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Author | : Lynne Kelly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107059372 |
In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral cultures, she demonstrates how early societies maintained a vast corpus of pragmatic information concerning animal behavior, plant properties, navigation, astronomy, genealogies, laws and trade agreements, among other matters. In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literate cultures.
Author | : Richard Bradley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317797140 |
The idea of prehistory dates from the nineteenth century, but Richard Bradley contends that it is still a vital area for research. He argues that it is only through a combination of oral tradition and the experience of encountering ancient material culture that people were able to formulate a sense of their own pasts without written records. The Past in Prehistoric Societies presents case studies which extend from the Palaeolithic to the early Middle Ages and from the Alps to Scandinavia. It examines how archaeologists might study the origin of myths and the different ways in which prehistoric people would have inherited artefacts from the past. It also investigates the ways in which ancient remains might have been invested with new meanings long after their original significance had been forgotten. Finally, the author compares the procedures of excavation and field survey in the light of these examples. The work includes a large number of detailed case studies, is fully illustrated and has been written in an extremely accessible style.
Author | : Julia Katharina Koch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2019-12-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789088908217 |
This volume is dedicated to examining the role and impact of gender relations during socio-environmental transformation processes as well as matters of gender equality in archaeological academia across the globe.
Author | : Brian Hayden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108426395 |
Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
Author | : Grahame Clark |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140211498 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
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Author | : Corrie C. Bakels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Prehistoric peoples |
ISBN | : 9789088907470 |
This book is about how local communities in prehistory, by shaping their landscape, carved out a place for themselves in a big social world that stretched out far beyond the landscape they lived and worked in.
Author | : Chris Gosden |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 0198803516 |
Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history. In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Chris Gosden explores the current theories on the ebb and flow of human cultural variety.
Author | : Keith Ashley |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813043581 |
Prehistoric Florida societies, particularly those of the peninsula, have been largely ignored or given only minor consideration in overviews of the Mississippian southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). This groundbreaking volume lifts the veil of uniformity frequently draped over these regions in the literature, providing the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi-period archaeology in the state. Featuring contributions from some of the most prominent researchers in the field, this collection describes and synthesizes the latest data from excavations throughout Florida. In doing so, it reveals a diverse and vibrant collection of cleared-field maize farmers, part-time gardeners, hunter-gatherers, and coastal and riverine fisher/shellfish collectors who formed a distinctive part of the Mississipian southeast.
Author | : Alan K. Outram |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107128773 |
Explains how recent scientific advances have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric diet, economy and society.