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Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites' presents the proceedings of an international and interdisciplinary workshop held in Berlin in 2018, which brought together scholars whose work focusses on manufacturing activities identified at archaeological sites. The various approaches presented here include new excavation techniques, ethnographic research, archaeometric approaches, GIS and experimental archaeology as well as theoretical issues associated with how researchers understand production in the past. These approaches are applied to research questions related to various technological and socio-economic aspects of production, including the organisation and setting of manufacturing activities, the access to and use of raw materials, firing structures and other production-related installations. The chapters discuss production activities in various domestic and institutional contexts throughout the ancient world, together with the production and use of tools and other items made of stone, bone, ceramics, glass and faience. Since manufacturing activities are encountered at archaeological sites on a regular basis, the wide range of materials and approaches presented in this volume provides a useful reference for scholars and students studying technologies and production activities in the past.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities --- Collection and preservation --- Workshops --- Material culture --- History --- Congresses. --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Congresses --- Antiquities - Collection and preservation - Congresses --- Collection and preservation.

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Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But in Who Owns Antiquity?, one of the world's leading museum directors vigorously challenges this nationalistic position, arguing that it is damaging and often disingenuous. "Antiquities," James Cuno argues, "are the cultural property of all humankind," "evidence of the world's ancient past and not that of a particular modern nation. They comprise antiquity, and antiquity knows no borders." Cuno argues that nationalistic retention and reclamation policies impede common access to this common heritage and encourage a dubious and dangerous politicization of antiquities--and of culture itself. Antiquities need to be protected from looting but also from nationalistic identity politics. To do this, Cuno calls for measures to broaden rather than restrict international access to antiquities. He advocates restoration of the system under which source countries would share newly discovered artifacts in exchange for archaeological help, and he argues that museums should again be allowed reasonable ways to acquire undocumented antiquities. Cuno explains how partage broadened access to our ancient heritage and helped create national museums in Cairo, Baghdad, and Kabul. The first extended defense of the side of museums in the struggle over antiquities, Who Owns Antiquity? is sure to be as important as it is controversial.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Philosophy. --- Cultural property -- Repatriation. --- Cultural property. --- Museums -- Acquisitions -- Philosophy. --- Museums -- Collection management -- International cooperation. --- History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Antiquities --- Cultural property --- Museums --- Collection and preservation --- Philosophy. --- Repatriation. --- Acquisitions --- Collection management --- International cooperation.

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This book in two volumes gives the status quaestionis of the Qumran Copper Scroll, fifty years after its discovery. The first part of volume one, amply illustrated with graphics and images, gives the technical expertise of its state of preservation together with the proposals for treatment developed by the laboratory EDF-Valectra for its restoration-conservation. The production of a facsimile by means of galvanoplasty and digitalized images is explained. The second part of volume one gives a largely renewed edition of the engraved Hebrew text with an up-to-date commentary, French and English translations, and indices. The second volume of nearly 400 plates publishes photographs and X-Rays of each segment before and after treatment, as well as the reproduction by means of galvanoplasty and digitalized images.

Archaeology --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Collection and preservation. --- Collections et conservation --- Copper scroll. --- 229*316.1 --- Historic preservation --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Salvage archaeology --- Qumran-teksten: Damascusdocument; Gemeenteregel; Hôdayot/Hymnen; Oorlogsrol --- Conservation and restoration --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Megilat ha-neḥoshet --- 229*316.1 Qumran-teksten: Damascusdocument; Gemeenteregel; Hôdayot/Hymnen; Oorlogsrol --- Antiquités --- Collection and preservation --- Antiquities - Collection and preservation.

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Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensification of scrutiny of European museum collections acquired in the colonial period. Alexander Herman's fascinating and accessible book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the restitution debate with reference to a wide range of current controversies. This is a book about the return of cultural treasures: why it is demanded, how it is negotiated and where it might lead. The uneven relationships of the past have meant that some of the greatest treasures of the world currently reside in places far removed from where they were initially created and used. Today we are witnessing the ardent attempts to put right those past wrongs: a light has begun to shine on the items looted from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas and the Pacific, and the scales of history, according to some, are in need of significant realignment. This debate forces us to confront an often dark history, and the difficult application of our contemporary conceptions of justice to instances from the past. Should we allow plundered artefacts to rest where they lie - often residing there by the imbalances of history? This book asks whether we are entering a new 'restitution paradigm', one that could have an indelible impact on the cultural sector - and the rest of the world - for many years to come. It provides essential reading for all those working in the art and museum worlds and beyond.

Art --- provenance [history of ownership] --- cultural artifacts --- cultural heritage --- restitution --- Cultural property --- Patrimoine culturelle --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Repatriation. --- Rapatriement --- Collection and preservation --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Aspect moral. --- repatriëring van kunst --- Antiquities ; Collection and preservation ; Moral and ethical aspects. --- Cultural property ; Repatriation. --- Patrimoine culturel --- Erstattung. --- Kunstraub. --- Restitution. --- Collections et conservation

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The use of computers in archaeology is entering a new phase of unparalleled development, moving on from a specialist methodology on the margins to a powerful practical and analytical tool used across all areas of archaeological interest. With a thorough examination of the ways in which both everyday and cutting-edge technologies can be used to inform and enhance traditional methods, this book brings together ideology from the academic world and pragmatic, concrete examples to show how fieldwork, theory and technology fit together today as never before.Covering a history of the rise of computer use in archaeology as well as a thorough assessment of a number of high profile examples such as the Ferrybridge Chariot, this book shows how new technologies have been implemented into both theory and method as an integral part of the archaeological process.

Computer. Automation --- Archeology --- Antiquities --- Archaeology --- Cultural property --- Digital electronics --- Electronic digital computers --- Automatic digital computers --- Computers, Electronic digital --- Digital computers, Electronic --- Computers --- Hybrid computers --- Sequential machine theory --- Digital circuits --- Digital techniques (Electronics) --- Electronic systems --- Electronics --- Cultural property, Protection of --- Cultural resources management --- Cultural policy --- Historic preservation --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Salvage archaeology --- Collection and preservation --- Methodology --- Philosophy --- Protection --- Government policy --- Conservation and restoration --- Archaeology - Methodology --- Archaeology - Philosophy --- Antiquities - Collection and preservation --- Cultural property - Protection