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University of Pennsylvania Press Understanding Early Classic Copan
Book SynopsisThe first volume to focus on the Early Classic context (A.D. 400-650) of the Maya city of Copán combines and synthesizes many different research methods and disciplines, interpreting data that contradict, enhance, and supplement previous work. Its methods are conjunctive, including and integrating research in archaeological surveys and excavations with studies in art, hieroglyphics, history, forensic/biological anthropology, and chemical analyses of teeth, bones, and other materials. The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy, language concepts, and human events. Until recently, scholars speculated as to whether K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' was an alleged or fictitious founding father of the Copán dynasty. This work presents new information on him and his accomplishments, showing how we almost certainly now have his skeleton with its parry fractures from the battlefield or the ball court, along with abundant descriptions of this and other burials.
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation, Behavior, and
Book SynopsisPapers originally presented at a symposium on the Middle Paleolithic of Europe and the Near East, organized as part of the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in the spring of 1989. Paleolithic archaeology has entered a period in which new interpretations, based on new finds and revised ideas concerning previously known material, are competing with traditional interpretations. There is an urgent need for continued dialogue among Paleolithic scholars, exemplified by these papers. Symposium Series IV University Museum Monograph, 78
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University Museum Publications East African Archaeology: Foragers, Potters,
Book SynopsisThe goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African archaeology, many by Africa-born archaeologists who review what is known, present new research, and pinpoint issues of debate and anomaly in the relatively poorly known prehistory of East Africa.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Preface 1. Comparing Prehistoric and Historic Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in Southern Kenya 2. The East African Neolithic: A Historical Perspective 3. Archaeological Implications of Hadzabe Forager Land Use in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania 4. Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology: Some Examples from Kenya 5. Fipa Iron Technologies and Their Implied Social History 6. Early Ironworking Communities on the East African Coast: Excavations at Kivinja, Tanzania 7. Ironworking on the Swahili Coast of Kenya 8. Iron Age Settlement Patterns and Economic Change on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands 9. Politics, Cattle, and Conservation: Ngorongoro Crater at a Crossroads 10. Explaining the Origins of the State in East Africa 11. East African Archaeology: A South African Perspective References Contributors Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Ilkhanid Heartland: Hasanlu Tepe (Iran)
Book SynopsisThe Ilkhanid Heartland provides the first source on the fortified medieval (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) settlement of Hasanlu Tepe in the western Azerbaigian province of Iran. Key problems addressed include the nature and dates of the fortifications, the difficulty of distinguishing Ilkhanid material from Saljuk, and land-use patterns in the Lake Urmia Basin and their relationship to the feudal system of land tenure and rural economic development. This exceptional piece of archaeological detective work includes a study of the stratified assemblage of Ilkhanid ceramics and the first provenienced examples of Lajvardinah ware, a high point in the ceramics art of Iran. Hasanlu Excavation Reports, Volume II.Table of ContentsForeword 1. Hasanlu Tepe and the surrounding area 2. History of the excavation of period I, 1956-62 3. The southern high mound 4. The northwest high mound 5. The northern stratigraphic trench 6. The northeast high mound 7. Regional reconnaissance, surveys, and excavations 8. Summary and conclusions
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Ur-Nammu Stela
Book SynopsisUr-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 B.C. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu. Because such works have rarely survived, the stela became one of the most famous examples of Near Eastern art, a status it retains today. The stela had been ten feet high with registers in relief of scenes of religious practices on both front and back. By 1927 the best pieces had been restored in Philadelphia into an imagined version of the stela, with plaster filling the gaps. But more than twice as many small or worn pieces were omitted from the restoration and dutifully stored in boxes at the Museum. Jeanny Vorys Canby realized that the early reconstruction had been too hasty, and her meticulous, painstaking reexamination reveals a wealth of new scenes that revise our understanding of the monument. This book includes the justification of the reconstructions, description of the scenes, speculation on the ancient fate of the stela, as well as a description of each piece with photograph and drawing. These vigorous, innovative scenes contradict the long-held view from the old reconstruction that the monument was dull and repetitive. In fact, it is fresh and vibrant, with dynamic scenes peopled by beautifully sculpted actors. Entirely new evidence is presented here in scientific detail, including appendices from Steven Tinney, of the Museum's Babylonian Section, and Tamsen Fuller, conservationist. The book's conclusions will be of major significance to historians, archaeologists, art historians, biblical scholars, and anthropologists working in the ancient Near East and to scholars concerned with institutions of kinship, religion, and everyday life. University Museum Monograph, 110
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Artifacts of Tikal--Ornamental and Ceremonial
Book SynopsisTR27A reports on goods used as markers of social status and goods used in ritual. It describes the splendid ornaments and insignia of jade, shell, pearls, and inscribed bone shown in representations on monuments and pottery vessels and recovered from the burials of Tikal's elites. Each artifact is described in the text, tabulated, and richly illustrated with drawings and photographs. An accompanying CD-ROM includes updated databases for all recovered objects, enabling the reader to discover detailed relationships between artifact, date, and context. It also includes William R. Coe's drafts of reconstructions of destroyed offerings and typologies for ceremonial lithics and shell "Charlie Chaplin" figurines. Content of the book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376586. University Museum Monograph, 127
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University of Pennsylvania Press A Commentary on the Architecture of the North
Book SynopsisA comprehensive series of reconstructed views rendered in colors approximating the original finishes of polished plaster and paint, with 42 different stages of development in three-dimensional form, show what the Acropolis looked like at various times from ca. 330 BCE to CE 600. On an accompanying CD-ROM 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a rationale for the sequences illustrated and an interpretation of ancient Maya intentions in developing the architectural forms that were found, including ideas of rulership and monumental architecture. Content of this book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376585. University Museum Monograph, 128
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-1
Book SynopsisAdvances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-I is the first in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of human settlement in the region, from the Early Archaic to the early Colonial Period. This book contains both short research reports as well as longer synthetic essays on work conducted over the last decade. It will be a critical resource for scholars working in the central Andes and adjacent areas.
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Moche Fineline Painting From San Jose De Moro
Book SynopsisMoche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted ceramic vessels, several thousand of which are scattered in museums and private collections throughout the world today. Unfortunately, nearly all were looted by grave robbers so their origin and context are unknown. In recent years, however, through a combination of archaeological excavation and stylistic analysis, it has been possible to identify more than 250 painted vessels from the site of San Jose de Moro. To date, this is the largest sample of Moche art from a single place and time. Thus it provides a unique opportunity to identify a distinct sub-style of Moche ceramics, and to assess its range of artistic and technological variation. Moreover, within the sample it is possible to identify multiple paintings by 18 different artists, thus elucidating the range of subject matter that an artist would paint, as well as the variation in the way he would portray the same scene. By discussing and illustrating more than 200 painted vessels from San Jose de Moro, this volume provides insights about a community of ancient Peruvian potters who shared a distinctive painting style and left a fascinating record of their achievement.
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture
Book SynopsisRecipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize During the Late Intermediate period (AD 1100-1470), the lower Canete Valley of Peru was controlled by the walled Kingdom of Huarco. While inland sites produced irrigated crops, the seaside community of Cerro Azul, 130 km south of Lima, produced fish for the rest of the kingdom. Cerro Azul's noble families lived in large, multipurpose compounds with tapia walls. Their pottery had its strongest ties with valleys to the south, such as Chincha and Ica. During the course of excavation, the University of Michigan Project excavated two tapia buildings in their entirety, saving every sherd from every room, walled work area, feature, and midden. This remarkable volume is the final site report on the architecture and pottery of Late Intermediate Cerro Azul.
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Swca Environmental Consultants The Fourmile Wash Project: Archaeological
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Swca Environmental Consultants Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements:
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Swca Environmental Consultants Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements:
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Swca Environmental Consultants Archaeological Investigations in the Southern
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume I: Cultural
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume III: Blue Mesa
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume IV: Ridges Basin
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume VI: Historic Site
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume 7: Ridges Basin
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume VIII: Ridges
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume IX: Ridges Basin
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume X: Environmental
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume XI: Lithic Studies
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume XII: Ridges Basin
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume XIII: Special
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume XIV: Ceramic
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project Volume XV: Bioarchaeology
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Swca Environmental Consultants Animas-La Plata Project, Volume XVI: Final
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The University of Akron Press The Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost,
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Maikop Treasure
Book SynopsisThe Maikop Treasure consists of more than 300 objects ranging in date from the Bronze Age through the Medieval period, currently held in four institutions—the Staatliche Museen, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Berlin, the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Originally assembled in the 1890s by a wealthy employee of Tsar Nicholas II, these objects have no single provenance but were dug from various sites in the general region of the eastern Pontic. Publication was supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.Trade Review"Fascinating and important." * TLS *"Leskov's Maikop Treasure is not just a beautifully compiled catalogue of a significant group of items from various periods offering a study of Northern Caucasian art but also the successful attempt of an experienced scientist to compile in a few pages the history and context of a culture little known so far to international scholarship. . . . . It offers to the public a unique collection of an extraordinary culture." * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal
Book SynopsisSiberia's Lake Baikal region is an archaeologically unique and emerging area of hunter-gatherer research, offering insights into the complexity, variability, and dynamics of long-term culture change. The exceptional quality of archaeological materials recovered there facilitates interdisciplinary studies whose relevance extends far beyond the region. The Baikal Archaeology Project—one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted in the history of subarctic archaeology—is conducted by an international multidisciplinary team studying Middle Holocene (about 9,000 to 3,000 years B.P.) hunter-gatherers of the region. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the project includes scholars in archaeology, physical anthropology, ethnography, molecular biology, geophysics, geochemistry, and paleoenvironmental studies. This book presents the current team's research findings on questions about long-term patterns of hunter-gatherer adaptive strategies. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches to primary research questions of cultural change and continuity over 6,000 years, the project utilizes advanced research methods and integrates diverse lines of evidence in making fundamental and lasting contributions to hunter-gatherer archaeology. Content of this book's DVD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376587.
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and
Book SynopsisThis is the climactic volume on the archaeological and architectural history from ca. 31 B.C. to A.D. 365 of the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya. It deals with the impact of Christianity on the cult and the causes of its decline, with particular emphasis on the largest body of evidence recorded anywhere for iconoclastic damage, presumably by Christian populations, to sculpted images of worshippers and twin goddesses. The volume traces the characteristics of major Demeter sanctuaries elsewhere (e.g., Eleusis, Corinth, Pergamon, Acragas, and Selinus) and places Cyrene's sanctuary within the context of this development. The volume also presents the sanctuary's important lapidary and lead inscriptions as analyzed by Joyce Reyonlds. It is the eighth volume in the final reports series for the excavations conducted for the University of Michigan, and subsequently the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, between 1969 and 1981. University Museum Monograph, 134
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University of Pennsylvania Press Excavations in Residential Areas of Tikal--Group
Book SynopsisTikal Report 22 presents the results of excavations carried out in residential group 7F-1 at Tikal in Guatemala during the 1957, 1963, and 1965 seasons. As with similar Tikal Reports (TR 19, TR 20A/20B, and TR 21), TR 22 is devoted to the presentation of detailed excavation data and analysis. In this case, the residential group presented may have been home to descendants of a ruler who died in the sixth century C.E.
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Peter E. Randall A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American
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Lockwood Press Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a ground-breaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much smaller role in this period than the literature of the past several decades has claimed, and makes the case that the end of the Late Bronze Age was a far less dramatic and more protracted process than is generally believed.
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Lockwood Press Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Fragments of
Book SynopsisDuring the Old Kingdom, the ancient Egyptians constructed elaborately decorated mortuary monuments for their pharaohs. By the late Old Kingdom (ca. 2435-2153 BCE), these pyramid complexes began to contain a new and unique type of statue, the so-called prisoner statues. Despite being known to Egyptologists for decades, these statues of kneeling, bound foreign captives have been only partially documented, and questions surrounding their use, treatment, and exact meaning have remained unanswered. Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues—the first comprehensive analysis of the prisoner statues—addresses this gap, demonstrating that the Egyptians conceived of and used the prisoner statues differently over time as a response to contemporary social, cultural, and historical changes. In the process, the author contributes new data and interpretations on topics as diverse as the purpose and function of the pyramid complex, the ways in which the Egyptians understood and depicted ethnicity, and the agency of artists in ancient Egypt. Ultimately, this volume provides a fuller understanding of not only the prisoner statues but also the Egyptian late Old Kingdom as a whole.
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U of M Museum Anthro Archaeology The Prehistory of the Burnt Bluff Area Volume 34
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New World Archaeological Foundation Chronicles of the New World Archaeological
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey
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American Society of Papyrologists Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and
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American Center of Research in Amman Mount Machaerus: An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisThe Citadel of Mukawer, or Machaerus to the ancient world, is a site redolent with the narrative of history and faith, occupying a strategic point overlooking the Dead Sea in modern Jordan. This volume makes the history of Machaerus, today an abandoned hilltop with its faded, once-magnificent fortified royal palace, more accessible to the public.
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American Center of Research in Amman The Madaba Archaeological Park Excavations
Book SynopsisThe project to create an archaeological park in the heart of Madaba, central Jordan, had as its goals to explore the history of Madaba and to protect its archaeological heritage from destruction. This volume presents the results of the early excavations, focusing on the western half of the Park, around the Burnt Palace and the Roman Street.
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Etudes Alexandrines LRCW5-1: Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares
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Etudes Alexandrines LRCW5-2: Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares
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Les Belles Lettres Mythes Grecs Et Sources Orientales
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Les Belles Lettres Index Du Bulletin Epigraphique: de Jeanne Et
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Les Belles Lettres En Quete de Ninive: Des Savants Francais a la
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Les Belles Lettres Qui a Peur de lArcheologie
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