Author: Stanley Casson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: S. Casson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849507625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Tim Murray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851096450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682

Get Book Here

Book Description
This engaging work uses key discoveries, events, people, techniques, and controversies to give the general reader a rich history of archaeology from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present. The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods—Birth of Archaeology (16th–18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An introductory essay acquaints the reader with the essence of the science for each period. The short entries comprising the balance of the book expand on the themes introduced in the essays. Organized around personalities, techniques, controversies, and conflicts, the encyclopedia brings to life the history of archaeology. It broadens the general reader's knowledge by detailing the professional significance of widely known discoveries while introducing to wider knowledge obscure but important moments in archaeology. Archaeology is replete with the visionaries and swashbucklers of popular myth; it is also filled with careful and dedicated scientists.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 654

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Marisa Marthari
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785701967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 949

Get Book Here

Book Description
The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from unauthorized excavations, where the archaeological context was irretrievably lost. Largely for that reason there are still many problems surrounding the chronology, the function and the meaning of Early Cycladic sculpture. This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive reassessment sets out to rectify that situation by publishing finds which have been recovered in controlled excavations in recent years, as well as earlier finds for which better documentation can now be provided. Using the material from recent excavation projects, and drawing on the papers presented at a symposium held in Athens in 2014, it is possible now to undertake a fresh overview of the entire body of sculpture from the Cycladic islands which has been found in secure archaeological contexts. Beginning with early examples from Neolithic settlement sites and extending into a consideration of material found in later contexts, the 35 chapters are divided into sections which examine sculpture from settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, concluding with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of manufacture.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Eastern philology
Languages : en
Pages : 708

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Grahame Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Martin Bernal
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197880427X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 938

Get Book Here

Book Description
Black Athena, an audacious three-volume series, strikes at the heart of today's most heated culture wars. Martin Bernal challenges Eurocentric attitudes by calling into question conventional explanations for the origins of classical civilization. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this thoughtful rewriting of history continues to stir academic and political controversy.