Landscape archaeology Books
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Goldmunzenschatz Aus Der Feldstrasse
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Trierer Zeitschrift 79/80 2016/2017: Archaologie
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£999.99
Skira Sardinia: Megalithic Island: From Menhirs to
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£28.80
Brill Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China
Book SynopsisIn Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Landscape and the Imperial Frontier Dongchuan and Northeastern Yunnan A Landscape Studies Approach Landscape in the Empire’s Frontier The Sources Procedure 1 Paving the Way Mountain and Road Inside and Outside of the River The Jinsha River and the Copper Transports Conclusion 2 Valley and Mountain Moving from the Mountains into the Bazi 1700–1730s War: Completing the Bazi Spatial Network of the Copper Business Newcomers, Indigenous People and Landscape Transformation Conclusion 3 The Walled City The Indigenous Strongholds on the Huize Bazi Building the Stone-Walled City Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Planning of an Ideal Civilized Walled City Conclusion 4 Ten Views The Scenic View Tradition Sightseeing, the New Gazetteer and the Ten Views The Ten Views and the Conventional Format The Ten Views, Local Geography and the Copper Transportation Conclusion 5 Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon Pool The Mountain, the Temple and the Shrine Replacing the Dragon Cult Praying, Entertaining and Remembering Conclusion 6 Two Wenchang Temples Scholastic Good Fortune? Relocating to Auspicious Sites? “Huayizhai” or “Wanizhai”? Preventing Water Disasters Contesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous People Conclusion 7 Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous Women The Meng Yan Shrine: An Indigenous General Who Surrendered Shesai and the Origin of the Lu Surname “Fake” Han Chinese People or “Fake” Indigenous People Conclusion 8 The New Mansions Huiguan Associations in Frontier Building the Huiguan Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography
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Brill Aramaean Borders: Defining Aramaean Territories in the 10th – 8th Centuries B.C.E.
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the analysis of borders of the Aramaean polities and territories during the 10th–8th centuries B.C.E. Specialists dealing with various types of documents (Neo-Assyrian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Neo-Hittite and Hebrew texts), invited by Jan Dušek and Jana Mynářová, addressed the topic of the borders of the Aramaean territories in the context of the history of three geographical areas during the first three centuries of the 1st millennium B.C.E.: northern Mesopotamia and the Assyrian space, northern Levant, and southern Levant. The book is particularly relevant to those interested in the history and historical geography of the Levant during the Iron Age. “Studies directly relevant to ancient Israel and others demonstrating historical geography’s limitations make an instructive volume.” -Alan Millard, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020)Table of Contents Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Aramaeans and Assyria 1 At the Limits of Historical Geography: Reconstructing Aramaean Territories in the West according to the Neo-Assyrian Written Sources Ariel M. Bagg 2 A People Without Borders? Tracing the Shifting Identities and Territorialities of the Ahlameans Alexander J. Edmonds 3 The Tell Fekheriye Inscription and the Western Assyrian Border in the Late 9th Century B.C.E. Jana Mynářová & Jan Dušek 4 The Aramaean Presence in the Northern Zagros during the Middle and Neo-Assyrian Periods Dlshad A. Marf 5 Gurraeans and Ituʾaeans in the Service of the Assyrian Empire Mikko Luukko Part 2: Aramaeans and Northern and Central Levant 6 Aramaean Borders: The Hieroglyphic Luwian Evidence Zsolt Simon 7 What Do We Know about the Borders and Exchanges between Aram and Phoenicia in the 9th–8th Centuries B.C.E. in Anatolia and Syria? Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo 8 The Kingdom of Arpad/Bīt-Agūsi: Its Capital, and Its Borders Jan Dušek 9 The Fluctuating Borders of Hamath (10th–8th Centuries B.C.E.) Matthieu Richelle Part 3: Aramaeans and Southern Levant 10 Biblical Ṣobah: A Location Attempt Gaby Abousamra 11 The Boundary between the Aramaean Kingdom of Damascus and the Kingdom of Israel André Lemaire 12 Borders between Aram-Damascus and Israel: A Historical Investigation Wolfgang Zwickel Index of geographical names, ancient and modern
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Brill The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom: People Making Landscape Making People
Book SynopsisIn The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties (1550-1069 BC). A wider insight into the Theban necropolis is provided, including the position played by the Dra Abu el-Naga cemetery within the Theban funerary context understood as an inseparable complex of diverse components. For this study, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras has reconciled textual and archaeological perspectives with theories relating to Landscape Archaeology, which efficiently manages to compile and to link prosopographical-genealogical, archaeological and GIS (Geographical Information System) data.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, Diagrams and Tables Introduction 1 What This Book Is About. Structure of the Book: Aims and Research Questions 2 Theban Necropolis and Dra Abu el-Naga: Main Characteristics and Development 3 Literature Review and Brief History of the Research in Dra Abu el-Naga Part 1 How the Tomb Owners Respond to the Landscape 1 Theoretical Approach: Landscape Archaeology 2 Distribution of the Tombs of Dra Abu el-Naga in the New Kingdom 1 Parameters and Methodology 3 A Cluster of Ramesside Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South 1 Chronology 2 Titles 3 Kinship 4 Architectonical and Archaeological Factors 5 Concluding Remarks 4 A Seemingly ‘Unplanned’ Territory 1 The Case of the Tombs Dated from the Co-regency of Hatshepsut-Thutmose III, and the Reign of Thutmose III 2 A Case of Territoriality Identity? Outsiders: Nobles of Non-Theban Origin 3 The ‘Courtyard of Amun’, a Ritual Space in Dra Abu el-Naga Reserved for the Officials of the Amun Temple in Karnak 4 Chronological or Administrative Entities’ Organisation of the Research Area? Part 2 How the Landscape Affects the Tombs 5 Organisation of Dra Abu el-Naga and Its Religious Connection with Other Areas of the Theban Necropolis 1 Parameters and Methodology 6 Visibility Analysis between Dra Abu el-Naga and the Main Areas of the Theban Necropolis 1 A Tomb with a View: The Case of the Ramesside Cluster of Tombs in Dra Abu el-Naga South 2 Views from a Seemingly ‘Unplanned’ Territory 7 Reconstruction of the Ancient Paths and Processional Routes 1 Tombs Orientated to Processional Ways and Festival Routes 2 Distribution and ‘Urbanism of the Necropolis’ Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Sidestone Press Past Landscapes: The Dynamics of Interaction
Book SynopsisPast Landscapes presents theoretical and practical attempts of scholars and scientists, who were and are active within the Kiel Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” (GSHDL), in order to disentangle a wide scope of research efforts on past landscapes. Landscapes are understood as products of human-environmental interaction. At the same time, they are arenas, in which societal and cultural activities as well as receptions of environments and human developments take place. Thus, environmental processes are interwoven into human constraints and advances.This book presents theories, concepts, approaches and case studies dealing with human development in landscapes. On the one hand, it becomes evident that only an interdisciplinary approach can cover the manifold aspects of the topic. On the other hand, this also implies that the very different approaches cannot be reduced to a simplistic uniform definition of landscape. This shortcoming proves nevertheless to be an important strength. The umbrella term ‘landscape’ proves to be highly stimulating for a large variety of different approaches.The first part of our book deals with a number of theories and concepts, the second part is concerned with approaches to landscapes, whereas the third part introduces case studies for human development in landscapes. As intended by the GSHDL, the reader might follow our approach to delve into the multi-faceted theories, concepts and practices on past landscapes: from events, processes and structures in environmental and produced spaces to theories, concepts and practices concerning past societies.Table of ContentsPreface Past Landscapes: The Dynamics of Interaction between Society, Environment, and Culture Annette Haug, Lutz Käppel, and Johannes Müller Introduction From Theories, Concepts and Practices on Human Development in Landscapes Annette Haug and Johannes Müller Landscape and the GSHDL 2007–2017: Ten Years of Research Johannes Müller I: Past Landscapes – Theories and Concepts The Disentanglement of Landscapes: Remarks on Concepts of Socio-Environmental Research and Landscape Archaeology Johannes Müller On Melting Grounds: Theories of the Landscape Antonia Davidovic Ritual and Landscape: Theoretical Considerations V.P.J. Arponen and Artur Ribeiro II: Past Landscapes – Concepts and Practices Putting Things into Practice: Pragmatic Theory and the Exploration of Monumental Landscapes Martin Furholt, Martin Hinz and Doris Mischka Who Is In Charge Here? – Material Culture, Landscapes and Symmetry Christian Horn and Gustav Wollentz Urban Landscapes and Urban Networks – Some Thoughts on the Process of Writing within the Mediaeval Urbanization of Central Europe Gerhard Fouquet and Gabriel Zeilinger Visual Concepts of Human Surroundings: The Case of the Early Greek Polis (10th–7th century BC) Annette Haug The Cultural Significance of Plants Wiebke Kirleis III: Past Landscapes – Concepts, Space and History Mid-Holocene Environment and Human Interaction in Northern Central Europe Mara Weinelt From Hunting to Herding? Aspects of the Social and Animal Landscape during the Southern Scandinavian Neolithic Martin Hinz Borders: Developments of Society and Landscape during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age – Face Urns as a Case Study Jutta Kneisel The Iron Age in Southwestern Germany Oliver Nakoinz The ‘Iranian’ Period in the Near East: A Landscape Studies Approach Josef Wiesehöfer The Bronze Age in the East – The Hittites and Their Environment Walter Dörfler Nature and Perception of a Greek Landscape: Stymphalos Ingmar Unkel Scenes and Actors of Historical Crises between Generalizing Synthesis Formation and Postmodern Fragmentation Ulrich Müller and Donat Wehner
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Amsterdam University Press Reading Memory Sites Through Signs: Hiding into
Book SynopsisWhat can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and common frame of reference for scholars of memory studies and traumatic heritage, as well as for historians, architects and museum curators. The book describes in clear and understandable language the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen case studies of memory spaces – monuments, museums, post-war urban restoration, filmed and virtual space – in order to show the applicability and efficacy of a semiotic methodology.Table of ContentsFor a Semiotics of Spaces of Memories Practices of Enunciation and Narratives from Monuments to Global Landscapes of Inheritance (Cristina Demaria and Patrizia Violi) 1 Stories that Shape Spatialities Lieu and Milieu de Mémoire through the Lens of Narrativity (Daniele Salerno) 2 Interpretation and Use of Memory How Practices Can Change the Meanings of Monuments (Mario Panico) 3 Uncomfortable Memories of Fascist Italy: The Case of Bigio of Brescia (Anna Maria Lorusso) 4 What Does Fascist Architecture Still Have to Tell Us? Preservation of Contested Heritage as a Strategy of Re-Enunciation and ‘Voice Remodulation’ (Francesco Mazzucchelli) 5 Berlin, the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial (Isabella Pezzini) 6 Making Space for Memory Collective Enunciation in the Provincial Memory Archive of Córdoba, Argentina (Paola Sozzi) 7 Ruins of War The Green Sea and the Mysterious Island (Gianfranco Marrone) 8 Turning Spaces of Memory into Memoryscapes Cinema as Counter Monument in Jonathan Perel’s El Predio and Tabula Rasa (Cristina Demaria) 9 Voices from the Past: Memories in a Digital Space. The Case of AppRecuerdos in Santiago, Chile (Patrizia Violi) 10 500,000 Dirhams in Scandinavia, from Mobile Silver to Land Rent A Semiotic Analysis ( Manar Hammad) Index Index of names
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Sidestone Press The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece: An
Book SynopsisLandscape archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their core. This investigation of Zagori in Northwest Greece explores the archaeology and cultural history of a mountainous area that famously thrived in the Ottoman period.This engagement with an upland region in the early modern period sheds light on previously neglected aspects of Greek landscape history. The inclusive methodology combines critical historiography, archival research, oral history and landscape-archaeological survey to achieve novel insights into this montane landscape and its distinctive history and cultural heritage.Contrary to the dominant nationalist historiography, it demonstrates the continuity of regional elites from the Byzantine to Ottoman period in Epirus and reveals how this shaped settlement patterns and elite/non-elite sedentary adaptations in this montane region. It also gives voice from within to the labour-intensive, engendered, cultural landscape of the Zagori peasantry and challenges the view of external scholarly observers that mountains support a predominantly pastoral way of life.Table of ContentsChapter One: Zagori today Chapter Two: An alternative version of history Chapter Three: Ottoman Archaeology in Greece Chapter Four: An Inclusive Dataset and Methodology Chapter Five: New realities. The local narrative, Ottoman historiography and archaeology Chapter Six: A topography of adaptations. Archaeological insights into the Zagori (14th-19th c.) Chapter Seven: Zagori through the 16th-century Ottoman imperial registers Chapter Eight: Non-elite landscapes Chapter Nine: Synthesis
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