New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology – serie
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Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk
An Archaeology of Interaction at Diouboye, Senegal
Inbunden, 2016
1526 kr
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The land of Bambuk was an important source of gold for trans-Saharan trade and the imperial polities of Ghana and Mali, yet the non-centralized societies of this region remain largely peripheral in the historiography of West Africa. Drawing on recent archaeological research at the site of Diouboye …
Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration
Av Lene Melheim, Håkon Glørstad m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1526 kr
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This volume explores processes of colonisation and cultural integration from the end of the last Ice Age to the present from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. All kinds of human mobility, short-distance as well as long-distance movements, short-term and long-term interactions are …
Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis
Applying Multiple Scales and Instruments to Production
Av Alan F. Greene, Charles W. Hartley
Inbunden, 2022
1610 kr
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Searching for Structure in Pottery Analysis addresses the theoretical and methodological imperatives involved in (re)integrating descriptive, structural, and compositional analytical methods in a series of contributions from a diverse group of experts in archaeological pottery. Drawing on the …
Peripheral Concerns
Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant
Av Susan Cohen
Inbunden, 2016
1247 kr
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Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of one "core" region of the ancient Near Eastern world -- Egypt -- on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era. The study …
Framing Archaeology in the Near East
The Application of Social Theory to Fieldwork
Av Ianir Milevski, Thomas E Levy
Inbunden, 2016
1329 kr
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This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have …
Framing Archaeology in the Near East
The Application of Social Theory to Fieldwork
Av Ianir Milevski, Thomas E Levy
Häftad, 2017
519 kr
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This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have …
Seaways to Complexity
A Study of Sociopolitical Organisation Along the Coast of Northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
Inbunden, 2020
1575 kr
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This book focuses on the sociopolitical development and the organisational differences between societies in northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (2350-1100 BCE). Grounded in a political economy approach, the book presents a theoretical model that emphases a dialectic …
Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
Sending Out an S.O.S.
Av Margie M. Burton, Nicola Lercari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1442 kr
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In late August 2015, international media outlets and cultural institutions reported that the Islamic State beheaded the Syrian scholar Khaled al Asaad and destroyed the 1st-century CE Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria. The world was horrorstruck. Apart from the human tragedy, archaeologists and the …
Mediterranean Resilience: Collapse and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies
Collapse and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies
Av Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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The aim of this volume is to examine various forms of adaptation adopted by coastal societies in the ancient Mediterranean in response to external pressures they occasionally experienced. The investigation spans the longue durée stretching from the epi-paleolithic to the Medieval period. Special …
Fertile Crossroads
Elites and Exchange in the Southern Levant’s Early Iron Age
Av Sarah Malena
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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The southern Levant linked the major powers of the ancient Near East. More often than not, peoples of this land were politically and economically dominated by greater kingdoms and empires. During the transition between the Iron I and II Ages (late eleventh to early ninth centuries BCE) however, …
Archaeology of Urban Bondage
The New York African Burial Ground
Inbunden, 2024
1442 kr
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The unexpected re-discovery and the ensuing excavation of the African Burial Ground – known in the 18th century as the “Negro Burial Ground” – lifted the lid on the early history of African presence in this part of the United States East Coast. The African Burial Ground Memorial is today one of the …
Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces
Inbunden, 2020
903 kr
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Ever since Herodotus, it has been observed that Egypt - that is, ancient Egyptian civilisation - was a gift of the Nile. However, only recently have Egyptologists come to appreciate that Egypt was as much a gift of the desert as a gift of the water, at least as regards its very beginnings. To …
