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Archaeopress Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the pottery from Sudan Archaeological Research Society excavations at the site of Kawa, Northern Dongola Reach, between 1997 and 2018, fully illustrated with photographs and line drawings. This is the third in the series focusing on the fieldwork conducted at this important site. Volume III presents a comprehensive catalogue of the pottery found across the site, focusing on the forms, decoration, marks and fabric, as well as incorporating a discussion of the character of relevant areas. This includes a detailed discussion of the Napatan amphorae found in Building F1 and the cemetery remains at R18. The material at Kawa represents a unique collection of contextualised material invaluable for reconstructing activity patterns in this region during the Napatan and Meroitic periods and contributing towards an increased understanding of this time period.
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Archaeopress Instalaciones Y Paisajes Azucareros Atlanticos
Book SynopsisBetween the 15th and 17th centuries, sugar cultivation and processing, a Mediterranean industry throughout the Middle Ages, experienced what we can aptly describe as the first period of its prosperous Atlantic history. Following its introduction to Madeira by the Portuguese, sugarcane cultivation and sugar production became the epicentre of a lucrative trade that spread, in step with Iberian colonial expansion, to the Azores and the archipelagos off the African coast: the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe. From there, it reached the Caribbean and the Americas, where the sugar mills eventually outstripped their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic in the 16th century. The sugar estates that sprang up along the Atlantic at the time were manufacturing and residential complexes that epitomised much of the technological prowess of the period, while at the same time providing unique insights into social segregation, domination and exploitation, both of human beings and of the land and its resources. This book explores the material dimension of these sugar mills and the landscapes of which they are both cause and effect. As such, it attaches particular importance to the analytical perspectives and methodologies of archaeology and the history of technology. Notwithstanding, the editors of this book are convinced that the evidence and material traces of the past only exist and survive in the present. They have therefore chosen to give pride of place to the study of heritage in the broadest sense of the term.
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Archaeology of Public Estates
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Four Courts Press Ltd Vinegar Hill: The last stand of the Wexford
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Four Courts Press Ltd Medieval Dublin XIX
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Statistical Research Investigations at Sunset Mesa Ruin: Archaeology
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Statistical Research El Macayo: A Prehistoric Settlement in the Upper
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Statistical Research Of Stones and Spirits Pursuing the Past of
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Statistical Research San Xavier to San Agustín: An Overview of
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Statistical Research Fence Lake Project: Archaeological Data Recovery
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Statistical Research Rivers of Rock: Stories from a Stone-Dry Land:
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Statistical Research Fragile Patterns: The Archaeology of the Western
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome: Volume
Book Synopsis This volume from the American Academy in Rome represents the interests of the AAR, its fellows, residents, and the larger international community who utilize its excellent library and facilities. The Memoirs series (MAAR) presents a selection of ambitious articles on subjects represented by the AAR. These topics include, but are not limited to, Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history. Volume 54 includes the following essays: ""From Gregory XIII to Louis XIV: The Art and Politics of Reform in France"" by Nicola Courtright; ""Gregory XIII and Political Pragmatism in the Age of the Pax Hispanica"" by Thomas Dandelet; ""Pope Gregory Xiii, Jurist"" by Jack Freiberg; ""Mimesis, Ceremony, Praxis: The Cappella Paolina as the Holy Sepulcher"" by Margaret A. Kuntz; ""A Dragon for the Pope: Politics and Emblematics at the Court of Gregory XIII"" by Marco Ruffini; ""Gregory XIII and the Accademia di San Luca in Rome"" by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe; ""Three Passages on Tiberius and the Courts"" by Leanne Bablitz; ""Porta Triumphalis and Fortuna Redux: Reconsidering the Evidence"" by Melanie Grunow Sobocinski; ""Rewriting Vergil, Rereading Rome: Maffeo Vegio, Poggio Bracciolini, Flavio Biondo, and Early Quattrocento Antiquarianism"" by Elizabeth M. McCahill; and ""The Art of the Appraisal: Measuring, Evaluating, and Valuing Architecture in Early Modern Europe"" by John Nicholas Napoli.
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the interest of the American Academy in Rome (AAR), its fellows, residents, and the larger international community who use its excellent library and facilities. The Memoirs series presents a selection of articles on topics including—but not limited to—Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history. Volume 56/57 includes the following essays and articles: ""Parsing Piety: The Sacred Still Life in Roman Relief Sculpture,"" by Laetitia La Follette; ""On the Outside Looking In: Pliny's Natural History and the Portrayal of Invisibility Rituals in the Latin West,"" by Richard L. Phillips; ""Cult and Circus in Vaticanum,"" by Regina Gee; ""Finding His Niche: On the 'Autoapotheosis' of Augustus,"" by A. J. Droge; ""Urbanism and Identity at Classical Morgantina,"" by Justin St. P. Walsh; ""The Visual Dreamscape of Propertius 3.3,"" by Emma Scioli; ""The Pons Sublicius: A Reinvestigation,"" by Pier Luigi Tucci; ""Apollo and Daphne by Antonio del Pollaiuolo and the Poetry of Lorenzo de' Medici,"" by Luba Freedman; ""Leonardo Bufalini and the First Printed Map of Rome, 'The Most Beautiful of All Things,'"" by Jessica Maier; ""The Matrix: Le sette chiese di Roma of 1575 and the Image of Pilgrimage,"" by Barbara Wisch; ""'Universal History of the Characters of Letters and Languages': An Unknown Manuscript by Athanasius Kircher,"" by Daniel Stolzenberg; ""G. B. Piranesi's Diverse manièreand the Natural History of Ancient Art,"" by Heather Hyde Minor; ""Architectural Amnesia: George Howe, Mario De Renzi, and the U.S. Consulate in Naples,"" by Denise R. Costanzo; and ""A Forgotten Dig near Ostia,' by Archer Martin.
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume
Book SynopsisThe Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, an annual publication of the American Academy in Rome, gathers articles on topics including Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history.Volume 62—a special issue, “National Narratives and the Medieval Mediterranean”—opens with an introduction to the volume, its theme, and its participants by volume editors Kimberly Bowes and William Tronzo. The first section, “Basic Building Blocks—Names and Objects,” includes the following essays: “The Role and Perception of Islamic Art and History in the Construction of a Shared Identity in Sicily (ca. 1780–1900),” by Silvia Armando; “Visigoths, Crowns, Crosses, and the Construction of Spain,” by Francesco Moreno Martín; and “Baptismal Font of the Croats: A Case Study in the Formation of a National Symbol,” by Trpimir Vedriš.The second part, “Historiography and the Monument,” includes “Recreating the Façade of a Fatimid Mosque at the Coptic Patriarchal Museum: A Step Toward the Museum’s Nationalization?” by Dina Bakhoum; “Zionism, Medieval Culture, and National Discourse,” by Judith Bronstein; and “Idealizing Medieval Mediterranean? Creation, Recreation, and Representation of Siculo-Norman Architecture,” by Ruggero Longo.The final section, “Sites Set to Work,” features “Fortifications as Urban Heritage: The Case of Nicosia in Cyprus and a Glance at the City of Rhodes,” by Nikolas Bakirtzis; “Pre-Islamic Archeology in Tunisia: The Stakes of a Colonial Science,” by Moheddine Chaouali; and “Approaches and Perspectives on the Origins of Venice,” by Erica D’Amico.The volume closes with a related article by Irene SanPietro, “The Making of a Christian Intellectual Tradition in Jerome’s De viris illustribus.”
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University Press of Maryland Late Babylonian Texts in the Nies Babylonian
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University Press of Maryland Old Babylonian Archival Texts in the Nies
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures The Egyptian Coffin Texts: Volume 8: Middle
Book SynopsisWith the appearance of this volume, the Oriental Institute marks the true completion of the Egyptian Coffin Texts Project , an international cooperative program begun by James Henry Breasted and Alan H. Gardiner in 1922 and edited by Adriaan de Buck from 1935 until his death in 1959. When published in 1961, Volume 7, de Buck's final volume, was announced as "the last volume of the autographed Coffin Texts in the contemplated Project" (p. vii), although the Oriental Institute had never produced the autographed edition of Pyramid Texts within the Coffin Text corpus that had been explicitly promised in the introduction to Volume 1. Assumed to comprise a "distinct" and "foreign body" within the Coffin Texts, these long-lived spells were "reserved for later" (p. xi). After a lapse of forty years, a formally renewed Coffin Texts Project was authorised by the Director of the Oriental Institute in 2001, with the goal of completing the Oriental Institute's outstanding commitments. The translation volume once envisioned and entrusted to Tjalling Bruinsma had been rendered unnecessary by the publications of Robert O. Faulkner in 1969 ( Pyramid Texts ) and 1973-1978 ( Coffin Texts ), which serve to engage scholars and laymen alike. Glossaries, bibliographies, symposia, and detailed textual studies appeared, but the critical edition of Middle Kingdom Pyramid Texts remained unaccomplished. By careful examination of the Oriental Institute's original collation sheets and unpublished sources from Lisht, James P. Allen, after years of concentrated study, has now fulfilled the task admirably. It is hoped that the new edition stimulates discussion not only of the longevity of the Pyramid Texts, but of the nature of the Coffin Texts themselves. While Breasted insisted that the Pyramid Texts were "sharply distinguished" from the Coffin Texts, the frequent appearance of "Pyramid Texts" on coffins (among the narrowly defined "Coffin Texts") leaves this opinion open to question. Ironically, the one coffin acquired in Chicago by Breasted for study by the Coffin Texts Project (OIM 12072) contained only "Pyramid Texts" and was therefore excluded from the initial seven volumes. Now at last these Middle Kingdom texts on a coffin can be examined among the "Coffin Texts" (Robert K. Ritner, Director, The Egyptian Coffin Texts Project, 2001-05).
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of
Book SynopsisWith an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Contributors include Donny George, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, 2008, this book commemorates the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq National Museum.Table of ContentsForeword (Gil J Stein); Preface (Geoff Emberling); Map of Iraq; Time Line of Events; The Looting of the Iraq Museum in Context (McGuire Gibson); The Looting of the Iraq Museum Complex (Donny George); Efforts to Control Damage to Sites and Monuments (John M Russell); Why Does Archaeological Context Matter? (Katharyn Hanson); Cataloging the Losses: The Oriental Institute's Iraq Museum Database Project (Clemens Reichel); Archaeological Site Looting: The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Southern Iraq (Elizabeth C Stone); Legal Aspects of Controlling the International Market in Looted Antiquities: The Paradigm of Iraq (Patti Gerstenblith).
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in
Book SynopsisPioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James Henry Breasted - and the beginnings of American scientific archaeology in the Near East at a crucial turning point in world history. At the end of World War I, Breasted and a small team of scholars set sail for the Near East on what would be an eleven-month odyssey across the region. The fascinating mix of politics, scholarship, and history (both ancient and modern) as seen through a focus on the larger-than-life persona of James Henry Breasted lies at the heart of Pioneers to the Past. Breasted's letters and photographs from his trip provide a window into the engagement of modern scholarship with the ancient world, in a highly charged setting of power politics in the early twentieth century. The essays in this catalogue explain the historical, legal, and political context in a way that greatly enriches our understanding of Breasted's journey and its aftermath.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures The Oriental Institute 2010-2011 Annual Report
Book SynopsisThe Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions. The reports are complimentary to Members and Donors of the Oriental Institute.
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Arizona State Museum Orme Alternatives: The Archaeological Resources
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Arizona State Museum Archaeological Investigations in West-Central
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Arizona State Museum Anamax-Rosemont Project: Volume 2, Pt. 1
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Arizona State Museum Archaeological Test Excavations in Southern
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Arizona State Museum An Archaeological Assessment of the Middle Santa
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Arizona State Museum Arizona State Museum Style Guide
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Arizona State Museum Holocene Depositional History and Anasazi
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Arizona State Museum New Perspectives on Site Function and Scale of
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Arizona State Museum Preceramic Subsistence in Two Rock Shelters in
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Tille Hoyuk 3.2: The Iron Age: Pottery, Objects
Book SynopsisTille Höyük 3.2 is one of the few Iron Age sites to have been excavated on the River Euphrates between Malatya and Carchemish on the Turco-Syrian border, at a crossing point on the west bank of the Euphrates, an area now almost entirely inundated by a series of dam schemes. It is the only one with a near-complete Iron Age stratigraphic sequence to be published in detail to date. The site was dug between 1979 and 1990 by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara as part of the Turkish Lower Euphrates Rescue Project. The excavation revealed important architectural remains of the Early Iron Age, Neo-Hittite, Neo-Assyrian, and Achaemenid periods, spanning the eleventh to the fifth–fourth centuries BC. In this second (and final) volume of the report on the Iron Age levels, the pottery and objects are presented, together with chapters on seals and plant remains, along with a concluding discussion of the material covered in both Tille 3.1 and Tille 3.2. Lying on the margins of the Mesopotamian world, and with contacts with North Syria, North Mesopotamia, and the Levant, rather than with Anatolia or the Mediterranean, Tille provides vivid insights into the cultural history of the region during the Iron Age. Tille 3.2 covers the material culture of Iron Age Tille and aims to draw lessons from the experience of rescue excavation in the context of a major dam scheme in a previously unexplored area of North Mesopotamia (with important implications for the archaeology and chronology of the region), and discusses the significance of the site in its local and regional context.
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Pindar Press Art and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume I
Book SynopsisOver the last fifty years Professor Cornelius Vermeule, formerly curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost American authorities on Graeco-Roman art. His published work has covered the entire period from Mycenean to Byzantine art, and his papers have included studies of metalwork, sculpture, numismatics and the history of collecting. His studies have been particularly concerned however with Greek and Roman sculpture, especially that of the Roman Empire. These four volumes are designed to make available the most important of Professor Vermeule's contributions to periodicals. Volume I covers studies published between 1953 and 1964, and volume II continues the selection up to 1973. Volume III contains studies published between 1974 and 1984, and volume IV brings the selection up to 1995. Each volume has a new preface by Professor Vermeule and a comprehensive index.Table of ContentsPreface Sir John Soane, His Classical Antiquities A Fighting Warrior of the Greek Fifth Century Chariot Groups in Fifth Century Greek Sculpture Roman Cult Images on Coins of the Emperor Hadrian Classical Collections in British Country Houses Roman Numismatic Art, A.D. 200-400 Eastern Influences in Roman Numismatic Art A.D. 200-400 A Roman Lady of the First Century A.D. as Cybele Herakles Crowning Himself Aspects of Victoria on Roman Coins and Gems Aspects of Scientific Archaeology in the Seventeenth Century Socrates and Aspasia: New Portraits of Late Antiquity Greek Numismatic Art 400 B.C.-A.D. 300 An Equestrian Statue of Zeus The Portland Vase Before 1650 Achilles and Penthesilea A Portrait of the Emperor Hadrian Greek Art in Transition to Late Antiquity Two Masterpieces of Athenian Sculpture A Roman Silver Helmet in the Toledo Museum of Art Un aureo augusteo del magistrato monetario Cossusn Lentulus A Hellenistic Dancing Maenad from the Greek Islands or Asia Minor Antinous, Favorite of the Emperor Hadrian A Black-Figure Hydria by Psiax A Graeco-Roman Portrait of the Third Century A.D. and the Graeco-Asiatic Tradition in Imperial Portraiture from Gallienus to Diocletian Etruscan Leopards and Lions A Greek Goddess of the Fourth Century B.C. Egyptian Contributions to Late Imperial Portraiture Roman Sarcophagi in America: A Short Inventory Maximianus Herculeus and the Cubist Style in the Late Roman Empire, 295 to 310 A Ptolemaic Contribution Box in Boston The Colossus of Porto Raphti in Attica A Tondo Bust of Apollo Augustan and Julio-Claudian Court Silver A Collection of Greek and Roman Gems Index
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McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Traces of Ancestry: Studies in honour of Colin
Book SynopsisIn 1987, Colin Renfrew's Archaeology and Language challenged many perceptions about how one language family spread across large parts of the world. In doing so he re-invigorated an important exchange between archaeologists and historical linguists. At precisely the same time, a quite separate field, human genetics, was making considerable steps forward in the elucidation of human ancestry. These three parallel lines of enquiry into genes, words, and things have, over the ensuing two decades, entirely transformed our perceptions of the human past. This volume brings together contributors to that transformation from around the world, to honour Colin Renfrew with a series of key papers. They include a number of impressive synthetic statements, as well as case studies at the frontiers of three different branches of research. They range from global accounts of human dispersal through to archaeological, genetic and linguistic studies, illustrating what has been achieved over the past two decades, and the most promising avenues of research for the future.Table of ContentsPart I Frameworks for Synthesizing Archaeology, Genetic Change and Language:Archaeology, Genes and Language: Reflecting on Five Decades of Human Genetics (L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza); Human Evolutionary Diversity: Implications for Historical Linguistics (Marta Mirazon Lahr); Colin Renfrew's Emerging Synthesis: Farming, Languages and Genes as Viewed from the Antipodes (Peter Bellwood); Who Were We 6000 Years Ago? In Search of Prehistoric Identities (Marek Zvelebil); The Evolutionary Ecology of Linguistic Diversity in Human Populations (Robert A. Foley); Part II Genetics: Case Studies: The Archaeogenetics of the Dispersals of the Bantu-speaking Peoples (Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay, Catherine Hill, Angel Carracedo & Antonio Salas); Threads to Antiquity: a Genetic Record of Sex-specific Demographic Histories of Jewish Populations (Neil Bradman, Mark G. Thomas, Michael E. Weale & David B. Goldstein); MtDNA Markers for Celtic and Germanic Language Areas in the British Isles (Peter Forster, Valentino Romano, Francesco Cali, Arne Ruhl & Matthew Hurles); Part III Farming: Case Studies: Exploring the Criteria for Early Horse Domestication (Marsha Levine); Between Fertile Crescents: Minor Grain Crops and Agricultural Origins (Martin Jones); Part IV Linguistics: Case Studies: On the Amerind Origin of the Proto-Algonquian Numeral Suffix -a:syeka (Merritt Ruhlen) The Cornish Language, Archaeology, and the Origins of English Theatre(Matthew Spriggs).
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Archaeopress Publishing Excavating Classical Culture: Recent
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Oxford University School of Archaeology Longbridge Deverill Cow Down: An Early Iron Age
Book SynopsisThe early Iron Age settlement at Longbridge Deverill Cow Down, Wiltshire is justly regarded as one of the type sites of the British Iron Age. During four brief seasons of excavation between 1956 and 1960 Sonia Chadwick Hawkes investigated three enclosures and revealed the well-preserved remains of four impressive timber roundhouses. The Longbridge settlement lay within a landscape of contemporary Iron Age communities on the northern periphery of Salisbury Plain, and its particular role and place in this complex of settlements, field systems, routeways and middens remains tantalisingly obscure. A remarkable collection of pottery associated with the fiery destruction of the roundhouses, perhaps immolation in the true sense, offers a wealth of new material to consider in the light of other important collections from the region. The release of Hawkes' archaeological data marks a major contribution to the pursuit of insight into this intriguing phase of British prehistory. 301p, b/w illus,
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Golden House Publications New Horizons: The pan grave ceramic tradition in
Book SynopsisThis volume serves as a catalog and handbook for the description for Pan-Grave ceramics, and that considers the Pan-Grave tradition and its ceramic production within the broader socio-cultural framework of Ancient Egypt and Nubia during the mid-Second Millennium BC.
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Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) Between the Meadows: The archaeology of Edercloon
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Wordwell Partnership & Participation: Community
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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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ATF Press Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics
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University of Pennsylvania Press Ancestors for the Pigs: Pigs in Prehistory
Book SynopsisThis book brings together several new ways of thinking about pigs in the past, creating a dialogue by drawing on several kinds of approaches—from geography, ethnography, zoology, history, and archaeology—to enrich the way we all understand the evidence found in archaeological sites. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 15
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University of Pennsylvania Press Drawing on the Past: An Archaeologist's
Book SynopsisWhat is it like to be an archaeologist and to "do" archaeology? Through whimsical watercolors, drawings, fascinating marginalia, and humorous anecdotes, Naomi F. Miller illustrates the life of a field archaeologist, illuminating her story with charming art that she has done mostly in her spare time on digs. She begins with how she became an archaeologist and an archaeobotanist. She uses the artwork she has done over the past 30 years to recount her experiences on excavations from Malyan, Iran, to Gordion, Turkey, to Euphrates projects in Turkey and Syria, and to Anau, Turkmenistan Iran. Packed into the text are many anecdotes along with an astonishing amount of information about archaeology. The text answers the questions most lay people ask about archaeology—how do you find sites, how do you know where to dig, who pays for the excavation—and much more. The artist evokes both the life and landscapes she has experienced as an archaeologist. Neither a dry textbook nor a romanticized view of the field, this book integrates text and pictures to give an entertaining yet informative view of life on a dig.Trade Review"Once in a great while, a work that is readable, enticing, and of great use to the students I serve, arrives on my doorstep. Naomi F. Miller's, Drawing on the Past: An Archaeologist s Sketchbook, is just that. This small book, replete with sketches and watercolors recording her personal work in the field from 1974 through the present, is strung together with lines of prose both practical and poetic." * Historical Archaeology *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the
Book SynopsisThe University Museum has been involved in Mesoamerican archaeology for more than a century. Its collections include material from northern Mexico to Costa Rica and represent all of the major cultures of the region. This guide allows the visitor to gain on-site understanding and the off-site reader to grasp how the Museum's collections fit into current archaeological theory. The text underscores some of the pan-Mesoamerican aspects of pre-Columbian peoples and the way each group interpreted underlying similarities to create individual customs and beliefs, burials and caches, beauty and adornment. The guide focuses on the unique aspects of the collection, much of it stemming from the Museum's own excavations, including eight large carved limestone monuments from its historic early excavations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (1931-39) and Caracol, Belize (1951-53), the only group of original Maya monuments on display in an American museum. The inscriptions on these monuments are reproduced in detail, accompanied by translations and explanations drawing on the latest epigraphic research. Also included are important pieces from the Guatemala highlands; figurines and carvings collected in the early nineteenth century by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico; as well as significant material from Central America, including the famous carved alabaster vases from the Uloa Valley in Honduras.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the
Book SynopsisThe University Museum has been involved in Mesoamerican archaeology for more than a century. Its collections include material from northern Mexico to Costa Rica and represent all of the major cultures of the region. This guide allows the visitor to gain on-site understanding and the off-site reader to grasp how the Museum's collections fit into current archaeological theory. The text underscores some of the pan-Mesoamerican aspects of pre-Columbian peoples and the way each group interpreted underlying similarities to create individual customs and beliefs, burials and caches, beauty and adornment. The guide focuses on the unique aspects of the collection, much of it stemming from the Museum's own excavations, including eight large carved limestone monuments from its historic early excavations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (1931-39) and Caracol, Belize (1951-53), the only group of original Maya monuments on display in an American museum. The inscriptions on these monuments are reproduced in detail, accompanied by translations and explanations drawing on the latest epigraphic research. Also included are important pieces from the Guatemala highlands; figurines and carvings collected in the early nineteenth century by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico; as well as significant material from Central America, including the famous carved alabaster vases from the Uloa Valley in Honduras.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the
Book SynopsisThe University Museum's classical collections are among the largest, most diverse, and most systematically collected of those of any museum in the United States. Of particular importance is the Etruscan material, spanning the entire history of the Etruscan peoples, from the ninth to the second centuries B.C. The strengths of the Roman collection are its glass, coins, sculpture, and the excavated objects from the Italian sites of Colonia Minturnae and the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi. The Guide covers religion, daily life, language, commerce and trade, and death and burial among the Etruscans and Romans, and the legacy of the classical world in Western culture. It celebrates the completion of a suite of galleries at the University Museum—Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans—and is a companion guide to The Ancient Greek World (1995).
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University of Pennsylvania Press Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal:
Book SynopsisThe Great Maya center of Tikal in Guatemala is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents detailed descriptions of a selection of unexcavated standing structures in the forests around the site center that complement the Museum's Architectural Survey conducted from 1960 to 1970. The survey produced measured drawings—plans, sections, elevations, and details—supplemented by descriptive text and quantitative tables for each structure. All structures are vaulted, and some are major works. TR 23 A is the primary record of important parts of Tikal's urban landscape, with clear, precise, and usable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, art historians, architectural historians, urbanists, and those interested in construction techniques and in uses of Maya buildings. University Museum Monograph, 114
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University of Pennsylvania Press Quiriguá Reports, Volume II: Papers 6-15
Book SynopsisAlthough Quiriguá and its magnificent carved monuments have been recorded and studied by scholars over the past century, little archaeological data were available until recently. From 1973 through 1979, the University Museum sponsored investigations at this major lowland Maya site in eastern Guatemala. The aims of the work were to document a basic chronology, to determine the nature and pattern of structures, and to test hypotheses concerning the origins, location, and demise of Quiriguá. University Museum Monograph, 49
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