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Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions.The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume's three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience.The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors' respective fields.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- calculations. --- ceremony. --- handwritten artefacts. --- performance.
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Antiquities. --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology
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In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail. The valley; located in eastern Turkey near the town of Kayseri, has hundreds of rock-cut structures, in addition to several underground cities, and almost none of them have been studied before. Research conducted by a team from 2014 to 2020, resulted in this overview of all the rock-cut and underground structures in and around seven different settlements in the valley and aims for the physical documentation and inventory of all these structures. The book studies cliff settlements, rock-cut churches, underground cities, and funerary architecture in the valley. These shelters are estimated to have been built between the 7th and 10th centuries and even the smallest of these structures offer rich details for architectural, socio-cultural and historical studies. The rock-cut churches date to the Byzantine Empire period and during the research period, over 400 of these structures were explored, surveyed, and mapped in the region and with all these historical and natural values. Recently, the Koramaz Valley was accepted to the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list. This book is of interest to archaeologists and scholars of built heritage.
Archaeology. --- Architecture—History. --- History. --- Architectural History and Theory. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology
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Contains 'The Shefford Beaker', by Cyril Fox; 'The Later Descent of Wingate of Harlington', by Joseph Hight Blundell; 'The Disseisins by Falk de Breaute at Luton', by G. Herbert Fowler and Michael W. Hughes; 'An Elizabethan Inquisition Concerning Bondmen', by S. Peyton; 'Roll of the Justices in Eyre, 1242', by G. Herbert Fowler; 'A list of Bedfordshire Apprentices, 1711-1720', by Mrs. Hilary Jenkinson; 'The Commune of Bedford', by Prof. F.M. Stenton; and 'A Handlist of the Bedfordshire County Muniments', prepared by the County Records Committee.
Bedfordshire (England) --- History --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century. --- Bedford. --- Breaute (Falk de). --- Dunstable. --- Harlington. --- Huntingdon (Earl of). --- Luton. --- Morteyn family. --- Shefford beaker. --- Tilsworth. --- Wingate family. --- apprentices. --- bondmen. --- charters. --- eyres. --- inquisitions. --- justices in eyre. --- pedigrees. --- pre-historic artefacts.
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The Great Orme copper mine in North Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. This book presents new interdisciplinary research to reveal a copper mine of European importance, dominating Britain's copper supply from c. 1600-1400 BC, with some metal reaching mainland Europe - from Brittany to as far as the Baltic.
Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Bronze age. --- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric. --- Great Ormes Head (Wales) --- Wales --- Civilization --- Prehistoric copper mines and mining --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Pen-y --- -Wales --- Gogarth, Pen-y- (Wales) --- Great Orme (Wales) --- Pen Gogarth (Wales) --- Pen-y-Gogarth (Wales) --- Social Science
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Obsidian Across the Americas draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian characterization, material application, and theoretical interpretations in the Americas.
The limited geographic occurrence and relatively homogenous nature of obsidian have made the material ideal for archaeometric studies. Since Cann and Renfrew's seminal paper in 1967 on the compositional analysis of obsidian in the Mediterranean, analytical techniques have improved, identification and characterization of sources have increased, and applications have broadened geographically and theoretically to address various socio-cultural activities and behaviours around the world. While many previous publications have focused on different aspects of obsidian characterization, this volume uniquely presents obsidian compositional studies from across the Americas that have relied on the instrumentation housed in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History. The case studies, which feature materials from North American, Mesoamerican, and South American geological sources, explore the ways in which obsidian analyses have been used to investigate interactions, socio-economic exchanges, and socio-cultural change at multiple scales in the past.
Obsidian --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- X-ray spectroscopy in archaeology. --- Antiquities. --- Obsidian. --- Composition. --- Composition --- Field Museum of Natural History. --- Field Museum of Natural History --- America --- America. --- Hyalopsite --- Iceland agate --- Volcanic ash, tuff, etc. --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Methodology --- Field Museum --- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago --- FMNH (Museum) --- Chicago Natural History Museum --- Field Columbian Museum --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- North America --- History --- NORTH AMERICA --- HISTORY --- History. --- North America. --- United states --- History / North America --- History / Latin America / Pre-columbian Era --- Latin America
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