University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Richard L. Zettler, University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 106 4 Puabi's Diadem(s): The Deconstruction of a Mesopotamian Icon Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Naomi F. Miller, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 132 5 What Does Puabi Want (Today)? The Status of Puabi as Image Kim Benzel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 162 6 Ground to Gallery: The Discovery, Interpretation, and Display of Early Dynastic Sculpture from the Iraq Expedition of the Oriental Institute Jack D. M. Green, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Jean M. Evans, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago 194 Appendix: Back to the Beginning; The Aesthetics and Allure of Field Records Clemens Reichel, Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto 202 Exhibition Checklist 231 Bibliography 239 Photography and Drawing Credits
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Princeton University Press Arab Patriotism The Ideology and Culture of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study is a significant step in clarifying identity in the Arab provinces during the 19th century regarding both the Ottoman Empire and within the provinces themselves." * Choice *"Mestyan is at his best when he excavates and reconstructs lines connecting diverse and often obscure individuals to equally diverse institutions of power."---Wilson Chacko Jacob, American Historical Review"Adam Mestyan’s Arab Patriotism is an ambitious project on the Ottoman province of Egypt . . . in the nineteenth century."---Side Emre, Bustan"Arab Patriotism is an ambitious study. Dealing with Egyptian history from the 1830s to the 1890s, it addresses two hitherto relatively unexplored subjects. . . . Throughout, the study presents fresh material and opens new perspectives on Egyptian history. The book is a significant contribution to the history of modern Egypt."---James Jankowski, Journal of Arabic LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Notes on Transliteration, Names, Titles, and Currency xi Introduction 1 I The Making of the Khedivate 17 1 The Ottoman Origins of Arab Patriotism 21 2 The Ottoman Legitimation of Power: The Khedivate 50 3 The European Aesthetics of Khedivial Power 84 II "A Garden with Mellow Fruits of Refinement" 121 4 A Gentle Revolution 125 5 Constitutionalism and Revolution: The Arab Opera 164 III The Reinvention of the Khedivate 199 6 Harun al-Rashid under Occupation 203 7 Behind the Scenes: A Committee and the Law, 1880s-1900s 238 8 Distinction: Mustafa Kamil and the Making of an Arab Prince 268 Conclusion: The Ottoman Origin of Arab Nationalisms 303 Acknowledgments 309 Abbreviations 311 Works Cited 313 Index 345
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Princeton University Press Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[This] book furnishes us with our best – and most splendidly illustrated – single-volume anthology of art in the fourth century."---Michael Squire, Greece and Rome"More than amply inclusive, detailed and documented, and beautifully illustrated.—Mark Fullerton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"
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Princeton University Press The Transformation of Athens
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2019 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League""Osborne’s gifts as an observer of ancient art are beyond dispute. His discussions of the vase scenes he has chosen to explore are filled with the kind of insight that make one inclined to accept any conclusions to which they might lead. His book offers a radically new approach to the Attic vases, one that might even achieve the two grand goals Osborne sets for it: not only to 'rewrite the history of art' but also to 'rewrite history.'"---James Romm, New York Review of Books"Osborne’s book is original and important, as is its advocacy of a shift away from questions of technique and influence . . . towards attention to subject and manner of representation." * Times Higher Education *"[The Transfomation of Athens] reinstates Athenian pottery to the place it deserves and acknowledges the enormous potential of painted vases to illuminate many areas of Greek culture. . . . This is a lucid, engaging and persuasive book."---Diana Rodríguez Pérez, Burlington Magazine"Beautifully produced."---Paul Watkins, Argo
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Princeton University Press The Rise of Coptic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This short volume showcases an exemplary combination of papyrological accuracy, attention to detail, and an eye for the broader context. . . the book will become standard on the subject and indispensable for anyone interested in the history of late antique Egypt or multilingualism in the Roman world."---Ágnes T. Mihálykó, Plekos"The Rise of Coptic represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the position of Coptic during Late Antiquity."---Jennifer Cromwell, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
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