Osteoarchaeology In Historical Context

Author : Roos van Oosten,Kerry Fast,Rachel Schats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9088908346

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Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context by Roos van Oosten,Kerry Fast,Rachel Schats Pdf

Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conjunction with the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the person's environment and burial conditions. While osteoarchaeological research is common in the Low Countries, many of the studies done on the excellent skeletal collections remain unpublished and therefore unavailable to a larger audience.Following on the Urban Graveyards volumes, Osteoarchaeology in historical context contributes to the dissemination of cemetery research in the Low Countries. Several important skeletal collections are examined in their historical contexts to better understand past living and dying. Osteoarchaeological data are combined with information on burial location, orientation, and grave goods. In doing so, this volume expands our knowledge of contextual cemetery research in the Low Countries and serves as a starting point for comparative research.

Author : Teresita Majewski,David Gaimster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387720715

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International Handbook of Historical Archaeology by Teresita Majewski,David Gaimster Pdf

In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today. Historical archaeology is a branch of global archaeology that has grown in the last 40 years from its North American base into an increasingly global community of archaeologists each studying their area of the world in a historical context. Where historical archaeology started as part of the study of the post-Columbian societies of the United States and Canada, it has now expanded to interface with the post-medieval archaeologies of Europe and the diverse post-imperial experiences of Africa, Latin America, and Australasia. The 36 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from the leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology. The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521329248

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The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings by Ian Hodder Pdf

This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of artefacts. It seeks at once to refine the theory and method relating to interpretation and show, with examples, how to conduct this sort of archaeological work. Some contributors work with the material culture of modern times or the historic period, areas in which the symbolism of mute artefacts has traditionally been thought most accessible. However, the book also contains a good number of applications in prehistory to demonstrate the feasibility of symbolic interpretation where good contextual data survive from the distant past. In relation to wider debates within the social sciences, the volume is characterised by a concern to place abstract symbolic codes within their historical context and within the contexts of social actions. In this respect, it develops further some of the ideas presented in Dr Hodder's Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, an earlier volume in this series.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195392302

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The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology by William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos Pdf

This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.

Author : Anders Andrén
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475794090

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Between Artifacts and Texts by Anders Andrén Pdf

This is the first truly global survey of the relationship between artifacts and texts from historiographical, methodological, and analytical perspectives. It analyzes the crucial relationship between material culture and writing in ancient societies, employing examples from twelve major disciplines in historical archaeology and summarizing their role in five global methodological approaches. It is valuable reading for advanced (under/post) graduate students, and instructors in any historical archaeological subject.

Author : Lu Ann De Cunzo
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1572332492

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A Historical Archaeology of Delaware by Lu Ann De Cunzo Pdf

"By analyzing what she describes as richly detailed archaeological site biographies, De Cunzo reconstructs how Delaware's farming people actively created their identities and shaped their interactions at home, at work, at church, and in the marketplace as they began to confront industrial capitalism. Informed by a contextual, interpretive perspective, this valuable work reveals the complex interrelationships among environment, technology, economy, social order, and cultural praxis that defined the "cultures of agriculture" in Delaware during the last three centuries."--Jacket.

Author : Heinrich Härke
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055916400

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Archaeology, Ideology and Society by Heinrich Härke Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between archaeology, politics and society in Germany from the later 19th to the end of the 20th century. The contributions discuss key aspects of this relationship in their historical context, beginning with the triumph of national archaeology over universalist anthropology, continuing with the exploitation of archaeology by the Nazi and Communist regimes, the widespread collaboration by archaeologists, and the political and intellectual aftermath of these two episodes. Other contributions raise no less important questions about the role of archaeology in democratic society, by exploring issues such as university teaching, public attitudes, gender, and research abroad. Contributors from outside Germany put this experience into a contemporary, European and international context.

Author : April Kamp-Whittaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031375781

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Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting by April Kamp-Whittaker Pdf

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052132923X

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Archaeology as Long-Term History by Ian Hodder Pdf

In marked contrast with the anthropological and cross-cultural approaches that featured so prominently in archaeological research this contributory volume emphasises the archaeological significance of historical method and philosophy. Drawing particularly on the work of R. G. Collingwood, the contributors show that the notion of 'history seen from within' is a viable approach that can be applied in ethnoarchaeology and in both historic and prehistoric archaeology. There is a discussion of short, medium and long-term historical structures in relation to social events generating observed material culture patterning. Examination of the relationship between structure and event within historical contexts leads to insights into the interdependence of continuity and change, and into the nature of widely recognised processes such as acculturation, diffusion and migration.

Author : Minette C. Church,E. Steve Cassells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0974313718

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Colorado History by Minette C. Church,E. Steve Cassells Pdf

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199875078

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The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology by William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea and the islands of the Bahama Archipelago. Though these islands were never isolated from the surrounding mainland, their histories are sufficiently diverse to warrant their identification as distinct areas of culture. Over the past 20 years, Caribbean archaeology has been transformed from a focus on reconstructing culture histories to one on the mobility and exchange expressed in cultural and social dynamics. This Handbook brings together, for the first time, examples of the best research conducted by scholars from across the globe to address the complexity of the Caribbean past. The Handbook is divided into five sections. Part I, Islands of History and the Precolonial History of the Caribbean Islands, provides an introduction to Caribbean Archaeology and its history. The papers in the following Ethnohistory section address the diversity of cultural practices expressed in the insular Caribbean and develop historical descriptions in concert with archaeological evidence in order to place language, social organization, and the native Ta?nos and Island Caribs in perspective. The following section, Culture History, provides the latest research on specific geographical locations and cross-cultural engagements, from Jamaica and the Bahama archigelago to the Saladoid and the Isthmo-Antillean Engagements. Creating History, the fourth section, includes papers on specific issues related to the field, such as Zooarchaeology, Rock Art, and DNA analysis, among others. The final section, World History, centers on the consequences of European colonization.

Author : Philip Rahtz†,Lorna Watts
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789694833

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St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire: Archaeological Investigations and Historical Context by Philip Rahtz†,Lorna Watts Pdf

The result of c. 20 years of work on and around the church of St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, this work is concerned primarily with the 8th century onwards, but also extends the time-period of this isolated site, particularly for the post-Roman to middle Saxon period, but also as an earlier probably religious landscape.

Author : Mark Brisbane
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254204

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Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia by Mark Brisbane Pdf

This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of other British and Russian specialists looking at the remains of mammals, birds and fish. Topics discussed include diet, butchery practices, the exploitation of fur and skins, mortality patterns of mammals, and metrical analyses of a wide range of species. Detailed data sets are provided to enable the reader to make comparisons with their own research, but the book is also suitable for those with a more general interest in medieval Russian archaeology.

Author : Kate Santon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : 1405487879

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Archaeology by Kate Santon Pdf

Explores archaeological finds around the world and throughout history, including well- and lesser known discoveries, and provides historical context.

Author : Scott Redford,Nina Ergin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Archaeologists
ISBN : 9042922648

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Perceptions of the Past in the Turkish Republic by Scott Redford,Nina Ergin Pdf

The land of Turkey has not only yielded archaeological finds essential to the formation of the field of archaeology; these finds also played a crucial role in the making of a national narrative in the transition from the late Ottoman Empire to the present-day Republic. The outcome of a symposium organized by the Koc University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul, the essays in this volume critically engage with the constitution of Classical and Byzantine archaeology in Turkey, addressing such issues as the historical context of the production of knowledge, the roles of individuals and institutions in shaping scholarship, and the current and future state of the field.