Strung Out On Archaeology

Author : Laurie A Wilkie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781315419527

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Strung Out on Archaeology by Laurie A Wilkie Pdf

Teaching the basic principles of archaeology through an “excavation” and analysis of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades and the beads thrown there? A student’s dream book! Award-winning historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie takes her two loves and merges them into a brief, lively introductory textbook that is sure to actively engage students. She shows how her analysis of trinkets tossed from parade floats can illustrate major themes taught in introductory archaeology classes—from methods to economy, social identity to political power—introduced in a concrete, entertaining way. The strength of Wilkie’s book is in showing how different theoretical models used by archaeologists lead to different research questions and different answers. The textbook covers all the major themes expected of brief introductory texts but is one that students will want to read.

Author : Laurie A. Wilkie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1611322669

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Strung Out on Archaeology by Laurie A. Wilkie Pdf

Author : Laurie A Wilkie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315419510

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Strung Out on Archaeology by Laurie A Wilkie Pdf

Teaching the basic principles of archaeology through an “excavation” and analysis of New Orleans Mardi Gras parades and the beads thrown there? A student’s dream book! Award-winning historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie takes her two loves and merges them into a brief, lively introductory textbook that is sure to actively engage students. She shows how her analysis of trinkets tossed from parade floats can illustrate major themes taught in introductory archaeology classes—from methods to economy, social identity to political power—introduced in a concrete, entertaining way. The strength of Wilkie’s book is in showing how different theoretical models used by archaeologists lead to different research questions and different answers. The textbook covers all the major themes expected of brief introductory texts but is one that students will want to read.

Author : Seth Mallios,Sara L. Gonzalez,Michael Grone,Kathleen L. Hull
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805392767

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Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology by Seth Mallios,Sara L. Gonzalez,Michael Grone,Kathleen L. Hull Pdf

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism. Four primary themes include: negotiations of intercultural entanglements in pluralistic settings; transformations of temporal and spatial archaeological dimensions, as well as theoretical and methodological innovations; engagement with contemporary people and issues; and leading by example with honor, humor, and humility. These reflect the remarkable depth, breadth, and growth in Lightfoot’s career, despite his unwavering stylistic devotion to Hawaiian shirts.

Author : Gabriel Moshenska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350335653

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Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era by Gabriel Moshenska Pdf

The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. This book offers an overview of these pioneering practices through a specifically pedagogical lens, fostering an appreciation of the diversity and distinctiveness of contemporary archaeology and providing an evidence base for course proposals and curriculum design. Although research in the field is well established and vibrant, making critical contributions to wider debates around issues such as homelessness, migration and the refugee crisis, and legacies of war and conflict, the teaching of contemporary archaeology in universities has until recently been relatively limited in comparison. This selection of carefully curated case studies from as far afield as Orkney, Iran and the USA is intended as a resource and an inspiration for both teachers and students, presenting a set of tools and practices to borrow, modify and apply in new contexts. It demonstrates how interdisciplinarity, practical work and radical pedagogies are of value not only for archaeology, but also for fields such as history, geography and anthropology, and suggests new ways in which we can examine our 20th- and 21st-century existence and shape our collective future.

Author : Gavin Lucas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000649376

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Archaeological Situations by Gavin Lucas Pdf

This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology – but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start. Rather than see theory as something worked from the outside in, this book explores theory from the inside out, which means it focuses on specific archaeological practices rather than specific theories. It starts from the kinds of situations that students find themselves in and learn about in other archaeology courses, avoiding the gap between practice and theory from the very beginning. It shows students the theoretical implications of almost everything they engage in as archaeologists, from fieldwork, recording, writing up and making and assessing an argument to exploring the very nature of archaeology and justifying its relevance. Essentially, it adopts a structure which attempts to pre-empt one of the most common complaints of students taking theory courses: how is this applicable? Aimed primarily at undergraduates, this book is the ideal way to engage students with archaeological theory.

Author : Charles E. Orser, Jr.,Andres Zarankin,Pedro Funari,Susan Lawrence,James Symonds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351786249

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The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology by Charles E. Orser, Jr.,Andres Zarankin,Pedro Funari,Susan Lawrence,James Symonds Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to today’s historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field. The broad range of topics covered in this volume allows for specificity within individual chapters, while building to a cumulative overview of the field of historical archaeology as it stands, and where it could go next. Archaeological research is discussed in the context of current sociological concerns, different approaches and techniques are assessed, and potential advances are posited. This is a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline, engaging key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially-commissioned geographical overviews to complement the more theoretical explorations. This book is designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue particular topics in more depth, as well as for non-archaeologists who have an interest in historical archaeology. Archaeologists, historians, preservationists, and all scholars interested in the role historical archaeology plays in illuminating daily life during the past five centuries will find this volume engaging and enlightening.

Author : Bülent Arıkan,Linda Olsvig-Whittaker
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803273570

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Landscape Archaeology in the Near East by Bülent Arıkan,Linda Olsvig-Whittaker Pdf

Collected papers from the 3rd symposium of the the Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology. Ranging from the Palaeolithic to the classical Near East, papers consider settlement and movement for trade with an overarching theme around the conservation of important archaeological landscapes and developing technology for the study of landscapes.

Author : Laura McAtackney,Krysta Ryzewski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198803607

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Contemporary Archaeology and the City by Laura McAtackney,Krysta Ryzewski Pdf

Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belem, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.

Author : April Kamp-Whittaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031375781

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

Author : Pamela L. Geller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030707040

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Theorizing Bioarchaeology by Pamela L. Geller Pdf

Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates how further theoretical expansion—a thoughtful engagement with critical social theorizing—can contribute insightful and more ethical outcomes. To do so, it focuses on social theoretical concepts of pertinence to bioarchaeological studies: habitus, the normal, intersectionality, necropolitics, and bioethos. These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance the field’s decolonization efforts. This book also works to overcome the challenges presented by dense social theorizing, which has paid little attention to real bodies. It historicizes, explains, and adapts concepts, as well as discusses archaeological, historic, and contemporary case studies from around the world. Theorizing Bioarchaeology is intended for individuals who may have initially dismissed social theorizing as postmodern but now acknowledge this characterization as oversimplified. It is for readers who foster curiosity about bioarchaeology’s contradictions and common sense. The ideas contained in these pages may also be of use to students who know that it is naive at best and myopic at worst to presume data derived from bodies speak for themselves.

Author : Laurie A. Wilkie
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : 9780826362995

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Unburied Lives by Laurie A. Wilkie Pdf

In Unburied Lives Wilkie demonstrates how we can "listen" to stories found in things neglected, ignored, or disparaged--documents not consulted, architecture not studied, material traces preserved in the dirt.

Author : Janet Spector
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Feminist criticism
ISBN : 0873517571

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What This Awl Means by Janet Spector Pdf

This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : UOM:39015032283510

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The Historical Archaeology of Dam Construction Camps in Central Arizona: Synthesis by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Coles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317606062

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Field Archaeology in Britain by John Coles Pdf

A practical guide to the various modern methods of discovery, excavation and recording of the remains left by prehistoric man in Britain. It stresses the vital role played by the amateur rescuing evidence of man’s past behaviour in these islands, and is illustrated by maps, site plans and sections, and drawings of equipment and surveying procedures. Originally published in 1972.