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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Integrating Çatalhöyük: themes from the 2000-2008
Book SynopsisThe Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysis and interpretation of the results of excavations in 2000-2008. It synthesizes the results of research described in other volumes in the same series. The volume commences with accounts of the recent work on community collaboration at the site, and with discussions of the methods used at the site. It then synthesizes the work on landscape use and mobility, integrating the work of subsistence analysis and the analysis of human remains. The storage and sharing of food is a related topic. The ways in which houses were constructed, lived in and abandoned leads to a broad discussion of settlement and social organization at Çatalhöyük and of their change through time. For example, shifts in the themes that occur in paintings in houses change through time as part of a wider set of social, economic and ritual changes in the upper levels. The social uses of materials and technologies are explored and the roles of materials in personal adornment. Finally, the discussion of variation through place and time is recognized as dependent on scales of analysis and social process.Table of ContentsIntroduction: some integrated themes – Ian HodderCollaborative community archaeology at Çatalhöyük – Sonya AtalayEvaluating reflexive methodologies at Çatalhöyük – Asa Berggren and Bjorn NilssonLandscape and mobility at Neolithic Çatalhöyük – Kathy Twiss, Amy Bogaard, Mike Charles and othersStorage and sharing of food – Arzu DemirergiConstructing buildings – Mira Stevanovic, Eleni Asouti, Shahina Farid, Duygu ÇamurcuoğluAbandonment and closure – Nerissa RussellInside/outside – Amy BogaardSocial and settlement organization – Ian HodderTemporal change – Tristan CarterPaintings and change through time – Agata CzeszewskaThe social uses of colour – Karen Wright, Graeme EarlSocial materials and technologies – Serena LovePersonal adornment – Karen Wright, Nerissa Russell, Rose Bains, Daniella Bar Yosef, Milena VasicQuestions of scale – Slobodan Mitrovic
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Material Engagements: Studies in honour of Colin
Book SynopsisThe subject matter of archaeology is the engagement of human beings, now and in the past, with both the natural world and the material world they have created. All aspects of human activity are potentially relevant to archaeological research, and, conversely, the ways in which others, especially artists and anthropologists, have investigated the world are of interest to archaeologists. Archaeological artefacts and sites are also used by groups and nations to establish identity, and for financial gain, both through tourism and trade in antiquities. Colin Renfrew has actively engaged with art, with politics and with the antiquities trade, and has presented his ideas to broad audiences through accessible books and television programmes, as well as championing the cause of archaeology in many public roles. The papers in this volume, which have been written by colleagues and former students on the occasion of his retirement, relate to all of these subject areas, and together give some idea of the complexity of the issues raised by critical engagements with the material world, both past and present.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Neil Brodie & Catherine Hills); For Colin in friendship and admiration (Richard Long); A meeting of minds: art and archaeology (Antony Gormley & Colin Renfrew); 'Art makes visible': an archaeology of the senses in Minoan elite art (Christine Morris); Incavation - Excavation - Exhibition (Cornelius Holtorf); Archaeology in rock (Timothy Darvill); Flowers: New England digs 2002 (Mark Dion); The Asian art affair: US art museum collections of Asian art and archaeology (Neil Brodie & Jenny Doole); A Neocycladic harpist? (John Craxton & Peter Warren); The Parthenon Marbles as an archaeological issue (Anthony Snodgrass); But a passing moment in the long career of a monument: Colin Renfrew and Stonehenge, 1968 (Christopher Chippindale); Rejecting reflexivity? Making post-Stalinist archaeology in Albania (Richard Hodges); Material and oral records: a shamans' meeting in Pokhara (Christopher Evans).
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Bones for Tools - Tools for Bones: The Interplay
Book SynopsisAnimal procurement and tool production form two of the most tightly connected components of human behaviour. They are tied to our emergence as a genus, were fundamental to the dispersal of our species, and underpin the development of our societies. The interaction between these fundamental activities has been a subject of archaeological inference from the earliest days of the discipline, yet the pursuit of each has tended to encourage and entrench specialist study. As a result, our understanding of them has developed in full-view but in general isolation of one from the other. This volume begins the process of integrating what have all too often become isolated archaeological and interpretative domains. Exposing and exploring contexts spanning much of prehistory, and drawing data from a wide range of environmental settings, the book covers both sides of the complex inter-relationship between animals, the technologies used to procure them and those arising from them. In taking a more inclusive approach to the material, technological and social dynamics of early human subsistence we have returned to the earliest of those archaeological associations: that between stone tools and animal bones. In revealing the inter-dependence of their relationship, this volume takes what we hope will be a first step towards a revitalized understanding of the scope of past interactions between humans and the world around them. Krish Seetah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. His zooarchaeological research focuses on butchering and the socio-economic context of food. Brad Gravina is a member of the laboratory Préhistoire a l'Actuel: Cultures, Evironment et Anthropologie (PACEA) at the University of Bordeaux. His research focuses on the final Middle Palaeolithic of Western Europe with an emphasis on lithic technology and taphonomy.Table of Contents1. Combining Stones and Bones, Defining Form and Function, Inferring Lives and Roles(BRAD GRAVINA, RYAN J. RABETT AND KRISH SEETAH) Part 1: Taphonomy and Technology 2. When Bones are Not Enough: Lithic Refits and Occupation Dynamics in the Middle Palaeolithic Level 10 of Roca dels Bous (Catalonia, Spain)(IGNACIO DE LA TORRE, JORGE MARTÍNEZ-MORENO AND RAFAEL MORA) 3. Testing the Spatial Association of Lithic and Faunal Remains: a Case Study from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon (Israel)(HERVÉ MONCHOT, MICHAEL CHAZAN AND LIORA KOLSKA HORWITZ) 4. The Palaeolithic Poor Relation? Taphonomic Approaches to Archaeofaunas and their Implication for the Study of European Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence(GEOFF M. SMITH) 5. Reconstructing Animal-butchering Technology: Slicing Cut Marks from the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve Yam, Israel(HASKEL J. GREENFIELD AND LIORA KOLSKA HORWITZ) 6. Cause and Effect: the Impact of Animal Variables on Experimentally Produced Bone Lesions(SHAW BADENHORST) Part 2: Raw Materials, Operational Sequences and Decision-making 7. Guanaco Butchering by Hunter-gatherers from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Southern Patagonia(A. SEBASTIÁN MUÑOZ) 8. Diversity and Applications: Some Bone Tools from the Past to the Present in Southern Africa(INA PLUG) 9. Mammoth Bone Technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico(EILEEN JOHNSON, JOAQUIN ARROYO-CABRALES AND LUIS MORETT) Part 3: Subsistence and Cultural Practice 10. Don’t Smash Those Bones! Anatomical Representation and Bone Tool Manufacture in the Pampean Region (Argentina, South America) (DANIEL LOPONTE AND NATACHA BUC) 11. Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia(RYAN J. RABETT AND PHILIP J. PIPER) 12. Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Environmental Adaptation or Social Transformation?(FARINA STERNKE AND LAURENT-JACQUES COSTA) Index
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Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Constructing, Remaking and Dismantling Sacred
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Institut Geopolymere Why the Pharaohs Built the Pyramids with Fake Stones: More and More Scientists Agree and Disclose 20 Years of Investigation
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De Gruyter Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of experimental approaches to the study of media histories and their cultures. Doing media archaeological experiments, such as historical re-enactments and hands-on simulations with media historical objects, helps us to explore and better understand the workings of past media technologies and their practices of use. By systematically refl ecting on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a relatively new approach in media historical research and teaching, this book aims to serve as a practical handbook for doing media archaeological experiments. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory, authored by Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever.
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Harrassowitz Die Phonizische Nekropole Von Ayamonte: Die
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Peter Lang AG Amber in the Circum-Adriatic Bronze Age:
Book SynopsisThe present book takes up the long-debated subject of the presence of amber around the Adriatic during the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). It offers an exhaustive review of the current state of knowledge about the use of amber by prehistoric communities living on the opposite sides of the sea. The author focuses primarily on the spatial and chronological aspects of amber’s acquisition in Italy and the Balkans, form and function of the artefacts made of it, issues connected to their processing and ways of circulation of these products within the study area. Furthermore, attention is paid to material and symbolic statuses of amber among the local societies. Finally, the role of the circum-Adriatic zone in the long-range transfer of amber from Northern to Southern Europe is assessed.Table of ContentsAmber in prehistoric communities, Bronze Age, Adriatic during the Bronze Age
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Zeitschrift Fur Orient-Archaologie
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Zeitschrift Fur Orient-Archaologie
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Zeitschrift Fur Orient-Archaologie
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Zeitschrift Fur Orient-Archaologie
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Schnell & Steiner Zum Wohle Der Stadt? Erwerbungen 1933 - 1945:
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Transcript Verlag Popular Receptions of Archaeology: Fictional and
Book SynopsisPopular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon: Focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies, and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Susanne Duesterberg analyses the popular reception of archaeology in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. She offers an interdisciplinary and comparative view on the reception of the different archaeologies, reflecting contemporary sociocultural concerns in connection with identity formation. With its focus on popular culture as well as identity and memory studies, the book appeals to both a general public and experts from various disciplines.
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Bilder von der Vergangenheit Zur Geschichte der
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JAS Arqueologia Archaeogaming: Una introducción a la arqueología
Book SynopsisVideo games are an example of material objects, resources and spaces that people use to define their culture. They also serve as archaeological sites in their traditional sense of place. Places where evidence of past activity is preserved and archaeological methodology can be applied. This book serves as a general introduction to archaeogaming: it describes the intersection between archaeology and video games, and applies archaeological theory and method to understand video games as sites as well as artifacts. It is also history, sociology and ontology; and everything that is necessary to define a culture, that of videogames, that is no longer emerging, but has been completely established in the humanity of the Anthropocene and late capitalism. What makes its valuation and cataloging more necessary as digital heritage.
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JAS Arqueologia Arqueologías Vitales
Book SynopsisLos textos de este libro son auto-biográficos. A diferencia de tantos escritos académicos no ocultan, sino más bien visibilizan todo lo que sucede entre el trabajo de campo y la escritura, ese espacio tan productivo pero tan contencioso que usualmente se elimina, se niega, se alteriza.Table of ContentsConversación en Lima – Cristóbal Gnecco y Henry Tantaleán ; Seguir la huella y curar el rastro. Memorias de una experiencia colectiva de investigación y militancia en el campo de arqueología argentina – Ivana Carina Jofré ; Arqueo-devenires, Zarankin-centrismos y presentes contaminados – Texto: Andrés Zarankin, Dibujos: Iván Zigarán ; Cuando descubres que el arqueólogo local no eres tú. Dos encuentros con la isla Pariti – Juan Villanueva Criales ; Sueño y catarsis: hacia una arqueología post- humanista – José Roberto Pellini ; La cerámica de Anuma’i y las marcas del fin del mundo – Fabíola Andréa Silva ; La arqueología en la era del multiculturalismo neoliberal: una reflexión autobiográfica desde San Pedro de Atacama (norte de Chile) – Patricia Ayala Rocabado ; Confesiones de un postarqueólogo – Cristóbal Gnecco ; Entre el Cauca y el Magdalena: una historia apócrifa de la arqueología colombiana en el último tercio del siglo XX – Wilhelm Londoño ; Cuando el “otro” eres tú. Encuentros de un empresario español en América – Jaime Almansa Sánchez ; Entrando y saliendo de la arqueología peruana: memorias presentes de un pasado reciente – Henry Tantaleán ; Arqueólogos remando entre las verdades y las injusticias – José María López Mazz ; Sobre los autores
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JAS Arqueologia Amor Estratigráfico: El libro
Book SynopsisAfter years of waiting, with intermittent protests at the Arqueoart and JAS Arqueología headquarters, we have been able to carry out the edition of the final book on Stratigraphic Love with the entire first season, commented on and full of surprises. Worthy? Surely not, but we've had a great time doing it. So buy it and enjoy it. Rod and honour! Stratigraphy or death! A different archaeology is possible...
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Aarhus University Press Pilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred
Book SynopsisPilgrims in Place, Pilgrims in Motion: Sacred Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together exciting interdisciplinary scholarship on the connected poles of pilgrimage: the sanctuaries being visited, and the journeys to get there. Contributions investigate different concepts of place, community, social tensions and expectations of pilgrim behaviour; long-term meanings of place as embodied in memory and topography; mobility, migration and place-making; connectivity and its relationship to pilgrimage. Individual chapters discuss shrines, sanctuaries and sacred places as well as journeys and mobility across Greek, Roman and late antique contexts, framed as part of a key debate within the study of pilgrimage, the central tension between place and motion.
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Aarhus University Press Urban Network Evolutions: Towards a
Book SynopsisFor millenia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail.Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavours to characterise both the scale and pace of historical events and processes. Issuing from the work of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence, the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), the book compares the archaeology of urbanism from medieval Northern Europe to the Ancient Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World.The 40 contributors demonstrate how new techniques for refining archaeological dates, contexts, and the provenance ascribed to material culture, afford a new high-definition approach to the study of global and interregional dynamics. This opens up for far-reaching questions as to how and to what extent urban networks catalysed societal and environmental expansions and crises in the past.Trade Review[…] the work is overall unified by its contributions’ association with UrbNet as well as their argument for the use of multiple research methods to obtain a more complete understanding of and answers to archaeological questions. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Midsea Books Archaeology and the Sea in the Maltese Islands
Book SynopsisMalta and Gozo's geographical location in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea has, since ancient times, led to numerous ships passing through the islands' waters. Several records of this maritime activity exist in different archives and other evidence can be deduced from the seabed. Despite this, the maritime archaeology of our islands has remained largely unexplored. This book has been produced to address just a small part of this lacuna. By looking at the history of underwater archaeology in Malta and providing an overview of some of the most important finds from the seabed around the archipelago readers will be able to familiarize themselves with the fascinating world of our submerged cultural heritage. In order to portray the full story it was necessary to start at the beginning of underwater exploration in Malta. The authors had the opportunity to meet and interview a number of pioneers who took up scuba diving in the late 1950s and early 1960s. We are indebted to them for the inv
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