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Chariots in ancient Egypt : the Tano chariot, a case study
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ISBN: 9088904685 9789088904684 9789088904677 9088904677 9088904669 9789088904660 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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Chariots --- Vehicles --- History. --- Egypt --- Antiquities.


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Pottery production, landscape and economy of Roman Dalmatia : interdisciplinary approaches
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ISBN: 1789690730 9781789690736 9781789690729 1789690722 9781789690729 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,

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This book presents interdisciplinary research carried out on the Roman sites of pottery workshops active within the coastal area of the province of Dalmatia as well as on material recovered during the excavations.


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The collapse of the Mycenaean economy : imports, trade, and institutions, 1300-700 BCE
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ISBN: 9781107186378 9781316890424 9781316637166 1107186374 1316637166 1316890422 131694686X 1316952207 1316953092 131695398X 1316954870 1316956652 1316957543 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece across 600 years during the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age. Analyzing the finished objects that sustained this kind of trade, she also situates these artifacts within the broader context of the ancient Mediterranean economy, including evidence for the import and export of commodities as well as demographic change. Murray argues that our current model of exchange during the Late Bronze Age is in need of a thoroughgoing reformulation. She demonstrates that the association of imported objects with elite self-fashioning is not supported by the evidence from any period in early Greek history. Moreover, the notional 'decline' in trade during Greece's purported Dark Age appears to be the result of severe economic contraction, rather than a severance of access to trade routes.


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An archaeology of structural violence : life in a twentieth-century coal town
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ISBN: 9780813052441 0813052440 9780813053875 0813053870 9780813056081 081305608X Year: 2018 Publisher: Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida,

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An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal Town addresses topics such as the approach to the structural violence of everyday life in the twentieth century, the relationship between migrants and the sovereignty of political states, racialization, and the labor needs of late industrial capitalism.


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The ancient greek farmstead
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ISBN: 9781785706400 9781785706417 9781785706424 9781785706431 1785706403 1785706411 1785706438 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books,

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Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural activity. The aim of this book is to engage with the archaeological and textual data for farmsteads dating to the Classical-Hellenistic period of mainland Greece, with the purpose of understanding how these sites fulfilled agricultural roles as centres for occupation, storage, and processing for those working the land.


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The geography of trade : landscapes of competition and long-distance contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the old Assyrian colony period
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ISBN: 1784919268 178491925X 9781784919269 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Archeopress Publishing Ltd,

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From the mid-20th century onwards, consolidated study of the merchant archives from the Old Assyrian trading colony at Kanes (Kültepe) has not only transformed our understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of the Bronze Age Near East, but also overturned many preconceived notions of what constitutes pre-modern trade. Despite this disciplinary impact and archaeological investigations at Kültepe and elsewhere, our understanding of this phenomenon has remained largely text-based and therefore of limited analytical scope, both spatially and contextually. This book re-assesses the Old-Assyrian trade network in Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1970 - 1700 BC) by combining in some analytical detail the archaeology (e.g. material culture, settlement data, etc.) of the region both on its own terms and via a range of spatial approaches. The author offers a comparative and spatial perspective on exchange networks and economic strategies, continuity and discontinuity of specific trade circuits and routes, and the evolution of political landscapes throughout the Near East in the Middle Bronze Age.


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Le patrimoine archéologique et son droit
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ISBN: 9782802747918 2802747916 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bruxelles Bruylant

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Le patrimoine archéologique est marqué par l’oubli que va interrompre la découverte du vestige. La mise à l’écart de la mémoire humaine, que provoque la perte puis le recouvrement stratigraphique, opère une transformation de l’objet.Sa fonction première – utilitaire ou décorative, cultuelle ou sociale – ou, plus simplement, celle pour laquelle l’objet a été fabriqué ou qui lui a été affectée, est renouvelée au moment de sa découverte au profit d’une fonction culturelle, sociale, politique et scientifique, asservie au témoignage et à la narration du développement de l’histoire de l’humanité et de sa relation avec l’environnement. L’objet le plus anodin peut être une source d’informations scientifiques irréductible à sa seule utilité ou fonction initiale. Celle-ci ne disparaît pas : elle est interprétée à l’aune de l’histoire ou, dans certains cas, instrumentalisée par des politiques identitaires.L’économie juridique des normes patrimoniales porte les empreintes de cette fonction culturelle et scientifique, voire identitaire du patrimoine archéologique. L’expression de l’intérêt scientifique, culturel ou politique ainsi que la mise en jeu de la règle juridique requièrent une double mise en condition : l’exhumation des vestiges et leur interprétation.Alors que la fouille s’inscrit dans une démarche scientifique et raisonnée, le pillage provoque la dispersion brutale et alimente le trafic illicite. Le patrimoine archéologique est aussi exposé au risque de dispersion, ou de destruction sous des pressions identitaires ou religieuses.Cet ouvrage met en relief, dans une approche interdisciplinaire, nourrie par un dialogue entre des archéologues, des conservateurs et des juristes, les enjeux qui fondent, notamment, les politiques de préservation du patrimoine archéologique et de diffusion des connaissances, la revendication des biens exportés en violation des normes en vigueur dans leurs pays d’origine et la réappropriation de leur patrimoine par les communautés spoliées.

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