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An archaeology of prehistoric bodies and embodied identities in the Eastern Mediterranean
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ISBN: 9781785702914 1785702912 1785702920 9781785702938 1785702939 9781785702945 1785702947 9781785702921 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books,

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In the long tradition of the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean bodies have held a prominent role in the form of figurines, frescos, or skeletal remains, and have even been responsible for sparking captivating portrayals of the Mother-Goddess cult, the elegant women of Minoan Crete or the deeds of heroic men. Growing literature on the archaeology and anthropology of the body has raised awareness about the dynamic and multifaceted role of the body in experiencing the world and in the construction, performance and negotiation of social identity. In these 28 thematically arranged papers, specialists in the archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean confront the perceived invisibility of past bodies and ask new research questions. Contributors discuss new and old evidence; they examine how bodies intersect with the material world, and explore the role of body-situated experiences in creating distinct social and other identities. Papers range chronologically from the Palaeolithic to the Early Iron Age and cover the geographical regions of the Aegean, Cyprus and the Near East. They highlight the new possibilities that emerge for the interpretation of the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean through a combined use of body-focused methodological and theoretical perspectives that are nevertheless grounded in the archaeological record


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Tree-rings, kings, and Old World archaeology and environment : papers presented in honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm
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ISBN: 9781842173862 1842173863 9781782973782 1782973788 9781782973768 1782973761 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Oakville, Connecticut : Oxbow Books,

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Bibliography of Peter Ian Kuniholm -- Peter Kuniholm's dendro time / Fritz H. Schweingruber -- Perspective : archaeology, history, and chronology from Penn to the present and beyond / James Muhly -- Excursions into absolute chronology / M.G.L. Baillie -- One hundred years of dendroarchaeology : dating, human behavior, and past climate / Jeffrey S. Dean -- The absolute dating of Wasserburg Buchau : a long story of tree-ring research / A. Billamboz -- Is there a separate tree-ring pattern for Mediterranean oak? / Tomasz Wazny -- Dendrochronological research at Rosslauf (Bressanone, Italy) / Maria Ivana Pezzo -- The development of the regional oak tree-ring chronology from the Roman sites in Celje (Slovenia) and Sisak (Croatia) / Aleksandar Durman, Andrej Gaspari, Tom Levanič, Matjaz Novšak -- Dendroclimatology in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean Region / Ramzi Touchan and Malcolm K. Hughes -- A 924-year regional oak tree-ring chronology for north central Turkey / Carol B. Griggs, Peter I. Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton, Jennifer D. Watkins, and Sturt W. Manning -- Dendrochronology on Pinus nigra in the Taygetos Mountains, southern Peloponnisos / Robert Brandes -- Could absolutely dated tree-ring chemistry provide a means to dating the major volcanic eruptions of the Holocene? / Charlotte L. Pearson and Sturt W. Manning -- Dendrochemistry of Pinus sylvestris trees from a Turkish forest / D.K. Hauck and K. Ünlü -- Neutron activation analysis of dendrochronologically dated trees / K. Ünlü, N.O. Cetiner, and J.J. Chiment, P.I. Kuniholm, D.K. Hauck -- Third millennium BC Aegean chronology : old and new data from the perspective of the third millennium AD / Ourania Kouka -- Middle Helladic Lerna : relative and absolute chronologies / Sofia Voutsaki, Albert J. Nijboer, and Carol Zerner -- Absolute age of the Uluburun shipwreck : a key late Bronze Age time-capsule for the east Mediterranean / Sturt W. Manning, Cemal Pulak, Bernd Kromer, Sahra Talamo, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, and Michael Dee -- How about the pace of change for a change of pace? / Jeremy B. Rutter -- Archaeologists and scientists : bridging the credibility gap / Elizabeth French and Kim Shelton -- Central Lydia archaeological survey : documenting the prehistoric through Iron Age periods / Christina Luke and Christopher H. Roosevelt -- The chronology of Phrygian Gordion / Mary M. Voigt -- The end of chronology : new directions in the archaeology of the central Anatolian Iron Age / Geoffrey D. Summers -- The rise and fall of the Hittite empire in the light of dendroarchaeological research / Andreas Müller-Karpe -- Aegean absolute chronology : where did it go wrong? / Christos Doumas -- The Thera debate -- Cold fusion : the uneasy alliance of history and science / Malcolm H. Wiener -- Santorini eruption radiocarbon dated to 1627-1600 BC : further discussion / Walter L. Friedrich, Bernd Kromer, Michael Friedrich, Jan Heinemeier, Tom Pfeiffer, and Sahra Talamo -- Dating the Santorini/Thera eruption by radiocarbon : further discussion (AD 2006-2007) / Sturt W. Manning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Kutschera, Thomas Higham, Bernd Kromer, Peter Steier, and Eva M. Wild -- Thera discussion / Malcolm H. Wiener, Walter L. Friedrich, and Sturt W. Manning

The archaeology of ethnicity : constructing identities in the past and present
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ISBN: 0203438736 1134767943 1280319720 0203282922 9780203282922 9780203438732 9781280319723 9780415141574 0415141575 9780415141581 0415141583 9786610319725 6610319723 9781134767946 9781134767892 9781134767939 1134767935 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. The author responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archeological record.

Behaviour behind bones : the zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status, and identity
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ISBN: 1782979115 1782979131 9781782979135 9781782979111 9781842171134 1842171135 9781785705717 1785705717 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford, [England] : Oxbow Books,


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Engaging with the dead : exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body
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ISBN: 1785707604 1785706640 9781785707605 9781785706646 9781785706653 1785706659 9781785706639 1785706632 Year: 2017 Volume: 13 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; Havertown, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books,

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Engaging with the Dead adopts a cross-disciplinary, archaeologically focused, approach to explore a variety of themes linked to the interpretation of mortuary traditions, death and the ways of disposing of the dead. Nineteen papers highlight the current vitality of ‘death studies’ and the potential of future research and discoveries. contributors explore changing beliefs and practices over time, considering how modern archaeology, ethnography and historical records can aid our interpretations of the past, as well as considering how past practices may have influenced understandings of death and dying within the modern world. It is clear that there are very significant variations in the quantity of dead that appear in the archaeological record over time, and the contributions to this volume attempt to understand why that might be the case. By bringing together papers from a variety of specialists working within Europe and the Near East, we investigate the pivotal role of death studies in the 21st century, providing a case for the retention of human remains in archaeological collections. Engaging with the Dead aims to set period specific contributions within a broader perspective and integrates papers from bioarchaeologists, theologists, textual specialists, as well as archaeologists. It provides an in-depth introduction to the multitude of ways in which the mortuary record can be interrogated and interpreted and explores the role of archaeology and theology within contemporary social studies. This volume challenges our current understanding and conceptualisation of mortuary practices in the ancient and contemporary world.


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The archaeology of prehistoric Arabia : adaptation and social formation from the neolithic to the Iron Age
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ISBN: 1139984691 1316009947 1139989316 1316012182 1139016660 1316005445 131600094X 1316003183 1316007685 0521862310 9780521862318 9781316003183 9781139984690 9781316009949 9781139989312 9781316012185 9781139016667 9781316005446 9781316007686 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world. This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of this region from c.9000 to 800 BC. Peter Magee argues that a unique social system, which relied on social cohesion and actively resisted the hierarchical structures of adjacent states, emerged during the Neolithic and continued to contour society for millennia later. The book also focuses on how the historical context in which Near Eastern archaeology was codified has led to a skewed understanding of the multiplicity of lifeways pursued by ancient peoples living throughout the Middle East.


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Domestic space in classical antiquity
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ISBN: 9780521789455 9780521783361 0521783364 0521789451 9780511780103 1316087824 1139793381 1139775960 1139781995 1107253667 0511780109 1139779001 1283715791 1139777483 9781139775960 9781139781992 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and furnishings that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural systems of which they are a part, that are explored in this volume. At the same time, the book as a whole argues two larger points: first, that while houses, households and families have in recent years become increasingly important as objects of inquiry in Greek and Roman contexts, their potential as sources of information about broader social-historical issues has yet to be fully realised; and second, that greater weight and independence should be given to material culture as a source for studying ancient history. The book will be invaluable for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and scholars.


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Network analysis in archaeology
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ISBN: 9780199697090 0199697094 0191745308 0191626120 1299453961 9780191626128 9780191745300 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This volume provides a coherent framework on network analysis in current archaeological practice by pulling together its main themes and approaches to show how it is changing the way archaeologists face the key questions of regional interaction.


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Understanding the archaeological record
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ISBN: 9781107010260 9780521279697 0521279690 1107010268 9780511845772 1139217860 9781139217866 9781139224376 1139224379 1280568828 9781280568824 0511845774 9781139220941 1139220942 1139209779 9781139209779 1107228492 9781107228498 9786613598424 6613598429 1139214772 9781139214773 113922266X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become both too fragmented and disconnected from the particular nature of archaeological evidence. The book examines three ways of understanding the archaeological record - as historical sources, through formation theory and as material culture - then reveals ways to connect these three domains through a reconsideration of archaeological entities and archaeological practice. Ultimately, Lucas calls for a rethinking of the nature of the archaeological record and the kind of history and narratives written from it.

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