Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
ISBN: 1912090600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the early 1990s the University of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. This is Volume 2 in the Çatalhöyük Research Project series. Here Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examination of context and an awareness of human bias allows researchers exciting new insights into prehistoric cognition. The aim of the volume is to discuss some of the reflexive or postprocessual methods that have been introduced at the site in the work there since 1993. These methods involve reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or relationality.
Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology
Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
ISBN: 1912090600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the early 1990s the University of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. This is Volume 2 in the Çatalhöyük Research Project series. Here Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examination of context and an awareness of human bias allows researchers exciting new insights into prehistoric cognition. The aim of the volume is to discuss some of the reflexive or postprocessual methods that have been introduced at the site in the work there since 1993. These methods involve reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or relationality.
Publisher: British Institute at Ankara
ISBN: 1912090600
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the early 1990s the University of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. This is Volume 2 in the Çatalhöyük Research Project series. Here Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examination of context and an awareness of human bias allows researchers exciting new insights into prehistoric cognition. The aim of the volume is to discuss some of the reflexive or postprocessual methods that have been introduced at the site in the work there since 1993. These methods involve reflexivity, interactivity, multivocality and contextuality or relationality.
Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology
Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this volume, Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examination of context and an awareness of human bias allows researchers new insights into prehistoric cognition.
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this volume, Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examination of context and an awareness of human bias allows researchers new insights into prehistoric cognition.
Archaeology
Author: Kevin Greene
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A substantially revised and expanded edition of one of the most widely-used and respected general introductions to the field of archaeology.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812218282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A substantially revised and expanded edition of one of the most widely-used and respected general introductions to the field of archaeology.
Handbook of Archaeological Methods
Author: Herbert D. G. Maschner
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759100787
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
The Handbook of Archaeological Methods comprises 37 articles by leading archaeologists on the key methods used by archaeologists in the field, in analysis, in theory building, and in managing cultural resources. The book is destined to become the key reference work for archaeologists and their advanced students on contemporary archaeological methods.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759100787
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
The Handbook of Archaeological Methods comprises 37 articles by leading archaeologists on the key methods used by archaeologists in the field, in analysis, in theory building, and in managing cultural resources. The book is destined to become the key reference work for archaeologists and their advanced students on contemporary archaeological methods.
Critical Public Archaeology
Author: Camille Westmont
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800736169
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800736169
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.
Evaluating Multiple Narratives
Author: Junko Habu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387764593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Using archaeological case studies from around the world, this volume evaluates the implications of providing alternative interpretations of the past. These cases also examine if multivocality is relevant to local residents and non-Anglo-American archaeologists and if the close examination of alternative interpretations can contribute to a deeper understanding of subjectivity and objectivity of archaeological interpretation.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387764593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Using archaeological case studies from around the world, this volume evaluates the implications of providing alternative interpretations of the past. These cases also examine if multivocality is relevant to local residents and non-Anglo-American archaeologists and if the close examination of alternative interpretations can contribute to a deeper understanding of subjectivity and objectivity of archaeological interpretation.
Reading the Past
Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Table of contents
Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice
Author: Matt Edgeworth
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759108455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759108455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.
Material Evidence
Author: Robert Chapman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317576225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
How do archaeologists make effective use of physical traces and material culture as repositories of evidence? Material Evidence takes a resolutely case-based approach to this question, exploring instances of exemplary practice, key challenges, instructive failures, and innovative developments in the use of archaeological data as evidence. The goal is to bring to the surface the wisdom of practice, teasing out norms of archaeological reasoning from evidence. Archaeologists make compelling use of an enormously diverse range of material evidence, from garbage dumps to monuments, from finely crafted artifacts rich with cultural significance to the detritus of everyday life and the inadvertent transformation of landscapes over the long term. Each contributor to Material Evidence identifies a particular type of evidence with which they grapple and considers, with reference to concrete examples, how archaeologists construct evidential claims, critically assess them, and bring them to bear on pivotal questions about the cultural past. Historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers, and science studies scholars are increasingly interested in working with material things as objects of inquiry and as evidence – and they acknowledge on all sides just how challenging this is. One of the central messages of the book is that close analysis of archaeological best practice can yield constructive guidelines for practice that have much to offer archaeologists and those in related fields.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317576225
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
How do archaeologists make effective use of physical traces and material culture as repositories of evidence? Material Evidence takes a resolutely case-based approach to this question, exploring instances of exemplary practice, key challenges, instructive failures, and innovative developments in the use of archaeological data as evidence. The goal is to bring to the surface the wisdom of practice, teasing out norms of archaeological reasoning from evidence. Archaeologists make compelling use of an enormously diverse range of material evidence, from garbage dumps to monuments, from finely crafted artifacts rich with cultural significance to the detritus of everyday life and the inadvertent transformation of landscapes over the long term. Each contributor to Material Evidence identifies a particular type of evidence with which they grapple and considers, with reference to concrete examples, how archaeologists construct evidential claims, critically assess them, and bring them to bear on pivotal questions about the cultural past. Historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers, and science studies scholars are increasingly interested in working with material things as objects of inquiry and as evidence – and they acknowledge on all sides just how challenging this is. One of the central messages of the book is that close analysis of archaeological best practice can yield constructive guidelines for practice that have much to offer archaeologists and those in related fields.
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Author: Lisa Nevett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472122533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472122533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual.