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Book SynopsisThe Past as Digital Playground: Archaeology, Virtual Reality, and Video Games collects the contributions to a two-day conference which illustrate a digital project developed at the Archaeological and Technological Park of Poggibonsi (Siena, Tuscany), where Virtual Reality and an educational video game are being used to enhance the archaeological content deriving from the excavation of the medieval site. In recent decades, digital technologies have pervaded every aspect of the production of archaeological knowledge, from data collection to analysis and interpretation, to interaction with the public. The increasing convenience of 3D and interactive technologies has led to a proliferation of digital tools (VR, AR, mobile applications) used to communicate the past in a more engaging way, offering the public an experience that takes place largely outside of the traditional channels. Alongside the experience at Poggibonsi, the book also gathers important contributions originating from other Italian and international case studies in the fields of digital technologies applied to archaeological heritage.Table of ContentsIndice ; Introduzione – Stefano Bertoldi, Samanta Mariotti ; (Re)living Vindolanda: Designing Educational Computer Games for Outdoor Environments – Barbara Birley, Richard Davison, Claire Stocks ; Virtual Neapolis. Un’esperienza di visita immersiva in VR per le vie di Napoli – Francesco Gabellone, Maria Chiffi ; Virtual tour di Poggio Bonizio: teoria, tecnologia e applicazioni dalla grafica 3d alla VR – Stefano Bertoldi ; Designing video games for history classrooms – Juan Hiriart ; Archeologia, interazione, gioco: come il digitale ha mutato la disciplina. L’osservatorio di Archeovirtual – Augusto Palombini ; Hold the Hut, il progetto di valorizzazione della capanna arcaica di San Chirico Nuovo (Potenza, Basilicata) – Sabrina Mutino, Lucia Colangelo, Michele Scioscia ; A video game for the Archaeological Park of Poggibonsi (Italy). Towards new promotional and educational trends: potentials, challenges, and perspectives – Samanta Mariotti ; Tavola rotonda moderata da Stefano Bertoldi – Marco Valenti, Nicola Berti, Federico Salzotti, Maurizio Amoroso ; La “fine” ed un nuovo inizio: il Metaverso in archeologia – Stefano Bertoldi, Samanta Mariotti

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Book SynopsisFocusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, Powerful Pictures interrogates the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the rock art motifs featured in the 16 chapters of this book were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups, and it sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction. Stemming from a conference in Val Camonica in northern Italy, the book is arranged by continent, although it tackles how early research in some countries (e.g., Sweden, France, Spain, the USA, Canada, South Africa) influenced the trajectory of archaeological investigations in others (e.g., Australia, India, Mexico, Germany, Mongolia, Russia). All of the contributing authors have vast experience working with rock art and Indigenous communities, many of them holding posts in prestigious university departments around the world. The book will be of particular interest to professional historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, and indeed anyone who is interested in art, symbolism, and the past.Table of ContentsWhy the history of rock art research matters – Joakim Goldhahn, Jamie Hampson, and Sam Challis ; The history of rock art research in west Texas, North America, and beyond – Jamie Hampson ; Reclaiming connections: Ethnography, archaeology, and images on stone in the southwestern United States – Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Dennis Gilpin ; Rock art, landscapes and materiality in the Canadian Shield – Dagmara Zawadzka ; On the history of rock art research in Mexico and Central America – Félix Alejandro Lerma Rodríguez ; ‘To Alleviate the Night-Black Darkness that Conceals our most Ancient Times:’ Carl Georg Brunius’ Trailblazing Rock Art Thesis from 1818 – Joakim Goldhahn ; History of the study of schematic rock art in Spain – Margarita Díaz-Andreu ; Leo Frobenius’ contribution to global rock art research – Richard Kuba and Martin Porr ; History debunked: Endeavours in rewriting the San past from the indigenous rock art archive – Sam Challis ; Rock art and archaeology? The problem of ‘integration’ in southern African later stone age research – David Mendel Witelson ; A history of research into regional difference in southern African rock paintings – Ghilraen Laue ; Explorers and researchers: Kimberley rock art discoveries 1838–1938 – Michael P. Rainsbury ; Discovering and researching gwion (bradshaw) art in the Kimberley, Western Australia – Joc Schmiechen ; Rock art research in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India – Sujitha Pillai ; Historical overview of Mongolian rock art studies – Byambasuren Tseren ; A history of rock art research in Russia – Irina Ponomareva

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Book SynopsisCritical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.

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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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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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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

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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.

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Book SynopsisInterlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding humanenvironmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth's biophysical system with the history of humanity. Considering landscape as the spatial manifestation of the relations between humans and their environments through time, the authors in this volume examine the multi-directional power dynamics that have shaped settlement, agrarian, monumental and ritual landscapes through the long-term field projects they have pursued around the globe. Examining both biocultural stability and change through the longue durée in different regions, these essays highlightTrade Review"This collection of papers is an excellent introduction to, and overview of, research in the field of Historical Ecology. The topic is especially timely, as archaeologists and historians think increasingly about how our understanding of interrelations between humans and their environments in the past can help us to understand changes happening in the present and to plan for the future. Chapters include discussion of theory and method, as well as case studies that demonstrate the application of the approach to changes in early societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. This book is valuable both for its explanation of the subject of Historical Ecology and for the information presented in the case studies."Peter Wells, University of Minnesota, USA"The work of Carole Crumley has impacted a broad audience of anthropological archaeologists for several decades now, with both her championing of Historical Ecology and her early transdisciplinary introduction of the heterarchy concept markedly influencing the field. By bringing together several contributors who have been significantly affected by her long and productive career, this collection is a robust encounter with Crumley’s influence and how her clear thinking has profoundly altered our assessment of archaeological method and theory."Vernon L. Scarborough, University of Cincinnati, USAThis collection of papers is an excellent introduction to, and overview of, research in the field of historical ecology. The topic is especially timely, as archaeologists and historians think increasingly about how our understanding of interrelations between humans and their environments in the past can help us to understand changes happening in the present and to plan for the future. Chapters include discussion of theory and method, as well as case studies that demonstrate the application of the approach to changes in early societies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. This book is valuable both for its explanation of the subject of historical ecology and for the information presented in the case studies.Peter Wells, University of Minnesota, USAThe work of Carole Crumley has impacted a broad audience of anthropological archaeologists for several decades now, with both her championing of Historical Ecology and her early transdisciplinary introduction of the heterarchy concept markedly influencing the field. By bringing together several contributors who have been significantly affected by her long and productive career, this collection is a robust encounter with Crumley’s influence and how her clear thinking has profoundly altered our assessment of archaeological method and theory. Vernon L. Scarborough, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsForeword; Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes: Introductory Perspectives; SECTION ONE: Ideologies and Applications of Historical Ecology and Heterarchy; Chapter 1: Dialectic in Historical Ecology; Chapter 2: Historical Ecology and Longitudinal Research Strategies around Lake Mývatn, Iceland; Chapter 3: Gender, Feminism, and Heterarchy; Chapter 4: ‘Can you hear me now?’: Heterarchy as an Instrument and Outcome of Collective Action in Iron Age and Medieval Europe; SECTION TWO: Identifying Resilience; Chapter 5: Reconstructing African Landscape Historical Ecologies: An Integrative Approach for Managing Biocultural Heritage; Chapter 6: Resilience of Agrarian Land Use Practices in Burgundy, France: Evolving Approaches to Historical Ecology; Chapter 7: Resilience, Heterarchy, and the Native American Cultural Landscapes of the Yazoo Basin and the Mississippi River Delta; SECTION THREE: Social, Settlement and Territorial Dynamics of the European Iron Age; Chapter 8: Mapping British and Irish Hillforts; Chapter 9: Humanizing the Western Cantabrian Mountains in Northwestern Iberia: a Diachronic Perspective on the Exploitation of the Uplands during Late Prehistory; Chapter 10: The End of Iron Age Societies in Northwestern Iberia: Egalitarianism, Heterarchy and Hierarchy in Contexts of Interaction; Chapter 11: Iron Age Societies at Work: Towns, Kinship and Territory in Historical Analogy; SECTION FOUR: Ritual Landscapes and Monumentality; Chapter 12: Empires of Stone, Politics of Shadow: The Historical Ecology and Political Economy of Mortuary Monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC- 1400 AD); Chapter 13: A Landscape of Ancestors—Looking Back and Thinking Forward; Chapter 14: Civic-Ceremonial Transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico; Chapter 15: Sacred Wells across the Longue Durée; Afterword: Integrating Time and Space in Dynamic Systems

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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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Book SynopsisThis book provides an up to date introduction to the exciting, but complex, new scientific methodologies that are increasingly used in archaeological study. Written by an international team of specialists, it provides clear and engaging overviews of a wide array of approaches, including DNA and proteomics, dating methods, materials analysis, stable isotope analysis, and the scientific study of human, plant, and animal remains, among other topics. Each technique is explored through the use of actual archaeological examples, which both explain the methods and highlight their potential applications. The work is carefully illustrated with useful charts, graphs and other images, which complement the detail in the text, and help to articulate the case studies explored as well as the underlying principles of the techniques involved. Feature tables in many of the chapters highlight selected research on each topic, providing useful summaries of the current state and scope of the field for the rTrade Review'This is an interesting and well-written text that will be of principal interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students pursuing careers in archaeology and related fields.' D. A. Brass, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Introducing archaeological science Kate Britton and Michael P. Richards; Part II. Biomolecular Archaeology: 2. Ancient DNA Liisa Loog and Greger Larson; 3. Proteomics Jessica Hendy, Nienke van Doorn and Matthew Collins; 4. Residue analysis Oliver E. Craig, Hayley Saul and Cynthianne Spiteri; 5. Isotope analysis for mobility and climate studies Kate Britton; 6. Isotope analysis for diet studies Michael P. Richards; Part III. Bioarchaeology: 7. Human osteology Darlene A. Weston; 8. Dental histology Tanya M. Smith; 9. Geometric morphometrics Philip Gunz; Part IV. Environmental Archaeology: 10. Vertebrate zooarchaeology Keith Dobney and Beth Upex; 11. Invertebrate zooarchaeology Marcello Mannino; 12. Palaeoethnobotany A. Catherine D'Andrea; 13. Geoarchaeology Panagiotis Karkanas; Part V. Materials Analysis: 14. Ceramics Andrew J. Shortland and Peter Degryse; 15. Glass Andrew J. Shortland and Thilo Rehren; 16. Metals in archaeological science Thilo Rehren; 17. Lithics Shannon McPherron; Part VI. Absolute Dating Methods: 18. Radiocarbon dating Simon Blockley; 19. Luminescence dating Richard Bailey.

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Book SynopsisExplore the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation! This book reports on current research from several disciplines to help the reader understand the nature and impact of the relationship between faith-based programs, religion, and offender rehabilitation. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders is a unique resource—there has been very little research published on this important topic. President Bush''s faith-based initiative recognized that religion plays a role in the justice system and corrections that is overlooked but essential—it increases the role of community and caring in the system in a unique and important way. This pathbreaking book points the way toward a system of faith-based programs that are not only effective but also economical, as these programs are often staffed by volunteers. Religion, the Community, and the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders addresses imTable of Contents Introduction: Religion-Offenders-Rehabilitation: Questioning the Relationship Prison Religion in Action and Its Influence on Offender Rehabilitation The Reasons for Religious Involvement in the Correctional Environment The Role of the Prison Chaplain in Rehabilitation Intersections of Race, Religion, and Inmate Culture: The Historical Development of Islam in American Corrections Resistance to Conversion to Islam Among African American Women Inmates Prisoners, Prison, and Religion: Religion and Adjustment to Prison Religiosity and Drug Use Among Inmates in Boot Camp: Testing a Theoretical Model with Reciprocal Relationships Denominational Differences in Self-Reported Delinquency Evaluating Religious Initiatives in a Correctional Setting: Do Inmates Speak? Shame and Religion as Factors in the Rehabilitation of Serious Offenders Social Theory, Sacred Text, and Sing-Sing Prison: A Sociology of Community-Based Reconciliation The Prisoner as Scapegoat: Some Skeptical Remarks on Present Penal Policy Rethinking God, Justice, and Treatment of Offenders Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisThis guide is designed as an introduction to the basic methods for identifying mammal bones and teeth. It is intended to highlight for beginners the main points on which identifications can be made on the bulk of bones and teeth from a small range of common Old World mammals.Table of Contents1. Introduction and Aims2. Animals Included3. Terms, Abbreviations, Divisions and Directions in the Skeleton and Dentition4. Bones and Their Identification5. General Note About the Drawings6. Size and Variation7. Antlers8. Horn Cores9. Cranial Bones10. Teeth11. Tooth Sockets12. Mandible13. Vertebrae14. Ribs15. Scapula16. Humerus17. Radius-ulna18. Innominate Bone19. Femur20. Tibia-fibula21. Carpals22. Tarsals23. Bovid and Cervid Metapodials24. Horse Metapodials25. Metapodials of Cats, Dogs, Pigs, and Humans26. Phalanges27. References28. Index

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Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Mesoamerica the indigenous groups of precolonial North-Central America is rich and varied but relatively little-known. In this ground-breaking book, Alexus McLeod introduces the philosophical traditions of the Maya, Nahua (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and others, focussing in particular on their treatment of language, truth, time, creation, personhood, knowledge, and morality. His wide-ranging discussion includes important texts of world literature such as the K''iche Maya Popol Vuh and the Aztec Florentine Codex, as well as precolonial glyphic texts and imagery. This comprehensive and accessible book will give students, specialists and other interested readers an understanding of Mesoamerican philosophy and a sense of the current scholarship in the field.Trade Review'This book arrives at a timely moment, as non-canonical philosophical traditions are getting increased attention. This is an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to one of the least well known of these traditions, Mesoamerican philosophy. McLeod shows that this culture produced challenging and unique perspectives on many central questions in philosophy, including the nature of language, knowledge, and reality itself.' Peter Adamson, University of MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Cultural and Historical Background; 1. The Nature of Philosophy in Mesoamerica; 2. The Nature of Language, Truth and Meaning; 3. Time; 4. Identity, Self and Personhood; 5. Creation and the Gods; 6. Being and Worlds; 7. Knowledge, Seeing; 8. Ethics; Conclusion – Mesoamerican Philosophy and the Contemporary World.

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Book SynopsisIndo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today's cremations on open pyres in Hinduism.Exploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fires in relation to agriculture and fertility may also explain the enigma of cremation. Cremated remains were ground and used in fertility rituals, and ancestral fires played an essential role in metallurgy and the creation of cosmos. Thus, the rolTable of Contents1: Fire rituals and the Indo-European Heritage; 2: Hearts in hearths – ancestors and deities; 3: Seasonality and fire festivals; 4. Cremation and cultivation in the North; 5. Fires from heaven – The links between East and West; 6. The Indo-Iranian culture and its rituals of fire; 7. Cremation, sacrifice and cosmogony in Hinduism

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Book SynopsisThis textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.The volume addresses the history and meanings of the concept of environment, provides a theory of the relation between living beings and their environments, and tackles a wide spectrum of key philosophical issues related to the environment and the environmental crisis in a straightforward framework and accessible style. The bookâs unique approach to environmental philosophy addresses the environment of all living beings and extends beyond environmental ethics to include conceptual history and analysis together with insights from evolutionary and developmental biology, ecology, and environmental and conservation sciences. The book consists of five chapters, each built around a specific thesis drawing upon philosophers and concepts including George C

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Book SynopsisFirst Dogs provides the first comprehensive overview of the relationships between humanityâs best friend (and oldest domestic animal) and hunter-gatherers.The book uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to explore the hunter-gatherer/canine relationship from the beginnings of the domestication process to the present. As well as looking at conventional case-studies from the Global North, it also uses examples from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The result is an understanding of how hunter-gatherers have lived with dogs that is novel in its thematic reach, its temporal span, and its global range. Having situated previous work on dogs and hunter-gatherers within the broader fields of archaeology and anthropology, the book first explores how, when, and where grey wolves became dogs before tracing their dispersal beyond Eurasia into North America, the tropics, and beyond. Four thematic chapters then consider their roles as hunting aids and transport technologies, as well as how they have been fed, cared for, and thought about by hunter-gatherer populations worldwide. A further chapter explores the canine dimension of European colonialismâs impacts on Indigenous peoples since 1492. The emphasis throughout is strongly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on archaeology and anthropology, but also on work in genetics, history, ecology, and linguistics.First Dogs offers an up-to-date account of all aspects of the relationship between hunter-gatherers and their canine companions aimed at academic and non-academic audiences alike.

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Book SynopsisUsing an explicitly scientific and comparative approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines 'archaeological mythology' about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, this book offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. It explains how early humans evolved and settled the world.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Hard evidence; 3. Who are these people?; 4. How did they get here?; 5. Ancient Africans; 6. Going east: Southern Asia; 7. Down Under: Southeastern Asians and Sahulians; 8. Neanderthal Country; 9. Going North: early Eurasians; 10. A brave new world: Pleistocene Americans; 11. Movable feasts: food producers and migrations; 12. Distant horizons and stars beckon: Oceanic islands and beyond; 13. Unstoppable? Human extinction; 14. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisBritish literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse—its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods—uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project traces how archaeology shaped major late-Victorian and modern discussions: informing debates over shifting gender roles; facilitating the development of queer iconography and the recovery of silenced or neglected histories; inspiring artefactual forgery and transforming modern conceptions of authenticity; and helping writers and artists historicise the traumas of the First World War. Ultimately unearthing archaeology at the centre of these major discourses, this book simultaneously positions literary and artistic engagements with the archaeological imagination as forms of archaeological knowledge in themselves.Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Our real life in tombs'1 Queer archaeologies2 Archaeology and Decadent prose3 Archaeology and authenticity4 Our real life in tombs: Great War archaeologyCODA: Archaeology from a distanceIndex

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Book SynopsisThe present volume reunites most of the papers that were presented at the second meeting of the Homines, Funera, Astra Symposium on Funerary Anthropology that took place at ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University, Alba Iulia, between 23rd and 26th September 2012. The theme of the volume is Life beyond Death in Ancient Times. The intention was to create a forum for discussing Prehistoric, Roman and Migration Period burial practices from Central and South-Eastern Europe, focusing on elements that might suggest belief in afterlife. The interdisciplinary character of the volume is provided by the varied approaches to the archaeology by the contributors, resulting in exploring the subject from multiple perspectives: archaeological, anthropological, geological, architectural, landscape, and epigraphic. Seven studies are dedicated to prehistoric burial practices, discussing discoveries dating from the Palaeolithic (one study), Neolithic and Copper Age (four studies), and Bronze Age (one study). A study focusing on methodology proposes a non-invasive method of analysis for burial mounds, with examples from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Two studies focusing on the Roman Period and another on the Migration Period complete our vision of funerary archaeology for this part of Europe. The editor’s wish to express their joy that the editorial project, which started with the publication of the first HFA volume (R. Kogălniceanu, R.-G. Curcă, M. Gligor and S. Stratton (eds.), Homines, Funera, Astra. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Funerary Anthropology, 5-8 June 2011, ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University, Alba Iulia, Romania. Oxford, Archaeopress, BAR International Series 2410), is followed by the present book. The basis for the series dedicated to burial archaeology with the intention to be a useful, modern, interdisciplinary instrument, is thus laid.Table of ContentsVivre et mourir dans le Paléolithique de l’Europe. Les communautés humaines et leur environnement (Valentin-Codrin Chirica and Vasile Chirica) Neolithic cremation graves and grave goods from Porţ – Corău (Sălaj County, Romania) (Sanda Băcueţ Crişan) Disposal of the dead. Uncommon mortuary practices from Alba Iulia – Lumea Nouă 2003 excavation (Mihai Gligor and Kirsty McLeod) Polished stone tools as grave goods in the Hamangia cemetery from Cernavodă – Columbia D. Typological and contextual analysis (Raluca Kogălniceanu and Constantin Haită) The distortion of archaeological realities through objects: a case study (Cătălin Lazăr and Mădălina Voicu) Funerary constructions characteristic to the Komariv (Middle Bronze Age) communities of the Suceava Plateau (Bogdan Petru Niculică and Dumitru Boghian) Identifying disturbances in the case of burial mounds. Case studies (Alexandru S. Morintz) A few notes on the emergence and distribution of variously shaped ditched enclosures in the Sarmatian environment, with or without graves inside (Vitalie Bârcă) Récit de vie behind funerary texts. A few remarks on CIL VI 3419 (= IDRE 27) (Violeta-Maria Răileanu) An eques romanus and his slave in a new funerary inscription from Troesmis (Lucreţiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba)

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Book SynopsisThe Iron Age copper smelting site situated near the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing places in the Near East because it has revealed spatial as well as technological aspects of copper production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. Agia Varvara-Almyras: an Iron Age Copper Smelting Site in Cyprus presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy (part I), also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras (part II). The excavation analysis not only focuses on pyrotechnical information from individual furnaces, but also provides a detailed study of the spatial organisation as well as of the living conditions on the smelting site. An elaborate reconstruction of the features in a 3D model allows the visualisation of formerly-dispersed loci of copper production. Based on this virtual rebuilding of the hillock named Almyras, it becomes clear that archaeometallurgy must be unchained, and the idea of an ‘operational chain’ must be replaced by a more multidimensional research strategy labelled as an ‘operational web’. The present volume aims to stimulate future excavations which pay attention to the reasons behind the exploitation of the riches of the island, as well as to the needs of the markets where the final product was very likely to have been appreciated as a strategic commodity, by power players operating on the island as well as by ordinary people in need of a repair to an everyday commodity which had broken.Table of ContentsForeword: Agia Varvara-Almyras, an Exceptional Case Study ; Part I – Archaeological Situation, Stratigraphy, and Chronology ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Extractive Copper Metallurgy in Cyprus: A Concise Retrospective on Methods and Approaches ; 3. Archaeological Research in Agia Varvara-Almyras ; 4. Stratigraphy ; 5. Age Determination ; 6. The Features ; 7. Spatial Organization ; 8. Conclusions and Outlook ; 9. Lists ; Part II – Materials and Processes ; 1. Geology and Mineralogy of Agia Varvara-Almyras – Iphigenia Gavriel ; 2. Agia Varvara-Almyras Ceramics Report – Robert Morris ; 3. Classification of Ore Beneficiation Stone Tools from Agia Varvara–Almyras – Anne Carey ; 4. Furnace Lining – Aleksandra Mistireki ; 5. Considerations on the Process Flow of Copper Production – Walter Fasnacht ; 6. Technology of Copper Smelting at Agia Varvara-Almyras – Martina Renzi, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Christina Peege, Walter Fasnacht and Thilo Rehren

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Book SynopsisBuildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era presents a series of papers reflecting the latest approaches to the study of buildings from the historic period. This volume does not examine buildings as architecture, but adopts an archaeological perspective to consider them as artefacts, reflecting the needs of those who commissioned them. Studies have often failed to consider the historical contexts in which the buildings were constructed and how they were subsequently used and interpreted. The papers in this volume situate their interpretation in their social context. Buildings can inform us about past cultures as they are responsive and evolve to meet people’s needs over time. The buildings examined in this volume range from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and cross continents including case-studies from America, Australia and Europe, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. Themes include: Approaches to the study of buildings, Buildings of Power, Buildings in Identity, Domestic Space and Urban and Village Spaces. The essays consider building design, role, and how the buildings were altered as their function changed to coincide with the needs and aspirations of those who owned or used the buildings. This collection of papers emphasizes the need for further international multidisciplinary approaches including archaeology, architectural history and art history in order to understand how ideas, styles, approaches and designs spread over time and space. Together, these papers generate valuable new insights into the study of buildings in the historic period.Table of ContentsBuildings in Society International Introduction – Liz Thomas and Jill Campbell ; What is Building History? Emergence and Practice in Britain and Ireland – Mark Gardiner ; The Domestic, Ritual Use of ‘Salt Niches’ in Southern and Eastern England, c.1500 to 1700 AD – Jonathan Duck ; Architecture and Community at Hummingbird Pueblo, New Mexico – Evangelia Tsesmeli ; Houses and Buildings – on Physical and Social Space in Early Modern Swedish Towns – Andrine Nilsen and Göran Tagesson ; Structures and Social Order in a Medieval Italian Monastery and Village: Architecture and Experience in Villamagna – Caroline Goodson ; Ethnic Buildways: Phenomenology in the Architectural Grammar of Later Medieval Córdoba (Spain). – D.A. Lenton ; Hybrid Vernacular: Houses and the Colonial Process in the West of Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries – Eve Campbell ; The Development of the Apartment Building in 18th century Vienna – Paul Mitchell ; Store Heddinge Church – a Mystery Solved? – Leif Plith Lauritsen ; Creating a Choreographed Space: English Anglo-Norman Keeps in the Twelfth Century – Katherine Weikert ; A Convict History: The Tale of Two Asylums – Susan Piddock

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the divergent uses and roles of different metals, the interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may have been accorded to them at different times and in different places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals and the various issues concerning their frequent under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic perspectives that may have the ability to offer insights into their important roles in wider cultural and historical changes over a period of several millennia. After the Introduction and Chapter 1, which reflects on some of the parameters involved in the term ‘precious’ as applied to metals, the remaining six chapters cover the Aegean and the networks that link the Aegean with Italy, Cyprus and the Near East more generally, and south-east Anatolia and the Caucasus. Between them they discuss the beginnings of regular iron metallurgy, the uses of and attitudes to gold, silver and bronze and other copper-based alloys at various times between the fourth millennium BC and the Early Iron Age.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Precious Circuits: Introduction Toby Wilkinson and Susan Sherratt 1. Precious Metal Values: Reflecting on Colours, Agency, and Domination Toby C. Wilkinson 2. Interaction, Gold, and Power: Contrasting Stories from Tombs across the East Mediterranean ca. 2000–1800 BC Borja Legarro Herrera 3. Greek Silver before Coinage: Medium of Exchange, Means of Wealth Accumulation, or Commodity? Susan Sherratt 4. The Sword and the Axe. Symbols of Value in the Bronze Age Social and Economic Exchange Networks Linking the Aegean to Italy within a Diachronic Perspective Elisabetta Borgna 5. The Development of Ironworking in the 12th and 11th Centuries in Cyprus Joanna Palermo 6. Provinces of Innovation. On the Introduction of Iron in the Near East Christopher Pare 7. Graves of Power. Circulation of Elite Strategies between Caucasus and South-eastern Anatolia in the Dawn of the Bronze Age Martina Massimino

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Book SynopsisHow did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? In recent years these questions have been approached through studies of the extended occupation and use of landscapes, monuments and artefacts to explore concepts of time and memory. But what of objects that were already old in the past? Interpretations for these items have ranged from the discard of scrap to objects of veneration. Evidence from a range of periods would suggest objects of the past were an important part of many later societies that encountered them, either as heirlooms with remembered histories or rediscovered curiosities from a more distant past. For the first time, this volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated. It follows a conference session at the Theoretical Archaeological Group in Cardiff 2017, in which historians, archaeologists, heritage professionals and commercial archaeologists gathered to discuss this topic on a broad (pre)historical scale, highlighting similarities and contrast in depositional practices and reactions to relics of the past in different periods. Through case studies spanning the Bronze Age through to the 18th century AD, this volume presents new research demonstrating that the reappropriation of these already old objects was not anomalous, but instead represents a practice that recurs throughout (pre)history.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Objects of the Past in the Past – by Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton and Rachel E. Wilkinson Chapter 2. Doubtful associations? Assessing Bronze Age ‘multi-period’ hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales – by Matthew G. Knight Chapter 3. Connecting with the past: Earliest Iron Age multi-period hoards in Wessex – by Dot Boughton Chapter 4. The Devil or the Divine? Supernatural objects and multi-period hoards in later prehistory – by Alex Davies Chapter 5. Iron Age antiques: Assessing the functions of old objects in Britain from 400 BC to AD 100 – by Helen Chittock Chapter 6. The Antique Antique? – by Mark Lewis Chapter 7. Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves – by Brian Costello and Howard Williams Chapter 8. Medieval engagements with the material past: some evidence from European coin hoards, AD c. 1000–1500 – by Murray Andrews Chapter 9. Deep Time in the ruins of a Tudor Palace? Fossils from the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich – by Peter J. Leeming Chapter 10. A shifting chronology of combat damage: Reassessing the evidence for use and reuse on Irish Bronze Age swords – by David R. Bell

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Book SynopsisOn the Borders of World-Systems: Contact Zones in Ancient and Modern Times draws on a diverse set of disciplines to explore historical, archaeological, and political interpretations of world-systems theory and geocivilizational analysis. The monograph has a prospective character, the main goal of which is the solution of a major problem – the study of worldwide practice, oriented towards the problems of the modern social world as a system. The principal focus is on the borderland - limes, which has been perceived variously as an impenetrable cordon, and as an open, interactive environment. In this locus of inter-world encounters, different civilizations developed, and an exchange of goods and ideas took place. Macrosociological issues of ancient and modern history are analyzed through five case studies of the Taurus-Caucasus region and its role as a contact zone in different periods.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; The Euphrates frontier in the Byzantine period: undergoing the new reality – Yervand Margaryan ; Mountainous landscapes as bounded territories: The northern gates of the Euphrates-Tigris contact zone – Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan ; ‘The Caucasian Frontier’ and Terek Cossacks – Aram Kosyan & Beniamin Mailyan ; Jewish history within the framework of frontier theory – Vladimir Ruzhansky

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Book SynopsisThe Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object –the socio-cultural and the natural– are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other. Consequently, it is argued that this dynamic practical relation is consolidated in the concept of the tool. The analysis of its logical structure shows its role as an immanent moment of technological practice. According to Hegel, a tool is not a neutral means for transmitting subjective ends to an external object but the material expression of the practical relationship between artisan and matter, and of their negative unity within practice. Concerning this point, the discussion follows a detailed reconstruction of Hegel’s theoretical reflections on the tool concept, and it evaluates their significance for the contemporary debates on the question of techniques and technology.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: A Brief History of Research: From neo-positivism to phenomenology and beyond ; Elusive technology and analytic dualism: between processual objectivism and post-processual idealism ; French and American anthropology of technology: synthetic dualism and the concept of the “process” ; The chaîne opératoire approach: some theoretical remarks ; Symmetrical theory and the phenomenology of material culture ; PART II: Hegel and the Concept of Practice: Elements for a dialectical theory of technology ; Dialectics in contemporary archaeological and anthropological theory ; The dialectic of practice: reconsidering Hegel ; PART III: The Subject, the Object, and the Logical Structure of the Tool ; Heidegger’s phenomenology or the tool as not a tool ; Hegel’s tools: relationality, universality, and effectivity ; Epilogue ; References

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Book SynopsisConversations in Human Evolution is an ongoing science communication initiative seeking to explore the breadth and interdisciplinarity of human evolution studies. This volume reports twenty interviews (referred to as ‘conversations’ as they are informal in style) with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research, covering the broad scientific themes of quaternary and archaeological science, Palaeolithic archaeology, biological anthropology and palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary genetics. This project features academics at various different stages in their careers and from all over the world; in this volume alone, researchers are based at institutions in seven different countries (namely the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, Germany, Denmark, India, and China), covering four continents. Having arisen at the start of the COVID19 pandemic, Conversations in Human Evolution aims to encourage engagement with both human evolutionary studies and the broader socio-political issues that persist within academia, the latter of which is particularly pertinent during this time of global uncertainty. The conversations delve deeply into the study of our species’ evolutionary history through the lens of each sub-discipline, as well as detailing some of the most current advances in research, theory and methods. Overall, Conversations in Human Evolution seeks to bridge the gap between the research and researcher through contextualisation of the science with personal experience and historical reflection.Table of ContentsConversations in Human Evolution – Lucy Timbrell ; Part 1: Quaternary and Archaeological Science ; Enrico Crema ; Felix Riede ; Ben Marwick ; Chris Hunt ; Andy Herries ; Part 2: Palaeolithic Archaeology ; Shanti Pappu ; Michael Petraglia ; Shi-Xia Yang ; John Gowlett ; Eleanor Scerri ; Rob Davies ; Part 3: Biological Anthropology and Palaeoanthropology ; Emma Pomeroy ; Chris Stringer ; Katerina Harvati ; Bernard Wood ; Part 4: Primatology and Evolutionary Anthropology ; Susana Carvalho ; Isabelle Winder ; Fiona Jordan ; Part 5: Evolutionary Genetics ; Eske Willerslev ; Pontus Skoglund

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Book SynopsisPlaces of Memory takes a new look at spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today, gathering researchers representing diverse but complementary fields of expertise. This diachronic outlook provides important insights into the great variety of human and social reactions examining memory, encompassing aspects of remembering, the loss of memory, reclaiming memories, and remembering things that may not have happened. The contributions to this volume expand upon Pierre Nora’s concept of lieux des memoire (places of memory) and the notion that memory is not just stored in these places but activated through human engagement. The volume presents a reflection on the creation of memories through the organisation and use of landscapes and spaces that explicitly considers the multiplicity of meanings of the past. Thus, social identities were created, reaffirmed, strengthened, and transformed through the founding, change, and reorganization of places and spaces of memory in the cultural landscape.Trade ReviewIn summary, despite the manageable number of 164 pages, the present volume contains a rich fund of newly conceived and further developed approaches that go well beyond the scope of the individual contributions and can also be applied to other archaeological contexts. The readers are shown stimulating possibilities to look at their own research topic from a new perspective - and at the same time to dare to think outside the box in many ways. The range of contributions clearly demonstrates the potential of including theories and concepts of memory in archaeology. -- Lukas Kerk * Archäologische Informationen 43 *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction – Christian Horn, Gustav Wollentz, Gianpiero Di Maida and Annette Haug ; 1. Commemoration and Change: Remembering What May Not Have Happened – Richard Bradley ; 2. The Multiple Pasts of Archaic Greece: The Landscapes of Crete and the Argolid, 900-500 BCE – James Whitley ; 3. Aeneas, Romulus, and the Memory Site of the Forum Augustum in Rome – Matthias J. Bensch ; 4. The Spoils of Eternity: Spolia as Collective Memory in the Basilica of St. Peter during the 4th century AD – Christina Videbech ; 5. Were TRB Depositions Boundary Markers in the Neolithic Landscape? – Michael Müller ; 6. Memories Created, Memories Altered: The Case of Kakucs-Turján Household and Pottery – Robert Staniuk ; 7. ‘These Battered Hills’: Landscape and Memory at Verdun (France) – Paola Filippucci ; 8. Set in Stone? Transformation and Memory in Scandinavian Rock Art – Christian Horn and Rich Potter ; 9. Art and Practices of Memory, Space and Landscapes in the Roman World – Anne Gangloff ; 10. Restoring a Memory: The Case of Kowary Barrow (Lesser Poland, Poland) – Anna Gawlik and Marcin Czarnowicz ; 11. Art, Social Memory and Relational Ontology in the Kimberley, North West Australia – Martin Porr ; 12. Recursivity in Kimberley Rock Art Production, Western Australia – Ana Paula Motta, Martin Porr, and Peter Veth ; 13. An Archaeology of Reclaiming Memories – Possibilities and Pitfalls – Gustav Wollentz

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Book SynopsisThis volume is in honor of the American scholar Rev. H. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C, Ph.D (University of Portland). It contains the papers presented at the Archaeometry Symposium in the 74th Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (NORM) which took place in Portland (Oregon), June 18th 2019, covering a wide range of topics. The volume includes papers about the application of different techniques in archaeology in order to comprehend some aspects during and after the excavation, for instance, physics, chemical analysis, remote sensing, LiDAR, etc. This work compiles papers about sites from different places around of the world, Spain, Canada, Thailand, Lithuania or Russia. The aim of the symposium was to facilitate communication between scholars from different places, to present current work in the field, and to stimulate future research.Table of ContentsIdentification of iron and wood through the effects of microstructures in timber-laced walls of the Celtic Iron Age of the Iberian Peninsula. Luis Berrocal-Rangel, Rosario García-Giménez, Raquel Vigil de la Villa, Carmen Gutiérrez-Sáez, Lucía Ruano & Marcos Osório ; Traction or hybrid trebuchet? The use of physical calculations to classify trebuchets. Mario Ramírez Galán, María Benítez Galán, Rafael Montalvo Laguna, Reina Inlow & Ronda S. Bard ; Blue-and-white porcelain in early South Thailand maritime trade. Angelica Kneisly, William Ayres & Maury Morgenstein ; Archaeometallography: a new look at old issues in the history of the iron industry. N. N. Terekhova & V. I. Zavyalov ; Falling from the sky. Aerial photogrammetry and LiDAR applied to the archaeology of architecture and landscape: two fortifications from the Alpujarra (Granada, Spain). Jorge Rouco Collazo, José Antonio Benavides López & José María Martín Civantos ; Early Roman Iron Age jewellery in the Northern Barbaricum: between stylistic and technological simplicity and luxury. Audronė Bliujienė, Gediminas Petrauskas, Jurga Bagdzevičienė, Sergej Suzdalev & Evaldas Babenskas ; The application and evaluation of remote sensing techniques to household archaeology on the Northwest Coast. William T. D. Wadsworth, Andrew Martindale, Colin Grier & Kisha Supernant

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the result of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA), held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from September 13–15, 2019. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2019 conference was New Frontiers in Archaeology and this volume presents papers from a wide range of topics such as new geographical areas of research, using museum collections and legacy data, new ways to teach archaeology and new scientific or theoretic paradigms. From hunting and gathering in the Neolithic to the return of artefacts to Turkey, the papers contained within show a great variety in both geography and chronology. Discussions revolve around access to data, the role of excavation in today’s archaeology, the role of local communities in archaeological interpretation and how we can ask new questions of old data. This volume presents 18 papers arranged in the six sessions with the two posters in their thematic sessions.Table of ContentsNew Frontiers in Archaeology – Kyra Kaercher and Monique Arntz ; Session 1: Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions ; Strength in Numbers: Combining Old Datasets to Answer New Questions – Lucy Timbrell ; Hunting in the Neolithic: Zooarchaeological Meta-analysis of the Role of Wild Mammals in Eastern Europe 6500-3000 BCE – Giselle F. Rainsford-Betts ; The Relevance of Çatalhöyük Reflexive Diaries – Gustavo Sandoval ; Multiple Datasets, Multiple Meanings? A Reanalysis of Multiple Internment Burials in Early Anglo-Saxon England – Caroline Palmer ; The Reuse of Archaeological Data: Grand Challenges and New Approaches to Southern Levantine Mortuary Archaeology – Sara Mura ; Session 2: Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality ; Past and Future-Lifestyle and Inequality – Sabrina Ki and Helena Muñoz-Mojado ; Magdalenian Minds: Evaluating the Role of Cognition in Mobiliary Art of the Magdalenian – Molly Hardman ; Gathering Practices in Eastern-Central Sweden During the Middle and Late Mesolithic – Erik Solfeldt ; Missing Objects: New Perspectives to Tackle the Problem of Textile Activity – Patricia Rosell Garrido ; Session 3: Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating ; Animal-Human Interactions: Becoming, Creating, Relating – Izzy Wisher and Kevin Kay ; Beating the Dead Horse? Using Ethnography for Middle Palaeolithic Zooarchaeological Contexts in North-West Europe – Erica Priestley ; Hounds of Hel: How Did the Mythological Significance of Viking Age Dogs Affect their Social Position? – Jessica Cousen ; Hold Your Horses – Animals in Ancient Thrace – Stella Nikolova ; Seen but not Herd: Animals in La Tène Art in England and Wales – Rebecca L. Ellis ; Wolf vs. Dragon. What if Medieval Dragons Were Wolf-Headed Snakes from Antiquity? – Giuseppe Delia ; Session 4: Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities ; Public Archaeology in the Light of Global Politics: New Challenges and Opportunities – Nancy Bomentre ; Rights of Cultural Objects: Gypsy Girl Reuniting with Her Company – Elvin Akbulut Dağlıer ; Papa He’e Nalu: Two Surfboards from Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum – Joanna Tonge ; Session 5: New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings ; New Frontiers in the Archaeology of Buildings – Xosé L. Hermoso-Buxán ; Desert Kites: A New Frontier in Near Eastern Archaeology – Mariam Shakhmuradyan ; Peculiar Elements of the Built Environment: The Problem of ‘Special Rural Settlements’ and Identification of Rural Social Hierarchies. Archaeological Evidence from a Medieval Village in the Western Periphery of the German Central Uplands – Roman Zabolotnîi ; The Fort-Towers in La Rioja (Central-Northern Iberia): Conservation Status and Rehabilitations – Isaac Martínez-Espinosa ; Session 6: New Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences: Trowel-Blazing at the Cutting Edge? ; Introduction: Really Cool Stuff in the Future of Archaeological Sciences – Ruairidh Macleod

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Book SynopsisFrom IndyRef and Brexit to the Refugee Crisis and Trump’s Wall, the construction and maintenance, subversion and traversing of frontiers and borderlands dominate our current affairs. Yet, while archaeologists have long participated in exploring frontiers and borderlands, their public archaeology has been starkly neglected. Incorporating the select proceedings of the 4th University of Chester Archaeology Student conference hosted by the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, on 20 March 2019, this is the first book to investigate realworld ancient and modern frontier works, the significance of graffiti, material culture, monuments and wall-building, as well as fictional representations of borders and walls in the arts, as public archaeology. Key themes include the heritage interpretation for linear monuments, public archaeology in past and contemporary frontiers and borderlands, and archaeology’s interactions with mural practices in politics, popular culture and the contemporary landscape. Together, the contributors show the necessity of developing critical public archaeologies of frontiers and borderlands.Table of ContentsForeword – Rebecca H. Jones ; Public Archaeologies from the Edge – Pauline Clarke, Kieran Gleave and Howard Williams ; Breaking Down Barriers: The Role of Public Archaeology and Heritage Interpretation in Shaping Perceptions of the Past – Richard Nevell and Michael Nevell ; Roman Walls, Frontiers and Public Archaeology – An Interview with Rob Collins ; Hands across the Border? Prehistory, Cairns and Scotland’s 2014 Independence Referendum – Kenneth Brophy ; Breaking Down the Berlin Wall: Dark Heritage, Pre-Wall Sites and the Public – Kieran Gleave ; The Political Dimensions of Public Archaeology in Borderlands: Exploring the Contemporary US-México Border – Maikin Holst ; Cofiwch Dryweryn: The Frontiers of Contemporary Welsh Nationalism, as seen through the Creation of Contested Heritage Murals – David Howell ; The Discomfort of Frontiers: Public Archaeology and the Politics of Offa’s Dyke – An interview with Keith Ray ; The Biography of Borderlands: Old Oswestry Hillfort and Modern Heritage Debates – Ruby McMillan-Sloan and Howard Williams ; Interpreting Wat’s Dyke in the 21st Century – Howard Williams ; Envisioning Wat’s Dyke – John G. Swogger and Howard Williams ; Watching Walls: Frontier Archaeology and Game of Thrones – Emma Kate Vernon ; Frontiers on Film: Evaluating Mulan (1998) and The Great Wall (2016) – Sophie Billingham

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Book SynopsisVisual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent decades, archaeological approaches to rock paintings and engravings have significantly advanced our understanding of rock art in regional and global terms. On the other hand, however, little research has been done on contemporary uses of rock art. How does ancient rock art heritage influence contemporary cultural phenomena? And how do past images function in the present, especially in contemporary art and other media? In the past, archaeologists usually concentrated more on reconstructing the semantic and social contexts of the ancient images. This volume, on the other hand, focuses on how this ancient heritage is recognised and reified in the modern world, and how this art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making. The authors, who are based all over the world, off er attractive and compelling case studies situated in diverse cultural and geographical contexts.Trade Review'This is a fascinating book that breathes new life into a subject dominated so long by traditional exegetic interpretations of prehistoric rock art which have achieved little collective consensus, although it is fair to say they have advanced our understanding. It is illustrated with beautiful and vibrant images throughout, and its anthropological/ethnoarchaeological approach is highly commended.'—Mark Merrony (2021): ANTIQVVS, Volume 3, Issue 4'The editors are to be congratulated on promoting a relatively new concept in rock art research, namely bridging the philosophical gap between ancient and modern art forms, using anthropology and ethnography to legitimise the past and the way it interacts with the present. The publishers, Archaeopress, should also receive praise for producing such a handsome and colourful publication that truly reflects the beauty and rhetoric of modern (rock) art-making.' – George Nash (2022): Current World Archaeology #111Table of ContentsA Brief Note about the Editors ; Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present: An Introduction – Andrzej Rozwadowski and Jamie Hampson ; Indigenous Art in New Contexts: Inspiration or Appropriation? – Jamie Hampson and Rory Weaver ; The Cave of Altamira and Modern Artistic Creation – Pilar Fatás Monforte ; Joane Cardinal–Schubert: Ancient Contemporary – Alisdair MacRae ; Face to Face with Ancestors: Indigenous Codes in the Contemporary Art of Siberia – Andrzej Rozwadowski and Magdalena Boniec ; Contemporary Views on Rock Art from Within the Frame: Indigenous Cultural Continuity and Artistic Engagement with Rock Art – Marisa Giorgi and Dale Harding ; PalimpsGestures: Rock Art and the Recreation of Body Expression – Lina do Carmo ; In the Name of the Ancestors: Repainted Identities and Land Memories – Laura Teresa Tenti ; Muraycoko Wuyta’a Be Surabudodot / Ibararakat: Rock Art and Territorialization in Contemporary Indigenous Amazonia – the Case of the Munduruku People from the Tapajos River – Jairo Saw Munduruku, Eliano Kirixi Munduruku and Raoni Valle ; Appropriation, Re-Appropriation, Reclamation: The Re-Use of New Zealand’s Most Renowned Māori Rock Art – Gerard O’Regan [Open Access: Download]; Reproduction, Simulation and the Hyperreal: A Case Study of ‘Lascaux III’ 2015–2017 – Robert J. Wallis

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Book SynopsisThe fifth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Flaminia Bartolini as guest editor for the special issue titled Heritage in the Making: Dealing with Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. This collection of peer-reviewed papers stems in part from the successful workshop held at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge in December 2018 under the aegis of the DAAD-Cambridge Hub. The event gathered several international heritage experts and professionals from both Germany and Italy to explore the complexities of handling Heritage related to Fascism and National Socialism. The selection of papers contribute much to the debate on the shifting conditions of the reception of dictatorial regimes, and more specifically the fate of fascist material legacies from the aftermath of WWII to the present day. The second part of this volume includes an additional contribution by Aydin Abar which keeps in with the broad theme of political reappropriation of the past lying at the core of Bartolini’s collection of papers but strays away from their geographical focus by extending the analysis to the exploitation of Achaemenian material legacies in reinforcing nationalist narratives in nineteenth and twentieth century Iran.Table of ContentsForeword – Ex Novo EDITORIAL BOARD ; PART I: Heritage in the Making. Dealing with the Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany – Flaminia BARTOLINI (ed.) ; Introduction. Difficult Heritage and its Making – Flaminia BARTOLINI ; Collecting Mussolini: The Case of the Susmel–Bargellini Collection – Susanna ARANGIO ; Fascism on Display. The Afterlife of Material Legacies of the Dictatorship – Flaminia BARTOLINI ; Edmondo Rossoni and Tresigallo. An Atypical Case of Regime’s Town – Davide BRUGNATTI & Giuseppe MURONI ; Difficult Heritage: The Experience of the Fossoli Camp Foundation – Marzia LUPPI & Francesca SCHINTU ; The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg. A Difficult Heritage and a Public Space – Alexander SCHMIDT ; Berlin Tempelhof: From Heritage Site to Creative Industry Hub? – Dagmar ZADRAZILOVA ; PART II ; Legacy of Teispian and Achaemenian Materiality. The History and the Role of Monuments in 19th - 21st Century Iranian Nationalism – Aydin ABAR ; Costruire storie e raccontare produzioni. Riflessioni a partire da un libro recente – Enrico GIANNICHEDDA ; Interviews & Reviews ; La complessitá del reale e la sua immagine. Conversazione con Daniele Simoni – Martina REVELLO LAMI

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Book SynopsisConversations in Human Evolution is an ongoing science communication initiative seeking to explore the breadth and interdisciplinarity of human evolution studies. This volume reports another twenty interviews (referred to as ‘conversations’ as they are informal in style) with scholars at the forefront of human evolution research, covering the broad scientific themes of Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and biological anthropology, earth science and palaeoclimatic change, evolutionary anthropology and primatology, and human disease co-evolution. This project features academics at various different stages in their careers and from all over the world; in this volume alone, researchers are based at institutions in eleven different countries (namely Iran, India, the United Kingdom, Greece, Australia, South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Israel), covering five continents. Having arisen at the start of the COVID19 pandemic, Conversations in Human Evolution aims to encourage engagement with both human evolutionary studies and the broader socio-political issues that persist within academia, the latter of which is particularly pertinent during this time of global uncertainty. The conversations delve deeply into the study of our species’ evolutionary history through the lens of each sub-discipline, as well as detailing some of the most current advances in research, theory and methods. Overall, Conversations in Human Evolution seeks to bridge the gap between the research and researcher through contextualisation of the science with personal experience and historical reflection.Table of ContentsConversations in Human Evolution – Lucy Timbrell ; Part 1: Palaeolithic Archaeology ; Sonia Shidrang ; Ravi Korisettar ; Jennifer French ; Rebecca Wragg Sykes ; Nena Galanidou ; Part 2: Palaeoanthropology and biological anthropology ; Rainer Grün ; Briana Pobiner ; Mirriam Tawane ; Trish Biers ; Tanya Smith ; Rebecca Ackermann ; Part 3: Earth science and palaeoclimatic change ; Rick Potts ; Mark Maslin ; Yoshi Maezumi ; Part 4: Evolutionary anthropology and primatology ; Duncan Stibbard Hawkes ; Ammie Kalan ; Lynne Isbell ; Part 5: Human-disease evolution ; Hila May ; Simon Underdown ; Lluis Quintana-Murci

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Book SynopsisNew Advances in the History of Archaeology presents the papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The first session, From stratigraphy to stratigraphic excavation in pre- and protohistoric archaeology organised by Massimo Tarantini and Alessandro Guidi, reviews the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries. The second session, Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology, organised by Sophie A. de Beaune and Oscar Moro Abadia, is characterised by different examples of intersections between archaeology and other disciplines like history and the philosophy of science. Finally, four papers discuss the development of different types of interdisciplinarity in Europe and South America. These were presented in the third session, Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research, organized by Laura Coltofean, Géraldine. Delley, Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marc-Antoine Kaeser.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII Uispp Congress Proceedings Series Edition – Marta Azarello ; Foreword to the volume – Alessandro Guidi ; Part I: From stratigraphy to stratigraphic excavation in pre- and protohistoric archaeology ; Introduction – Alessandro Guidi, Massimo Tarantini ; Démarche d’historien et de préhistorien ou comment pallier les manques dans l’étude de collections anciennes ? Exemples des Balzi Rossi (Ligurie, Italie) et de la grotte de l’Observatoire (Monaco) – Elena Rossoni-Notter, Olivier Notter, Patrick Simon, Suzanne Simone ; Santa Verna in 1911 and 2015: re-examining pioneering stratigraphic excavation methods in Malta – T. Rowan McLaughlin, Eóin Parkinson, Catriona Brogan, Simon Stoddart, Caroline Malone ; The multiple roots of an innovative excavation: G.A. Blanc at the Romanelli Cave, Italy (1914-1938) – Massimo Tarantini ; Paul Vouga à La Tène et à Auvernier : la stratigraphie à l’épreuve de la typologie – Gianna Reginelli Servais ; Pioneers of archaeological stratigraphical techniques: Luigi Bernabò Brea (1910-1999) and Giorgio Buchner (1914-2005) – Federico Nomi, Massimo Cultraro, Alessandro Guidi, Sebastiano Tusa ; Abstraction in Archaeological Stratigraphy: a Pyrenean Lineage of Innovation (late 19th–early 21th century) – Sébastien Plutniak ; Part II: Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of Archaeology ; Introduction – Sophie A. de Beaune, Oscar Moro Abadía ; Three career itineraries that linked prehistory, archaeology, and technology: Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) and François Sigaut (1940-2012) – Sophie A. de Beaune ; The tragic fate of heroic precursors in the history of archaeology: the case of Boucher de Perthes – Oscar Moro Abadía ; Primitif, précurseur, contemporain. Approches de l’art paléolithique au fondement de la pensée moderne – Rémi Labrusse ; Antiquity all over the place: evolutions and revolutions in early prehistoric research in Greece during the 1960s – Giorgos Vavouranakis, Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis ; Compelling image-worlds: a pictorial perspective on the epistemology of stone artefact analysis in Palaeolithic archaeology – Shumon T. Hussain ; Part III: Archaeology and interdisciplinarity, from the 19th century to present-day research ; Luján, l’Abbeville des pampas. Amateurs, traders, and scholars behind the search of the pampean fossil man (1865-1884) – Marcelo J. Toledo ; From mining to archaeology. An Austrian experiment in Transylvania at the beginning of the 19th century – Aurora Pețan ; Interdisciplinary research of the caves conducted by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries – Marzena Woźny ; Interdisciplinarity and institutions. The case of Italian prehistoric archaeology (1875-1954) – Massimo Tarantini

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Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita’s ‘mountain people’ to Umehara’s ‘Jōmon civilisation’, Japan has been an especially resonant site of prehistories imagined in response to modernity. Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism looks at how archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been used in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda. It is argued that the Japanese nationalist project has been mirrored by the continuing influence of broader Romantic ideas in Japanese archaeology, especially in Jōmon studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature ; Chapter 1: Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism ; Chapter 2: I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape ; Chapter 3: Deep Japan: the spectre of strata ; Chapter 4: Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology ; Chapter 5: Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping

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Book SynopsisArcheoFOSS XIV 2020: Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research collects the proceedings of the fourteenth ArcheoFOSS international conference, held online due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book gathers seventeen papers on three principal topics, the main sessions of the conference: use and application of free/libre and open-source (FLOS) tools in archaeology; creation, use and promotion of open data and open formats in archaeology; and development and customization of FLOS software and hardware solutions for cultural heritage. Forty-one scholars of very diverse age, academic affiliation and geographic location, but all actively involved in the promotion of FLOS culture, open data and open science in digital archaeology and humanities, contribute. The volume is completed by a critical analysis of the contribution of these important annual meetings to the scientific and cultural activity of the ArcheoFOSS community. The opportunity offered by the pandemic-related difficulties to widen the geographical scope of the conference has been further boosted by the decision to adopt the English language for most of the papers, with the hope that this will extend the work of the ArcheoFOSS community far beyond the Italian national borders.Table of ContentsForeword ; ArcheoFOSS 2020 Committees ; Use, Application and Development of Free/Libre and Open Source (FLOS) Tools in Archaeology ; 1. Strumenti digitali open-source per la documentazione della cultura visuale paleo-mesolitica: dati preliminari da un flusso di lavoro sulle decorazioni incise su supporto calcareo dalla Grotta di Santa Maria di Agnano (Ostuni, BR) – Michele Pellegrino, Donato Coppola ; 2. Valutazione integrata delle dinamiche di rischio di erosione del suolo in presenza di depositi archeologici. Il metodo proposto dal progetto RESEARCH (REmote SEnsing techniques for ARCHaeology) – Stefano De Angeli, Fabiana Battistin, Federico Valerio Moresi, Philip Fayad, Matteo Serpetti ; 3. Rome - NE Palatine slopes: open-source methodologies and tools for the analysis of ancient architectures – Emanuele Brienza, Giovanni Caratelli, Lorenzo Fornaciari, Cecilia Giorgi ; 4. Un workflow open source per l'elaborazione delle immagini termiche da drone – Gabriele Ciccone ; 5. Analysis of urban mobility in 18th century Rome: a research approach through GIS platform – Renata Ago, Domizia D’Erasmo ; 6. Towards FreeCAD experimentation and validation as a FOSS HBIM platform for building archaeology purposes – Filippo Diara, Fulvio Rinaudo ; 7. FLOS for Museums: open solutions to train communities and manage heritage places – Paolo Rosati ; 8. The virtual countryman. A GRASS-GIS tool for ancient cultivation recognition – Augusto Palombini ; 9. Little Minions and SPARQL Unicorns as tools for archaeology – Timo Homburg, Florian Thiery ; Creation, use and Promotion of Open Data and Open Formats in Archaeology ; 10. The ArchAIDE Archive: the open data policy and management of material covered by copyright – Francesca Anichini, Gabriele Gattiglia ; 11. SITAR: a new open-data infrastructure for a public archaeology of Rome – Mirella Serlorenzi, Riccardo Montalbano, Ascanio D’Andrea ; 12. SPARQLing Publication of Irish ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ – Ogham Stones as LOD – Florian Thiery, Sophie C. Schmidt, Timo Homburg ; 13. Towards an ontology of the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Catania: from the digitization of the legacy data to the semantic Web – Nicola Laneri, Rodolfo Brancato, Salvatore Cristofaro, Marianna Figuera, Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria, Daria Spampinato ; 14. Fieldnotes for the development and publication of open standards for the vectorisation of archaeologic and architectonic topographic legacy data – Julian Bogdani ; 15. Analysis and comparison of open and non-open spatial formats for archaeological research – Andrea D’Andrea, Francesca Forte ; 16. Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Science: The new research group at the Institute of Heritage Science (CNR) – Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi, Irene Rossi ; 17. FOSS, Open Data e archeologia: qualche riflessione su passato, presente e prospettive future – Marco Ciurcina, Piergiovanna Grossi ; Appendix ; 18. An introspective, incomplete, view on the activity of the FLOS community dealing with Archaeology and Cultural Heritage – Julian Bogdani, Federico Sciacca

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Book SynopsisDiversity in Archaeology is the result of the fourth Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA 4), held virtually from January 14–17, 2021. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the conference and the name was changed accordingly. The conference was developed to give students (from undergraduate to PhD candidates) in archaeology and related fields the chance to present their research to a broad audience. The theme for the 2020/2021 conference was Diversity in Archaeology which opened our conference to multiple interpretations, varied presentations and sundry perspectives from different regions of the world. This volume consists of 30 papers which were presented in 7 different sessions. The papers present a great variety in both geography and chronology and explore a wide range of topics such women’s voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of diversified science methods in Archaeology; critical ethnographic studies; diversity in the Archaeology of Death, heritage studies, archaeology of ‘scapes’ and more.

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Book SynopsisFar from being a discipline focusing on the past, archaeology has boundless potential for engaging with people in the present. Encounters between archaeologists and the public with different pasts have the potential to create diverse participative dynamics. From the involvement of citizens as excavators and re-enactors to the co-organisation of research campaigns and outreach activities, public participation in archaeology has become a well-represented practice, fully incorporated into European and national cultural policies. However, the impact of this practice remains underexplored. Unforgettable Encounters demonstrates how evaluating participation can critically influence daily practice on fieldwork, enrich the academic discussion in public archaeology, and inform the decision-making process in community-based planning. The book proposes an operational workflow, aiming to serve as a benchmark for archaeologists delivering collaborative programs in excavation-based projects. It offers a flexible set of tools, analyses, and visualisation boards which can provide a range of information about public participation and can inform the daily practice of fieldwork and the development of community projects. Three Italian case studies present the application of the operational workflow, testing its flexibility and effectiveness. By focusing on Italian community archaeology, this book aims to raise awareness of the importance of evaluating public participation in a country where this commitment has always been evident—especially in excavations—but where research on community archaeology itself has developed only in the last few years.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Participation in archaeology ; Introducing participation ; Defining the fields of study ; Exploring participation ; Excavation as a contact zone ; 2. Public and community archaeology in Italy ; Before public and community archaeology ; ‘Archeologia pubblica’ ; Excavation and participation at sites in Italian archaeology ; 3. Methodological framework ; Introduction ; Workflow ; 4. Case studies overview ; Selection of case studies ; Massaciuccoli Romana ; Poggio del Molino ; Vignale ; 5. Exploring participation ; Massaciuccoli Romana ; Poggio del Molino ; Vignale ; 6. Understanding participation ; Social Network Analysis (SNA) ; Participation polarised chart ; Understanding encounters ; From research to governance ; Conclusion ; Appendix I. Description of interviews and focus groups ; Appendix II. Data collection techniques ; Appendix III. Cross tables ; Reference list

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Book SynopsisFrom Hydrology to Hydroarchaeology in the Ancient Mediterranean: An interdisciplinary approach is devoted to the study of water management in ancient cities. It compares the approaches and methods adopted by researchers from different disciplinary sectors to identify the water conditions of past societies and to highlight the measures they have taken to adapt to their water resources. Deriving from an interdisciplinary meeting held in Aix-en-Provence (Mediterranean House of Human Sciences) in 2019, it brings together seven articles that present the innovative results of collaborations between archaeologists and environmental scientists, geologists, geomorphologists, and climatologists in particular. After an introduction that situates the discussions conducted in Aix-en-Provence within the framework of the Watertraces project, funded by the A*Midex foundation (Aix-Marseille University), most of the articles focus on the Sicilian situation. An initial synthesis covers all aspects of the question, followed by four case studies ranging from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD. Case studies on Agrigento, Termini Imerese/Thermai Himerenses, Alesa/Halaesa, Solunte and Tyndaris are presented. The focus then moves to southern Italy (the Terme di Baia), and to Aegean Greece (the sanctuary at Delphi).Table of ContentsIntroduction – Sophie Bouffier and Vincent Ollivier ; The Impact of Climate, Resource Availability, Natural Disturbances and Human Subsistence Strategies on Sicilian Landscape Dynamics During the Holocene – Salvatore Pasta, Giuseppe D’Amore, Cipriano Di Maggio, Gaetano Di Pasquale, Vincenza Forgia, Alessandro Incarbona, Giuliana Madonia, César Morales-Molino, Silvio Giuseppe Rotolo, Luca Sineo, Claudia Speciale, Attilio Sulli, Willy Tinner and Matteo Vacchi ; Analyse historique des variations du débit provoqué par les séismes pendant les siècles XVe–XXe: le cas de Termini Imerese (Sicile centro-septentrionale) – Patrizia Bova, Antonio Contino and Giuseppe Esposito ; Le risorse idriche nel territorio di Alesa – Aurelio Burgio ; Aquae caldae. Note sparse sul termalismo e lo sfruttamento delle acque sulfuree nel territorio a est di Agrigento tra archeologia e paletnologia – Luca Zambito ; Archaeology and Hydrogeology in Sicily: Solunt and Tindari – Giovanni Polizzi, Vincent Ollivier, Olivier Bellier, Edwige Pons-Branchu and Michel Fontugne ; Baia (Bacoli-NA): l’acqua e il suo utilizzo nel complesso delle Terme romane – Daniele De Simone ; Natural Risks and Water Management in Delphi – Amélie Perrier, Isabelle Moretti and Luigi Piccardi

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Book SynopsisVol. 20 of Antiguo Oriente for 2022. AntOr is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO). The journal publishes manuscripts related to the history of societies of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Paleolithic to the Early Islamic Period. Antiguo Oriente publishes articles and book reviews in Spanish, English and French.Table of ContentsColaboraciones / Main Papers Political Fictions, Political Realities: Aksumite-Ḥimyarite Relations in the Fourth Century CE – George Hatke Why did Inana Ascend from the Netherworld So Many Times? The Literary Growth of Inana’s Descent, 282-306 – Noga Ayali-Darshan Amon (אמון) in Prov 8:30: A Linguistic, Comparative, and Historical Approach – Stéphanie Anthonioz Who is Ili-Rapih: Brother or Son of Rib-Adda? – Mohy-Eldin E. Abo-Eleaz An Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Ptolemaic Time in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Inv. I, 1a 4979) – Ivan Ladynin La organización del culto funerario en una necrópolis provincial del Reino Antiguo: el caso de El-Hawawish – Raúl Sánchez Casado Reseñas bibliográficas / Book Reviews Ido Koch. Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, 2021. – Por Giulia Tucci Nissim Amzallag. Psalm 29: A Cannanite Hymn to YHWH In the Psalter, 2021. – Por Pablo R. Andiñach Fritz Blakolmer (ed.), Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography, 2020. – Por Jorge Cano Moreno

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Book SynopsisDo I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974). An introductory chapter provides background information to clarify references in the letters, additional new comments within the letters amplify points and events, and a final chapter sums up her post-dissertation years. The letters were written during lively times politically and socially, as well as archaeologically, in Greece and around the world. The author was often torn between immersing herself in the past and being involved in the upheavals of that present. The letters show her frequent questioning about whether to remain in archaeology or become an ‘activist,’ and how she eventually found ways to do both.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Background to the Letters Chapter 2. Getting to Greece. Off to my First Dig, 1968 Chapter 3. My First Dig, Porto Cheli, 1968 Chapter 4. Fall Term at the American School, 1968 Chapter 5. Winter Term at the American School, 1969 Chapter 6. More Digs: Turkey and Back to Greece, 1969 Chapter 7. Beginning Dissertation Research, 1969-70 Chapter 8. Wrapping up the Dissertation Research. Nafplion 1970: April-August Chapter 9. Avoiding, and Finally Starting the Dissertation, Athens 1973 Chapter 10. Finishing the Dissertation, during a Revolution Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA dual approach, combining social anthropology and archaeology, reveals the banquet or ceremonial feast as a fully social phenomenon. In extraordinary circumstances, banquets - usually held in stratified societies with a sacrificial religion - bring together large numbers of guests, who are fed and watered on rare and expensive foods in large quantities, in order to honor someone or something, and to ostentatiously assert the power of the organizers. While this practice has been recognized in many societies around the world, living, ancient or extinct, it had not yet been the subject of a large-scale synthesis. It was therefore appropriate to take an interdisciplinary look at the ins and outs of the festive banquet in relation to the cosmogonies and social practices of the social spaces concerned. The nine essays collected here, from papers given at study days held in Strasbourg, contribute to the debate on important questions relating to the banquet, such as its temporality (cultur

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