Grotta Mora Cavorso From Protohistory To Present Times

Author : Mario Federico Rolfo,Katia Francesca Achino,Maurizio Gatta,Letizia Silvestri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527564282

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Grotta Mora Cavorso, from Protohistory to Present Times by Mario Federico Rolfo,Katia Francesca Achino,Maurizio Gatta,Letizia Silvestri Pdf

This volume contains the results of archaeological research carried out at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a fascinating cave in the still-pristine landscape of the Simbruini Mountains along the Upper Aniene River Valley, central Italy. The book is written by archaeologists for archaeologists, as well as for lovers of archaeology, history and speleology; it describes and critically discusses a wide range of scientific and anthropological analyses carried out over the last 15 years, while integrating them within the contemporary theoretical debate. The first of three volumes, it covers the Historic and Protohistoric periods of human occupation of the cave, revealing its complex and multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a possible monastic hermitage, stables and even a war refuge. This book serves to fill the gap in cave archaeology at both a local and wider geographical scale, while demonstrating the key importance of a previously neglected area, thus adding to the overall understanding of the use of caves in Mediterranean Europe.

Author : Lindsey Büster,Eugène Warmenbol,Dimitrij Mlekuž
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319990224

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Between Worlds by Lindsey Büster,Eugène Warmenbol,Dimitrij Mlekuž Pdf

The recent resurgence of academic interest in caves has demonstrated the central roles they played as arenas for ritual, ceremony and performance, and their importance within later prehistoric cosmologies. Caves represent very particular types of archaeological site and require novel approaches to their recording, interpretation and presentation. This is especially true in understanding the ritual use of caves, when the less tangible aspects of these environments would have been fundamental to the practices taking place within them. Between Worlds explores new theoretical frameworks that examine the agency of these enduring 'natural' places and the complex interplay between environment, taphonomy and human activity. It also showcases the application of innovative technologies, such as 3D laser-scanning and acoustic modelling, which provide new and exciting ways of capturing the experiential qualities of these enigmatic sites. Together, these developments offer more nuanced understandings of the role of caves in prehistoric ritual, and allow for more effective communication, management and presentation of cave archaeology to a wide range of audiences.

Author : William A. Longacre
Publisher : Century Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816534799

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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology by William A. Longacre Pdf

Ethnoarchaeology, the study of material culture in a living society by archaeologists, facilitates the extraction of information from prehistoric materials as well. Studies of contemporary pottery-making were initiated in the southwestern United States toward the end of the nineteenth century, then abandoned as a result of changes in archaeological theory. Now a resurgence in ethnoarchaeology over the past twenty-five years offers a new set of directions for the discipline. This volume presents the results of such work with pottery, a class of materials that occurs abundantly in many archaeological sites. Drawing on projects undertaken around the world, in the Phillipines, East Africa, Mesoamerica, India, in both traditional and complex societies, the contributors focus on identifying social and behavioral sources of ceramic variation to show how analogical reasoning is fundamental to archaeological interpretation. As the number of pottery-making societies declines, opportunities for such research must be seized. By bringing together a variety of ceramic ethnoarchaeological analyses, this volume offers the profession a much-needed touchstone on method and theory for the study of pottery-making among living peoples.

Author : Levent Atici,Benjamin S. Arbuckle
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646422562

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Food Provisioning in Complex Societies by Levent Atici,Benjamin S. Arbuckle Pdf

Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies. Contributors combine zooarchaeological and historical data from global case studies to analyze patterns in centralization and bureaucratic control, asymmetrical access and inequalities, and production-distribution-consumption dynamics of urban food provisioning and animal management. Taking a global perspective and including both prehistoric and historic case studies, the chapters in the volume reflect some of the current best practices in the zooarchaeology of complex societies. Embedding faunal evidence within a broader anthropological explanatory framework and integrating archaeological contexts, historic texts, iconography, and ethnohistorical sources, the book discerns myriad ways that animals are key contributors to, and cocreators of, complex societies in all periods and all places. Chapters cover the diverse sociopolitical and economic roles wild animals played in Bronze Age Turkey; the production and consumption of animal products in medieval Ireland; the importance of belief systems, politics, and cosmologies in Shang Dynasty animal provisioning in the Yellow River Valley; the significance of external trade routes in the kingdom of Aksum (modern Sudan); hunting and animal husbandry at El Zotz; animal economies from two Mississippian period sites; and more. Food Provisioning in Complex Societies provides an optimistic roadmap and heuristic tools to explore the diverse, resilient, and contingent processes involved in food provisioning. The book represents a novel and productive way forward for understanding the unique, yet predictably structured, provisioning systems that emerged in the context of complex societies in all parts of the world. It will be of interest to zooarchaeologists and archaeologists alike. Contributors: Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Fiona Beglane, Roderick Campbell, Kathryn Grossman, Patricia Martinez-Lira, Jacqueline S. Meier, Sarah E. Newman, Terry O'Connor, Tanya M. Peres, Gypsy C. Price, Elizabeth J. Reitz, Kim Shelton, Marcus Winter, Helina S. Woldekiros

Author : David Thurmond
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410164

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A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome by David Thurmond Pdf

A careful analysis of Roman food processes, including those for cereals, olive oil, wine, other plant products, animal products, and condiments. The work combines analysis of literary and archaeological evidence with that of traditional comparative practices and modern food science.

Author : Patrick E. McGovern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780691197203

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Ancient Wine by Patrick E. McGovern Pdf

Stone age wine -- The Noah hypothesis -- The archaeological and chemical hunt for the earliest wine -- Neolithic wine! -- Wine of the earliest pharaohs -- Wine of Egypt's golden age -- Wine of the world's first cities -- Wine and the great empires of the ancient Near East -- The Holy Land's bounty -- Lands of Dionysos : Greece and western Anatolia -- A beverage for King Midas and at the limits of the civilized world -- Molecular archaeology, wine, and a view to the future.

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780718519063

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Mediterranean Valley by Graeme Barker Pdf

From the lakeside encampment of Stone Age scavengers three-quarters of a million years ago to the problems facing modern-day farmers, A Mediterranean Valley documents the long-term settlement history of the Biferno Valley in central-southern Italy, analysing the symbiotic relationship of its landscape and its inhabitants. Integrating the techniques of archaeology, history and geography, this volume traces the history of human settlement in the Valley and shows how it is inextricably linked to the parallel story of landscape development. Unique in its geographical and historical time-scale, the Biferno Valley project is widely cited within the archaeological community and is considered the best example to date of the importance of human settlement in shaping the Mediterranean landscape.

Author : Caroline Malone,Simon Stoddart
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013514125

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Papers in Italian Archaeology IV by Caroline Malone,Simon Stoddart Pdf

Author : Peter Rowley-Conwy,Dale Sergeantson,Paul Halstead
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785704468

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Economic Zooarchaeology by Peter Rowley-Conwy,Dale Sergeantson,Paul Halstead Pdf

Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a means to this end. The 33 papers present a wide array of topics covering many areas of archaeological interest. Aspects of method and theory, animal bone identification, human palaeopathology, prehistoric animal utilisation in South America, and the study of dog cemeteries are covered. The long-running controversy over the milking of animals and the use of dairy products by humans is discussed as is the ecological impact of hunting by farmers, with studies from Serbia and Syria. For Britain, coverage extends from Mesolithic Star Carr, via the origins of agriculture and the farmers of Lismore Fields, through considerations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Outside Britain, papers discuss Neolithic subsistence in Cyprus and Croatia, Iron Age society in Spain, Medieval and post-medieval animal utilisation in northern Russia, and the claimed finding of a modern red deer skeleton in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. In exploring these themes, this volume celebrates the life and work of Tony Legge (zoo)archaeologist and teacher.

Author : J. C. Chapman
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040893294

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Recent Developments in Yugoslav Archaeology by J. C. Chapman Pdf

"This volume is an extended conference report of a meeting ... at the University of Bradford in December 1987"--P. xii.

Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1009017640

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Salt by Anthony Harding Pdf

This Element provides a concise account of the archaeology of salt production in ancient Europe. It describes what salt is, where it is found, what it is used for, and its importance for human and animal health. The different periods of the past in which it was produced are described, from earliest times down to the medieval period. Attention is paid to the abundant literary sources that inform us about salt in the Greek and Roman world, as well as the likely locations of production in the Mediterranean and beyond. The economic and social importance of salt in human societies means that salt has served as a crucial aspect of trade and exchange over the centuries, and potentially as a means of individuals and societies achieving wealth and status.

Author : Andrew Sherratt
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1842179993

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The Dynamics of Neolithisation in Europe by Andrew Sherratt Pdf

Dynamics of Neolithisation examines the development of early agriculture in Neolithic Europe, drawing on the work of the late Professor Andrew Sherratt. His untimely death coincided with an important period of research that moved beyond searching for singular causal mechanisms behind the "neolithisation" of Europe in favour of developing a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of cultural, ecological, economic, and social factors. Andrew Sherratt's work is significant because it developed models for integrating the different evidential components and analytical scales involved in the prehistoric development of European agriculture. The essays in this volume examine such significant factors as plant and animal domestication, social organisation, the development of monumental architecture, exchange and social identity and the cultural transmission of technology.

Author : Katina T. Lillios,Michael Chazan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9088903484

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Fresh Fields and Pastures New by Katina T. Lillios,Michael Chazan Pdf

In this book, dedicated to Andrew M.T. Moore current research is presented on the neolithic of the Near East and Croatia, illustrating the continuing impact of Moore's work on the early farming and herding peoples of the eastern Mediterranean.

Author : Manuel Fernández-Götz,Dirk Krausse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107147409

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Eurasia at the Dawn of History by Manuel Fernández-Götz,Dirk Krausse Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the development of the first cities and early state formations of ancient Eurasia.

Author : Francesca Fulminante
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030350

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The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus by Francesca Fulminante Pdf

An original and unprecedented analysis of urbanization and state formation in Rome and Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era.