Archaeology On The Threshold

Author : Joseph D. Wardle,Robert K. Hitchcock,Matthew Schmader,Pei-Lin Yu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 081306953X

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Archaeology on the Threshold by Joseph D. Wardle,Robert K. Hitchcock,Matthew Schmader,Pei-Lin Yu Pdf

New perspectives on transitions in humanhistory Thisbook is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seenthrough the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating data fromacross six continents and tracing the human experience from the LatePleistocene to the present, this book offers a global comparative perspectiveon transitional states. Questionsof causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of culturalchange. Archaeology on theThresholdfocuses on major transitions such as the shift from foraging to agriculture,the adoption of new technologies, the emergence of large-scale societies, thetransition from egalitarian to inegalitarian leadership, and changes that occurin socioeconomic and ideological systems as a result of climate change anddisease. Theoretical approaches range from processual to postprocessual,humanistic, and interpretive. Methodologies include ethnoarchaeology, the useof ethnographic analogy,crosscultural comparisons and large-scale data approaches, oral history, thehistorical record, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Challenging archaeologists to query long-heldassumptions and theoretical positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry intochange-causing and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions ofrevolutionary, irrevocable change. These case studies examine and shed light on assumptions regarding thelinearity and oscillations of adaptations, with intriguing implications forarchaeological inferences.

Author : Matt Pope,John McNabb,Clive Gamble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315439303

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Crossing the Human Threshold by Matt Pope,John McNabb,Clive Gamble Pdf

When was the human threshold crossed? What is the evidence for evolving humans and their emerging humanity? This volume explores in a global overview the archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows that the threshold was crossed slowly, by a variety of human ancestors, and was not confined to one part of the Old World. Crossing the Human Threshold examines the changing evidence during this period for the use of place, landscape and technology. It focuses on the emergence of persistent places, and associated developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the control of fire, represented across the Old World by deeply stratified cave sites. These include the most important sites for the archaeology of human origins in the Levant, South Africa, Asia and Europe, presented here as evidence for innovation in landscape-thinking during the Middle Pleistocene. The volume also examines persistence at open locales through a cutting-edge review of the archaeology of Northern France and England. Crossing the Human Threshold is for the worldwide community of students and researchers studying early hominins and human evolution. It presents new archaeological data. It frames the evidence within current debates to understand the differences and similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors.

Author : S.M. SpencerWood
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475798173

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Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology by S.M. SpencerWood Pdf

Historical archaeology has made great strides during the last two decades. Early archaeological reports were dominated by descriptions of features and artifacts, while research on artifacts was concentrated on studies of topology, technology, and chronology. Site reports from the 1960s and 1970s commonly expressed faith in the potential artifacts had for aiding in the identifying socioeconomic status differences and for understanding the relationships be tween the social classes in terms of their material culture. An emphasis was placed on the presence or absence of porcelain or teaware as an indication of social status. These were typical features in site reports written just a few years ago. During this same period, advances were being made in the study of food bone as archaeologists moved away from bone counts to minimal animal counts and then on to the costs of various cuts of meat. Within the last five years our ability to address questions of the rela tionship between material culture and socioeconomic status has greatly ex panded. The essays in this volume present efforts toward measuring expendi ture and consumption patterns represented by commonly recovered artifacts and food bone. These patterns of consumption are examined in conjunction with evidence from documentary sources that provide information on occupa tions, wealth levels, and ethnic affiliations of those that did the consuming. One of the refreshing aspects of these papers is that the authors are not afraid of documents, and their use of them is not limited to a role of confirmation.

Author : Arthur Willemse
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498544122

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The Motif of the Messianic by Arthur Willemse Pdf

This book explores the relationship between the works of Agamben and Jacques Derrida. Arthur Willemse explains how Agamben’s thought renders Derridean terminology inoperative—by suspending the suspense of signification. He argues that this is Agamben’s way of undoing a theological structure of thought that philosophy has unknowingly appropriated.

Author : Pamela Major-Poetzl
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781469610184

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Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture by Pamela Major-Poetzl Pdf

The author argues that Foucault's archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics. She examines Foucault's view of the relationship between power and knowledge and goes on to discuss the new concepts of space, time, subject, and causality expressed in relativity theory, quantum mechanics, Saussurean linguistics, and Foucault's literary essays." Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Simon Esmonde Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107328112

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The Roman West, AD 200–500 by Simon Esmonde Cleary Pdf

This book describes and analyses the development of the Roman West from Gibraltar to the Rhine, using primarily the extensive body of published archaeological evidence rather than the textual evidence underlying most other studies. It situates this development within a longer-term process of change, proposing the later second century rather than the 'third-century crisis' as the major turning-point, although the latter had longer-term consequences owing to the rise in importance of military identities. Elsewhere, more 'traditional' forms of settlement and display were sustained, to which was added the vocabulary of Christianity. The longer-term rhythms are also central to assessing the evidence for such aspects as rural settlement and patterns of economic interaction. The collapse of Roman imperial authority emphasised trends such as militarisation and regionalisation along with economic and cultural disintegration. Indicators of 'barbarian/Germanic' presence are reassessed within such contexts and the traditional interpretations questioned and alternatives proposed.

Author : Joseph D. Wardle,Robert K. Hitchcock,Matthew Schmader,Pei-Lin Yu
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813070278

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Archaeology on the Threshold by Joseph D. Wardle,Robert K. Hitchcock,Matthew Schmader,Pei-Lin Yu Pdf

New perspectives on transitions in human history This book is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seen through the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating data from across six continents and tracing the human experience from the Late Pleistocene to the present, these chapters offer a global comparative perspective on transitional states. Questions of causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of cultural change. Archaeology on the Threshold focuses on major transitions such as the shift from foraging to agriculture, the adoption of new technologies, the emergence of large-scale societies, the transition from egalitarian to inegalitarian leadership, and changes that occur in socioeconomic and ideological systems as a result of climate change and disease. Theoretical approaches range from processual to postprocessual, humanistic, and interpretive. Methodologies include ethnoarchaeology, the use of ethnographic analogy, cross-cultural comparisons and large-scale data approaches, oral history, the historical record, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Challenging archaeologists to query long-held assumptions and theoretical positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry into change-causing and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions of revolutionary, irrevocable change. These case studies examine and shed light on assumptions regarding the linearity and oscillations of adaptations, with intriguing implications for archaeological inferences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11551837

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American Journal of Archaeology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ross Parry,Ruth Page,Alex Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317239093

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Museum Thresholds by Ross Parry,Ruth Page,Alex Moseley Pdf

Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. Bringing together an international collection of writers from different disciplines, the chapters in this volume offer different theoretical perspectives on the nature of engagement, interaction and immersion in threshold spaces, and the factors which enable and inhibit those immersive possibilities. Organised into themed sections, the book explores museum thresholds from three different perspectives. Considering them first as a problem space, the contributors then go on to explore thresholds through different media and, finally, draw upon other subjects and professions, including performance, gaming, retail and discourse studies, in order to examine them from an entirely new perspective. Drawing upon examples that span Asia, North America and Europe, the authors set the entrance space in its historical, social and architectural contexts. Together, the essays show how the challenges posed by the threshold can be rethought and reimagined from a variety of perspectives, each of which have much to bring to future thinking and design. Combining both theory and practice, Museum Thresholds should be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in museum studies, digital heritage, architecture, design studies, retail studies and media studies. It will also be of great interest to museum practitioners working in a wide variety of institutions around the globe.

Author : André Carlo Colonese,Rafael Guedes Milheira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031322846

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Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America by André Carlo Colonese,Rafael Guedes Milheira Pdf

This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and landscape diversity. This geographic area has supported human populations since at least the transition from the Pleistocene to Holocene, but the nature and scale of these interactions are matters of debate and their legacy to modern lowland environments is not fully understood. This book brings together works from distinct disciplines, including theoretical and methodological approaches on single case studies or broad regional syntheses, with no chronological constraint. The editors aim to generate a novel contribution reporting the most recent and ground-breaking research on human interactions with past environments and resources in lowland South America, from pre-Columbian to Colonial times. The volume also discusses the legacy of these past interactions and their potential contribution to informing current conservation and development agendas, providing examples of how archaeology and paleoecology can fill gaps in conservation and developmental policy. This volume will be of interest to students, archaeologists, and readers of Latin American studies.

Author : James M. Skibo
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0874807069

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Expanding Archaeology by James M. Skibo Pdf

Attempts to define behavioral archaeology more comprehensively than is common in order to illustrate its role in the theoretical landscape of contemporary archaeology. To flesh out points of agreement or dissent, the perspectives of the chapters range from those of behavioral archaeology, old and new, to those of historical, selectionist, and postprocessual archaeology. Many of the 15 papers were first presented at a symposium titled "From Airline Trash to Potsherds," held at the 56th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1992.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Archaeological thefts
ISBN : UCR:31210008913798

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The Destruction of America's Archaeological Heritage by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : David L. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317606208

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Analytical Archaeology by David L. Clarke Pdf

This study was well-established as a pioneer work on archaeological methodology, the theoretical basis of all archaeological analysis whatever the period or era. The first edition of the book presented and evaluated the radical changes in methodology which derived from developments in other disciplines, such as cybernetics, computer science and geography, during the 1950s and ‘60s. It argued that archaeology was a coherent discipline with its own methods and procedures and attempted to define the entities (attributes, artefacts, types, assemblages, cultures and culture groups) rigorously and consistently so that they could be applied to archaeological data. The later edition continued the same general theory, which is unparalleled in its scope and depth, adding notes to help understanding of the advances in method and theory to support the student and professional archaeologist. Review of the original publication: "One might venture that this is the most important archaeological work for twenty or thirty years, and it will undoubtedly influence several future generations of archaeologists." The Times Literary Supplement

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521366984

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Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason by Gary Gutting Pdf

An introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of Michael Foucault.

Author : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231514042

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Anthropological Archaeology by Guy E. Gibbon Pdf

Anthropological Archaeology