Pictorial Archaeology

Author : Roger Balm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003850571

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Pictorial Archaeology by Roger Balm Pdf

This book explores the expressly pictorial type of visual archaeology, the transcribing of three-dimensional materiality into two-dimensional depictions, and its influential history within the discipline. The picturing of ancient sites and artifacts to convey information links visual reporting with the workings of the imagination and indicates that the study of antiquity has always had a hybrid identity: part artistic and part scientific. In examining expressly pictorial forms of visual story-telling about the past, this book looks beyond certain supposed "creative turns" and focuses instead on creative continuities, answering key questions about the power of picturing and its ability to not only inform documentary practices but actively structure those practices. How are prints, drawings, paintings and photographs able to collapse the three-dimensional world of the ancient past onto a flat page but also convey a sense of material reality? In contemporary practice, how do pictorial ways of seeing enable the interpretation of material remains but also shape the recognition of digital traces on a computer screen? Published illustrations, both historical and contemporary, are primary sources of evidence for answering such questions and identifying common patterns of pictorial information. This book provides a framework for scholars researching the visual culture of archaeology as well as the history of archaeology. It is also recommended for professionals in the fields of heritage studies, conservation and community archaeology.

Author : Brian Leigh Molyneaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134546305

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The Cultural Life of Images by Brian Leigh Molyneaux Pdf

Pictures are often admired for their aesthetic merits but they are rarely treated as if they had as much to offer as the written word. They are often overlooked as objects of analysis themselves, and tend to be seen simply as adjuncts to the text. Images, however, are not passive, and have a direct impact that engages attention in ways independent of any specific text. Advertising, entertainment and propaganda have realised the extent of this power to shape ideas, but the scientific community has hitherto neglected the ways in which visual material conditions the ways in which we think. With subjects including prehistoric artworks, excavation illustrations, artists' impressions of ancient sites and peoples and contemporary landscapes, photographs and drawings, this study explores how pictures shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past. This volume is not concerned with the accuracy of pictures from the past or directly about the past itself, but is interested instead in why certain subjects are selected, why they are depicted the way they are, and what effects such images have on our idea of the past. This collection constitutes a ground-breaking study in historiography which radically reassesses the ways that history can be written.

Author : Sophie A. de Beaune,Alessandro Guidi,Oscar Moro Abadía,Massimo Tarantini
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270739

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New Advances in the History of Archaeology by Sophie A. de Beaune,Alessandro Guidi,Oscar Moro Abadía,Massimo Tarantini Pdf

This volume presents papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018) considering the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the history of archaeology.

Author : Guy Gibbon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759123427

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Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology by Guy Gibbon Pdf

Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology stands out as the most thorough and practical guide to the essential critical reading and writing skills that all students, instructors, and practitioners should have.It provides priceless insight for the here and now of the Theory and Methods of Archaeology classes and for a lifetime of reading, learning, teaching, and writing. Chapters focus on rigorous reasoning skills, types of argument, the main research orientations in archaeology, the basic procedural framework that underlies all schools of archaeology, and issues in archaeology raised by skeptical postmodernists.

Author : Rubina Raja,Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119042846

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A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World by Rubina Raja,Jörg Rüpke Pdf

A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. • Features readings that focus on religious experience and expression in the ancient world rather than solely on religious belief • Places a strong emphasis on domestic and individual religious practice • Represents the first time that the concept of “lived religion” is applied to the ancient history of religion and archaeology of religion • Includes cutting-edge data taken from top contemporary researchers and theorists in the field • Examines a large variety of themes and religious traditions across a wide geographical area and chronological span • Written to appeal equally to archaeologists and historians of religion

Author : Bruno David,Ian J. McNiven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190844943

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art by Bruno David,Ian J. McNiven Pdf

Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.

Author : Giannēs Sakellarakēs,Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Pottery, Mycenaean
ISBN : 9607254007

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The Mycenaean Pictorial Style in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens by Giannēs Sakellarakēs,Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece) Pdf

The Mycenaean pictorial style, which first became known as a result of the discoveries at Mycenae at the end of the 19th century, is one of the most interesting subjects in prehistoric archaeology. The collection of the National Archaeological Museum is the richest in the world and includes vases from every part of Greece -many of which are the work of known vase-painters- decorated with figures of humans and animals, with ships and helmets, and with other motifs.

Author : Robert T. Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503443754

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A Pictorial Guide to Biblical Archaeology by Robert T. Boyd Pdf

Author : Penelope Allison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134625482

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The Archaeology of Household Activities by Penelope Allison Pdf

This pioneering collection engages with recent research in different areas of the archaeological discipline to bring together case-studies of the household material culture from later prehistoric and classical periods. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible study for students into the material records of past households, aiding wider understanding of our own domestic development.

Author : Roger Balm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317377436

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Archaeology's Visual Culture by Roger Balm Pdf

Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology and acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and museum displays. Using a wide range of case studies, the book highlights how archaeologists can view objects and the consequences that ensue from these ways of seeing. Throughout the book Balm considers the potential for documentary images and visual material held in archives to perform cultural work within and between groups of specialists. With primary sources ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, this volume also maps the intellectual and social connections between archaeologists and their peers. Geographical settings include Britain, Cyprus, Mesoamerica, the Middle East and the United States, and the sites of visual encounter are no less diverse, ranging from excavation reports in salvage archaeology to instrumentally derived data-sets and remote-sensing imagery. By forensically examining selected visual records from published accounts and archival sources, enduring tropes of representation become apparent that transcend issues of style and reflect fundamental visual sensibilities within the discipline of archaeology.

Author : Roger Balm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317377443

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Archaeology’s Visual Culture by Roger Balm Pdf

Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology and acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and museum displays. Using a wide range of case studies, the book highlights how archaeologists can view objects and the consequences that ensue from these ways of seeing. Throughout the book Balm considers the potential for documentary images and visual material held in archives to perform cultural work within and between groups of specialists. With primary sources ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, this volume also maps the intellectual and social connections between archaeologists and their peers. Geographical settings include Britain, Cyprus, Mesoamerica, the Middle East and the United States, and the sites of visual encounter are no less diverse, ranging from excavation reports in salvage archaeology to instrumentally derived data-sets and remote-sensing imagery. By forensically examining selected visual records from published accounts and archival sources, enduring tropes of representation become apparent that transcend issues of style and reflect fundamental visual sensibilities within the discipline of archaeology.

Author : George Nash,Christopher Chippindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521524245

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The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art by George Nash,Christopher Chippindale Pdf

A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.

Author : Mary C. Beaudry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521449995

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Documentary Archaeology in the New World by Mary C. Beaudry Pdf

It outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America.

Author : Craig A. Mauzy,John McK. Camp (II)
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN : 0876619103

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Agora Excavations, 1931-2006 by Craig A. Mauzy,John McK. Camp (II) Pdf

This history relates the archaeological work done by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens on the Agora excavations. Areas covered include the reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Apostles from 1954-1956 and the rebuilding of the Stoa. Each section of photographs is preceded by an introductory text and maps.

Author : John McRay
Publisher : Kregel Pictorial Guide
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825438934

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The Kregel Pictorial Guide to New Testament Archaeology by John McRay Pdf

A new addition to the best-selling Kregel Pictorial Guide series