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Taylor & Francis Assembling Past Worlds
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Taylor & Francis Assembling Past Worlds
Book SynopsisAssembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment in the emergence of new ways of living, as well as new relationships between materials, people and new forms of architecture. It achieves two things. First, it identifies the major challenges that archaeology faces in the light of current theoretical shifts. New ideas place new demands on how we write and think about the past, sometimes in ways that can seem contradictory. This volume identifies seven major challenges that have emerged and sets out why they matter, why archaeology needs to engage with them and how they can be dealt with through an innovative theoretical approach. Second, it explores how this approach meets these challenges through an in-depth study of Neolithic Britain. It provides an insightfTable of ContentsPart I: Assembling a Posthumanist Archaeology; 1. Assembling Past Worlds: An Introduction; 2. Seven Challenges for a Posthumanist Archaeology; 3. Fragments from Philosophy; Part II: Assembling Neolithic Britain; 4. What Were Neolithic Materials Capable of Becoming?; 5. What Could a Dead Neolithic Body Do?; 6. What Worlds did Neolithic Architecture Create?; Part III: Assembling Past Worlds; 7. Time, History and Memory: Towards an Ontography of the Neolithic; 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd World Prehistory and Archaeology Pathways Through Time
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Working Donkeys in 4th3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia Insights from Modern Development Studies UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous People in the North of Colombia Back to the Ancestors Landscape Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples
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Taylor & Francis Remembering Turkana Material Histories and Contemporary Livelihoods in NorthWestern Kenya Routledge Studies in African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Archaeology
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Taylor & Francis Ritual Identity and the Mayan Diaspora 5 Routledge Library Editions Ritual
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Taylor & Francis Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Parthians
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Arabia to the Pacific
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Arabia to the Pacific
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Archaeology
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Taylor & Francis Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East Routledge Research in Music
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East
Book SynopsisMusic in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2.Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 1; 3. Types of cultic activity and the music associated with them, 2; 4. Musical media, 1; 5. Musical media, 2: membranophones (drums) and idiophones; 6. Musical media, 3: groups and ensembles; sanctity and divinisation; organisation and administration; 7. Approaching the musical sound-world
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Taylor & Francis Heritage Sites in Contemporary China Cultural Policies and Management Practices Planning Heritage and Sustainability
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Taylor & Francis Ancient Lives An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory
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Taylor & Francis Considering Anthropology and Small Wars
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity
Book SynopsisThis book explores how globalization and transculturality are useful theoretical tools for studying pre-modern societies and their long-distance connections. Among the themes explored are how these concepts can enhance our understanding of trade networks, the spread of religions, the diffusion of global fashions, the migration of technologies, public and private initiatives, and wider cultural changes.In this book, archaeologists and ancient historians demonstrate how in diverse contexts â from the Bronze Age to colonial times â humanity displayed an urge and an incredible capacity to connect with distant lands and people. Adopting and modifying approaches originally developed for the study of contemporary societies, it is possible to enhance our understanding of the human past, not only in economic terms, but also the cultural significance of such interconnections.This book provides both the wider public and the specialist reader with a fresh point of view on global issues relating to the past; in turn, allowing us to look anew at developments in the contemporary world. Its large chronological and geographical scope should prove appealing to those who want more than mere Eurocentric history. Teachers and students of world history and archaeology will find this book a useful resource.Table of ContentsList of figures and table; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: utilizing globalization and transculturailty for the study of the pre-modern world; Section I: Theory and methodology— Chapter 1: From the field to the globe: the archaeology of globalization; Chapter 2: Globalization, the highest stage of modernization?; Section II: Bronze age globalization– Chapter 3: Bronzization, the globalization of the Bronze Age in Afro-Eurasia; Chapter 4: Agencement, matter flows and itinerary of object in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean: a new materialities approach to globalization; Chapter 5: Dragon divers and clamorous fishermen: Bronzization and transcultural marine spaces in the Japanese archipelago; Section III: Globalization in the early historic Indian Ocean— Chapter 6: Archaeology of globalization: a retrospective view of the Indian Ocean world and implications for the present (500 BCE – 300 CE); Chapter 7: Oikoumenisation and the Ptolemaic beginnings of the Indian Ocean trade; Chapter 8: Mediterranean goods in an Indian context: the use of transcultural theory for the study of the ancient Indian Ocean world; Chapter 9: The Indian figurine from Pompeii as an emblem of East-West trade in the early Roman Imperial era; Section IV: Global studies in complex historical contexts— Chapter 10: A universal dhamma: Buddhism and globalization at the time of Aśoka; Chapter 11: Globalization and Gandhāra art; Chapter 12: Glocalization as a key to understanding cultural change in São Paulo’s colonial ceramics; Index
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Taylor & Francis The Umayyad World
Book SynopsisThe Umayyad World encompasses the archaeology, history, art, and architecture of the Umayyad era (644â750 CE).This era was formative both for world history and for the history of Islam. Subjects covered in detail in this collection include regions conquered in Umayyad times, ethnic and religious identity among the conquerors, political thought and culture, administration and the law, art and architecture, the history of religion, pilgrimage and the Qurâan, and violence and rebellion. Close attention is paid to new methods of analysis and interpretation, including source critical studies of the historiography and inter-disciplinary approaches combining literary sources and material evidence.Scholars of Islamic history, archaeologists, and researchers interested in the Umayyad Caliphate, its context, and infl uence on the wider world, will find much to enjoy in this volume.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Umayyad World; Part I Political Culture; 2. Living Together: Social Perceptions and Changing Interactions of Arabian Believers and Other Religious Communities during the Umayyad Period; 3. Prophetic Dominion, Umayyad Kingship: Varieties of Mulk in the Early Islamic Period; 4. Ethnicity, Power and Umayyad Society: The Rise and Fall of the People of Maʿadd; 5. Umayyad Visual Culture and Its Models; Part II Scribes, Administration and Law; 6. Aspects of Umayyad Administration; 7. The Social and Economic Background of Provincial Administrators in Egypt; 8. The Umayyads and the Formation of Islamic Judgeship; 9. Al-Awzaʿi and the Umayyad Influence on Islamic Legal Development; 10. The Surrender Agreements – Origins and Authenticity; Part III Regions of the Umayyad World: Conquest, Society and Economy; 11.The Umayyad North (Or: How Umayyad was the Umayyad Caliphate?); 12. Elites in the Countryside: The Economic and Political Factors behind the Umayyad ‘Desert Castles’; 13. The Umayyad Red Sea as an Islamic Mare Nostrum; 14. The Umayyads and North Africa: Imperial Rule and Frontier Society; 15. Conquest and Settlement: What Al-Andalus can tell Us about the Arab Expansion at the Time of the Umayyad Caliphate; 16. Ecology, Economy and the Conquest of Khurasan; Part IV Pilgrimage in Mecca and Jerusalem; 17. The Transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam in Western Arabia; 18. Ibn al-Zubayr, the Kaʿba and the Dome of the Rock; 19. Umayyad Jerusalem: From a Religious Capital to a Religious Town; Part V Religion and Identity in the Material Evidence20. Arabic Rock Inscriptions up to 750 CE; 21. The Written Transmission of the Qurʾan during Umayyad Times: Contextualising the Codex Amrensis 1; 22. Christian Art and Visual Culture in Umayyad Bilad al-Sham; Part VI Limits of Empire: Rebellion, Resistance and Legacy; 23. Kharijism in the Umayyad Period; 24. Qurashi Marriage and the Roots of Revolt: The Rebellion of ʿAbd Allah b. Muʿawiya, 744–747; 25. How the West was Won: Unearthing the Umayyad History of the Conquest of the Maghrib; 26. Power, Law and Ideology in Umayyad Al-Andalus
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Museums Media and Communication
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
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Taylor & Francis The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Archaeologies of Rock Art
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Taylor & Francis The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities
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Taylor & Francis Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders New Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stone Vessels in the Levant
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Taylor & Francis Archaeology of Entanglement
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Taylor & Francis Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations
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Taylor & Francis Before Modern Humans
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Taylor & Francis The Identification of Northern European Woods A Guide for Archaeologists and Conservators
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Taylor & Francis Silver Economy in the Viking Age UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Placing Animals in the Neolithic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ceramics of the Merv Oasis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Starch Research
Book SynopsisThis book describes the fundamental principles and methods of using ancient starch molecules to elicit plant use, environmental conditions, and social relations in the ancient world.Trade ReviewThis book furnishes a methodological and conceptual framework to researchers, scholars, students, and professors interested in starch and starch plant sources. We enjoyed reading it and strongly recommend it as a tool... -Concepcion Obon and Diego Rivera, Economic Botany"For palynologists who work with archaeologists and even those working outside archaeology but in Holocene deposits, this book is essential.... Palynologists need to know the potentials of starch research, need to know how it can be recovered, need to know the types of information it might provide, and need to be alert about the potentials in order to recommend searching for 'both fossil pollen and starch grains' in ancient sediments." -Vaughn M. Bryant, American Association of Stratigraphi Palynologists Newsletter"This book is a collaborative effort brought together over several years by a group of scholars, primarily archaeologists and particularly based in Austalia. They wished to emphasize the importance and potential contributions of ancient starch research, and to produce a basic textbook on how this reasearch is currently being undertaken and the challenges the field faces. They were not seeking to produce a definitive 'how-to' guide, but rather sought to treat methods comprehensively while at the same time presenting numerous case studies, experiments, and new ideas. They have succeeded admirably.... The writing is very easy to follow, whatever the background of the reader, yet still conveys the more technical information needed to understand and appreciate the meaning of starch granule form. The text flows very well from chapter to chapter, despite the multiplicity of authors, and I always found it enjoyable and easy to return to as I read on.... Ancient Starch Research is essential for any researcher engaged in ancient starch rsearch, any student who is thinking about working in this area, and anyone who wants to understand the basis for interpretation in this field in terms of strengths, weaknesses, methods, and potential. It is an outstanding book and I recommend it most highly." -Brian Kooyman, Journal of California and Great Basin AnthropologyTable of ContentsAncient Starch Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
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Taylor & Francis Baal and the Politics of Poetry The Ancient Word
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Landscapes of Zoara I Surveys and Excavations at the Ghor asSafi in Jordan 19972018 The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Landscapes of Zoara I
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Working with and for Ancestors
Book SynopsisWorking with and for Ancestors examines collaborative partnerships that have developed around the study and care of Indigenous ancestral human remains. In the interest of reconciliation, museums and research institutions around the world have begun to actively seek input and direction from Indigenous descendants in establishing collections care and research policies. However, true collaboration is difficult,?time-consuming, and sometimes awkward. By presenting examples of projects involving ancestral remains that are successfully engaged in collaboration, the book provides encouragement for scientists and descendant communities alike to have open and respectful discussions around the research and care of ancestral human remains. Key themes for discussion include new approaches to the care for ancestors; the development of culturally sensitive museum policies; the emergence of mutually beneficial research partnerships; and emerging issues such as those of intelTable of ContentsPart 1 Building Relationships: Proceed with Respect and Patience 1 Bearing Witness: What Can Archaeology Contribute in an Indian Residential School Context? 2 Pathway to Decolonizing Collections of Ainu Ancestral Remains: Recent Developments in Repatriation Within Japan 3 The Brandon Indian Residential School Cemetery Project: Working Towards Reconciliation Using Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology 4 Washington’s Non-Forensic Human Skeletal Remains Law and the State Physical Anthropologist: A Collaborative Process and Model for Other States 5 Bii-Azhe Ḡiiwé Iná Daanig (Let’s Bring Them Home): Lessons in Humility, Relationships, and Changing Perspectives Part 2 Caring for the Ancestors: Developments in Museum Collaborations 6 Why We Repatriate: On the Long Arc Toward Justice at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science 7 the Importance of Kaitiakitanga (Guardianship and Care) and Rangahau (Research) for the Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme 8 Toward a Twenty-First-Century Model for the Collaborative Care and Curation of Human Remains 9 The Southern African Human Remains Management Project: Making (P)Reparations in Year One 10 Caring for the Ancestors at the Royal BC Museum Part 3 Learning From the Ancestors: Collaborative Research Projects 11 The Journey Home: Sto:Lō Values and Collaboration in Repatriation 12 the Joy of the Souls: the Return of the Huron-Wendat Ancestors 13 Building Relationships to Shift Accountability: Doing Paleogenomic Research with Indigenous Nations and Ancestors 14 Learning from Ancestors Caring for Ancestors: The Antiquity of Reburial On Bkejwanong 15 New Insights from Old Dog Bones: Dogs as Proxies for Understanding Ancient Human Diets Part 4 Developing Conversations: Doing Better Together 16 The Digital Lives of Ancestors: Ethical and Intellectual Property Considerations Surrounding the 3-D Recording of Human Remains 17 What Next? Changing Ethical Protocols for Human Remains in Museums 18 Provenancing Australian Aboriginal Ancestors: The Importance of Incorporating Traditional Knowledge 19 Ancient Human DNA: Surveying the Evolving Ethical, Social, and Political Landscape Part 5 Moving Forward: There’s Still Work To Do 20 Identity in Applied Repatriation Research and Practice 21 Decolonizing Bioarchaeology? Moving Beyond Collaborative Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reconstructing a Maritime Past
Book SynopsisReconstructing a Maritime Past argues that rather than applying geo-ethnic labels to shipwrecks to describe Greek or Roman seafaring, a more intriguing alternative emphasizes a maritime culture's valorization of the Mediterranean Sea. Doing so creates new questions and research agendas to understand the past human relationship with the sea.This study makes this argument in three sections. Chapters 1 and 2, contrasting intellectual histories of maritime archaeological interpretive approaches common in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, propose that the former perspective which embodies contemporary and fluid perceptions of culture is a better theoretical framework for future research. Chapters 35 re-interpret the corpus of submerged sites in the Mediterranean Sea with this approach, arguing that this dataset does not represent Phoenician, Muslim, or Byzantine seafaring, but the practices of a maritime culture. Key to this section is the author's method thTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Interpretive practices and interpretive problems; Chapter 2 Theoretical and methodological foundations; Chapter 3 Data collection, interpretation, and visualization; Chapter 4 Modelling maritime cultures and landscapes; Chapter 5 Variation and places; Chapter 6 Case studies; Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous People in the North of Colombia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Art Revisited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Connecting Continents Rice Cultivation in South Carolina and the Guinea Coast
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Taylor & Francis Archaeological Research
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