Buried in the Borderlands: An Artefact Typology and Chronology for the Netherlands in the Early Medieval Period on the Basis of Funerary Archaeology

Buried in the Borderlands: An Artefact Typology and Chronology for the Netherlands in the Early Medieval Period on the Basis of Funerary Archaeology
Author: Tim van Tongeren
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 180327574X

This book is the result of a large-scale yet detailed study of early medieval grave furnishings from the Netherlands, aiming at the creation of a comprehensive artefact typology and updated relative chronology for this under-explored period in the Low Countries.

The Archaeology of the Caucasus

The Archaeology of the Caucasus
Author: Antonio Sagona
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107016592

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Author: Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2017-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 110719041X

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of ancient and medieval Eurasian empires using historical, philological and archaeological evidence.

The Archaeology of South Asia

The Archaeology of South Asia
Author: Robin Coningham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1316418987

This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and character of the Indus civilisation, with its town planning, sophisticated drainage systems, vast cities and international trade. They also consider the strong cultural links between the Indus civilisation and the second, later period of South Asian urbanism which began in the first millennium BCE and developed through the early first millennium CE. In addition to examining the evidence for emerging urban complexity, this book gives equal weight to interactions between rural and urban communities across South Asia and considers the critical roles played by rural areas in social and economic development. The authors explore how narratives of continuity and transformation have been formulated in analyses of South Asia's Prehistoric and Early Historic archaeological record.

Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe
Author: Neil Christie
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 970
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 178570236X

Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from northwest Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeology of the distinctive settlement forms that characterized Europe in the Early Middle Ages.

The Bog People

The Bog People
Author: P.V. Glob
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2004-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781590170908

One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility. Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age. Includes 76 black-and-white photographs.

Archaeology of the Communist Era

Archaeology of the Communist Era
Author: Ludomir R Lozny
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319451081

This book contributes to better recognition and comprehension of the interconnection between archaeology and political pressure, especially imposed by the totalitarian communist regimes. It explains why, under such political conditions, some archaeological reasoning and practices were resilient, while new ideas leisurely penetrated the local scenes. It attempts to critically evaluate the political context and its impact on archaeology during the communist era world wide and contributes to better perception of the relationship between science and politics in general. This book analyzes the pressures inflicted on archaeologists by the overwhelmingly potent political environment, which stimulates archaeological thought and controls the conditions for professional engagement. Included are discussions about the perception of archaeology and its findings by the public. ​

Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction

Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction
Author: Lieve Donnellan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2020-04-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351003046

Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction focuses on conceptualisations of human interaction, human-thing entanglement, material affordances and agency. Network concepts in the archaeological discipline are ubiquitous these days. They range from loose concepts, used as metaphors to address a notion of connectivity, to highly formal and mathematically complex predictions of human behaviour. These different networked worlds sometimes clash and rarely converge. Archaeologists interested in network analysis, however, have achieved a much better understanding of the implications of adopting formal methods for studying social interaction and there have been theoretical advancements realising a better synergy between different theoretical perspectives. These nascent concerns are explored further in this volume with regional specialists exploring case studies from Prehistory to the Middle Ages throughout the Ancient and New Worlds, outlining how formal network approaches contribute to studying social interaction archaeologically. This book will be of interest to archaeologists wishing to access the latest research on networks and interconnectivity and how these approaches have been productively modified to archaeological research.