Archaeometry In South Eastern Europe

Author : Ina Miloglav
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527545915

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Recent Developments in Archaeometry and Archaeological Methodology in South-Eastern Europe by Ina Miloglav Pdf

This volume presents papers given at the 3rd and 4th scientific editions of the conference “Methodology and Archaeometry” held in 2015 and 2016 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. It covers topics in archaeometry and archaeological methodology, which represent an essential part of collecting and processing data, which defines the validity of archaeological interpretation. Contributions explore non-destructive archaeology (geophysics and field survey), different aspects of artifact analysis, and experimental archaeology. The text brings together new research from scientists from various disciplines based on a range of methodological, analytical and theoretical perspectives, thus providing new insights and approaches, as well as new theoretical and methodological frameworks in contemporary archaeological science.

Author : Nona Palincas,Corneliu C. Ponta
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789691979

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Bridging Science and Heritage in the Balkans: Studies in Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage Restoration and Conservation by Nona Palincas,Corneliu C. Ponta Pdf

In a period when the study of archaeological remains is enriched through new methods derived from the natural sciences and when there is general agreement on the need for more investment in the study, restoration and conservation of the tangible cultural heritage, this book presents contributions to these fields from South-Eastern Europe.

Author : John Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134687541

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Fragmentation in Archaeology by John Chapman Pdf

Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation within a broad anthropological context.

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351330015

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Slavs in the Making by Florin Curta Pdf

Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Nothing is known about what the inhabitants of those remote lands called themselves during the sixth century, or whether they spoke a Slavic language. The book engages critically with the archaeological evidence from these regions, and questions its association with the "Slavs" that has often been taken for granted. It also deals with the linguistic evidence—primarily names of rivers and other bodies of water—that has been used to identify the primordial homeland of the Slavs, and from which their migration towards the Lower Danube is believed to have started. It is precisely in this area that sociolinguistics can offer a serious alternative to the language tree model currently favoured in linguistic paleontology. The question of how best to explain the spread of Slavic remains a controversial issue. This book attempts to provide an answer, and not just a critique of the method of linguistic paleontology upon which the theory of the Slavic migration and homeland relies. The book proposes a model of interpretation that builds upon the idea that (Common) Slavic cannot possibly be the result of Slavic migration. It addresses the question of migration in the archaeology of early medieval Eastern Europe, and makes a strong case for a more nuanced interpretation of the archaeological evidence of mobility. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in medieval history, migration, and the history of Eastern and Central Europe.

Author : Ioannis Liritzis,Gregory N. Tsokas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Archaeological dating
ISBN : MINN:31951P00582038X

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Archaeometry in South Eastern Europe by Ioannis Liritzis,Gregory N. Tsokas Pdf

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428880

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The Making of the Slavs by Florin Curta Pdf

This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity. The author demonstrates that the history of the Sclavenes and the Antes begins only at around 500 AD. He also points to the significance of the archaeological evidence, which suggests that specific artefacts may have been used as identity markers. This evidence also indicates the role of local leaders in building group boundaries and in leading successful raids across the Danube. Because of these military and political developments, Byzantine authors began employing names such as Sclavines and Antes in order to make sense of the process of group identification that was taking place north of the Danube frontier. Slavic ethnicity is therefore shown to be a Byzantine invention.

Author : Julia Heeb
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781905739905

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Copper Shaft-Hole Axes and Early Metallurgy in South-Eastern Europe: An Integrated Approach by Julia Heeb Pdf

Although the copper axes with central shaft-hole from south-eastern Europe have a long history of research, they have not been studied on a transnational basis since the 1960s. What has also been missing, is trying to use as many methods as possible to better understand their production, use and context.

Author : Cătălin Nicolae Popa,Simon Stoddart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1782976779

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Fingerprinting the Iron Age by Cătălin Nicolae Popa,Simon Stoddart Pdf

Author : Leslie Alcock,David Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135073312

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From the Baltic to the Black Sea by Leslie Alcock,David Austin Pdf

Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It exposes the limitations of a strictly empirical approach to studying the period when written history began and the early medieval states emerged.

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521815390

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Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 by Florin Curta Pdf

This book is an authoritative survey of the history of southeastern Europe from 500 to 1250.

Author : Klára Šabatová,Laura Dietrich,Oliver Dietrich,Anthony Harding,Viktória Kiss
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789694550

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Bringing Down the Iron Curtain by Klára Šabatová,Laura Dietrich,Oliver Dietrich,Anthony Harding,Viktória Kiss Pdf

Since the fall of communism, archaeological research in Central and Eastern European countries has seen a large influx of new projects and ideas, fueled by bilateral contacts, Europe-wide circulation of scholars and access to research literature. This volume is the first study which relates these issues specifically to Bronze Age Archaeology.

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0203701259

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Slavs in the Making by Florin Curta Pdf

"Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Nothing is known about what the inhabitants of those remote lands called themselves during the sixth century, or whether they spoke a Slavic language. The book engages critically with the archaeological evidence from these regions, and questions its association with the "Slavs" that has often been taken for granted. It also deals with the linguistic evidence-primarily names of rivers and other bodies of water-that has been used to identify the primordial homeland of the Slavs, and from which their migration towards the Lower Danube is believed to have started. It is precisely in that area that sociolinguistics can offer a serious alternative to the language tree model currently favored in linguistic paleontology. The question of how best to explain the spread of Slavic remains a controversial issue. This book attempts to provide an answer, and not just a critique of the method of linguistic paleontology upon which the theory of the Slavic migration and homeland relies. The book proposes a model of interpretation that builds upon the idea that (Common) Slavic cannot possibly be the result of Slavic migration. It addresses the question of migration in the archaeology of early medieval Eastern Europe, and makes a strong case for a more nuanced interpretation of the archaeological evidence of mobility. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in medieval history, migration, and the history of Eastern and Central Europe"--

Author : Lena Mirosevic,Gregory Zaro,Mario Katic,Danijela Birt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Cultural landscapes
ISBN : 9783643802835

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Landscape in Southeastern Europe by Lena Mirosevic,Gregory Zaro,Mario Katic,Danijela Birt Pdf

A landscape is a medium that reflects material, spiritual, and cultural activities of communities in the past, present and future. Understanding landscapes in the context of space and time necessarily demands the conceptual approaches of different scientific and expert fields of study. Through a variety of case studies from Southeastern Europe, this volume explores the concept of landscape from multiple fields of study in order to gain insight into how disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, folklore, sociology, and history define and approach this concept.

Author : Catalin Nicolae Popa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319632674

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Modelling Identities by Catalin Nicolae Popa Pdf

This volume investigates the construction of group identity in Late La Tène South-East Europe using an innovative statistical modelling method. Death and burial theory underlies the potential of mortuary practices for identity research. The sample used for this volumes's research consists of 370 graves, organized in a specially crated database that records funerary ritual; and grave-good information. In the case of grave-goods, this involved found hierarchically organized categorical variables, which serve to describe each item by combining functional and typological features. The volume also aims to show the compatibility of archaeological theory and statistical modelling. The discussions from archaeological theory rarely find methodological implementations through statistical methods. In this volume, theoretical issues form an integrative part of data preparation, method development and result interpretation.

Author : Cătălin Nicolae Popa,Simon Stoddart
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976783

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Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age by Cătălin Nicolae Popa,Simon Stoddart Pdf

Archaeology has long dealt with issues of identity, and especially with ethnicity, with modern approaches emphasising dynamic and fluid social construction. The archaeology of the Iron Age in particular has engendered much debate on the topic of ethnicity, fuelled by the first availability of written sources alongside the archaeological evidence which has led many researchers to associate the features they excavate with populations named by Greek or Latin writers. Some archaeological traditions have had their entire structure built around notions of ethnicity, around the relationships existing between large groups of people conceived together as forming unitary ethnic units. On the other hand, partly influenced by anthropological studies, other scholars have written forcefully against Iron Age ethnic constructions, such as the Celts. The 24 contributions to this volume focus on the south east Europe, where the Iron Age has, until recently, been populated with numerous ethnic groups with which specific material culture forms have been associated. The first section is devoted to the core geographical area of south east Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia, as well as Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The following three sections allow comparison with regions further to the west and the south west with contributions on central and western Europe, the British Isles and the Italian peninsula. The volume concludes with four papers which provide more synthetic statements that cut across geographical boundaries, the final contributions bringing together some of the key themes of the volume. The wide array of approaches to identity presented here reflects the continuing debate on how to integrate material culture, protohistoric evidence (largely classical authors looking in on first millennium BC societies) and the impact of recent nationalistic agendas.