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Author : Lewis Roberts Binford,George Irving Quimby
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015013972305
Author : Lewis R. Binford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1067304970
Author : Michael Chazan
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 1138635774
It is all in the mind -- Artifacts and the body -- Making space for the invisible -- Wrapping the surface, rethinking art -- The autonomy of objects -- Epilogue: towards an ecology with objects
Author : R.E. Taylor,Ofer Bar-Yosef
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315421209
This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor’s seminal book Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments of the 14C method in archaeology and analyzes factors that affect the accuracy and precision of 14C-based age estimates. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of the method, it examines 14C dating anomalies and means to resolve them, and considers the critical application of 14C data as a dating isotope with special emphasis on issues in Old and New World archaeology and late Quaternary paleoanthropology. This volume, again a benchmark for 14C dating, critically reflects on the method and data that underpins, in so many cases, the validity of the chronologies used to understand the prehistoric archaeological record.
Author : Lewis Robert Binford,George I. Quimby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 012785052X
Author : James M. Skibo,Michael W. Graves,Miriam T. Stark
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816535552
In this collection, four generations of Longacre protégés show how they are building upon and developing--but also modifying--the theoretical paradigm that remains at the core of Americanist archaeology. The contributions focus on six themes prominent in Longacre's career: the intellectual history of the field in the late twentieth century, archaeological methodology, analogical inference, ethnoarchaeology, cultural evolution, and reconstructing ancient society.
Author : Graham Connah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521596904
This edition of African Civilizations, first published in 2001, re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in tropical Africa.
Author : Felix Riede,Payson Sheets
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800739281
Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries.
Author : Michael Chazan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315439266
Artifacts are hybrids, both natural and cultural. They are also an essential component in the process of human evolution. In recent years, a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science, sociology, art history, and anthropology, have all grappled with the nature of artifacts, leading to the emergence of a renewed interdisciplinary focus on material culture. The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective develops an argument for the artifact as a status conferred by human engagement with material. On this basis, artifacts are considered first in terms of their relationship to concepts and cognitive functions, and then to the physical body and sense of self. The book builds on and incorporates the latest developments in archaeological research, particularly from the archaeology of human evolution, and integrates this wealth of new archaeological data with new research in fields such as cognitive science, haptics, and material culture studies. Making the latest research available for the general reader interested in material culture, while also providing archaeologists with new theoretical perspectives built on a synthesis of interdisciplinary research, this book is suitable for courses taught at both graduate and undergraduate students, and is broadly accessible.
Author : David M. Carballo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781457174087
"[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."—Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action. Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains one of the few great conundrums within evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In Cooperation and Collective Action, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.
Author : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786837981
Ancient Classical authors have painted the Druids in a bad light, defining them as a barbaric priesthood, who 2,000 years ago perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul in the name of their gods. Archaeology tells a different and more complicated story of this enigmatic priesthood, a theocracy with immense political and sacred power. This book explores the tangible ‘footprint’ the Druids have left behind: in sacred spaces, art, ritual equipment, images of the gods, strange burial rites and human sacrifice. Their material culture indicates how close was the relationship between Druids and the spirit-world, which evidence suggests they accessed through drug-induced trance.
Author : Peter J. Ucko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134843473
A unique volume that brings together contributors from all over the world to provide the first truly global perspective on archaeological theory, and tackle the crucial questions facing archaeology in the 1990s. Can one practice without theory?
Author : Moira Donald,Linda Hurcombe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312223986
Case studies drawn from many different periods and areas develop concepts and theories as diverse as the social contexts of production and artifact.
Author : Mark Gillings,Piraye Hacıgüzeller,Gary Lock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351267700
Maps have always been a fundamental tool in archaeological practice, and their prominence and variety have increased along with a growing range of digital technologies used to collect, visualise, query and analyse spatial data. However, unlike in other disciplines, the development of archaeological cartographical critique has been surprisingly slow; a missed opportunity given that archaeology, with its vast and multifaceted experience with space and maps, can significantly contribute to the field of critical mapping. Re-mapping Archaeology thinks through cartographic challenges in archaeology and critiques the existing mapping traditions used in the social sciences and humanities, especially since the 1990s. It provides a unique archaeological perspective on cartographic theory and innovatively pulls together a wide range of mapping practices applicable to archaeology and other disciplines. This volume will be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as for established researchers in archaeology, geography, anthropology, history, landscape studies, ethnology and sociology.
Author : Katsuyuki Okamura,Akira Matsuda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1461403413
Since its very beginning, archaeology has in many senses always related to a much wider constituency than just archaeologists. This relationship between archaeology and the public has often been overlooked and constantly changes. Public archaeology, as a field of research and practice, has been developing since the 1970s in English-speaking countries, particularly in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and is today beginning to spread to other parts of the world. Global expansion of public archaeology comes with the recognition of the need for a careful understanding of local contexts, particularly the culture and socio-political climate. This volume critically examines the current theories and practices of public archaeology through relevant case studies from different regions throughout the world, including: Japan, China, South Korea, New Caledonia, South Africa, Senegal, Jordon, Italy, Peru, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. These case studies are examined from a wide variety of theoretical contexts, to provide a thorough and comprehensive guide to the state of public archaeology today, as well as implications for its future. As the theory and practice of public archaeology continues to change and grow, archaeology’s relationship with the broader community needs to be critically and openly examined. The contributions in this wide-ranging work are a key source of information for anyone practicing or studying archaeology in a public context.