New Directions in Archaeology – serie
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Beyond Chiefdoms
Pathways to Complexity in Africa
Häftad, 2005
687 kr
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Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empirical base for complex society studies. Redressing the neglect of sub-Saharan examples in comparative discussions on complex society, this book …
Symbolic and Structural Archaeology
Av Ian Hodder
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A variety of procedures, ranging from ethnoarchaeological …
Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies
Av Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Timothy K. Earle
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book, a comparative study of specialized production in prehistoric societies, examines both adaptionist and political approaches to specialization and exchange using a worldwide perspective. What forms of specialization and exchange promote social stratification, political integration and …
Ideology, Power and Prehistory
Av Daniel Miller, Christopher Tilley m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past failure to recognise this has …
Farmers as Hunters
The Implications of Sedentism
Av Susan Kent
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Farmers as hunters analyses from an essentially ethnographic perspective the role of hunters in small-scale farming societies. The twelve contributors examine the effects of hunting and mobility on behaviour, diet, economy and material culture at both culture-specific and cross-cultural levels. The …
Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This collection considers the relevance of the Annales 'school' for archaeology. The Annales movement regarded orthodox history as too much concerned with events, too narrowly political, too narrative in form and too isolated from neighbouring disciplines. Annalistes attempted to construct a …
The Origins and Development of the Andean State
Av Jonathan Haas, Shelia Pozorski m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru. Beginning with early chiefdom societies living along the Peruvian coast 2000 years before Christ, …
Ranking, Resource and Exchange
Aspect of the Archaeology of Early European Society
Av Colin Renfrew, Steven Shennan
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Ranked societies are characterized by disparities in personal status that are often accompanied by the concentration of power and authority in the hands of a few dominant individuals. They stand between the sophistication of developed, states and the relative simplicity of most hunter-gatherer …
Island Societies
Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation
Häftad, 2009
452 kr
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Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such …
Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory
A European Perspective
Av Geoff Bailey
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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It has been said that for 99 per cent of their cultural history human societies have made their living through the collection of wild resources. It is therefore perhaps not surprising that the study of hunters and gatherers has become an increasingly popular and central topic of research. Within …
The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings
Av Ian Hodder
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of artefacts. It seeks at once to refine the theory and method relating to interpretation and show, with examples, how to conduct this sort of archaeological work. Some contributors work with the material culture of …
Archaeology as Long-Term History
Av Ian Hodder, Ian Hodder
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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In marked contrast with the anthropological and cross-cultural approaches that featured so prominently in archaeological research this contributory volume emphasises the archaeological significance of historical method and philosophy. Drawing particularly on the work of R. G. Collingwood, the …
The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines
Av Geoff Bailey, John Parkington
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory. Changes in sea levels and the balance …
Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World
Av Michael J. Rowlands, Mogens Larsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - …
Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology
Av Robert D. Leonard, George T. Jones
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through history. Recognising that diversity exists is not, however, to explain it nor to measure it effectively. The aim of the contributors to Quantifying …
Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production
Av Jonathon E. Ericson, Barbara A. Purdy m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near …
Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Marxist theory has been an undercurrent in western social science since the late nineteenth century. It came into prominence in the social sciences in the 1960s and 1970s and has had a profound effect on history, sociology and anthropology. This book represents an attempt to gather together Marxist …
Hunters in Transition
Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and their Transition to Farming
Av Marek Zvelebil, Marek Zvelebil
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Hunters in Transition analyses one of the crucial events in human cultural evolution: the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming. Traditionally, the advantages of settled agriculture have been assumed and the transition to farming has been viewed in …
The Archaeology of Death
Av Robert Chapman, Ian Kinnes m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Evidence for the disposal of the dead is one of the most common classes of archaeological data; in both prehistoric and historic contexts, archaeologists have long used the remains of death and burial as a source for interpretations of society, culture and ethnic identity. This volume, bringing …
Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change
Av Colin Renfrew, John F. Cherry m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into …
Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protection of archaeological monuments. With the exception of Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, no country adopted a positive policy towards the protection …
Time, Energy and Stone Tools
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Time, Energy and Stone Tools aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology by demonstrating that theory-building is possible if tool manufacture and use are conceived as products of both environmental factors and social needs. Drawing particularly on optimisation theory …
The Transition to Statehood in the New World
Av Grant D. Jones, Robert R. Kautz
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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This 1982 collection of eight original anthropological essays provides an exciting synthesis of theory and practice in one of the key issues of contemporary cultural evolutionary thought. The contributors ask why complex, highly stratified societies emerged at several locations in the New World at …
Structure and Cognition in Art
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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The essays in this volume, which was originally published in 1983, present an innovative and unified approach to the archaeological analysis and interpretation of art and design. Together, they illustrate a variety of approaches to the discovery and systematic description of the underlying …
Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to …
The Uses of Style in Archaeology
Av Margaret Wright Conkey, Christine Ann Hastorf
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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This book brings together essays that illustrate the different uses and interpretations of style in archaeology. Style is a widely discussed and controversial issue, which has always been central for archaeological interpretation. The collection considers the history of style in archaeology, its …
Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space
An Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Study
Av Susan Kent
Häftad, 1993
754 kr
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Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space investigates the relationship between the built environment and the organisation of space. The contributors are classical and prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists and architects, who from their different backgrounds are able to provide some …
Archaeological Theory
Who Sets the Agenda?
Av Norman Yoffee, Andrew Sherratt
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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This volume assesses the real achievements of archaeology in increasing an understanding of the past. Without rejecting the insights either of traditional or more recent approaches, it considers the issues raised in current claims and controversies about what is appropriate theory for archaeology. …
Documentary Archaeology in the New World
Häftad, 1993
586 kr
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Designed to appeal to a broad spectrum of archaeologists and historians, Documentary Archaeology in the New World outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America which places history alongside anthropology, cultural geography, and a whole range of …
The Ancient Mind
Elements of Cognitive Archaeology
Av Colin Renfrew, Ezra B. W. Zubrow
Häftad, 1994
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770 kr
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One of the most troubling problems in archaeology is to determine the manner and content of prehistoric thought. A fundamental challenge is to develop the theory, methodology and tools to understand human cognition. Cognitive archaeology as a subject is still in its infancy, and archaeologists are …
