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Oxford University Press, USA Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas Oxford India Perennials Series
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the history of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Asoka. It focuses on sources, socio-economic conditions, administration, Dhamma, foreign relations, and the decline of the Mauryas. This third edition contains a new foreword which updates research.Table of ContentsLIST OF PLATES; PRE-WORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; 1. THE DATE OF THE ARTHASTRA; 2. THE TITLES OF ASOKA; 3. THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF THE EDICTS; 4. POTTERY AND COINS OF THE MAURYAN PERIOD; 5. A TRANSLATION OF THE EDICTS OF A?OKA; 6. MAURYAN ART; AFTERWORD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Maritime Archaeology A Technical Handbook Second Edition
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Cambridge University Press Medieval European Coinage Volume 6 The Iberian Peninsula Medieval European Coinage Series Number 6
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£999.99
Cambridge University Press Medieval European Coinage Volume 8 Britain and Ireland c4001066 Medieval European Coinage Series Number 8
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Grattan Street Press, University of Melbourne Uncontained
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Works Intimacy
Book Synopsis* This is a remarkable study of the impact on online technologies on professional workers. * Gregg introduces the notion of work's intimacy to describe the way technology exacerbates the expectations of professional jobs as they come to invade spaces and times that were once less susceptible to work's presence.Trade Review"Is your working life afflicted by an increasing taskload, the 'coercive dimensions' of teamwork, longer hours, job insecurity and the intrusion of labour into personal life? Then Gregg's brilliant book, based on athropological research in Brisbane but of global significance, will show you that you are not alone. Writing of organisations that continue to demand unidirectional 'loyalty' from their workers, and of a woman whose office contacted her on every single day of her maternity leave, Gregg conveys a coolly controlled anger while coining powerful descriptions such as 'function creep' and 'binge work'. Her interviewees, baffled but trying, elicit our empathy, even those who have internalised the brutalist jargon of the modern office. If I ever use 'progress' or 'action' as a transitive verb, please shoot me." Steven Poole, The Guardian "Author Melissa Gregg has put flesh on the bones of what many suspected. Under the pretence of giving us the freedom to work at our own pace and wherever we choose, mobile phones, laptops and 'tablet' computers have shackled us to our bosses' will in a way that nothing has done since the treadmill." Irish Times "An engaging read that will chime with the experiences of academics and many other professional workers." Times Higher Education "A timely and important book, which raises essential questions about work, lifestyle, emotions and intimacy in the era of online technologies … All interested in this book will not only find important scholarly discussion, but will also be made to rethink their own labour practices, priorities, and 'lives and loves'. This mobilisation of achievement and accomplishment for rethinking our own world, in which discourses of achievement and accomplishment monopolised all spheres of life, and in which the imperative to love one's wok implies a troubling freedom is the effect of this book, which is at least equally important as the scholarly discussions it will trigger." Anthropological Notebooks "An important book that will transform the way we think about both work and intimacy. Rich, moving, and scholarly, Work's Intimacy looks set to become a new classic in the fields of cultural studies, gender studies and the sociology of labour." Rosalind Gill, King's College London "Gregg's remarkable analysis of the dispersed workplace could not be more relevant. It is a precious gift to scholars of modern work, and it will also be invaluable to anyone struggling to meet too many deadlines and balance too many obligations in pursuit of a livelihood today." Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It "Based on a rich body of empirical research, Work's Intimacy provides us with a troubling, insightful and timely analysis of the partnership between online technologies and the changing mythologies of work - and its impact on our everyday lives. Melissa Gregg has written an important book, carefully unpicking so much of what we have come to take for granted in our experience of the ever-expanding boundaries of the working life." Graeme Turner, The University of QueenslandTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionWork's intimacy: Performing professionalism online and on the job PART ONETHE CONNECTIVITY IMPERATIVE: BUSINESS RESPONSES TO NEW MEDIA1. Selling the flexible workplace: The creative economy and new media fetishism2. Working from home: The mobile office and the seduction of convenience3. Part-time precarity: Discount labour and contract careers PART TWOGETTING INTIMATE: ONLINE CULTURE AND THE RISE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING4. To CC: or not to CC: Teamwork in office culture5. Facebook friends: Security blankets and career mobility6. Know your product: Online branding and the evacuation of friendship PART THREELOOKING FOR LOVE IN THE NETWORKED HOUSEHOLD7. Home offices and remote parents: Family dynamics in online households8. Long hours, high bandwidth: Domesticity at a distance9. On call ConclusionLabour politics in an online workplace: The lovers vs. the loveless
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Aboriginal Studies Press A Record in Bone
Book SynopsisBone and tooth tools and ornaments have been made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for at least 46,000 years - some of the oldest organic technologies in the world. Despite their beauty, sophistication, and ubiquity, archaeologists and other researchers have overwhelmingly focused on the stone artefacts of Australia. Consequently, until now, we knew little of how bone and tooth objects were made and used, or how individual communities differed in how they worked with these distinctive materials.A Record in Bone brings together the scattered and sometimes difficult-to-find research and findings of more than a century. It reveals innovative bone, tooth, quill, and claw industries, including extensive use of ornamentation, bone points, fishhooks, and much more.This volume is a perfect companion to A Record in Stone: The study of Australia''s flaked stone artefacts (ASP 2007). It is an invaluable reference text for professionals and students of archaeology, anthropo
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Aboriginal Studies Press The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous
Book SynopsisThis book presents original and provocative views on the complex and dynamic social lives of Indigenous Australians from an historical perspective. Building on the foundational work of Harry Lourandos, the book critically examines and challenges traditional approaches which have presented Indigenous Australian pasts as static and tethered to ecological rationalism.The book reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of long-term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment. It encourages a deeper appreciation of the ways Aboriginal peoples have engaged with, and constructed their worlds. It solicits a deeper understanding of the contemporary political and social context of research and the insidious impacts of colonialist philosophies. In short, it concerns people: both past and present. Ultimately, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies looks beyond the stereotype of Aboriginal
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens Bronzeworkers in the Athenian Agora
Book SynopsisAs well as illustrating some of the surviving finished products, the author discusses the techniques used to cast bronze and the level of skill involved in producing complex metal statuary.
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Otago University Press Archaeology of the Solomon Islands
Book SynopsisArchaeology of the Solomon Islands presents the outcome of 20 years research in the Solomon Islands undertaken jointly by Richard Walter and Peter Sheppard, both leaders in the eld of Pacific archaeology. At the time of first European encounter, the peoples of Melanesia exhibited some of the greatest diversity in language, socio-political organisation and culture expression of any region on earth. This extraordinary diversity attracted scholars and resulted in coastal Melanesia becoming the birthplace of modern anthropology, and yet the area remains one of the least well-documented regions of the Pacific in archaeological terms. This synthesis of Solomon Island archaeology draws together all the research that has taken place in the field over the past 50 years. It takes a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological approach and considers the work of archaeologists, environmental scientists, anthropologists and historians. At the same time this volume highlights the results
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Ancient State
Book SynopsisWriting and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part of the book focuses on the contribution of writing to the state''s legitimating project. The second part deals with the state''s use of writing in administration, analyzing both textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct how the state used bookkeeping to allocate land, police its people, and extract taxes from them. The third part focuses on education, the state''s system for replenishing its staff of scribe-officials. The first half of each part surveys evidence from Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Maya lowlands, Central Mexico, and the Andes; against this background the second half examines the evidence from China. The chief aim of this book is to shed new light on early China (from the second millennium BC through the end of the Han period, ca. 220 AD) while bringing to bear the lens of cross-cultural analysis on each of the civilizationsTable of ContentsPart I. Writing and the Legitimation of the State: History as King List: 1. The Near East and the Americas; 2. China; Part II. Writing and the Wealth of the State: People and Land, Census and Land Register: 3. The Near East and the Americas; 4. China; Part III. Writing and the Perpetuation of the State: Scribal Education, Lexical Lists, and Literature: 5. The Near East and the Americas; 6. China; Part IV. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Book SynopsisThe lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades anthropologists and other scientists have participated in ''post-mortem dissections'' of the lives of historical figures. In this field of biohistory, researchers have identified and analyzed these figures'' bodies using technologies such as DNA fingerprinting, biochemical assays, and skeletal biology. This book brings together biohistorical case studies for the first time, and considers the role of the anthropologist in the writing of historical narratives surrounding the deceased. Contributors theorize biohistory with respect to the sociology of the body, examining the ethical implications of biohistorical work and the diversity of social theoretical perspectives that researchers'' work may relate to. The volume defines scales of biohistorical engagement, providing readers with a critical sense of scale and the different paths to ''historical notTrade Review'… stimulating and expertly crafted … this volume is pathbreaking in several respects, not the least of which is its careful and provocative theoretical synthesis between bioarcheology and forensic anthropology. It will for years to come serve as a benchmark for these fields and like-minded biohistorical studies, stimulating further advances in theory building and anthropological problem-solving along with a better grasp of the elaborate relationships between past people and ourselves.' Haagen D. Klaus, The Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Defining an anthropological biohistorical research agenda: the history, scale, and scope of an emerging discipline Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan; 2. Autopsy of past leaders: what remains tell us about them? Philippe Charlier; 3. Game of thrones: Richard III and the creation of cultural heritage Richard Toon and Laurie Stone; 4. The search for Don Francisco de Paula Marin: servant, friend, and advisor to King Kamehameha I, Kingdom of Hawaii Michael Pietrusewsky, Michele Toomay Douglas, Rona M. Ikehara-Quebral and Conrad Mac Goodwin; 5. Unearthing Robert Kennicott: naturalist, explorer, Smithsonian scientist Karin S. Bruwelheide, Sandra S. Schlachtmeyer, Douglas W. Owsley, Vicki E. Simon, Arthur C. Aufderheide, Larry W. Cartmell and Stephan J. Swanson; 6. The influence of the law on the post-mortem narratives of unknown human remains Ryan M. Seidemann; 7. The biohistory of prehistory: mummies and the forensic creation of identity Kenneth C. Nystrom; 8. Talking heads and other specters of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Shannon A. Novak; 9. Facial reconstruction of famous historical figures – between science and art Laura Buti, Giorgio Gruppioni and Stefano Benazzi; 10. The probabilistic basis for identifying individuals in biohistorical research Lyle W. Konigsberg and Lee Meadows Jantz; 11. Known unknowns: forensic science, the nation-state, and the iconic dead Sarah Wagner and Adam Rosenblatt; 12. The biohistory of atrocity and the social life of human remains Claire Moon; 13. Ethical issues in biohistory: NO easy answers! Jane E. Buikstra; 14. Theoretical facets of biohistorical research William N. Duncan and Christopher M. Stojanowski; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Material Culture Power and Identity in Ancient China
Book SynopsisIn this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China''s Warring States Period (476221 BCE). Analyzing artefacts, inscriptions, and grandiose funerary structures within a broad archaeological context, he illuminates the connections between power and identity, and the role of material culture in asserting and communicating both. The author brings an interdisciplinary approach to this study. He combines and cross-examines all available categories of evidence, including archaeological, textual, art historical, and epigraphical, enabling innovative interpretations and conclusions that challenge conventional views regarding Zhongshan and ethnicity in ancient China. Wu reveals the complex relationship between material culture, cultural identity, and statecraft intended by the royal patrons. He demonstrates that the Zhongshan king Cuo constructed a hybrid cultural identity, consolidated his power, and aimed to maintain political order at courtTable of ContentsList of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Historical setting and approaches to the study of an ancient state in Warring States China; 2. Life, death, and identity in Zhongshan: sorting out the archaeological evidence; 3. Royal mortuary practice and artifacts: hybridity, identity, and power; 4. Inter-state politics and artistic innovation during the reign of King Cuo; 5. Statecraft and Zhongshan bronze inscriptions; 6. Funerary architecture, kingly power, and court politics; Conclusion; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease
Book SynopsisCardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide today, but are not just a modern phenomenon. To explore the deep roots of CVDs in human history, this book, for the first time, brings together bioarchaeological evidence from different periods, as old as 5000 BC, and geographic locations from Alaska to Northern Africa. Experts in their fields showcase the powerful tool set available to bioarchaeology, which allows a more comprehensive reconstruction of the human past through evidence for disease. The tools include aDNA and histological analyses and digital imaging techniques for studying skeletal and mummified human remains. The insights gained from these studies are not only of value to historical research but also demonstrate how the science of archaeological human remains can provide the long view of the history of disease and contributes to modern biomedical research within the context of evolutionary medicine.Table of Contents1. The bioarchaeology of cardiovascular diseases – Introduction Michaela Binder; 2. Exploring the sources of indirect evidence for cardiovascular disease in bioarchaeology: potential impact on understanding its evolution Charlotte A. Roberts; Part I. Evidence from Mummified Tissues: 3. Atherosclerosis, mummies and histological analysis. A review Gino Fornaciari and Raffaele Gaeta; 4. Computed tomography evidence of atherosclerosis in ancient mummies: the Horus studies of mummies from five continents Randall C. Thompson, Ashna Mahadev, M. Linda Sutherland and Gregory S. Thomas; 5. The genetic background of atherosclerosis in ancient mummies Albert Zink, Christina Wurst, Frank Maixner, Samuel Wann, Randall C. Thompson and Gregory S. Thomas; 6. Cardiovascular disease in Nile valley mummies: exploring the need for a more systematic approach that accounts for vessel prevalence, links to oral health and the impact of dual energy CT scanning Daniel Antoine, Marie Vandenbeusch, Rebecca Whiting and Benjamin Moreno; 7. Atherosclerosis among the elites: a bioarchaeological investigation of 17th–19th century mummified human remains from Palermo, Sicily (Italy) and Vilnius (Lithuania) Dario Piombino-Mascali, Rimantas Jankauskas, Albert Zink and Stephanie Panzer; Part II. Cardiovascular Diseases Associated with Human Skeletal Remains: 8. Calcified structures as potential evidence of atherosclerosis associated with human skeletal remains from Amara West, Nubia (1300–800BC) Michaela Binder and Charlotte A. Roberts; 9. Intracranial atherosclerosis in Medieval Scandinavia Caroline Arcini and Elisabeth Englund; 10. Abnormalities of the vertebral artery: are cervical pressure defects being overlooked in palaeopathology? Daniel Antoine and Tony Waldron; 11. A heart of stone – constrictive pericarditis and other calcified tissues from the pathologic-anatomical collection at the Narrenturm in Vienna, Austria. A review Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, Eduard Winter and Michelle Gamble; 12. 'Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence': why is there a lack of evidence for cardiovascular disease in the bioarchaeological record? Michaela Binder and Charlotte A. Roberts; Part III. 'Contemporary Perspectives': 13. The challenging diagnosis of cardiovascular disease in skeletal remains: identifying atherosclerotic calcifications from modern documented individuals Lucie Biehler-Gomez, Emanuela Maderna and Cristina Cattaneo; 14. Atherosclerosis in indigenous Tsimane – A contemporary perspective Randall C. Thompson, Gregory S. Thomas, Angela D. Neunuebel, Ashna Mahadev, Benjamin C. Trumble, Edmond Seabright, Daniel K. Cummings, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven and Hillard Kaplan.
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Cambridge University Press World Archaeoprimatology
Book SynopsisArchaeoprimatology intertwines archaeology and primatology to understand the ancient liminal relationships between humans and nonhuman primates. During the last decade, novel studies have boosted this discipline. This edited volume is the first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies ever produced. Written by a culturally diverse group of scholars, with multiple theoretical views and methodological perspectives, it includes new zooarchaeological examinations and material culture evaluations, as well as innovative uses of oral and written sources. Themes discussed comprise the survey of past primates as pets, symbolic mediators, prey, iconographic references, or living commodities. The book covers different regions of the world, from the Americas to Asia, along with studies from Africa and Europe. Temporally, the chapters explore the human-nonhuman primate interface from deep in time to more recent historical times, examining both extinct and extant primate taxa. This anthology of aTable of ContentsForeword Raymond Corbey; Acknowledgments; World Archaeoprimatology: An introduction Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos and Andrzej T. Antczak; Part I. The Americas: 1. Monkeys in the city of gods: on the primate remains and representations in Teotihuacan, central Mexico Bernardo Urbani, Carlos Serrano-Sánchez, Raúl Valadez-Azúa, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni and Rubén Cabrera-Castro; 2. Monkeys and the ancient maya: Using biological markers and behavior for primate species identification in maya iconography Katherine E. South and Susan M. Ford; 3. Monkeys on the islands and coasts of paradise: pre-hispanic nonhuman primates in the circum-Caribbean region (AD 300-1500) Bernardo Urbani, Andrzej T. Antczak, M. Magdalena Antczak, Nicole R. Cannarozzi, Roger H. Colten, Kitty F. Emery, Raymundo A.C.F. Dijkhoff, Thomas A. Wake, Michelle J. LeFebvre, Lisabeth A. Carlson, William F. Keegan and Dennis C. Nieweg; 4. Mirroring desert societies with monkeys: Primates in the late Prehispanic and early Colonial North Coast of Peru, Central Andes (circa AD 800-1600) Jorge Gamboa; 5. Alterity, authority and ancestors: Exploring monkey images in moche iconography of north coast Peru Aleksa K. Alaica; 6. Representations of primates in petroglyphs of the Brazilian Amazonia Edithe Pereira and José de Sousa e Silva Júnior; 7. Nonhuman primates in the archaeological record of Northeastern Brazil: A case study in Pernambuco state Albérico N. de Queiroz, Olivia. A. de Carvalho and Roberta R. Pinto; 8. Lice in howler monkeys and the ancient americas: exploring the potential cost of being past pets or hunting games R. Florencia Quijano, Debora R. Gilles, Jan Štefka and Martín M. Kowalewski; Part II. Europe: 9. The place of nonhuman primates in ancient roman culture: narratives and practices Marco Vespa; 10. Minoan monkeys: Re-Examining the archaeoprimatological evidence Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos; Part III. Africa: 1. Primate behavior in ancient Egypt: The iconography of baboons and other monkeys in the old kingdom Lydia Bashfor; 12. The nonhuman primate remains from the baboon catacomb at Saqqara in Egypt Douglas Brandon-Jones and Jaap Goudsmit; 13. Primates in South African rock art: The interconnections between humans and baboons Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu; 14. Citizens of the Savanna: An account of three million years of interaction between baboons and hominins in South Africa Shaw Badenhorst; 15. Lemur Hunting in madagascar's present and past: The case of Pachylemur Natalie Vasey and Laurie R. Godfrey; Part IV. Asia: 16. The monkey in Mesopotamia during the 3rd Millennium BCE Marcos Such-Gutiérrez; 17. The great monkey king: carvings of primates in Indian religious architecture Alexandra A. E. van der Geer; 18. The prehistoric nonhuman primate subfossil remains at sigiriya potana cave, Sri Lanka Michael A. Huffman, Charmalie A.D. Nahallage, Tharaka Ananda, Nelum Kanthilatha, Nimal Perera, Massimo Bardi and Gamini Adikari; 19. Monkey hunting in early to mid-Holocene Eastern Java (Indonesia) Noel Amano, Thomas Ingicco, Anne-Marie Moigne, Anne-Marie Sémah, Truman Simanjuntak and François Sémah; 20. Dispersion, speciation, evolution, and coexistence of East Asian Catarrhine Primates and humans in Yunnan, China Gang He, He Zhang, Haitao Wang, Xueping Ji, Songtao Guo, Baoguo Li, Rong Hou, Xiduo Hou and Ruliang Pan; 21. Fossil and archaeological remain records of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) Yuichiro Nishioka, Masanaru Takai, Hitomi Hongo and Tomoko Anezaki; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Gordion
Book SynopsisAncient Gordion has long been recognized as a key Iron Age site for Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean. Archaeological research has revealed much about its sequence of occupation. However, as yet no study has explored the underlying drivers of political and economic change at this site. This volume presents an overview of the political and economic histories supporting emergent elites and how they constructed power at Gordion during the Iron Age (1200-300 BCE). Based on geochemical and typological analysis of nearly 2000 Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic ceramic samples, the volume contextualizes this primary dataset through the lens of ceramic production, consumption, exchange and emulation. Synthesizing site data sets, the volume more broadly contributes to our understanding of the pivotal role of groups and their economic, social, and ritual practices in the creation of complex societies.Table of ContentsAncient Gordion: Crafting ceramics and community in iron age Anatolia Lisa Kealhofer, Peter Grave, and Mary M. Voigt; Chapter 1. Introduction: Iron age ceramics and Phrygian Gordion; Chapter 2. Inventing identity: Group formation over the long durée; Chapter 3. Contextualizing the ceramic assemblage; Chapter 4. Identifying Gordion's groups; Chapter 5. The late bronze age community at gordion – the late bronze age; Chapter 6. Reconstituting community in the early iron age – the early iron age; Chapter 7. New identities, new communities – the early phrygian period; Chapter 8. Enacting power – The middle phrygian period; Chapter 9. Identities in flux- the late phrygian period; Chapter 10. Conclusion: The dynamics of groups and power at gordion; Appendix: Turkish abstract; References; Index.
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Amberley Publishing 50 Finds from Buckinghamshire
Book SynopsisThe latest volume of this popular series, looking at objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Buckinghamshire.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Archeological Investigations
Book SynopsisArcheological Investigations by Gerard Fowke explores the geological structure of caves and examines the life of the "cave-dwellers". Certain conditions are to be taken into account in deciding whether a cave afforded a desirable permanent shelter to primitive man. It should be accessible; the floor should be dry, at least fairly level, and sufficiently free from large rocks to allow the inmates to move about freely; the entrance should be large enough to permit free passage and to light the interior to a distance that would insure protection from the elements.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Characterization of Archaeological Materials by
Book SynopsisIn this book Characterization of Archaeological Materials by the Use of Light the authors tried to demonstrate the high degree of technology used in laser scanning for archaeological sites. The data collection and review were obtained thanks to the conscious, proprietary data processing and individual knowledge of lidar products, by using the developed especially for archaeological analytical tools, visualization methods data and algorithms processing the point cloud, numerical models and their derivatives. The authors form an interdisciplinary team, they are both archaeologists and laser physicists. This book has four chapters titled: Aerial Laser Scanning, Laser in the conservation of archaeological monuments, Laser analysis of the chemical composition of ceramics and Laser applications to study various solid materials. We presents Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) such as an advanced method of archaeological prospection. Inthe last few years an increasing number of applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data within World archaeology was noticed. At the same time, ALS is an extremely useful method for conservation purposes. On the other hand, carrying out successive measurements allows for monitoring of facilities, sites and landscapes over time. Along with the growing interest in the method and the growing number of its applications in archaeology, it is worth paying attention to the efficiency of using the ALS and LIDAR.
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Gorgias Press Bible, Map and Spade: The American Palestine Exploration Society, Frederick Jones Bliss and the Forgotten Story of Early American Biblical Archaeology
Book SynopsisThis volume resurrects the forgotten history of early American involvement in biblical archaeology. Frederick Jones Bliss, an American from a prominent missionary family, is central to the story as he was the first of any nationality to scientifically excavate the tells of Palestine.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Archeology Research Trends
Book SynopsisArchaeology studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artefacts, features, biofacts, and landscapes. Because archaeology''s aim is to understand mankind, it is a humanistic endeavour. The goals of archaeology vary, and there is debate as to what its aims and responsibilities are. Some goals include the documentation and explanation of the origins and development of human cultures, understanding culture history, chronicling cultural evolution, and studying human behaviour and ecology, for both prehistoric and historic societies. This advanced book presents important research in the field.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Pushing the Envelope: Experimental Directions in
Book SynopsisStone tools are the most ubiquitous and oldest variety of archaeological artefacts. Humans have made stone tools for the last 2.6 million years on every continent of the inhabited world. As such, they constitute the most important source of information about both past patterns of human behaviour and evolution. In spite of these facts and after more than two centuries of systematic study, the analysis of stone tools remains a relatively under-developed science. This book presents a series of research projects designed to "push the envelope" in terms of the limits of our methodological knowledge concerning stone tools. It presents a series of experimental studies designed to approach the analysis of stone tools, the construction of inferences about the human past, and the building of novel theory to explain it.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc New Developments in Archaeology Research
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors present new developments in archaeology research. Topics include the adequacy of small-scale samplings from ancient pottery for instrumental analysis; the problem of phosphorous pollution in ceramic archaeological materials buried in the ground and polluted Neolithic pottery; and the huge potential in applying archaeological stratigraphic excavation to all kinds of objects, such as paintings, sculptures and even archaeological artefacts themselves.
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Lodima Press Stones & Marks
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Monash University Publishing Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting
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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Buchpaket Bruno Callegher - Numismatik
Book SynopsisThis package contains the publicationsBruno Callegher, Coins from the Excavations at Khirbet Qumran (1951-1956) and Aïn Feshkha (1956-1958), ISBN 978-3-525-50194-8The Qumran coins (hoard and single finds) are worthy of a novel. They were perfectly examined by H. Seyrig and A. Spijkerman, then the popular conviction spread that the coins had been lost. In fact, they were always kept where they had been classified. Now they are finally published and provide the possibility to suggest that Qumran was a very open centre for trade and transactions, at least from finally the end of the second century BC until the destruction of the site in 70/72 CE.This documentation provides a new reasoning on effective data - not on assumptions.Bruno Callegher, From Hasmonean Period to Umayyad Rulers. Coins and economy in Magdala/Tarichea, ISBN 978-3-525-50193-1On a monetary basis, Magdala must be considered as one of the most important and active settlements between the 1st century BC and most of the 3rd century AD on Lake Kinneret, a place of production and trade, of supply for military forces, certainly in contact with other trading centres, Its monetary decline started on the early 4th century, when the economic and monetary strategies of the Constantinian era shifted the flow of money to other routes, especially between the great port cities of the Mediterranean.Bruno Callegher's study publishes new data, which allow us to overcome "clichés" and a stereotypical view of both the archaeological site and the economy of the Upper Galilee.
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Transcript Verlag At the Edge of AI
Book SynopsisHow are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the interplay of various actors and play/science entanglements at the edge of AI. Focusing on their human-technology relations, this ethnographic study shows how these formations are marked by intraversions, as they change with technological advancements and the actors' goals, motivations, and practices. This work contributes to the constructive and critical ethnographic engagement with human-AI assemblages in the making.
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Dattsons Mandhal Excavations (1975-77)
Book SynopsisExcavations at Mandhal in Vidarbha from 1975-77 revealed rich archaeological history dating back to 2nd millennium BC. Led by Prof. Shastri, the team's findings contribute significantly to academic knowledge even decades later.
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Agam Kala Prakashan Conservation of Manuscripts
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Bharatiya Kala Prakashan South Indian Archaeology
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Tapir Academic Press Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the
Book SynopsisThe Information Society is an evolving project, with new ''ensembles'' of social practices and of information and communication technologies (ICTs) emerging all the time. But not everyone is equally included in this project. Breaking new ground with its focus on inclusion, and drawing on an extensive body of European research, Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society analyses a range of strategies which succeeded in attracting more women and girls as users or designers of ICTs. This reveals a set of underlying dynamics -- what the authors call technologies of inclusion -- by which different strategies work. It also highlights new gender-ICT ensembles which challenge long-held notions of technology as a masculine domain. This book is a must, for scholars interested in shifting gender-technology relations and for practitioners interested in effective digital inclusion. Indeed, for anyone interested in the evolving project of the Information Society.
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Universidad de Burgos, Servicio de Publicaciones Iberia Protohistory of the Far West of Europe:
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Museum Tusculanum Press Brattahlid
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Museum Tusculanum Press Technology and Tradition in the Eastern Arctic,
Book SynopsisIn this study Mikkel Sørensen introduces a new dynamic technological methodology to Arctic Archaeology. By means of an investigation of the lithic chaînes opératoires and lithic concepts of production, he offers insight into Palaeo-Eskimo tool manufacturing and processes, including a definition of the functional tool types in five Palaeo-Eskimo cultures in the easternmost Arctic in the period 2500 BCAD 1200. chaînes opératoires are documented and explained through numerous drawings, ordered in process steps from procurement of raw materials, shaping of preforms to the discardment of the rejuvenated tool. As a precondition for these analyses, a study of outcrops of lithic materials suited for knapping (microcrystalline quartzes, metamorphosed slates, fine-grained basalts, quartz and quartzite, etc.) found in Greenland is conducted. Thus an important result of the investigation is a well-documented analysis of the dynamic change of the lithic artefact types and a definition of the range of the formal tool types used by the Palaeo-Eskimo groups of Greenland. As a consequence of this systematically technological study, a new interpretation and reordering of the easternmost Arctic cultural sequence is proposed and two previously unknown Palaeo-Eskimo groups in Greenland are identified: the Pre-Dorset and the Early Canadian Dorset. It is therefore finally concluded that the dynamic technological methodology is very well suited for the study of lithic technology in the Palaeo-Eskimo tradition, and that this methodology, in combination with spatial analyses, in the future can be an important method in the investigation of Palaeo-Eskimo cultural history, and for the understanding of behaviour and social aspects in the Palaeo-Eskimo traditions.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Tradition: Transmission of Culture in the Ancient
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Museum Tusculanum Press Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in
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Museum Tusculanum Press Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History
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Museum Tusculanum Press Family Lives: Aspects of Life and Death in
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Nationalmuseet Crossing Boundaries: An Analysis of Roman Coins
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University Press of Southern Denmark Halicarnassian Studies: Volume 5
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Sidestone Press Cultures of Stone: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
Book SynopsisThis volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone.Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place.This volume brings together a collection of seventeen papers which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches; including archaeology, anthropology, classics, design and engineering, fine arts, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sciences.Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Constructing Identities through Stone Part 1. Quarrying and Moving Stone Labour and Limestone: the relationship between stone and life in the 19th- and 20th-century quarry town of Texas, Maryland. Adam Fracchia Yapese Stone Money: local marble as a potential inspiration for producing limestone exchange valuables in Palau, Micronesia. Bosiljka Glumac and Scott M. Fitzpatrick Roman Colours of Power: Egyptian stones for the imperial metropolis, and beyond. Hazel Dodge Travelling Stone or Travelling Men? Models of Sculpture Production in the Early Middle Ages (8th–9th centuries). Michelle Beghelli Part 2. Making, Building and Re-imagining in Stone MAN MADE: contemporary prehistoric stone-tool design. Dov Ganchrow Stone Fisheries and Their Role in Shaping the Cultural Landscape of the Minho River Valley, Portugal. Rui Madail and Miguel Malheiro Stormont’s Stones: the oratory of power through form and materiality. Suzanne O´Neill City of Stone: dialectics of impermanence in Josef Sudek’s Prague. Adele Tutter ‘The Living Stones’: encountering the prehistoric past in West Cornwall. Elizabeth Pratt Sacred Granite: preserving the Downpatrick High Cross. Michael King Part 3. Stone in Ritual Space and Practice ‘Living Stones Built Up’: symbolism in Irish round towers. Sarah Kerr Flaming Torches: the materiality of fire and flames on Roman cinerary urns. Liana Brent Stone-Grave Building at the Cemetery of Les Tombes at Estagel (Pyrénées-Orientales, France): some economic, visual and symbolic aspects. Joan Pinar Gil Worship and Stones on the Cycladic Islands: a case study of the aniconic cult of Apollo and Zeus. Erika Angliker All of a Heap: Hermes and the stone cairn in Greek Antiquity. Jessica Doyle Looking through the Crystal Ball: ethnographic analogies for the ritual use of rock crystal. Thomas Hess Is It from The Dreaming, or Is It Rubbish? The Significance and Meaning of Stone Artefacts and Their Sources to Aboriginal People in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Edward McDonald and Bryn Coldrick Afterword The Flexibility of Stone Gabriel Cooney Index
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Aakar Books Piecing the Past Together
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Sharada Publishing House Culture and Cognition in Reconstructing the
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HarperCollins Publishers The Roman Republic Fontana History of the Ancient World x
Book SynopsisBetween the Sack of Rome in 390 BC and 200 BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean. Wars, impoverishments, civil discord and slavery are a few of the subjects covered in this study.
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HarperCollins Publishers THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE IN THE RENAISSANCE xx
Book SynopsisThe masterpiece of Britain’s leading Renaissance scholar. Winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award.Trade Review‘This magnificent book is the product of a lifetime’s scholarship by someone with a quite irrepressible curiosity and prodigious breadth of reading…together with the enviable gift of writing clearly and beautifully.’ TLS ‘This study deserves to stand alongside Braudel’s classic account of the Mediterranean in the time of Philip II. Hale is as generous as he is knowledgeable; his life’s work has culminated in a meticulous masterpiece.’ Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times ‘John Hale has produced a vast and enthralling mosaic. Only someone who had devoted a lifetime to studying history, literature and the art of the 15th- and 16th-century could draw so effortlessly on what seems a limitless range of texts and illustrations…His curiosity never fails, his learning constantly surprises, and the wit and energy of his style never flags…Extraordinary.’ Anthony Grafton, LRB
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HarperCollins Publishers THE BURIED SOUL How Humans Invented Death
Book SynopsisFrom the author of ‘The Prehistory of Sex’ – a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.Trade Review‘Perceptive, radical and elegantly written. His quest for answers takes us on an extraordinary journey, like time travellers in the boneyards of history…All this is achieved with the style of a consummate storyteller.’ Bel Mooney, The Times ‘Like a thriller-writer he deploys cliff-hanging chapter endings. Like a good novelist he is unafraid of human emotion. As an archaeologist he knows how to sort and wash bones. As a thinker he restores dignity to these unnamed bodies by holding them compassionately with his words.’ Michele Roberts, Independent on Sunday ‘Sit back and revel in this riveting exploration of our collective ancestral psyche.’ Sunday Herald ‘Illuminating.’ Scotsman
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