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Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers
Key Themes for Archaeologists
Häftad, 2014
712 kr
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This book provides a basic introduction to key debates in the study of hunter-gatherers, specifically from an anthropological perspective, but designed for an archaeological audience. Hunter-gatherers have been the focus of intense anthropological research and discussion over the last hundred …
Origins of the Civilization of Angkor
Av Charles Higham, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2014
562 kr
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The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor reflects the results of a research programme conducted by Charles Higham over the last twenty years, highlighting much entirely new, and occasionally surprising, information and providing a distinct perspective on cultural change over two millennia. The …
Archaeology and Text
Av John Moreland, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2001
400 kr
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"Archaeology and Text" challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past. Previous attempts to create a rapprochement between the disciplines have been …
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership
The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
Av Colin Renfrew, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2000
400 kr
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In this account, Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious product of archaeology is the information that controlled and well-published excavations can give us about our shared human past. Clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain - ie looting - destroys the context …
Lost Civilization
The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal
Av James L Boone, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was regarded as a kind of 'historical parenthesis' with no …
Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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Houses are often assumed to be reliable mirrors of society, fossils of family structures, social hierarchies and mental maps of worlds now vanished. This is particularly true of the elite houses of the third to sixth centuries AD, which have been read as material symptoms of Rome's decline. The …
Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians
Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
Av Peter S. Wells, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2001
400 kr
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Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Celts, Germans, Scythians and others are among the names that come to mind. But such names, and the characteristics associated with them, come to us from outside observers - Greek and Roman writers - not from the native peoples themselves. To understand how …
Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land
Processes and Parameters
Av Sean A. Kingsley, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2004
400 kr
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This intriguing book is the first to explore the potential of shipwrecks discovered off the Holy Land to rewrite social and economic history. Ancient myths and modern misconceptions about Byzantine Palestine's maritime compatibility are radically reconsidered by discussing cargoes in relation to …
Archaeology
The Conceptual Challenge
Av Timothy A. Insoll, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2007
400 kr
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This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology.The central question this book seeks to explore is this: Are we trying to reconstruct a past in our own image, …
Vessels of Influence
China and the Birth of Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Av Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2012
400 kr
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"Vessels of Influence", while examining in depth the role of Chinese ceramics in Japan, also delves into the meaning, motivation for, and rapid development of Japanese porcelain from many angles, including archaeology, heirloom and documentary evidence. The political and fiscal advantage that one …
Museums and the Construction of Disciplines
Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain
Av Christopher Whitehead, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of …
Archaeology and State Theory
Subjects and Objects of Power
Av Bruce Routledge, Richard Hodges
Inbunden, 2013
1389 kr
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After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing …
Heritage, Communities and Archaeology
Av Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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This book traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past. The focus of this book is the conceptual disjunction between heritage and …
Pagan and Christian
Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe
Av David Petts, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2011
388 kr
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The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked with the development of other key institutions, such as the state. It has also been highlighted as a factor in changing …
Changing Natures
Hunter-gatherers, First Famers and the Modern World
Av Bill Finlayson, Graeme M. Warren m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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The adoption of agriculture is often described as one of the most fundamental revolutions in human history, the starting point for urbanisation and specialisation. More recently the structure of the Neolithic mind has been proposed as a new cognitive revolution, separating us fundamentally from …
Ethics and Burial Archaeology
Av Duncan Sayer, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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This book sets a new agenda for ethical studies in mortuary investigation, adducing a series of case studies which can be used to understand the questions facing burial archaeology. Who owns the dead - not just their bodies but also their stories? Do the remains themselves matter or are there other …
Archaeology and International Development in Africa
Av Colin Breen, Daniel Rhodes m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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Development is a contested area, but can be summarised as the attempt to bring about good change in society. Archaeology has played only a very limited role within this agenda so far, but has considerable scope to integrate into its practice and structures. This short incisive book focuses on …
Fluid Pasts
Archaeology of Flow
Av Matthew Edgeworth, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
400 kr
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Fluid Pasts outlines an innovative archaeological approach to the study of rivers and flowing water, challenging the view that rivers are somehow more natural, less cultural than other kinds of material evidence. In bringing archaeological perspectives to flowing water, as opposed to static and …
Shaky Ground
Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art
Av Elizabeth Marlowe, Richard Hodges
Inbunden, 2013
1389 kr
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Bronze Age Textiles
Men, Women and Wealth
Av Klavs Randsborg, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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In the ancient civilizations of the EasternMediterranean, textiles were generally much more costly than foodstuffs,animals or bronzes; it is very likely that the same was the case throughoutprehistoric Europe. In this study, the firstfor over seventy years, Klavs Randsborg examines completely …
Roman Reflections
Iron Age to Viking Age in Northern Europe
Av Klavs Randsborg, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2016
560 kr
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Roman Reflections uses a series of detailed and deeply researched case studies to explore how Roman society connected with and influenced Northern Europe during the Iron and Viking Ages. In an original way, the book brings late prehistoric Denmark – best known for its so-called ‘bog bodies’ – into …
Islamization and Archaeology
Religion, Culture and New Materialism
Av José C. Carvajal López, Richard Hodges
Inbunden, 2023
1171 kr
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This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change. The aim of the volume is to make Islamization amenable to archaeological and historical analyses of changes in material conditions of life …
Islamization and Archaeology
Religion, Culture and New Materialism
E-bok, 2023
393 kr
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This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change. The aim of the volume is to make Islamization amenable to archaeological and historical analyses of changes in material conditions of life …
Islamization and Archaeology
Religion, Culture and New Materialism
E-bok, 2023
401 kr
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This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change. The aim of the volume is to make Islamization amenable to archaeological and historical analyses of changes in material conditions of life …
Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage
The Role of Local Governance in Economic Development
Av Peter G. Gould, Richard Hodges
Inbunden, 2018
1462 kr
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Peter G. Gould seeks to identify the success factors associated with economic development projects within communities adjacent to archaeological or heritage sites, a growing interest among archaeologists and heritage managers. Typically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts …
Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage
The Role of Local Governance in Economic Development
E-bok, 2018
546 kr
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Peter G. Gould seeks to identify the success factors associated with economic development projects within communities adjacent to archaeological or heritage sites, a growing interest among archaeologists and heritage managers. Typically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts …
Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage
The Role of Local Governance in Economic Development
E-bok, 2018
534 kr
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Peter G. Gould seeks to identify the success factors associated with economic development projects within communities adjacent to archaeological or heritage sites, a growing interest among archaeologists and heritage managers. Typically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts …
Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage
Marine Archaeology's Greatest Threat?
Av Sean A. Kingsley, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2017
560 kr
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For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen’s nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world’s continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bulldozers of …
Ethics and Burial Archaeology
Av Duncan Sayer
E-bok, 2017
424 kr
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The investigation of human remains has always been central to archaeological, but archaeologists are not the only ones with an interest in their treatment. Political groups, religious organisations, descendant communities and disenfranchised interest groups are all becoming more vocal in expressing …
