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Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt
New Insights Into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic
Av N. Shirai
Häftad, 2010
668 kr
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The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding started in a particular time period in a particular region of Egypt. The earliest Neolithic farming in combination with herding in Egypt is known in the Fayum, which is a large oasis with a permanent lake …
Island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern Times
An Archaeological Survey
Häftad, 2015
817 kr
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Aegean archaeology has mainly concentrated on Prehistoric and Greco-Roman times and has provided relatively little information on human activity and material culture in the medieval period. Historical research concerning the medieval era is sufficiently developed but archaeological research on the …
Clothes Make the Man
Early Medieval Textiles from the Netherlands
Häftad, 2016
1282 kr
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Textiles from the early medieval period that are occasionally found in excavations are the scarce remains of garments, household fabrics, sails etc. Although several authors have published textile finds from the Netherlands in the past, systematic research of these finds has not been conducted yet. …
Management of the Matobo Hills in Zimbabwe
Perceptions of the Indigenous Communities on Their Involvement and Use of Traditional Conservation Practices
Häftad, 2016
586 kr
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Since 1992, when the World Heritage Committee established its category of "cultural landscapes", scholarly debates have ensued on how they could best be managed. One approach, which appears to have gained significance over the past two decades or so, considers using traditional conservation …
Wild West Frisia
The Role of Domestic and Wild Resource Exploitation in Bronze Age Subsistence
Häftad, 2016
1282 kr
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This volume focuses on reconstructing the daily lives of Bronze Age farmers as well as the landscape for their subsistence practices. Doing so, Wild West Frisia analyses the separate components comprising Bronze Age subsistence (i.e. crop and animal husbandry, hunting and gathering) rather …
Place of Placelessness
Hekeng People's Heritage
Av Renyu Wang
Häftad, 2017
688 kr
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"Tulou are traditional fortified multifamily dwellings prevalent in southern Fujian. In this 34st volume of the ASLU series Renyu Wang discusses three aspects of Chinese tulou heritage management. He first examines the tulou interpretation prevailing in southern Fujian. Based on building studies, …
Egypt beyond representation
Materials and materiality of Aegyptiaca Romana
Häftad, 2017
1282 kr
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Egypt beyond Representation develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective. Current approaches to these objects are often still plagued by top-down projections of modern definitions and understandings of Egypt and Egyptian material culture onto …
Time, History and Ritual in a K'iche' Community
Contemporary Maya Calendar Knowledge and Practices in the Highlands of Guatemala
Häftad, 2018
688 kr
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This work analyses ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K'iche' community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala. The research …
Spatial Patterns in Landscape Archaeology
A GIS Procedure to Study Settlement Organization in Early Roman Colonial Territories
Häftad, 2018
688 kr
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This 43th volume of the ASLU series presents a useful GIS procedure to study settlement patterns in landscape archaeology. In several Mediterranean regions archaeological sites have been mapped by fieldwalking surveys, producing large amounts of data. These legacy site-based survey data represent …
Liquid Footprints
Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia
Häftad, 2020
1282 kr
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This study opens a dialogue between first and twenty-first century successes and failures in our urban relationship with water. This publication examines the archaeological evidence from three city blocks in Ostia, focusing on elements of the water systems identified by past excavations and within …
Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management
A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2020
1207 kr
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This 47th volume of the ASLU series focuses on the practical challenges of managing a World Heritage listed historic city in a South Asian context. The Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort, a walled town, identified as the best-preserved colonial fort in South Asia, is the subject of this …
Potters’ Perspectives
A Vibrant Chronological Narrative of Ceramic Manufacturing Practices in the Valley of Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua (cal 300 CE-present)
Häftad, 2020
1282 kr
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The work of Fernand Braudel (1949) should have revolutionized the way archaeology conceptualizes temporal scales and builds chronological narratives. Even though Braudel’s general views did impact archaeological theory deeply, his three different time-scales, together with insights into duration as …
Creating Capitals
The Rationale, Construction, and Function of the Imperial Capitals of Assyria
Häftad, 2020
1361 kr
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The creation of new capital cities are watershed moments in the lives of ancient empires. Assyria, arguably the most successful imperial state of the ancient Near East, repeatedly engaged in capital creation. Capital creation denotes the development of a monumental capital, either in a new location …
Designating Place
Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii
Av Hans Kamermans, Bouke van der Meer
Häftad, 2020
1245 kr
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Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the major topics in archaeological research. Designating Place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways, namely via geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic …
Irrigating the Desert
Water Management, Agricultural Practices, and Social Complexity in Southern Turkmenistan During the Bronze Age
Häftad, 2025
962 kr
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Ancient civilizations often developed near major rivers, like in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Central Asia, the Murghab alluvial fan in southern Turkmenistan was central to the emergence of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), also known as the Oxus Civilization, during the third and …
Mesoamerican Codex Re-Entangled
Production, Use and Re-Use of Pre-Colonial Documents
Inbunden, 2016
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This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica's precolonial codices. Today less than twenty extant manuscripts are all that remains of the Mesoamerican book-making tradition. These pictographic and hieroglyphic texts have often been studied for their content, …
Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Av Manual May Castillo, Strecker
Häftad, 2017
788 kr
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The heritage of Indigenous Peoples has long been researched and commented upon from the outside. This book adopts an innovative approach by engaging with the heritage of Indigenous Peoples from the 'inside'. On 13th September 2007, member states of the United Nations adopted the UN Declaration on …
Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the Cyclades
The Islands of Paros and Naxos During the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
Häftad, 2017
1282 kr
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The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to "read" the relationship …
