Archaeopress feb 2021 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community. 'Going Underground' has a double meaning: it refers to the actions taken by archaeologists to inquire about the past and present and involves digging and recording. Second, it considers the challenges and protests launched by the groups of immigrants and minorities mentioned in the book, against state-control over death.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Mine to User: Production and Procurement Systems of Siliceous Rocks in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age presents the papers from Session XXXIII of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). 23 authors contribute nine papers from Parts 1 and 2 of the Session. The first session 'Siliceous rocks: procurement and distribution systems' was aimed at analysing one of the central research issues related to mining, i.e. the production systems and the diffusion of mining products. The impact of extraction on the environment, group mobility and the numbers involved in the exploitation phase were considered; mining products were also examined with a view to identifying local and imported/exported products and the underlying social organization relating to the different fields of activity. The second session 'Flint mines and chipping floors from prehistory to the beginning of the nineteenth century' focused on knapping activities. The significance of the identification of knapping workshops in the immediate vicinity of mine shafts and of their presence in villages as well as in intermediary places between the two was considered in the analysis of chaine operatoire sequences. The potential of product quality and artefact distribution to contribute to the understanding of the social organisation of the communities being studied was also examined.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Current Perspectives in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology brings together papers presented at the 2nd Sudan Studies Research Conference, held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Scholars from various institutions around the world gathered to discuss the most recent trends in the field of Sudanese and Nubian archaeology, ranging from recent fieldwork in Sudan to scientific analysis of material culture and current theoretical approaches. The papers collected here focus on early administrative and mortuary material culture in the Nile valley and adjacent areas; religious beliefs and practices at Kerma; the adoption and local use of imported objects in the New Kingdom colonial period; and the role of Sudan and East Africa in human population history. Together, all papers represent the diversity of current approaches to the archaeology of Sudan and Nubia in various periods.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - En La transformacion del mundo rural en la isla de Mallorca durante la Antiguedad tardia la autora presenta el estudio del paisaje rural de la zona este de la isla de Mallorca (islas Baleares) durante la Antiguedad Tardia, proporcionando nuevos datos que permiten mejorar el conocimiento de uno de los periodos peor conocidos de la historia insular. Se presentan los resultados del estudio de antiguas prospecciones arqueologicas realizadas en la isla que no habian sido publicadas y los resultados de nuevas prospecciones arqueologicas. Las conclusiones permiten detectar una serie de tendencias, que ayudan a comprender mejor el patron de asentamiento de la poblacion en el transito entre epoca romana y epoca medieval, asi como obtener una vision global de las transformaciones acaecidas en el mundo rural de forma diacronica en un territorio intensamente marcado por su insularidad. Destaca la presencia antiguos yacimientos indigenas (cuevas y poblados en general de la Edad del Hierro) que fueron reocupados o que perduraron.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Searching for the 17th Century on Nevis is the first of a series of monographs dedicated to the archaeological investigation of the landscape, buildings and artefacts of the Eastern Caribbean by the Nevis Heritage Project. This volume presents the results of documentary research and excavation on two sugar plantation sites on the island of Nevis. Upper Rawlins, located high on Nevis mountain, was occupied in the late 17th and early 18th century and abandoned early. Fenton Hill was occupied from the mid-17th to the mid-19th century and originated with an earthfast timber building, probably a dwelling house, later converted to a kitchen and encapsulated in stone about 1700. The adjacent main house was probably destroyed in the French raid of 1706 and rebuilt in timber. The final occupation was by Portuguese Madeiran labourers, who were introduced to fill a labour force shortage in the 1840s. Detailed reports on the finds assemblage include discussions of the handmade, bonfired Afro-Caribbean pottery made by enslaved African women, imported European ceramics and glass, clay tobacco pipes, metalwork and building materials. The dominance of imported goods from south-western England demonstrates the strong mercantile links between Nevis and Bristol, but local Nevis production of ceramics adds new insights into the estatebased ceramic production on European lines.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Le four de Sevrier, decouvert en 1974 sur un haut fond immerge du lac d'Annecy, est un objet phare de l'archeologie alpine. Pres d'une cinquantaine d'annees plus tard, il continue de se derober a l'interpretation des specialistes. Cette etude revient sur l'histoire d'un artefact considere tour a tour comme le princeps des fours de potier occidentaux, comme un enigmatique fourneau a usage domestique, comme un maillon technologique de l'age du bronze fi nal qui annoncerait la professionnalisation de la poterie, activite jusqu'alors familiale, saisonniere et autarcique. Ce nouveau regard sur cet objet de reference, prend la forme d'une enquete pluridisci-plinaire ou les volets archeometrique, ethnoarcheologique et experimental accueillent et passent au crible les hypotheses contradictoires, elargissent les problematique s et posent de nouvelles perspectives. Il interroge par le prisme de l'histoire des techniques, les infl exions dans l'organisation sociale des communautes de l'age du Bronze. Celles, en particulier, qui favoriseront, quelques siecles plus tard, l'avenement de proto artisans, specialises dans les activites de transformation de l'argile.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is a report of archaeological excavations at Stanground South undertaken by MOLA between September 2007 and November 2009 on behalf of Persimmon Homes (East Midlands) Ltd and in accordance with a programme of works overseen by CgMs Heritage. The work involved five areas of set-piece excavation and a series of strip map an.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Goytepe: Neolithic Excavations in the Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan, publishes the first round of fieldwork and research (2008-2013) at this key site for understanding the emergence and development of food-producing communities in the South Caucasus. Situated close to the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, where Neolithisation processes occurred earlier, research in the South Caucasus raises intriguing research questions, including issues of diffusion from the latter and interaction with 'incoming' Neolithic communities as well as the possibility of independent local Neolithisation processes. In order to address these issues in the South Caucasus, a joint Azerbaijan-Japan research programme was launched in 2008 to investigate Goytepe, one of the largest known Neolithic mounds in the South Caucasus. The results of the first phase of the project (2008-2013) presented here provide rich archaeological data from multi-disciplinary perspectives: chronology, architecture, technology, social organisation, and plant and animal exploitation, to name a few. This volume is the first to present these details in a single report of the South Caucasian Neolithic site using a high-resolution chronology based on dozens of radiocarbon dates.…