Archaeology In The Borderlands

Author : Adam T. Smith,Karen Sydney Rubinson
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059577166

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Archaeology in the Borderlands by Adam T. Smith,Karen Sydney Rubinson Pdf

Set on a broad isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas, Caucasia has traditionally been portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the political and cultural centers of the ancient world. Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond critically re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region, assembling accounts of recent investigations by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, and the United States. The twelve chapters in this book address the ways archaeologists must re-conceptualize the region within our larger historical and anthropological frameworks of thought, presenting critical new materials from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age. Challenging traditional models of economic, political, cultural, and social marginality that read the past through Cold War geographies, Archaeology in the Borderlands provides a new challenge to long dominant interpretations of the pre-, proto-, and early history of Eurasia, opening new possibilities for understanding a region that is critical to regional order in the post-Soviet era. This collection represents the first attempt to grapple with the problems and possibilities for archaeology in the Caucasus and its neighboring regions sparked by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states.

Author : Aleksander Borejsza,Isabel Rodríguez López (Archaeologist),Charles D. Frederick,Michael Ernest Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1647690234

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The Geoarchaeology of a Terraced Landscape by Aleksander Borejsza,Isabel Rodríguez López (Archaeologist),Charles D. Frederick,Michael Ernest Smith Pdf

What are the connections between past and present peoples in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico? How were the ancient societies that occupied this landscape interconnected? Contributors leverage diverse source materials rooted in classic ethnography, oral tradition, and historical documents to offer novel answers to these questions. Running throughout the discussions is a metanarrative that reflects the tensions between disciplines such as anthropology and history and the rapidly evolving dynamic between scholars and the Indigenous subjects of past and present research. With chapters written by scholars from the U.S. and Mexico, including Indigenous coauthors, Borderlands Histories offers diverse perspectives and illustrates the range of methods and interpretive approaches employed by some of the most respected and experienced names in the field of borderlands archaeology today.

Author : John P. Carpenter,Guadalupe Sanchez
Publisher : Arizona State Museum
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : IND:30000053363507

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Prehistory of the Borderlands by John P. Carpenter,Guadalupe Sanchez Pdf

Covers Chihuahuan rock art, Sonoran archaeology, research in, the Papagueria, and more.

Author : David Mullin
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1842179837

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Places in Between by David Mullin Pdf

The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and "rethought". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to examine social and cultural boundaries, frontiers, marginality and ethnicity. This book, which grew out of a session at TAG in 2008, explores some of the possibilities offered by the study of borders from an archaeological point of view and presents new perspectives on borders, both metaphorical and geographical, from locations as diverse as Somerset and China, from the Neolithic to the Cold War.

Author : J. Laurence Hare
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442648432

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Excavating Nations by J. Laurence Hare Pdf

Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of Schleswig-Holstein and Snderjylland were critical both to the emergence of professional prehistoric archaeology and to conceptions of German and Scandinavian origins. At the center of this process, Hare argues, was a cohort of amateur antiquarians and archaeologists who collaborated across the border to investigate the ancient past but were also complicit in its appropriation for nationalist ends. Excavating Nations follows the development of this cross-border network over four generations, through the unification of Germany and two world wars. Using correspondence and site reports from museum, university, and state archives across Germany and Denmark, Hare shows how these scholars negotiated their simultaneous involvement in nation-building projects and in a transnational academic community. --Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul R. Fish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Excavations (Archaeolgoy)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977880N

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Prehistory and Early History of the Malpai Borderlands by Paul R. Fish Pdf

Prehispanic and early historic archaeological information for the Malpai Borderlands of southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona is reviewed using data derived from field reconnaissance, discussion with relevant scholars, archival resources from varied agencies and institutions, and published literature. Previous regional research has focused on late prehistory (A.D. 1200 to 1450), shaping the scope of cultural historical overview and providing an opportunity to examine relationships with Casas Grandes (Paquime) to the south. A second important objective of current study is the exploration of prehispanic and early historic human impacts to Borderlands ecosystems, particularly in relation fire ecology. A recommended sequence of future research is intended to address significant questions surrounding both culture history and anthropogenic environments in the Malpai Borderlands.

Author : Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292773813

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The Late Archaic across the Borderlands by Bradley J. Vierra Pdf

Why and when human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture engages the interest of scholars around the world. One of the most fruitful areas in which to study this issue is the North American Southwest, where Late Archaic inhabitants of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico turned to farming while their counterparts in Trans-Pecos and South Texas continued to forage. By investigating the environmental, biological, and cultural factors that led to these differing patterns of development, we can identify some of the necessary conditions for the rise of agriculture and the corresponding evolution of village life. The twelve papers in this volume synthesize previous and ongoing research and offer new theoretical models to provide the most up-to-date picture of life during the Late Archaic (from 3,000 to 1,500 years ago) across the entire North American Borderlands. Some of the papers focus on specific research topics such as stone tool technology and mobility patterns. Others study the development of agriculture across whole regions within the Borderlands. The two concluding papers trace pan-regional patterns in the adoption of farming and also link them to the growth of agriculture in other parts of the world.

Author : Alfredo González-Ruibal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442230910

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An Archaeology of Resistance by Alfredo González-Ruibal Pdf

An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is an early area of state formation and at the same time the home of many egalitarian, small scale societies, which have lived in the buffer zone between states for the last three thousand years. For this reason, resistance is not something added to their sociopolitical structures: it is an inherent part of those structures—a mode of being. The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory, ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different processes of resistance in the long term.

Author : Cristina I. Tica,Debra L. Martin
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401025

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Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands by Cristina I. Tica,Debra L. Martin Pdf

Frontiers and territorial borders are places of contested power where societies collide, interact, and interconnect. Using bioanthropological case studies from around the world, this volume explores how people in the past created, maintained, or changed their identities while living on the edge between two or more different spheres of influence. Examining a wide range of borderland settings, essays in this volume discuss the mobility of people in Roman Egypt and investigate patterns of genetic difference in Iron Age Italy. They show how social and cultural interactions helped buffer the stressful physical environment of eleventh-century Iceland and describe bioarchaeological evidence of traumatic injuries indicating tension across regional borders in the precontact American Great Basin and Southwest. Contributors look at isotope data, skeletal stress markers, craniometric and dental metric information, mortuary arrangements, and other evidence to examine how frontier life can affect health and socioeconomic status. Illustrating the many meanings and definitions of frontiers and borderlands, they question assumptions about the relationships between people, place, and identity. As national borders continue to ignite controversy in today’s society and politics, the research presented here is more important than ever. The long history of people who have lived in borderland areas helps us understand the challenges of adapting to these dynamic and often violent places. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Author : Kieran Gleave,Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789698022

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Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands by Kieran Gleave,Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke Pdf

Select proceedings of the 4th University of Chester Archaeology Student conference (Chester, 20 March 2019) investigate real-world ancient and modern frontier works, the significance of graffiti, material culture, monuments and wall-building, as well as fictional representations of borders and walls in the arts, as public archaeology.

Author : Swarajya Prakash Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : OCLC:174328637

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Archaeology of Soviet Central Asia and the Indian Borderlands by Swarajya Prakash Gupta Pdf

Author : R. Reid Badger,Lawrence A. Clayton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780817312770

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Alabama and the Borderlands by R. Reid Badger,Lawrence A. Clayton Pdf

Prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern US Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern US. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto expedition (and other early European explorations and settlements of Alabama) to the 1780 Siege of Mobile, this is a comprehensive and readable collection of scholarship on early Alabama. CONTRIBUTORS Jeffrey P. Brain / William S. Coker / Chester B. DePratter / James B. Griffin / Charles Hudson / Richard A. Krause / Eugene Lyon / Michale C. Scardaville / Bruce D. Smith / Marvin T. Smith / Wilcomb Washburn

Author : Ulrike Matthies Green,Kirk E. Costion
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813052298

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Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands by Ulrike Matthies Green,Kirk E. Costion Pdf

This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between different cultures in borderland areas or across long distances. The model helps researchers untangle complex webs of connections among people, landscapes, and artifacts, and can be used to support multiple theoretical viewpoints. Through case studies, contributors apply the CCIM to various regions and time periods, including Roman Europe, the Greek province of Thessaly in the Late Bronze Age, the ancient Egyptian-Nubian frontier, colonial Greenland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Mississippian realm of Cahokia, ancient Costa Rica and Panama, and the Moquegua Valley of Peru in the early Middle Horizon period. They adapt the model to best represent their data, successfully plotting connections in many different dimensions, including geography, material culture, religion and spirituality, and ideology. The model enables them to expose what motivates people to participate in cultural exchange, as well as the influences that people reject in these interactions. These results demonstrate the versatility and analytical power of the CCIM. Bridging the gap between theory and data, this tool can prompt users to rethink previous interpretations of their research, leading to new ideas, new theories, and new directions for future study. Contributors: Meghan E. Buchanan | Michele R. Buzon | Kirk Costion | Bryan Feuer | Ulrike Matthies Green | Scott Palumbo | Stuart Tyson Smith | Peter Andreas Toft | Peter S. Wells

Author : Christopher Evans,Duncan Mackay,Leo Webley
Publisher : Cambridge Archaeological Unit UV of Cambridge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0954482476

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Borderlands by Christopher Evans,Duncan Mackay,Leo Webley Pdf

Taking its inspiration from Cyril Fox's groundbreaking 1923 study of its namesake, and with its first volume issued to mark the 85th anniversary of his book, this series is dedicated to the archaeology of Cambridge's hinterland. In recent years an enormous amount of fieldwork has occured within the City's environs, to the point that it must now rank as one of the most intensively investigated landscapes in southern England. This volume reports the 2002/03 Hutchinson Site excavations beside Addenbrooke's Hospital. While primarily concerned with its Iron Age/Roman Conquest-Period dynamics, there was also significant later Bronze Age and Middle Saxon occupation. The site's sequence both informs, and is informed by, the results of an evaluation survey extending over 200ha west to the River Cam, which led to the recovery of some 15 new sites. Thereafter, three other landscape evaluation case-studies are presented, drawn both from the County's southern chalklands and also its western and northern clays. Seeing comparable site-discovery rates, this enormous increase in known site densities has fundamental implications for understandings of early land-use and settlement/population levels, and allows archaeologists to appreciate for the first time what is, in effect, the past fabric of the land . The case is made that such grand-scale surveys should be considered as 'stand-alone' programmes of investigation in their own right.

Author : Stefanos Gimatzidis,Sila Mangalaglu-Votruba,Magda Pieniazek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 3700180292

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Archaeology Across Frontiers and Borderlands by Stefanos Gimatzidis,Sila Mangalaglu-Votruba,Magda Pieniazek Pdf

The objective of this volume is a theoretical debate on the archaeology at the crossroads of the Balkans, the Aegean and Anatolia and its interrelation with social and political life in this historically turbulent region. Modern political borders still divide European archaeology and intercept research. This is particularly evident in southeastern Europe, where archaeological interaction among neighbouring countries such as Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, the FYR of Macedonia and Albania is practically inactive. Reception of the past within the local perspectives of modern nation states and changing identities are some of our focal points: Can breaks or continuities in the material culture be perceived as evidence for ethnic (dis-)continuities, migrations, ethnogeneses, etc. and what is the socio-political background of such approaches? What is the potential of material culture towards the definition of modern and past identities? Interaction among different societies and cultures as well as the exchange of goods and ideas are another topic of this book. The area encompassing the north Aegean and the Balkans was, during the later prehistoric and early historic periods, the showplace of fascinating cultural entanglements. Domestic, cultic and public architecture, artefact groups and burial rites have always been employed in the archaeological process of defining identities. However, these identities were not static but rather underwent constant transformations. The question addressed is: How did people and objects interact and how did objects and ideas change their function and meaning in time and space? Colleagues representing different scholarly traditions and cultural backgrounds, working in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, took part in this debate, and a total of 19 papers are now presented in this book.