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By Marcos Souza, Diogo Costa. 2018
This edited volume gathers contributions focused on understanding the environment through the lens of Historical Archaeology Pressing issues such…
as climate change global warming the Anthropocene and loss of biodiversity have pushed scholars from different areas to examine issues related to the causes processes and consequences of these phenomena While traditional barriers between natural and social sciences have been torn down these issues have gradually occupied a central place in the field of anthropology As archaeology involves the transdisciplinary study of cultural and natural evidence related to the past it is in a privileged position to discuss the historical depth of some of the processes related to environment that are deeply affecting the world today This volume brings together substantial and comprehensive contributions to the understanding of the environment in a historical perspective along three lines of inquiry Theoretical and methodological approaches to the environment in Historical Archaeology Studies on environmental Historical Archaeology Historical Archaeology and the Anthropocene Historical Archaeology and Environment will be of interest to researchers in both social and environmental sciences working in different disciplines and research areas such as archaeology history geography anthropology climate change studies environmental analysis and sustainable development studiesBy Robert Faltermeier. 2014
This book is a concise guide on how to preserve protect and analyse cultural heritage in private and public…
collections Its focus is on three-dimensional works of art and archaeology crafted from materials like ceramics glass stone metals wood etc It briefly explains the most important aspects of handling display storage and analysis of such art works and covers the basics of environmental conditions for an art collection Numerous practical examples from the author s long experience are shown in high-quality colour photographsBy Timothy Insoll. 2007
The Archaeology of Identities brings together seventeen seminal articles from this exciting new discipline in one indispensable volume for the…
first time Editor Timothy Insoll expertly selects a cross-section of contributions by leading authorities to form a comprehensive and balanced representation of approaches and interests Issues covered include gender and sexuality ethnicity nationalism and caste age ideology disability Chapters are thematically arranged and are contextualized with lucid summaries and an introductory chapter providing an accessible introduction to the varied selection of case studies included and archaeological materials considered from global sources The study of identity is increasingly recognized as a fundamental division of archaeological enquiry and has recently become the focus of a variety of new and challenging developments As such this volume will fast become the definitive sourcebook in archaeology of identities making it essential reading for students lecturers and researchers in the fieldBy Simon Knell. 2008
Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal…
grounded practice The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative as detailed in the section introductions The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice how the practices of the past have been critiqued and in some cases replaced how it has become necessary to look beyond and outside disciplinary boundaries and how old practices can in many circumstances continue to have validity Museums in the Material World is about broadening horizons and moving museum studies students and others beyond the narrow confines of their own disciplinary thinking or indeed any narrow conception of collections In essence this is a book about the practice of interpretation and will therefore be of great use to those students and museum practitioners involved in the field of material culture in museumsBy Richard Sandell, Robert R. Janes. 2007
Drawing together a selection of high quality, intellectually robust and stimulating articles on both theoretical and practice-based developments in the…
field, this Reader investigates the closely linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles, from established and world-renowned contributors, practitioners and writers at the leading edge of their fields, deal with the museum context of management and how marketing and management practices must take account of the specifics of the museum and the not-for-profit ethos. Key writings from broader literature are included, and the collection of key writings on the investigation and study of management and marketing in the museum are of great benefit not only to those studying the subject, but also to professionals working and developing within the field.By Sheila Watson. 2008
Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site…
of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. Focusing on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, Sheila Watson examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities. Looking at the current debates about the role of the museum, she considers contested values in museum functions and examines provision, power, ownership, responsibility, and institutional issues. This book is of great relevance for all disciplines as it explores and questions the role of the museum in modern society.By Barra O Donnabhain, Maria Lozada. 2018
This book expands on Archaeological Human Remains Global Perspectives that was published in the Springer Briefs series in 2014…
and which had a strong focus on post-colonial countries In the current volume the editors include papers that deal with non-Anglophone European traditions such as Portugal Germany and France In addition authors continue the exploration of osteological trajectories that are not well-documented in the West such as Senegal China and Russia The lasting legacies of imperialism communism and colonialism are apparent as the authors of the individual country profiles examine the historical roots of the study of archaeological human remains and the challenges encountered while also considering the likely future directions likely of this multi-faceted discipline in different world areasBy Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor, Michael Hasel. 2018
The remarkable excavation of a previously unidentified city in Israel from the time of King David shedding new light…
on the link between the bible and history King David is a pivotal figure in the Bible which tells his life story in detail and gives stirring accounts of his deeds including the slaying of the Philistine giant Goliath and the founding of his capital in Jerusalem But no certain archaeological finds from the period of his reign or of the kingdom he ruled over have ever been uncovered until now In this groundbreaking account the excavators of Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Valley of Elah where the Bible says David fought Goliath reveal how seven years of exhaustive investigation have uncovered a city dating to the time of David the late eleventh and early tenth century BCE surrounded by massive fortifications with impressive gates and a clear urban plan as well as an abundance of finds that tell us much about the inhabitants Discussing the link between the Bible archaeology and history In the Footsteps of King David explains the significance of these discoveries and how they shed new light on David s kingdom The topic is at the center of a controversy that has raged for decades but these findings successfully challenge scholars disputing the historicity of the Bible and the chronology of the events recounted in itA comprehensive collection of the applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMR Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI …
and Electron-Spin Resonance ESR Covers the wide ranging disciplines in which these techniques are used Chemistry Biological Sciences Pharmaceutical Sciences Medical uses Marine Science Materials Science Food Science Illustrates many techniques through the applications described e g High resolution solid and liquid state NMR Low resolution NMR especially important in food science Solution State NMR especially important in pharmaceutical sciences Magnetic Resonance Imaging especially important for medical uses Electron Spin Resonance especially important for spin-labelling in food marine and medical studiesBy Natalie Mueller. 2013
At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from…
points as distant Wyoming Ontario and the Gulf Coast revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to as the Hopewell phenomenon Simultaneously Middle Woodland societies developed the earliest agricultural system in eastern North American using now-extinct native cultivars Mound Centers and Seed Security A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley integrates an interpretation of these two historical trends Unlike most journal articles on related subjects the volume includes a lengthy review of literature on both Hopewell studies and Middle Woodland agriculture making it a useful resource for researchers starting out in either field Synthesizing both original research and research reported in archaeological grey literature Mound Centers and Seed Security A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley is a valuable tool for researchers and teachers alikeBy Mike Parker Pearson. 2013
Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years…
have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation—about Stonehenge’s celestial significance, human sacrifice, and even aliens and druids. One would think that the numerous research expeditions at Stonehenge had left no stone unturned. Yet, before the Stonehenge Riverside Project—a hugely ambitious, seven-year dig by today’s top archaeologists—all previous digs combined had only investigated a fraction of the monument, and many records from those earlier expeditions are either inaccurate or incomplete.Stonehenge—A New Understanding rewrites the story. From 2003 to 2009, author Mike Parker Pearson led the Stonehenge Riverside Project, the most comprehensive excavation ever conducted around Stonehenge. The project unearthed a wealth of fresh evidence that had gone untouched since prehistory. Parker Pearson uses that evidence to present a paradigm-shifting theory of the true significance that Stonehenge held for its builders—and mines his field notes to give you a you-are-there view of the dirt, drama, and thrilling discoveries of this history-changing archaeological dig.By Francesco D’Errico, Lucinda Backwell, Bernard Malauzat. 2005
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human…
populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.By Phil Bonner, Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen. 1983
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate…
ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa?s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region?s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa?s colonial past.By Mohammed Hilal Al Kindi. 2018
This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to discover the story of land and ancient life evolution in Oman…
since at least 800 million years ago. Oman is well known for its marvelous geology. What tectonics affected this part of the world and what organisms lived there? How did the climate and life develop? Did life forms become more complex and varied or become extinct and disappear forever? The book thoroughly reconstructs this land and ancient life evolution and offers readers an understanding on how land, climate and life have proceeded and developed in Oman through the millions of years.By Gabriel Wurzer, Kerstin Kowarik, Hans Reschreiter. 2015
Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation since it was seen as being used…
to re-enact and visualize possible scenarios for a wider generally non-scientific audience based on scarce and fuzzy data Furthermore modeling in exact terms and programming as a means for producing agent-based simulations were simply beyond the field of the social sciences This situation has changed quite drastically with the advent of the internet age Data it seems is now ubiquitous Researchers have switched from simply collecting data to filtering selecting and deriving insights in a cybernetic manner Agent-based simulation is one of the tools used to glean information from highly complex excavation sites according to formalized models capturing essential properties in a highly abstract and yet spatial manner As such the goal of this book is to present an overview of techniques used and work conducted in that field drawing on the experience of practitionersBy Hedstrom, Darlene L. Brooks. 2017
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study…
in English to trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism. Brooks Hedstrom then provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape. She analyzes late-antique documentary evidence, early monastic literature, and ecclesiastical history before turning to the extensive archaeological evidence of Christian monastic settlements. In doing so, she illustrates the stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions. Drawing upon critical theories in landscape studies, materiality and phenomenology, Brooks Hedstrom looks at domestic settlements of non-monastic and monastic settlements to posit what features makes monastic settlements unique, thus offering a new history of monasticism in Egypt.By Douglas Hunter. 2018
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a…
sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Beardmore unfolds like a detective story as the author sifts through the voluminous evidence and follows the efforts of two unlikely debunkers, high-school teacher Teddy Elliott and government geologist T.L. Tanton, who find themselves up against Currelly and his scholarly allies. Along the way, the controversy draws in a who’s who of international figures in archaeology, Scandinavian studies, and the museum world, including anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, whose mid-1950s crusade against the find’s authenticity finally convinced scholars and curators that the grave was a fraud. Shedding light on museum practices and the state of the historical and archaeological professions in the mid-twentieth century, Beardmore offers an unparalleled view inside a major museum scandal to show how power can be exercised across professional networks and hamper efforts to arrive at the truth.By Patricia A. Mcanany, Norman Yoffee. 2010
Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse…
because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of iconic events, such as the deforestation of Easter Island, the cessation of the Norse colony in Greenland, the faltering of nineteenth-century China, the migration of ancestral peoples away from Chaco Canyon in the American southwest, the crisis and resilience of Lowland Maya kingship, and other societies that purportedly 'collapsed'. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that resilience in the face of societal crises, rather than collapse, is the leitmotif of the human story from the earliest civilizations to the present. Scrutinizing the notion that Euro-American colonial triumphs were an accident of geography, Questioning Collapse also critically examines the complex historical relationship between race and political labels of societal 'success' and 'failure'.By Yehouda Enzel, Ofer. 2017
Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment…
and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together over eighty contributions from leading researchers to review 2. 5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from prehistoric sites and palaeoanthropological studies contributing to our understanding of 'out of Africa' migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of modern humans, and the origins of agriculture are assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and genetics. Complemented by overview summaries that draw together the findings of each chapter, the resulting coverage is wide-ranging and cohesive. The cross-disciplinary nature of the volume makes it an invaluable resource for academics and advanced students of Quaternary science and human prehistory, as well as being an important reference for archaeologists working in the region.By Gabriel Zuchtriegel. 2018
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial…
populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece's colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato's 'Laws' and Aristotle's 'Politics', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.