Modeling Cross Cultural Interaction In Ancient Borderlands

Author : Ulrike Matthies Green,Kirk E. Costion
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Andrei Gandila
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108470421

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Cultural Encounters on Byzantium's Northern Frontier, c. AD 500–700 by Andrei Gandila Pdf

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

Author : David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683402381

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Falls of the Ohio River by David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson Pdf

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature: a series of low, cascading rapids along the Ohio River on the border of Kentucky and Indiana. Using the perspective of historical ecology and synthesizing data from recent excavations, contributors to this volume demonstrate how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years. These essays show how the Falls region was an attractive place to live due to its diverse ecological zones and its abundance of high-quality chert. In chronological studies ranging from the Early Archaic to the Late Mississippian periods, contributors portray the rapids as at times a boundary between Native American groups living upstream and downstream and at other times a hub where cultures converged and blended into a distinct local identity. The essays analyze and track changes in stone tool styles, mortuary traditions, settlement patterns, plant consumption, and ceramic production. Together, the chapters in this volume illustrate that the Falls of the Ohio was a focal point on the human landscape throughout the Holocene era. Providing a foundation for future work in this location, they show how the region’s geography and ecology shaped the ways humans organized themselves within it and how in turn these groups impacted the area through their changing social, economic, and political circumstances. Contributors: Anne Tobbe Bader | Rick Burdin | Justin N. Carlson | Richard W. Jefferies | Michael French | Robert G. McCullough | Greg J. Maggard | Stephen T. Mocas | Cheryl Ann Munson | David Pollack | Jack Rossen | Christopher W Schmidt| Claiborne Daniel | Duane B. Simpson | C. Russell, Stafford | Gary E. Stinchcomb | Jocelyn C. Turner A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Christine D. Beaule
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813052809

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Frontiers of Colonialism by Christine D. Beaule Pdf

Featuring case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Mesoamerica, China, the Philippines, the Pacific, Egypt, and elsewhere, Frontiers of Colonialism makes the surprising claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations. This volume challenges archaeologists to rethink the two major dichotomies of European versus non-European and prehistoric versus historic colonialism, which can be limiting, self-imposed boundaries. By bringing together contributors working in different regions and time periods, this volume examines the variability in colonial administrative strategies, local forms of resistance to cultural assimilation, hybridized cultural traditions, and other cross-cultural interactions within a global, comparative framework. Taken together these essays argue that crossing these frontiers of study will give anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians more power to recognize and explain the highly varied local impacts of colonialism.

Author : Bryan Feuer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786473434

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Boundaries, Borders and Frontiers in Archaeology by Bryan Feuer Pdf

Until fairly recently, archaeological research has been directed primarily toward the centers of societies rather than their perimeters. Yet frontiers and borders, precisely because they are peripheral, promote interaction between people of different polities and cultures, with a wide range of potential outcomes. Much work has begun to redress this disparity of focus. Drawing on contemporary and ethnographic accounts, historical data and archaeological evidence, this book covers more than 30 years of research on boundaries, borders and frontiers, beginning with The Northern Mycenaean Border in Thessaly in 1983. The author discusses various theoretical and methodological issues concerning peripheries as they apply to the archaeological record. Political, economic, social and cultural processes in border and frontier zones are described in detail. Three case study societies are examined--China, Rome and Mycenaean Greece.

Author : Gary M. Feinman,Danielle J. Riebe
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803273617

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Obsidian Across the Americas by Gary M. Feinman,Danielle J. Riebe Pdf

This volume draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian characterization, material application, and theoretical interpretations in the Americas.

Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110607628

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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies by Sitta von Reden Pdf

The Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies offers in three volumes the first comprehensive discussion of economic development in the empires of the Afro-Eurasian world region to elucidate the conditions under which large quantities of goods and people moved across continents and between empires. Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial Exchange analyzes frontier zones as particular landscapes of encounter, economic development, and transimperial network formation. The chapters offer problematizing approaches to frontier zone processes as part of and in between empires, with the goal of better understanding how and why goods and resources moved across the Afro-Eurasian region. Key frontiers in mountains and steppes, along coasts, rivers, and deserts are investigated in depth, demonstrating how local landscapes, politics, and pathways explain network practices and participation in long-distance trade. The chapters seek to retrieve local knowledge ignored in popular Silk Road models and to show the potential of frontier-zone research for understanding the Afro-Eurasian region as a connected space.

Author : James G. Cusick
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780809334094

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Studies in Culture Contact by James G. Cusick Pdf

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other. Studies in Culture Contact defines the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contact.

Author : Wendy F. Kasinec,Michael A. Polushin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0842027319

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Expanding Empires by Wendy F. Kasinec,Michael A. Polushin Pdf

This new volume examines the processes of cultural exchange as they occurred in 'empire building, ' looking at Early Mesopotamia, Africa, Greece, Japan, India, the Arab world, and empires in other parts of the globe. The articles draw upon a variety of disciplines from the social sciences and the humanities, a feature not often found in other readers. Unlike other books on world civilizations, this text strives to develop a consistent theme as it focuses on the manner in which imperial authority and cultural interaction worked through different bureaucracies in various empires. The articles also help students understand the cross-cultural interactions and historical events that have laid the foundation for our modern global society. This book also contains useful maps and supplements consisting of images to assist students in visualizing and understanding the textual material. This new text is ideal for courses in world history prior to 1650.

Author : John W.I. Lee,Michael North
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803288959

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Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America by John W.I. Lee,Michael North Pdf

Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region and over time. John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage a nuanced dialogue addressing the concepts and processes of borderlands. Gathering the voices of a diverse range of international scholars, Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America presents case studies from ancient to modern times, highlighting topics ranging from religious conflicts to medical frontiers to petty trade. Spanning geographical regions of Europe, the Baltics, North Africa, the American West, and Mexico, these essays shed new light on the complex processes of boundary construction, maintenance, and crossing, as well as on the importance of economic, political, social, ethnic, and religious interactions in the borderlands. Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America not only forges links between past and present scholarship but also paves the way for new models and approaches in future borderlands research.

Author : David W. Anthony
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400831104

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Pdf

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange. He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

Author : John W.I. Lee,Michael North
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803285620

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Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America by John W.I. Lee,Michael North Pdf

"John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together international and interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide scope of border issues and to encourage a nuanced dialogue addressing the concepts and processes of borderlands"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015079893023

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Penelope Ballard Drooker
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703425

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The View from Madisonville by Penelope Ballard Drooker Pdf

Author : College Art Association (U.S.). Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106019372330

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Abstracts 2008 by College Art Association (U.S.). Conference Pdf