Dynamics And Developments Of Social Structures And Networks In Prehistoric And Protohistoric Cyprus

Author : Teresa Bürge,Laerke Recht
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003833611

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Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus by Teresa Bürge,Laerke Recht Pdf

This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation, economic systems and networks. The book discusses and defines how specific types of material datasets and assemblages, such as architecture, artefacts, and ecofacts, and their contextualisation can form the basis of interpretative models of social structures and networks in ancient Cyprus. This is explored through four main themes: approaches to social dynamics; social and economic networks and connectivity; adaptability and agency; and social dynamics and inequality. The variety and transition of social structures on the island are discussed on multiple scales, from the local and relatively short-term to island-wide and eastern Mediterranean-wide and the longue durée. The focus of study ranges from urban to non-urban contexts, and are reflected in settlement, funerary, and other ritual contexts. Connections, both within the island and to the broader Eastern Mediterranean, and how these impact social and economic developments on the island, are explored. Discussions revolve around the potential of consolidating the models based on specialised studies into a cohesive interpretation of society on ancient Cyprus and its strategic connections with surrounding regions in a diachronic perspective from the Neolithic through the end of the Bronze Age, i.e. from roughly the seventh millennium to the eleventh century BCE. Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus is intended for researchers and students of the archaeology and history of ancient Cyprus, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Author : A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191528699

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Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus by A. Bernard Knapp Pdf

A. Bernard Knapp presents a new island archaeology and island history of Bronze Age and early Iron Age Cyprus, set in its Mediterranean context. Drawing out tensions between different ways of thinking about islands, and how they are connected or isolated from surrounding islands and mainlands, Knapp addresses an under-studied but dynamic new field of archaeological enquiry - the social identity of prehistoric and protohistoric Mediterranean islanders. In treating issues such as ethnicity, migration, and hybridization, he provides an up-to-date theoretical analysis of a wide range of relevant archaeological data. In using historical documents to re-present the Cypriot past, he also offers an integrated archaeological and socio-historical synthesis of insularity and social identity on the Mediterranean's third largest island.

Author : David Frankel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 919815351X

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Structure, Measurement and Meaning by David Frankel Pdf

Author : Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107046528

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Making Ancient Cities by Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher Pdf

Investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism.

Author : A. Bernard Knapp,Peter van Dommelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1677 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316194065

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The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean by A. Bernard Knapp,Peter van Dommelen Pdf

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Author : Margreet L. Steiner,Ann E. Killebrew
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191662553

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant by Margreet L. Steiner,Ann E. Killebrew Pdf

This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical geographical term referring to a large area which today comprises the modern states of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, western Syria, and Cyprus, as well as the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Unique in its treatment of the entire region, it offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the current state of the archaeology of the Levant within its larger cultural, historical, and socio-economic contexts. The Handbook also attempts to bridge the modern scholarly and political divide between archaeologists working in this highly contested region. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through Persian periods - a time span during which the Levant was often in close contact with the imperial powers of Egypt, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. This volume will serve as an invaluable reference work for those interested in a contextualised archaeological account of this region, beginning with the 'agricultural revolution' until the conquest of Alexander the Great that marked the end of the Persian period.

Author : Alex R. Knodell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520380530

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece by Alex R. Knodell Pdf

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. These centuries saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks across local, regional, and Mediterranean scales. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an often-overlooked period of world history. “This book reconfigures our understanding of early Greece on a regional level, beyond Mycenaean 'palaces' and across temporal boundaries. Alex Knodell's sophisticated arguments enable a fresh reading of the emergence of early Greek polities, revealing the microregions that put to the test overarching 'Mediterranean' models. His detailed study makes a convincing return to a comparative framework, integrating a 'small world' network and its trajectory with the larger picture of ancient complex societies.” SARAH MORRIS, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, University of California, Los Angeles “A comprehensive, thoughtful treatment of the time period before the crystallization of the ancient Greek city states.” WILLIAM A. PARKINSON, Curator and Professor, The Field Museum and University of Illinois at Chicago “An important and must-read account. The strength of this book lies in its close analysis of the important different regional characteristics and evolutionary trajectories of Greece as it transforms into the Archaic and, later, the Classical world.” DAVID B. SMALL, author Ancient Greece: Social Structure and Evolution.

Author : Miljana Radivojević,Benjamin Roberts,Miroslav Marić,Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković,Thilo Rehren
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270432

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The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia by Miljana Radivojević,Benjamin Roberts,Miroslav Marić,Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković,Thilo Rehren Pdf

The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the evolution of early metallurgy in the Balkans. It demonstrates that far from being a rare and elite practice, the earliest metallurgy in the world was a common and communal craft activity.

Author : Arleta Kowalewska
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789256604

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Bathhouses in Iudaea, Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia from Herod the Great to the Umayyads by Arleta Kowalewska Pdf

Bathing culture was one of the pillars of Roman society and bathhouses are one of the largest categories of a particular type of construction excavated in the Roman world. The large number of surviving remains and their regional variety make bathhouses vital for the study of the local societies in the Roman-Byzantine period. This book presents the archaeological evidence of close to 200 Roman-style bathhouses from the region of Iudaea/Syria-Palaestina and Provincia Arabia, part of the provinces of the Roman East, constructed from the reign of Herod the Great (second half of the 1st century BCE) to the end of the Umayyad rule (mid-8th century CE). The bathing complexes of the Roman, Byzantine, and the Early Islamic periods, ranging from large public thermae to small bathing suites, are for the first time analyzed as unified data with an unprecedented amount of detail, considering a variety of parameters – from dating and setting, through building techniques and materials, to plans and decorations. Typologies of the bathhouses and their components are supplemented by exploration of the socio-cultural insight provided by this particular type of construction. The historical narrative of the regional bathing facilities is updated in the light of new information. The full raw data used for the study is provided in the expandable open-access online database.

Author : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262326162

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Transient Workspaces by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga Pdf

An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace. In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities—including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in the laboratory in a Western-style building but also in the society in the forest, in the crop field, and in other places where knowledge is made and turned into practical outcomes. African creativities are found in African mobilities. Mavhunga shows the movement of people as not merely conveyances across space but transient workspaces. Taking indigenous hunting in Zimbabwe as one example, he explores African philosophies of mobilities as spiritually guided and of the forest as a sacred space. Viewing the hunt as guided mobility, Mavhunga considers interesting questions of what constitutes technology under regimes of spirituality. He describes how African hunters extended their knowledge traditions to domesticate the gun, how European colonizers, with no remedy of their own, turned to indigenous hunters for help in combating the deadly tsetse fly, and examines how wildlife conservation regimes have criminalized African hunting rather than enlisting hunters (and their knowledge) as allies in wildlife sustainability. The hunt, Mavhunga writes, is one of many criminalized knowledges and practices to which African people turn in times of economic or political crisis. He argues that these practices need to be decriminalized and examined as technologies of everyday innovation with a view toward constructive engagement, innovating with Africans rather than for them.

Author : Assaf Yasur-Landau,Eric H. Cline,Yorke M. Rowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316610020

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The Social Archaeology of the Levant by Assaf Yasur-Landau,Eric H. Cline,Yorke M. Rowan Pdf

Author : Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117864

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Community Identity and Archaeology by Naoíse Mac Sweeney Pdf

Exploring the notion of community identity in an archaeological context

Author : T. Douglas Price,Gary M. Feinman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441963000

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Pathways to Power by T. Douglas Price,Gary M. Feinman Pdf

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of social organization and basic to the operation of more complex societies. An understanding of the transformation from relatively egalitarian societies to a hierarchical organization and socioeconomic stratification is fundamental to our knowledge about the human condition. In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the Editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies concerning these central questions. When and where does hierarchy appear in human society, and how does it operate? With numerous case studies from the Old and New World, spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups, and complex states, Pathways to Power provides key historical insights into current social and cultural questions.

Author : Gary M. Feinman,T. Douglas Price
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642218460

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Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization by Philipp Wolfgang Stockhammer Pdf

Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes. Hybridity itself, however, is often treated as a specifically post-colonial phenomenon. The contributors in this volume assume the historicity of transcultural flows and entanglements; they consider the resulting transformative powers to be a basic feature of cultural change. By juxtaposing different notions of hybridization and specific methodologies, as they appear in the various disciplines, this volume’s design is transdisciplinary. Each author presents a disciplinary concept of hybridization and shows how it operates in specific case studies. The aim is to generate a transdisciplinary perception of hybridity that paves the way for a wider application of this crucial concept