Archaeology At The Millennium

Author : Gary M. Feinman,T. Douglas Price
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387726113

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Archaeology at the Millennium by Gary M. Feinman,T. Douglas Price Pdf

In this book an internationally distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the discipline of archaeology at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. The chapters address a wide range of topics including, paradigms, practice, and relevance of the discipline; paleoanthropology; fully modern humans; holocene hunter-gatherers; the transition to food and craft production; social inequality; warfare; state and empire formation; and the uneasy relationship between classical and anthropological archaeology.

Author : Oliver J. T. Harris,Craig Cipolla
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317497455

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Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium by Oliver J. T. Harris,Craig Cipolla Pdf

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological thought. It charts the emergence of the new emphasis on relations as well as engaging with other current theoretical trends and the thinkers archaeologists regularly employ. Bringing together different strands of global archaeological theory and placing them in dialogue, the book explores the similarities and differences between different contemporary trends in theory while also highlighting potential strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Written in a way to maximise its accessibility, in direct contrast to many of the sources on which it draws, Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium is an essential guide to cutting-edge theory for students and for professionals wishing to reacquaint themselves with this field.

Author : Oliver J. T. Harris,Craig Cipolla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317497448

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Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium by Oliver J. T. Harris,Craig Cipolla Pdf

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological thought. It charts the emergence of the new emphasis on relations as well as engaging with other current theoretical trends and the thinkers archaeologists regularly employ. Bringing together different strands of global archaeological theory and placing them in dialogue, the book explores the similarities and differences between different contemporary trends in theory while also highlighting potential strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Written in a way to maximise its accessibility, in direct contrast to many of the sources on which it draws, Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium is an essential guide to cutting-edge theory for students and for professionals wishing to reacquaint themselves with this field.

Author : Jack Brink,Johan Frederik Dormaar,Archaeological Society of Alberta
Publisher : Medicine Hat : Archaeological Society of Alberta
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89082585134

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Archaeology in Alberta by Jack Brink,Johan Frederik Dormaar,Archaeological Society of Alberta Pdf

Author : Charles Golden,Greg Borgstede
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135946067

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Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology by Charles Golden,Greg Borgstede Pdf

This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.

Author : Jeffrey L. Hantman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813941486

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Monacan Millennium by Jeffrey L. Hantman Pdf

While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 A.D. through the moment of colonial contact in 1607 and into the present. Written from an anthropological perspective and informed by ethnohistory, archaeology, and indigenous tribal perspectives, this comprehensive study reframes the Chesapeake’s early colonial period—and its deep precolonial history—by viewing it through a Monacan lens. Shifting focus to the Monacans, Hantman reveals a group whose ritual practices bespeak centuries of politically and culturally dynamic history. This insightful volume draws on archeology, English colonial archives, Spanish sources, and early cartography to put the Monacans back on the map. By examining representations of the tribe in colonial, postcolonial, and contemporary texts, the author fosters a dynamic, unfolding understanding of who the Monacan people were and are.

Author : Douwe Geert Yntema
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Basilicata (Italy)
ISBN : 9089645799

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The Archaeology of South-East Italy in the First Millennium BC by Douwe Geert Yntema Pdf

Synthesizing some 30 years of archaeological research in south-east Italy, this book discusses a millennium that witnessed breathtaking changes: the first millennium BC. In nine to ten centuries the Mediterranean societies changed from a great variety of mostly small entities of predominantly tribal nature into the enormous state currently indicated as the Roman Empire. This volume is a case study discussing the pathway to complexity of one of the regions that contributed to the formation of this large state: south-east Italy. It highlights how initially small groups developed into complex societies, how and why these adapted to increasingly wide horizons, and how and why Italic groups and migrants from the eastern Mediterranean interacted and created entirely new social, economic, cultural and physical landscapes. This synthesis is based on research carried out by many Italian archaeologists and by research groups from quite a variety of other countries. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies is a series devoted to the study of past human societies from the prehistory up into modern times, primarily based on the study of archaeological remains. The series will include excavation reports of modern fieldwork; studies of categories of material culture; and synthesising studies with broader images of past societies, thereby contributing to the theoretical and methodological debates in archaeology.

Author : Alistair Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315435718

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A Millennium of Cultural Contact by Alistair Paterson Pdf

Alistair Paterson has written a comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. Beginning with the Norse intersection with indigenous peoples of Greenland, Paterson uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia. Based largely on the evidence of archaeology, he is able to detail the unique interactions at many specific points of contact and display the wide variations in exploration, conquest, colonization, avoidance, and resistance at various spots around the globe. Paterson’s broad, student-friendly treatment of the history and archaeology of the last millennium will be useful for courses in historical archaeology, world history, and social change.

Author : Charles Golden,Greg Borgstede
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135946074

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Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology by Charles Golden,Greg Borgstede Pdf

This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field.

Author : Suzanne K. Fish,Paul R. Fish
Publisher : School for Advanced Research P
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132213138

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The Hohokam Millennium by Suzanne K. Fish,Paul R. Fish Pdf

For a thousand years they flourished in the arid lands now part of Arizona. They built extensive waterworks, ballcourts, and platform mounds, made beautiful pottery and jewelry, and engaged in wide-ranging trade networks. Then, slowly, their civilization faded and transmuted into something no longer Hohokam. Are today's Tohono O'odham their heirs or their conquerors? The mystery and the beauty of Hohokam civilization are the subjects of the essays in this volume. Written by archaeologists who have led the effort to excavate, record, and preserve the remnants of this ancient culture, the chapters illuminate the way the Hohokam organized their households and their communities, their sophisticated pottery and textiles, their irrigation system, the huge ballcourts and platform mounds they built, and much more.

Author : Klavs Randsborg
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 052138401X

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The First Millennium AD in Europe and the Mediterranean by Klavs Randsborg Pdf

Modern archaeology, with its huge methodological repertoire, its interdisciplinary orientation and its rapidly expanding basis in excavations, is beginning to rewrite history, and to reshape our views of the development of Europe prior to the present millennium. Archaeological evidence draws attention to processes on which the written record is silent, or which were not fully appreciated by contemporaries in the literate centres. This book deals with the rise of medieval western Europe as the Roman Empire crumbled, and the integration of hitherto barbarian societies into the new mainstream of European society. Archaeological material is the main focus, but information derived from written sources, especially those illuminating the economic and the associated social circumstances, is also taken into account.

Author : Charles W. Golden,Greg Borgstede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0203603540

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Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology by Charles W. Golden,Greg Borgstede Pdf

Author : Norman Yoffee,Bradley L. Crowell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816524181

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Excavating Asian History by Norman Yoffee,Bradley L. Crowell Pdf

Although history and archaeology each seek to elucidate the past, both sets of data are incomplete and ambiguous and thus open to multiple readings that invite contradictory interpretations of human activity. This is particularly true when scholars of each field ignore or fail to understand research in the other discipline. Excavating Asian History contains case studies and theoretical articles that show how archaeologists have been investigating historical, social, and economic organizations and that explore the relationship between history and archaeology in the study of pre-modern Asia. These contributions consider biases in both historical and archaeological data that have occasioned rival claims to knowledge in the two disciplines. Ranging widely across the region from the Levant to China and from the third millennium BC to the second millennium AD, they demonstrate that archaeological and historical studies can complement each other and should be used in tandem. The contributors are leading historians and archaeologists of Asia who present data, issues, and debates revolving around the most recent research on the ancient Near East, early Islam, India, China, and Southeast Asian states. Their chapters illustrate the benefits of interdisciplinary investigations and show in particular how archaeology is changing our understanding of history. Commentary chapters by Miriam Stark and Philip Kohl add new perspectives to the findings. By showing the evolving relationship between those who study archaeological material and those who investigate textual data, Excavating Asian History offers practical demonstrations of how research has been and must continue to be structured.

Author : Stephen A. Dueppen
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446315

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Divine Consumption by Stephen A. Dueppen Pdf

Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, development of economic specializations, intensification in interregional commercial networks, and the effects of the Black Death pandemic. The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa. Building from a new detailed zooarchaeological analysis and refinements in stratigraphic precision, this book argues that repeated ritual activity was a significant factor in the accumulation of stratified archaeological deposits. The book details consistencies in form and content of discrete loci containing animal bones, food remains, and broken and unbroken objects and suggests that these are the remnants of sequential ancestor shrines created when domestic spaces were converted to tombs or dedicated mortuary monuments were constructed. Continuities and transformations in ancestral rituals at Kirikongo inform on earlier West African ritual practices from the second millennium BC as well as political and social transformations at the site. More broadly, this case study provides new insights on anthropogenic mound (tell) formation processes, social zooarchaeology, material culture theory, historical ontology, and the analysis of ritual and religion in the archaeological record.

Author : Hana Vymazalová,Miroslav Bárta
Publisher : Czech Institute of Egyptology Charles University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Archaeological dating
ISBN : 8073082454

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Chronology and Archaeology in Ancient Egypt by Hana Vymazalová,Miroslav Bárta Pdf

The nineteen contributions to this volume approach the subject of Egyptian chronology of the Third Millennium BC from different perspectives: some of them concern the use of modern methods (14C) and natural sciences in Egyptology; others analyze the development of various aspects of the Egyptian culture during the whole period of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period, or try to specify the date of certain monuments and personalities. A study and interpretation of archaeological as well as textual sources and iconographical material is combined in the papers in order to attain a deeper knowledge and better understanding of the Egyptian chronology, archaeology and history of the Third Millennium BC. Contributions by: Hartwig Altenmueller, Tarek El Awady, Miroslav Barta, Ale Bezdek, Vivienne Gae Callender, Andrzej Cwiek, Michael Dee, Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Jaromir Krejci, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, John S. Nolan, Hratch Papazian, Patrizia Piacentini, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Joanne M. Rowland, Teodozja Rzeuska, Anthony Spalinger, Rainer Stadelmann, Miroslav Verner, Hana Vymazalova, and Anna Wodzinska.