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Archaeological History of Hermitages and Eremitic Communities in Medieval Britain and Beyond
Av Simon Roffey
Inbunden, 2023
2208 kr
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Many hermitages and eremitic communities are recorded throughout the medieval period, yet to date, there has been no comprehensive archaeological study. This richly illustrated book will consequently discuss a range of hermitages and introduce the reader to their architectural forms, spaces, …
Archaeology of Skill
Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe
Häftad, 2019
791 kr
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Material is the mother of innovation and it is through skill that innovations are brought about. This core thesis that is developed in this book identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation, and material culture. Through a detailed study …
Hydraulic State
Science and Society in the Ancient World
Häftad, 2022
731 kr
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The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used in their urban and agricultural water supply systems. Using a range of methods and techniques, some …
Travellers in Time
Imagining Movement in the Ancient Aegean World
Av Saro Wallace
Häftad, 2020
731 kr
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Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly transformative, and the processual, systemic models that …
Alternative Iron Ages
Social Theory from Archaeological Analysis
Av Brais X. Currás, Inés Sastre
Häftad, 2021
761 kr
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Alternative Iron Ages examines Iron Age social formations that sit outside traditional paradigms, developing methods for archaeological characterisation of alternative models of society. In so doing it contributes to the debates concerning the construction and resistance of inequality taking place …
Visualising Skyscapes
Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens
Häftad, 2021
761 kr
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Above the land and its horizon lies the celestial sphere, that great dome of the sky which governs light and darkness, critical to life itself, yet its influence is often neglected in the archaeological narrative. Visualising Skyscapes captures a growing interest in the emerging field of skyscape …
Hydraulic State
Science and Society in the Ancient World
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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The Hydraulic State explores the hydraulic engineering technology underlying water system constructions of many of the ancient World Heritage sites in South America, the Middle East and Asia as used in their urban and agricultural water supply systems. Using a range of methods and techniques, some …
Prehistory of Iberia
Debating Early Social Stratification and the State
Av María Cruz Berrocal, Leonardo García Sanjuán m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This …
Archaeology in Environment and Technology
Intersections and Transformations
Av David Frankel, Susan Lawrence m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one …
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural …
Open-Air Rock-Art Conservation and Management
State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Av Timothy Darvill, Antonio Batarda Fernandes
Häftad, 2019
586 kr
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While much has been achieved in understanding and managing weather effects and erosion phenomena affecting ancient imagery within the relatively protected environments of caves and rock-shelters, the same cannot be said of rock-art panels situated in the open-air. Despite the fact that the number …
Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World
Material Crossovers
Av Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Ann Brysbaert m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central …
Debating Archaeological Empiricism
The Ambiguity of Material Evidence
Av Charlotta Hillerdal, Johannes Siapkas
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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Debating Archaeological Empiricism examines the current intellectual turn in archaeology, primarily in its prehistoric and classical branches, characterized by a return to the archaeological evidence. Each chapter in the book approaches the empirical from a different angle, illuminating …
Sharing Archaeology
Academe, Practice and the Public
Av Peter Stone, Zhao Hui
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last half-century. The increase in so-called ‘public archaeology,’ with its wide range of television programming, community projects, newspaper articles, and enhanced site-based interpretation has taken archaeology from a closed academic …
Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict
Comparing the Archaeology of German Submarine Wrecks to the Historical Text
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney …
Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia
Argaric Societies
Av Gonzalo Jimenez, Sandra Subías m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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After more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at the moment; recent works deal only with specific …
Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions
Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to …
Marking the Land
Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment
Av William A Lovis, Robert Whallon
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from …
Archaeology's Visual Culture
Digging and Desire
Av Roger Balm
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, …
Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs'
Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments
Av Louise Steel, Katharina Zinn
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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From remote antiquity to contemporary contexts, food and the ‘stuff’ of food remains central to people’s daily experiences as well as their sense and expression of identity. This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs past and present, examining humanity’s intriguingly complex relationships …
Balkan Dialogues
Negotiating Identity between Prehistory and the Present
Häftad, 2019
836 kr
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Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have classified spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete “cultures”, which have been conventionally treated as bound entities and equated …
New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management describes the historic developments, current challenges, and future opportunities presented by contemporary Cultural Resource Management (CRM). CRM is a substantial aspect of archaeology, history, historical architecture, historical preservation, and …
Material Worlds
Archaeology, Consumption, and the Road to Modernity
Av Barbara J. Heath, Eleanor E. Breen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reuse, and discard. Interrogating individual objects as well as considering the contexts in which acts …
Archaeologies of Us and Them
Debating History, Heritage and Indigeneity
Av Charlotta Hillerdal, Anna Karlström m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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Archaeologies of “Us” and “Them” explores the concept of indigeneity within the field of archaeology and heritage and in particular examines the shifts in power that occur when ‘we’ define ‘the other’ by categorizing ‘them’ as indigenous. Recognizing the complex and shifting distinctions between …
Life of Trade
Events and Happenings in the Niumi’s Atlantic Center
Av Liza Gijanto
Häftad, 2019
761 kr
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The Life of Trade utilizes archaeological and historical sources to address the dynamic nature of the Atlantic trade on the Gambia River. Taking a fresh multi-disciplinary approach, the book highlights the region’s atypical position as a commercial crossroads and access point for both interior and …
Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui
Av Sonia Haoa Cardinali, Kathleen B. Ingersoll m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
731 kr
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Rapa Nui, one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact, where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the …
Dwelling
Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality negotiates the discourses of phenomenology, archaeology and palaeoanthropology in order to extend the ‘dwelling perspective’, an approach in the social sciences particularly associated with Tim Ingold and a number of other thinkers, including Chris …
Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Av Louise Steel
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic …
US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Soft Power, Hard Heritage
Av Christina Luke, Morag Kersel
Inbunden, 2012
2842 kr
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Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores how …
Roman Urban Street Networks
Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities
Av Alan Kaiser
Häftad, 2013
942 kr
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The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the …
