The Archaeology Of Grotta Scaloria

Author : Ernestine S. Elster,Eugenia Isetti,John Robb,Antonella Traverso
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770371

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The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria by Ernestine S. Elster,Eugenia Isetti,John Robb,Antonella Traverso Pdf

Grotta Scaloria, a cave in Apulia, was first discovered and explored in 1931, excavated briefly in 1967, and then excavated extensively from 1978 to 1980 by a joint UCLA-University of Genoa team, but it was never fully published. The Save Scaloria Project was organized to locate this legacy data and to enhance that information by application of the newest methods of archaeological and scientific analysis. This significant site is finally published in one comprehensive volume (and in an online archive of additional data and photographs) that gathers together the archaeological data from the upper and lower chambers of the cave. These data indicate intense ritual and quotidian use during the Neolithic period (circa 5600-5300 BCE). The Grotta Scaloria project is also important as historiography, since it illustrates a changing trajectory of research spanning three generations of European and American archaeology.

Author : Ernestine S. Elster,John Robb,Eugenia Isetti,Antonella Traverso
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1938770072

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Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria by Ernestine S. Elster,John Robb,Eugenia Isetti,Antonella Traverso Pdf

This significant site is finally published in one comprehensive volume (and in an online archive of additional data and photographs) that gathers together the archaeological data from the upper and lower chambers of the cave.

Author : Robin Skeates
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-21
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004835893

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Visual Culture and Archaeology by Robin Skeates Pdf

This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves. It explores this process through an extended case-study of art and social life in prehistoric south-east Italy, between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. A central argument of the book is that a wide range of visually communicative artworks were consumed and produced in the cultural process. Such objects range from portable artefacts, to installations within sites, to monumental structures in the landscape - all of which were interwoven with people's bodies in the experiences of daily life and special performances. More specifically, it is argued that these powerful aesthetic objects were actively used by people across space and time to perceive the world around them and to reproduce their social lives. They helped people to establish personal and collective boundaries, identities and relationships, to acquire and exercise power, to promote ideologies, and to contest them, especially at time of social tension.

Author : Mario Federico Rolfo,Katia Francesca Achino,Maurizio Gatta,Letizia Silvestri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Daniël van Helden,Robert Witcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351398695

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Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives by Daniël van Helden,Robert Witcher Pdf

Archaeological interpretation is an imaginative act. Stratigraphy and artefacts do not tell us what the past was like; that is the task of the archaeologist. The diverse group of contributors to this volume address the relationship between archaeology and imagination through the medium of historical fiction and fictive techniques, both as consumers and as producers. The fictionalisation of archaeological research is often used to disseminate the results of scholarly or commercial archaeology projects for wider public outreach. Here, instead, the authors focus on the question of what benefits fiction and fictive techniques, as inspiration and method, can bring to the practice of archaeology itself. The contributors, a mix of archaeologists, novelists and other artists, advance a variety of theoretical arguments and examples to advance the case for the value of a reflexive engagement between archaeology and fiction. Themes include the similarities and differences in the motives and methods of archaeologists and novelists, translation, empathy, and the need to humanise the past and diversify archaeological narratives. The authors are sensitive to the epistemological and ethical issues surrounding the influence of fiction on researchers and the incorporation of fictive techniques in their work. Sometimes dismissed as distracting just-so stories, or even as dangerously relativistic narratives, the use of fictive techniques has a long history in archaeological research and examples from the scholarly literature on many varied periods and regions are considered. The volume sets out to bring together examples of these disparate applications and to focus attention on the need for explicit recognition of the problems and possibilities of such approaches, and on the value of further research about them.

Author : Marion Dowd,Robert Hensey
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785701924

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The Archaeology of Darkness by Marion Dowd,Robert Hensey Pdf

Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It examines how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual activities, from Bronze Age miners in Wales working in dangerous subterranean settings, to initiands in Italian caves, to a modern caver’s experience of spending time in the one of the world’s deepest caves in Russia. We see how darkness was and is viewed at northern latitudes where parts of the year are spent in eternal night, and in Easter Island where darkness provided communal refuge from the pervasive sun. We know that spending extended periods in darkness and silence can affect one physically, emotionally and spiritually. How did interactions between people and darkness affect individuals in the past and how were regarded by their communities? And how did this interaction transform places in the landscape? As the ever-increasing electrification of the planet steadily minimizes the amount of darkness in our lives, curiously, darkness is coming more into focus. This first collection of papers on the subject begins a conversation about the role of darkness in human experience through time.

Author : Aaron A. Burke,Katherine Strange Burke,Martin Peilstocker
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770579

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The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 2 by Aaron A. Burke,Katherine Strange Burke,Martin Peilstocker Pdf

Since 2007 the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project has endeavored to bring to light the vast archaeological and historical record of the site of Jaffa in Israel. Continuing the effort begun with The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1, this volume is a collection of independent studies and final reports on smaller excavations that do not require individual book-length treatments. These include overviews of archaeological research in Jaffa, historical and archaeological studies of Medieval and Ottoman Jaffa, reports on excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority at both the Postal Compound between 2009 and 2011 and the Armenian Compound in 2006 and 2007, and studies of the excavations of Jacob Kaplan and Haya Ritter-Kaplan in Jaffa on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums from 1955 to 1974.

Author : Sue Hamilton,Ruth D Whitehouse,Katherine I Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315434117

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Archaeology and Women by Sue Hamilton,Ruth D Whitehouse,Katherine I Wright Pdf

Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, this volume presents a wide diversity of theoretical approaches and methods of study of women in the ancient world, representing a cross section of work being carried out today under the broad banner of gender archaeology. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions is also wide, from Southeast Asia and South America to Western Asia, Egypt and Europe, from Great Britain to Greece, and from 10,000 years ago to the recent past. An ideal sampler for courses dealing with women and archaeology.

Author : Alastair Small,Carola Small
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270654

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Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border by Alastair Small,Carola Small Pdf

The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late medieval.

Author : Bartolomé Andreo,Juan Antonio Barberá,Juan José Durán-Valsero,José Manuel Gil-Márquez,Matías Mudarra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031168796

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EuroKarst 2022, Málaga by Bartolomé Andreo,Juan Antonio Barberá,Juan José Durán-Valsero,José Manuel Gil-Márquez,Matías Mudarra Pdf

This book covers advances in the field of karst from a variety of perspectives to facilitate knowledge and promote interaction between disciplines. New methods are addressed that advance data collection, analysis, and interpretation in a wide range of karst contexts. Case studies are presented to provide examples of advancing science. Issues addressed include karst hydrogeology (water resources assessment, groundwater pollution and protection), methods to study karst aquifers (based on hydrodynamic, hydrochemistry, isotopes, dye tracing, geophysical surveys, and modeling techniques), karst geomorphology and landscape, mining and engineering in karst media (tunnels, dams, etc.), and karst cavities (touristic caves, natural heritage). This book is a resource for scientists around the world to compare problems, results, and solutions. Likewise, the examples included are used in policy decision making in karst regions. Finally, the contributions are used as a tool for university teaching.

Author : Ruth Whitehouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anthropology, Prehistoric
ISBN : UOM:39015037273540

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Underground Religion by Ruth Whitehouse Pdf

Author : Simon J. Holdaway,Willeke Wendrich
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770500

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The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated by Simon J. Holdaway,Willeke Wendrich Pdf

The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighboring locations. The authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They provide the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape interpretable at different temporal and spatial scales, using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.

Author : David W. Anthony,Dorcas R. Brown,Aleksandr A. Khokhlov,Pavel F. Kuznetsov,Oleg D. Mochalov
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770326

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A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes by David W. Anthony,Dorcas R. Brown,Aleksandr A. Khokhlov,Pavel F. Kuznetsov,Oleg D. Mochalov Pdf

The first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes, this is the final report of the Samara Valley Project, a US-Russian archaeological investigation conducted between 1995 and 2002. It explores the changing organization and subsistence resources of pastoral steppe economies from the Eneolithic (4500 BC) through the Late Bronze Age (1900-1200 BC) across a steppe-and-river valley landscape in the middle Volga region, with particular attention to the role of agriculture during the unusual episode of sedentary, settled pastoralism that spread across the Eurasian steppes with the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures (1900-1200 BC). Three astonishing discoveries were made by the SVP archaeologists: agriculture played no role in the LBA diet across the region, a surprise given the settled residential pattern; a unique winter ritual was practiced at Krasnosamarskoe involving dog and wolf sacrifices, possibly related to male initiation ceremonies; and overlapping spheres of obligation, cooperation, and affiliation operated at different scales to integrate groups defined by politics, economics, and ritual behaviors.

Author : Glenn M. Schwartz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446438

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Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria by Glenn M. Schwartz Pdf

Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria: An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra, edited by Johns Hopkins professor Glenn M. Schwartz, is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994-2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia. Its study advances our understanding of early Syrian complex society beyond the big cities of Antiquity. Of particular importance in the Early Bronze excavations are the results from the site necropolis, tombs of high-ranking persons containing objects of gold, silver, and lapis lazuli. Separate installations hold kungas (donkey x onager hybrids), sometimes along with human infants. This site provides the first archaeological attestation of the kunga equids, unique in the archaeology of third-millennium Syria and Mesopotamia.

Author : Brian S Bauer,Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446223

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The Wari Enclave of Espiritu Pampa by Brian S Bauer,Javier Fonseca Santa Cruz Pdf

The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands. Emerging in the area of modern Ayacucho (Peru) around AD 650, the Wari expanded to control much of the central Andes by the time of their collapse at AD 1000. This book describes the discovery and excavation (2010-2012) of a major new Wari site (Espiritu Pampa), located in the subtropical region of Vilcabamba (Department of Cuzco). While it was long believed that the Wari established trade networks between their highland capital and the Amazonian lowlands, the identification of a large Wari site in the Vilcabamba region came as a surprise to most Wari specialists. This book covers the first three years of excavations at the Wari site of Espiritu Pampa. It describes the identification of a central plaza surrounded by a series of D-shaped structures, that are believed to the loci of special activates for the Wari. It also describes the contents of more than 30 burials, many of which contained finely crafted silver, gold, bronze and ceramic objects.