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Taylor & Francis Ltd People of the Earth
Book SynopsisPeople of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 6 million years ago to the first pre-industrial states, beginning about 5,000 years ago. This is a global prehistory, which covers prehistoric times in every corner of the world in a jargon-free style for newcomers to archaeology. Many world histories begin with the first pre-industrial states. This book starts at the beginning of human history and summarizes the latest research into such major topics as human origins, the emergence and spread of modern humans, the first farming, and the origins of civilization.People of the Earth is unique in its even balance of the human past, its readily accessible style, and its flowing narrative that carries the reader through the long sweep of our past. The book is highly illustrated and features boxes and sidebars describing key dating methods and important archaeological sites.This classic world prehistory sets the stTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introducing World Prehistory; PART I BEGINNINGS: 7 Million to 30,000 Years Ago; Chapter 2 Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.89 Million Years ago; Chapter 3 Archaic Humans: 1.9 Million to 30,000 Years Ago; PART II THE GREAT DIASPORA: THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF MODERN HUMANS (c. 350,000 Years Ago to Modern Times); Chapter 4 Origins and the Diaspora Begins (c. 350,000 Years Ago and later); Chapter 5 Europe and Eurasia (c. 50,000 to 10,000 Years Ago); Chapter 6 The First Americans (?c. 23,000 years ago to Modern Times); Chapter 7 After the Ice (Before 10000 BC to Modern Times); PART III FIRST FARMERS (c. 10,000 BC TO MODERN TIMES); Chapter 8 Agriculture and Animal Domestication; Chapter 9 The Origins of Food Production in Southwest Asia Climate Change and Adaptation; Chapter 10 The First European Farmers; Chapter 11 First Farmers in Egypt and Tropical Africa; Chapter 12 Asia and the Pacific: Rice, Roots, and Ocean Voyages; Chapter 13 The Story of Maize: Early Farmers in the Americas; PART IV OLD WORLD STATES (c. 3000 BC TO MODERN TIMES); Chapter 14 The Development of States; Chapter 15 Early States in Southwest Asia; Chapter 16 Egypt, Nubia, and Tropical Africa; Chapter 17 Early States in South and Southeast Asia; Chapter 18 Early Chinese States; Chapter 19 Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans; Chapter 20 Europe Before the Romans; PART V NATIVE AMERICAN STATES (BEFORE 2000 BC TO AD 1534); Chapter 21 Mesoamerican States; Chapter 22 Andean States; Glossary of Technical Terms; Bibliography of World Prehistory; Credits; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Viking Camps
This book is the coming together of several disciplines under the thematic umbrella of Viking Camps and provides the very latest research presented by the leading researchers in the field, making it the most comprehensive compilation of the phenomenon of Viking camps to date.Compiling the current state of research on encampments across the Viking world and their impact on their surroundings, this volume provides an all-encompassing analysis of their characteristicsâfunctions, form, inner workings, and interaction with the landscape and the local population. It initiates a wider discussion on the features and functions that define them, making it possible to identify and understand new sites, also broadening the geographical scope. Sites in Ireland, England, Sweden, Frankia, and Iberia are presented and explored, allowing the reader to understand the camp phenomenon from a comparative, more inclusive perspective. The combination of geographically bound case-studies and in-depth analyses of specific themes, such as economy and religion, bring together an abundance of methodologies and approaches. The volume introduces new interdisciplinary approaches to define and identify Viking encampment sites, combining archaeology, historical documents, metal detecting, landscape analysis, and toponymic research. It builds the methodological foundations for future research on Viking camps, the armies inhabiting them, and their interaction with the surrounding world.Viking Camps contributes to a better understanding of the functioning of Viking expeditionary groups, both on campaign and during the early stages of settlement, and will be of use to researchers in Viking archaeology, history, and Viking Studies.
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Taylor & Francis The Angkorian World
Book SynopsisThe Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asiaâs largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries.Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volumeâs first of six sections provides historical and environmental contexts and discusses data sources and the nature of knowledge production. The next three sections examine the anthropogenic landscapes of Angkor (agrarian, urban, and hydraulic), the state institutions that shaped the Angkorian state, and the economic foundations on which Angkor operated. Part V explores Angkorian ideologies and realities, from religion and nation to identity. The volumeâs last part reviews political and aesthetic Angkorian legacies in a
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Taylor & Francis Byzantine Greece Microcosm of Empire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Materialities of Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sites Traces and Materiality
Book SynopsisSites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.Using a sustained analysis of ancient Honduras, the book provides a contribution to global medieval studies showing how the concept of alchemy can help foreground the kinds of experiential knowledge indigenous people used to advance their technological engagements with mineral matter. Addressing a concern often raised with new materialist work in archaeology, the book relies on indigenous philosophy of the contemporary and historic Lenca people-- the descendants of the people who created the archaeological locales the book examines-- for guidance on how to think about minerals as lively. Taking seriously contemporary Lenca concerns with threats to water and land from global industries, the book links the archaeological case study to the present day politics of mineral extraction.Intended for readers interested in history, archaeology, and cultural studies, the book is accessibly written and appropriate for students as well as academics.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women in Mycenaean Greece The Linear B Tablets
Book SynopsisWomen in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women's tasks, holdings, and social and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE, identifying how Mycenaean women functioned in the economic institutions where they were best attested - production, property control, land tenure, and cult. Analysing all references to women in the Mycenaean documents, the book focuses on the ways in which the economic institutions of these Bronze Age palace states were gendered and effectively extends the framework for the study of women in Greek antiquity back more than 400 years. Throughout, the book seeks to establish whether gender practicTrade Review"...this book is a valuable examination of an important and understudied issue. Although rich in technical detail, its topic and argument will doubtless appeal to a broad audience of Aegean prehistorians and ancient historians. The project is an important one, and Olsen does an good job pulling together all of the textual evidence, demonstrating how differently Pylian and Knossian women appear in the Linear B tablets, and relating these differences to social practices. We need more studies like these: studies that use the rich Mycenaean textual evidence to contribute to broader debates in Greek history and prehistory." -Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto in Bryn Mawr Classical Review"This book addresses a great need in the study of women in antiquity. Olsen brings together textual analyses from 60 years of scholarship on women in Linear B, and sets them into the broader socio-economic context of Mycenaean Greece and Crete."- Ruth Palmer, Ohio University, in The Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. The Women Of Mycenaean Greece 2. Identifying and Contextualizing Women in the Tablets 3. Women and Production at Pylos 4. Women And Property Holdings At Pylos 5. Women at Knossos: Production and Property 6. Women and Land Tenure at Pylos and Knossos 7. Women And Religion At Knossos And Pylos 8. Conclusions: Women in Aegean Prehistory Appendix A: All Mentions of Women in the Pylos Tablets Appendix B: All Mentions of Women in the Knossos Tablets Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Archaeologies of Rock Art
Book SynopsisRock art in South America is as diverse as the continent itself. In this vast territory, different peoples produced engravings, paintings, and massive earthworks, from the Atacama to the Amazon. These marks on the landscape were made by all different kinds of peoples, from some of the earliest hunter-gatherers in the continent, to the very complex societies within the Inca Empire. This book brings together the work of specialists from throughout the continent, addressing this diversity, as well as the variety of approaches that the Archaeology of rock art has taken in South America. Constructed of eleven thought-provoking chapters and arranged in three thematic sections, the book presents different theoretical approaches that are currently being used to understand the roles rock art played in prehistoric communities. The editors have skillfully crafted a book that presents the contribution the study of South American rock art can offer to the global research of this materialiTable of Contents1. Contemporary approaches to rock art in South America: introductory remarks; 2. The materiality of rock art. Image-making technology and economy viewed from Patagonia; 3. Rock art and technology. A spatio-temporal proposal from the upper basin of the Limari river, north central Chile; 4. Rock art in the construction of landscape, Parguaza river basin, Venezuela; 5. Memory in the stone. Rock art landscape at Cerro Colorado as a negotiation space for social memory; 6. Signs in the desert: geoglyphs as cultural system and ideology (northern Chile); 7. Capivara (north-east Brazil) and the Limari Basin (Chile): a semiotic tale of two rock art landscapes; 8. Exploring rock paintings, engravings and geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert through materiality, style, and agency; 9. Hunting scenes in Cueva de las Manos: style, content, and chronology (Rio Pinturas, Santa Cruz, Patagonia); 10. Rock art assemblages in north central Chile: materials and practices through history; 11. Ethnogeology of rock art? Some considerations derived from Amazonianist ethnographies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of Ethiopia Volume II Routledge
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge's narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540.The list of kings ends with the Regent Ras Tafari, who still reigned at the time of first publication in 1928. Thereafter, the author devotes considerable attention to an overview of the cultural, social and political idiosyncrasies of the Ethiopian people: literature, spells and magic, architecture, ethnography, the alphabet, and a wide range of other engrossing topics. This material complements the narrative history, helping to situate the deeds of the kings and the fortunes of their people in a broader context. Table of ContentsContents; List of Illustrations; A History of Ethiopia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ancient Maya of Mexico
Book SynopsisThe archaeological sites of Mexico''s Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. ''The Ancient Maya of Mexico'' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. ''The Ancient Maya of Mexico'' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands Geoffrey E. Braswell Chapter 2. The Middle Preclassic Ballgame: Yucatan and Beyond David Anderson (Tulane University) Chapter 3. The Architecture of Power and Sociopolitical Complexity in Northwestern Yucatan during the Preclassic Period Nancy Peniche May (University of California, San Diego) Chapter 4. Maya Political Cycling and the Story of the Kaan Polity Joyce Marcus (University of Michigan) Chapter 5. Early Classic Integrations in the Northern Lowlands Scott R. Hutson (University of Kentucky) Chapter 6. The Political and Economic Organization of Late Classic States in the Penninsular Gulf Coast: the View from Champoton, Campeche Jerald Ek (State University of New York at Albany) Chapter 7. 5,000 Sites and Counting: The Inspiration of Maya Settlement Studies in 2010 Walter R. T. Witschey (Longwood University) and Clifford T. Brown (Florida Atlantic University) Chapter 8. The Reality and Role of Popol Nas in Northern Maya Archaeology George Bey (Millsaps College) and Rossana May Ciau (INAH Yucatan, Merida) Chapter 9. The Nunnery Quadrangle of Uxmal. William M. Ringle (Davidson College) Chapter 10. In the Shadow of the Pyramid: Excavations of the Great Platform of Chichen Itza Geoffrey E. Braswell Chapter 11. Divide and Rule: Interpreting Site Perimeter Walls in the Northern Maya Lowlands and Beyond Lauren D. Hahn (University of California, San Diego) Chapter 12. Rain and Fertility Rituals in Postclassic Yucatan Featuring Chaak and Chak Chel Gabrielle Vail (New College of Florida) and Christine Hernandez (Tulane University) Chapter 13. Poor Mayapan Clifford Brown, April Watson (Florida Atlantic University), Ashley Gravlin-Bernan (Florida Atlantic University), and Larry Liebovitch (Queens College) Chapter 14. Maya Collapse or Resilience? Lessons from the Spanish Conquest and the Caste War of Yucatan Rani T. Alexander (New Mexico State University) Chapter 15. Yucatan at the Crossroads Joyce Marcus
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Fetish To God Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2005. Written by eminent Egyptologist, E.A. Wallis Budge, this work addresses Egyptian religion and mythology in all of its manifestations, from times when earth, sea air and shy were filled with hostile spirits and men lived in terror of the Evil Eye, to the moment when Egyptians hailed Amen-Ra as their one god. Topics include the predynastic cults, magic, gods (cosmic, stellar, borrowed and foreign), Memphite theology, judgement of the dead, and the underworld. Important hymns and legends, in English translation are included.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. The Early Egyptologists and the Egyptian Religion PART I I. THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT EGYPT II. PREDYNASTIC CULTS: ANIMISM; FETISHISM; GODS AND GODDESSES OF FETISH ORIGIN; THE CULTS OF ANIMALS BIRDS, REPTILES, ETC.; THE ANTHROPOMORPHIZATION OF FETISHES; THE CULT OF MEN GODS; IDOLS; FABULOUS ANIMALS; NOME FETISHES III. MAGIC THE FOUNDATION OF THE EGYPTIAN RELIGIONS. MAGICAL RITUALS AND SPELLS DESCRIBED. THE MAGICIAN, HIS POWERS AND WORKS IV. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND DOGMAS V. EGYPTIAN THEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND DOGMAS (continued) VI. THE FAMILY OF GEBB AND NUT VII. HATHOR AND THE HATHOR-GODDESSES VIII. GODS—COSMIC, STELLAR, BORROWED, AND FOREIGN IX. IMPORTED FOREIGN GODS AND GODDESSES X. MEMPHITE THEOLOGY AND THE GOD PTA^-TENEN XI. OSIRIS THE RIVAL OF RA XII. THE JUDGEMENT OF THE DEAD, AND THE WEIGHING THE HEART BEFORE OSIRIS XIII. THE OSIRIAN PENITENT XIV. THE LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE XV. THE TUAT * OR UNDERWORLD PART II HYMNS TO THE GODS, LITANIES, ETC. THE DRAMATIC ASPECTS OF CERTAIN EGYPTIAN MYTHS. LEGENDS OF THE GODS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in
Book SynopsisThis book explores the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the city of Cracow and the surrounding region of Lesser Poland. It highlights the role of Cracow and Lesser Poland as a vibrant artistic centre fostering links with Italy, Bohemia, Germany and France.Table of Contents1. The Oldest Fragments of Sculptural Decoration from Wawel Hill 2. The Church of St Andrew, Cracow 3. The Chapel of Casimir the Great at the Dominican Church of the Holy Trinity, Cracow 4. The Figures on the Sides of the Tomb-Chest of King Casimir the Great: A Reassessment of the Iconography of the Polish Kingdom Reborn 5. Veit Stoss and Late Gothic Sculpture in Lesser Poland: Selected Issues 6. Architecture and Ceremony in Cracow and Prague, 1335–1455 7. A New Appraisal of Zbigniew Oles´nicki’s Pontificale Cracoviense (Cracow, Archiwum Kapituły Katedralnej na Wawelu, MS Kp 12) 8. Identity on the Edge: The Architecture of the Cistercian Abbeys in Lesser Poland 9. Archaeological Excavations at the Cistercian Monasteries of Je˛drzejów, Szczyrzyc and Koprzywnica 10. The Cistercian Abbey at Mogiła: The Latest Research and New Questions 11. The Clock Dial at Mogiła Abbey and Possible Associated Clock Mechanisms 12. Liturgy and Astrology: The Orantes on the Crypt Floor in the Collegiate Church at Wis´lica 13. ‘Wer nicht recht tut den fure ich vor recht’: Wrocław’s Late Gothic Pillory in Contexts 14. Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Poland and the Baltic Timber Trade, c. 1250–1650
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Taylor & Francis Westminster The Art Architecture and Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe British Archaeological Associationâs 2013 conference was devoted to the study of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. It also embraced Westminster School, which was founded at the Reformation in the Abbey precinct. Collectively, these institutions occupy a remarkable assemblage of medieval and later buildings, most of which are well documented. Although the Association had held a conference at Westminster in 1902, this was the first time that the internationally important complex of historic buildings was examined holistically, and the papers published here cover a wide range of subject matter.
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Cambridge University Press The Early Neolithic in Greece The First Farming Communities in Europe Cambridge World Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
Book SynopsisMid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of PericlesTrade Review'The contributors have written extensively on the topics which they discuss in this Companion. They have managed to condense their own researches and other recent scholarship into very readable articles.' ArctosTable of ContentsIntroduction: Athenian history and society in the Age of Pericles L. J. Samons; 1. Democracy and empire P. J. Rhodes; 2. Athenian religion in the Age of Pericles Deborah Boedeker; 3. The Athenian economy Lisa Kallet; 4. Warfare in Athenian society K. A. Raaflaub; 5. Other sorts: slave, foreign, and female identities in Periclean Athens Cynthia Patterson; 6. Art and architecture Kenneth Lapatin; 7. Drama and democracy Jeffrey Henderson; 8. The bureaucracy of democracy J. P. Sickinger; 9. Plato's sophists, intellectual history after 450, and Sokrates Robert W. Wallace; 10. Democratic theory and practice R. Sealey; 11. Athens and Sparta and the coming of the Peloponnesian War J. E. Lendon; Conclusion: Pericles and Athens L. J. Samons.
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Cambridge University Press The Chinese Neolithic
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Cambridge University Press Native Title in Australia
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Cambridge University Press ancienttiwanaku
Book SynopsisNearly a millennium before the Inca forged a pan-Andean empire in the South American Andes, Tiwanaku emerged as a major center of political, economic, and religious life on the mountainous southern shores of Lake Titicaca. Tiwanaku influenced vast regions of the Andes and became one of the most important and enduring civilizations of the pre-Columbian Americas. Yet for centuries, the nature and antiquity of Tiwanaku remained a great mystery. Only over the past couple of decades has archaeological research begun to explore in depth the fascinating character of Tiwanaku culture and the way of life of its people. Ancient Tiwanaku synthesizes a wealth of past and current research on this fascinating high-altitude civilization. In the first major synthesis on the subject in nearly fifteen years, John Wayne Janusek explores Tiwanaku civilization in its geographical and cultural setting, tracing its long rise to power, vast geopolitical influences, and violent collapse.Trade Review"...Janusek succeeds in synthesizing existing research on Tiwanaku in an impressively solid way...This book is a valuable contribution to Tiwanaku scholarship, setting a benchmark for the newer generation of students and scholars." --Mathieu Viau-Courville, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UKTable of Contents1. Unraveling Tiwanaku's mystery; 2. Land and people; 3. Early complexity and Tiwanaku's ascendance; 4. The city of Tiwanaku; 5. The rural hinterland; 6. Tiwanaku geopolitics; 7. Wari and Tiwanaku; 8. Collapse and regeneration; 9. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Human Origins
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics
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Cambridge University Press The GrecoRoman East Politics Culture Society 31 Yale Classical Studies Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Birth Gods and Origins Agriculture New Studies in Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics
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Cambridge University Press Frontinus
Book SynopsisR. H. Rodgers provides the first full commentary since the early eighteenth century.Trade Review"The edition [R. H. Rodgers] has produced, longingly anticipated and warmly heralded by many water researchers for many years now, is an impeccable example of scholarship. Its arrival is to be celebrated, as it gives us a new and exciting milestone in Frontinus studies. The volume is rich in every kind of detail that a water scholar might care to know." -Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University, The Classical BulletinTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Sex. Julius Frontinus; 2. The De Aquaeductu; 3. Language and style; 4. The textual tradition; 5. Editions and commentaries; 6. Editorial conventions and the apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendices; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Maya Postclassic State Formation
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Cambridge University Press Thoughtful Foragers A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making New Studies in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThoughtful Foragers is about hunter-gatherer decision making. The author explores the implications of the human mind as a product of biological evolution for the way in which humans solve foraging problems. He draws on studies form ethology, psychology and ethnography prior to turning his attention to prehistoric hunter-gatherers. He attempts to construct explanations for patterns in the archaeological record by an explicit focus on decision making by individuals. Thoughtful Foragers will appeal to specialists in European prehistory as well as to those interested in archaeological theory and method. It makes some very significant advances, which will be of real importance for the field of evolutionary theory in relation to human evolution and the evaluation of human social systems.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; Part I. Learning from the present: 2. The eco-psychology of decision making; 3. The ethnography of hunter-gatherer decision making; Part II. Mesolithic foraging and society: 4. Broken bones and buried bodies: patterns in the archaeological record; 5. Gearing up with methodological tools: building a simulation model; 6. Decision making in the Mesolithic: multiple action replays; Part III. Upper Palaeolithic Art and Economy; 7. Seeking the decision maker: faunal assemblages and hunting behaviour; 8. Through a hunter's eyes … and into his mind?; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Giles of Romes de Regimine Principum
Book SynopsisThis study uses an interdisciplinary approach towards the surviving manuscript copies of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum to show how people of the later Middle Ages read the text and appropriated it for both lay and clerical purposes.Trade Review"...his masterful account of the later medieval history of the text does a compelling job of clearing much of the historical obscurity away from such an important and underappreciated text." Albion"Its rich detail and different lines of inquiry allow the book to achieve an optimum of both information and analysis." SpeculumTable of Contents1. Giles of Rome and De regimine principum; 2. Books, contents, uses; 3. A book of kings and knighthood; 4. From Latin into English; 5. A university textbook; 6. Improving access and removing the chaff; Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press Forest Farmers and Stockherders
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Cambridge University Press Problems in Neolithic Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press Artefacts as Categories A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India New Studies in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Dr Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the pottery produced in a single village in central India, drawing together and analysing a whole range of aspects - technology, function, design, symbolism and ideology - that are usually studied separately. Using the concepts of 'pragmatics', 'framing' and 'ideology', the author points to the insufficiency of many ethnographic accounts of symbolism and underlines the need to consider both the social positioning of the interpreter and the context of the interpretation when looking at artefacts. His invigorating study cogently questions many assumptions in material culture studies and offers a whole range of fresh explanations. Archaeologists in particular will welcome the discussion of familiar materials such as pottery rim shapes, body forms and decoration. However, the book will have a broad appeal to researcheTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The context of fieldwork; 2. Creating categories: the manufacture of pottery; 3. Form and function; 4. The Dangwara potters and the distribution of pottery; 5. An analysis of the paintings; 6. The ritual context; 7. A symbolic framework for the interpretation of variability; 8. Pottery as categories; 9. Pottery and social strategy; Conclusion: archaeology and society; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Eagle and the Spade
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Cambridge University Press Island Societies
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Cambridge University Press HunterGatherer Economy in Prehistory
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Cambridge University Press Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest
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Cambridge University Press Excavations At Star Carr An Early Mesolithic Site at Seamer Near Scarborough Yorkshire
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines New Directions in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory. Changes in sea levels and the balance of marine ecosystems have altered coastal environments significantly over the last ten thousand years and the contributors assess the impact of these changes on the nature of human settlement and subsistence. An overview of coastal archaeology as a developing discipline is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of places including Scandinavia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand, Peru, South Africa and the United States.Table of Contents1. The archaeology of prehistoric coastlines: an introduction Geoff Bailey and John Parkington; 2. Reconstructing past shorelines as an approach to determining factors affecting shellfish collecting in the prehistoric past J. C. Shackleton; 3. Holocene coastal settlement patterns in the western Cape John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel , Bill Buchanan, Tim Robey, Tony Manhire and Judy Sealy; 4. Tasmanian Aborigines in the Hunter Islands in the Holocene: island resources use and seasonality Sandra Bowdler; 5. Island biogeography and prehistoric human adaptation on the southern coast of Maine David R. Yesner; 6. Cultural and environmental change during the Early Period of Santa Barbara Channel prehistory Michael A. Glassow, Larry R. Wilcoxon and Jon Erlandson; 7. Variability in the types of fishing adaptation of the later Jomon hunter-gatherers Takeru Akazawa; 8. Coastal subsistence economies in prehistoric southern New Zealand A. J. Anderson; 9. Sedentary coastal hunter-fishers: an example from the Younger Stone Age of northern Norway M. A. P. Renouf; 10. A molluscan perspective on the role of foraging in Neolithic farming economies Margaret R. Deith; 11. Fishing, farming and the foundations of Andean civilisation Michael E. Mosley and Robert A. Feldman; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Prehistory and Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya
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Cambridge University Press Hunters in Transition
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Cambridge University Press Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisExplores how ancient Romans categorised, organised and described colours, and outlines the principal differences and similarities between ancient and modern concepts of colour. By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, this text explores the definition and function of colour in Rome during the early Empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The rainbow; 2. Lucretius and the philosophy of color; 3. Pliny the Elder and the unnatural history of color; 4. Color and rhetoric; 5. The natural body; 6. The unnatural body; 7. Purple; Conclusion: colours triumphant; Envoi: Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 2.26.
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Cambridge University Press The Life of the Longhouse
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Cambridge University Press Peer Polity Interaction and Sociopolitical Change New Directions in Archaeology
Book SynopsisThirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into statehood. The common aim is to explain the remarkable formal similarities that exist between institutions, ideologies and material remains in a variety of cultures characterised by independent political centres yet to be brought under the control of a single, unified jurisdiction. A major statement of the conceptual approach is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of times and places, including Minoan Crete, early historic Greece and Japan, the classic Maya, the American Mid - west in the Hopewellian period, Europe in the Early Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, and the British Isles in the late Neolithic.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: peer polity interaction and socio-political change Colin Renfrew; 2. Polities and palaces: some problems in Minoan state formation John F. Cherry; 3. Interaction by design: the Greek city state Anthony Snodgrass; 4. Peer polity interaction in the European Iron Age Timothy and Sara Champion; 5. Peer polity interaction and socio-political change in Anglo-Saxon England Richard Hodges; 6. Jiehao, tonghao: peer relations in East Asia Gina L. Barnes; 7. Maya warfare: an example of peer polity interaction David A. Freidel; 8. Interaction among Classic Maya policies: a preliminary examination Jeremy A. Sabloff; 9. Midwestern Hopewellian exchange and supralocal interaction David P. Braun; 10. The nature and development of long-distance relations in Later Neolithic Britain and Ireland Richard Bradley and Robert Chapman; 11. Interaction and change in third millennium BC western and central Europe Stephen Shennan; 12. Epilogue and prospect John F. Cherry and Colin Renfrew; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica
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Cambridge University Press Time Energy and Stone Tools
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Cambridge University Press The Elements of Hittite
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Cambridge University Press The Body in History Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future
Book SynopsisThis book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar approach to the past, and drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary team of experts, the authors examine how the body has been treated in life, art and death for the last 40,000 years. Key case-study chapters examine Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Classical, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern bodies. What emerges is not merely a history of different understandings of the body, but a history of the different human bodies that have existed. Furthermore, the book argues, these bodies are not merely the product of historical circumstance, but are themselves key elements in shaping the changes that have swept across Europe since the arrival of modern humans.Trade Review'This book is amazing. Robb and Harris take us on a grand tour of the human body, tracing its diverse forms and attachments over a span of 50,000 years. Rarely do so many fascinating ideas come together in one place. For scholars who study the body in Africa, Asia, or the New World, the book offers a steady stream of comparative insights. As an experiment in multiscalar analysis, The Body in History is a tantalizing, indispensable model for future work.' Andrew Shryock, University of Michigan'An encyclopedic collection of articles that addresses the crucial question of how and why bodily understandings and practices change throughout history. Wide-ranging and creative in its sources, and innovative theoretically and methodologically, The Body in History is an invaluable contribution to, and will be required reading for anyone interested in, the field of body studies.' Chris Shilling, author of The Body and Social Theory'A masterful book that brings multidisciplinary analysis to bear on the question of the social body. The focus on diachronic change – on transition and transformation – as well as on scales of practice, makes this an original and much-needed contribution that will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists but also to scholars from diverse fields that engage with study of the body. This text is a must-read that will be used in both teaching and research.' Barbara L. Voss, Stanford University, California'This remarkable volume demonstrates how the idea of the body has been dramatically reworked in successive eras, from the Pleistocene to the present day. Spanning archaeology, history, and cultural studies, the chapters argue that, more than a concept, the body is simultaneously a collection of gestures and comportments that can vary from one era to the next. In a world transfixed by the prospects for robotic and bionic engineering, where the body/technology boundary is becoming increasingly porous and zombies are everywhere, this beautifully written study demonstrates how the body itself has always been in history.' Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University, MassachusettsTable of Contents1. O brave new world, that has such people in it Oliver Harris and John Robb; 2. Body worlds and their history: some working concepts Oliver Harris and John Robb; 3. The limits of the body Dušan Borić, Oliver Harris, Preston Miracle and John Robb; 4. The body in its social context Oliver Harris, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, John Robb and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen; 5. The body and politics Oliver Harris, Jessica Hughes, Robin Osborne, John Robb and Simon Stoddart; 6. The body and god Oliver Harris and John Robb; 7. The body in the age of knowledge Oliver Harris, John Robb and Sarah Tarlow; 8. The body in the age of technology Oliver Harris, Maryon McDonald and John Robb; 9. The body in history: a concluding essay Oliver Harris and John Robb; 10. Epilogue Marilyn Strathern.
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