New Studies in Archaeology – serie
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
Häftad, 1990
679 kr
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Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops …
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Häftad, 2007
391 kr
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Jacques Cauvin has spent many years researching the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Near East, excavating key sites and developing new ideas to explain the hugely significant cultural, social and economic changes which transformed mobile hunter-gatherers into the first village societies and …
Prehistoric Farming in Europe
Av Graeme Barker, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
720 kr
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Drawing upon his own extensive knowledge of European archaeology, Graeme Barker has impressively integrated the full range of archaeological data to produce in this book a masterly account of prehistoric farming in Europe on a unique scale. He makes use of modern archaeological techniques to …
The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
Av Patrick Vinton Kirch, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 1989
1005 kr
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This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological …
House and Society in the Ancient Greek World
Av Lisa C. Nevett, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
737 kr
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This 1999 book re-examines traditional assumptions about the nature of social relationships in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Through detailed exploration of archaeological evidence from individual houses, Lisa Nevett identifies a recognisable concept of the citizen …
The Chinese Neolithic
Trajectories to Early States
Av Li Liu, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
972 kr
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This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, c. 7000-1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analytic methods in settlement and burial patterns. Both agency …
Making History in Banda
Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past
Häftad, 2007
787 kr
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Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, Ann Brower Stahl reconstructs the daily lives of Banda villagers of west central Ghana, from the time that they were drawn into the Niger trade (around AD 1300) until British overrule was established early in the twentieth century. The case study aims …
The Limits of Settlement Growth
A Theoretical Outline
Häftad, 2007
475 kr
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In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and rebuild from scratch, so the initial layout and buildings, and the forms of communication that result, may come to …
Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics
Design Analysis in the American Southwest
Av Stephen Plog
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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Using data drawn primarily from the American Southwest, Stephen Plog shows that there are basic problems with the methods archaeologists traditionally use to classify and analyse prehistoric pottery. Archaeologists have studied the painted designs and other stylistic (that is, non-functional) …
Maya Postclassic State Formation
Segmentary Lineage Migration in Advancing Frontiers
Av John W. Fox
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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John Fox here offers a fresh and persuasive view of the crucial Classic-Postclassic transition that determined the shape of the later Maya state. Drawing this data from ethnographic analogy and native chronicles as well as archaeology, he identifies segmentary lineage organisation as the key to …
Thoughtful Foragers
A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making
Häftad, 2009
653 kr
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Thoughtful Foragers is about hunter-gatherer decision making. The author explores the implications of the human mind as a product of biological evolution for the way in which humans solve foraging problems. He draws on studies form ethology, psychology and ethnography prior to turning his attention …
The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy
Häftad, 2008
636 kr
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Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial …
Forest Farmers and Stockherders
Early Agriculture and its Consequences in North-Central Europe
Häftad, 2008
574 kr
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Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most radical transformation in all European prehistory - the growth of a food-producing economy in the period 5000-3000 BC. Dr Bogucki seeks to develop a …
The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology
Dating Methods and Dating Systems in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Archaeology
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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The development of European archaeology as a scholarly discipline in the nineteenth century was closely connected with the appearance of systematic methods for dating archaeological materials and these methods evolved largely in Scandinavia. Professor Gräslund's book is the first in-depth study of …
Problems in Neolithic Archaeology
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Problems in Neolithic Archaeology is a notable contribution to the debate about how we can write prehistory. Drawing on both processual and post-processual approaches, it reaffirms the central role of theory and interpretation while accepting as permanent the uncertainty which makes the testing of …
Artefacts as Categories
A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Dr Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the pottery produced in a single village in central India, drawing together and analysing a whole range of aspects - …
Production and Exchange of Stone Tools
Prehistoric Obsidian in the Aegean
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Originally published in 1986, the aim of this important study was to develop methods for reconstructing the processes of prehistoric exchange. Previous archaeological work had concentrated on mapping obsidian finds relative to source areas using trace-element analysis and on investigating the …
Symbols in Action
Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture
Av Ian Hodder
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Material culture - the objects made by man - provides the primary data from which archaeologists have to infer the economies, technologies, social organization and ritual practices of extinct societies. The analysis and interpretation ofmaterial culture is therefore central to any concern with …
Emerging Complexity
The Later Prehistory of South-East Spain, Iberia and the West Mediterranean
Häftad, 2009
653 kr
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How, when and why did inherited differences of wealth, status and power arise in human communities? At the heart of Emerging Complexity is the thesis that complex societies developed independently during the Copper and Bronze Ages in south-east Spain, and in the wider context of the Iberian …
Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest
Av Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general theoretical framework for …
Three Thousand Years in Africa
Man and his environment in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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The Lake Chad region of Nigeria is an extreme environment: virtually treeless sand and a broiling clay plain in the fierce heat of the dry season, then much of it inundated and impassable in the wet season as whole areas turn into shallow lakes or marsh. Yet even this hostile landscape and climate …
Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, ruled much of south-east Britain in the years before Claudius' legions arrived, creating the Roman province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in south-east Britain? This book examines the background to these, …
Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics
Design Analysis in the American Southwest
Av Stephen Plog
Inbunden, 1980
1677 kr
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Using data drawn primarily from the American Southwest, Stephen Plog shows that there are basic problems with the methods archaeologists traditionally use to classify and analyse prehistoric pottery. Archaeologists have studied the painted designs and other stylistic (that is, non-functional) …
Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process
Häftad, 1988
502 kr
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This much-praised book aims to develop a theory of ceramics which will elucidate the complex relationship between ceramics and culture and society. Drawing upon the theoretical perspectives of systems theory, cybernetics and cultural ecology, Dr Arnold develops cross-cultural generalizations to …
World Industrial Archaeology
Av Kenneth Hudson, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
542 kr
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Since the 1950s, when the phrase 'industrial archaeology' was coined, there has been an enormous growth of interest in what have come to be seen as the monuments of our more recent past. One result of this is that all kinds of old industrial plant, once valued only for what it could produce or do, …
Maritime Archaeology
Av Keith Muckelroy, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 1979
871 kr
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Archaeology has made enormous advances recently, both in volume of discoveries and in its character as an intellectual discipline; new techniques have helped to further the range and rigour of enquiry, and encouraged interdisciplinary communication. The aim of this series is to make available to a …
Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Av Ian Hodder, Clive Orton m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
586 kr
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This 1976 text is a pioneering study in the applications to archaeology of modern statistical and quantitative techniques. The authors show how these techniques, when sensitively employed, can dramatically extend and refine the information presented in distribution maps and other analyses of …
Living Archaeology
Av Gould, Colin Renfrew
Häftad, 1980
586 kr
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'Living archaeology,' says Richard Gould, 'is ethnoarchaeology in the active voice'. Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology. He demonstrates a reliable way to infer adaptive behavior in …
Religion and Empire
The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism
Av Geoffrey W. Conrad, Arthur A. Demarest m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
770 kr
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Religion and Empire is an innovative and provocative study of the two largest states of the Precolumbian Americas, the Aztec and Inca Empires. By examining the causes of the formation and expansion of these two empires, the authors identify similar patterns and processes underlying their rise and …
Burial and Ancient Society
The Rise of the Greek City-State
Av Ian Morris, Colin Renfrew m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
636 kr
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This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and …
