Author: Avner Raban
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900466906X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
This deluxe volume on Caesarea, climaxing new excavations in 1992-95, discusses comprehensively a famous ancient city's archaeology, history and culture. New discoveries include the amphitheater and royal palace, temple dedicated to Roma and Augustus, and the spectacular artificial harbor explored under water.
Caesarea Maritima
Author: Avner Raban
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900466906X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
This deluxe volume on Caesarea, climaxing new excavations in 1992-95, discusses comprehensively a famous ancient city's archaeology, history and culture. New discoveries include the amphitheater and royal palace, temple dedicated to Roma and Augustus, and the spectacular artificial harbor explored under water.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900466906X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
This deluxe volume on Caesarea, climaxing new excavations in 1992-95, discusses comprehensively a famous ancient city's archaeology, history and culture. New discoveries include the amphitheater and royal palace, temple dedicated to Roma and Augustus, and the spectacular artificial harbor explored under water.
Houses in a Landscape
Author: Julia A. Hendon
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the remains of their dead, remnants of their daily life, intricate works of art, and fine examples of craftsmanship such as pottery and stone tools, they left only a small body of written records. Despite this paucity of written information, Hendon contends that an archaeological study of memory in such societies is possible and worthwhile. It is possible because memory is not just a faculty of the individual mind operating in isolation, but a social process embedded in the materiality of human existence. Intimately bound up in the relations people develop with one another and with the world around them through what they do, where and how they do it, and with whom or what, memory leaves material traces. Hendon conducted research on three contemporaneous Native American civilizations that flourished from the seventh century through the eleventh CE: the Maya kingdom of Copan, the hilltop center of Cerro Palenque, and the dispersed settlement of the Cuyumapa valley. She analyzes domestic life in these societies, from cooking to crafting, as well as public and private ritual events including the ballgame. Combining her findings with a rich body of theory from anthropology, history, and geography, she explores how objects—the things people build, make, use, exchange, and discard—help people remember. In so doing, she demonstrates how everyday life becomes part of the social processes of remembering and forgetting, and how “memory communities” assert connections between the past and the present.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391724
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the remains of their dead, remnants of their daily life, intricate works of art, and fine examples of craftsmanship such as pottery and stone tools, they left only a small body of written records. Despite this paucity of written information, Hendon contends that an archaeological study of memory in such societies is possible and worthwhile. It is possible because memory is not just a faculty of the individual mind operating in isolation, but a social process embedded in the materiality of human existence. Intimately bound up in the relations people develop with one another and with the world around them through what they do, where and how they do it, and with whom or what, memory leaves material traces. Hendon conducted research on three contemporaneous Native American civilizations that flourished from the seventh century through the eleventh CE: the Maya kingdom of Copan, the hilltop center of Cerro Palenque, and the dispersed settlement of the Cuyumapa valley. She analyzes domestic life in these societies, from cooking to crafting, as well as public and private ritual events including the ballgame. Combining her findings with a rich body of theory from anthropology, history, and geography, she explores how objects—the things people build, make, use, exchange, and discard—help people remember. In so doing, she demonstrates how everyday life becomes part of the social processes of remembering and forgetting, and how “memory communities” assert connections between the past and the present.
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
Author: Essex Archaeological Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Living Archaeology
Author: Richard A. Gould
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521230933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521230933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology.
Proceedings
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Archaeological Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Imagining Head-Smashed-In
Author: Jack Brink
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 189742504X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
"At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 189742504X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
"At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below