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| Author | : M. C. Gatto |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 589 |
| Release | : 2019-02-14 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 110847408X |
Places burial traditions at the centre of Saharan migrations and identity debate, with new technical data and methodological analysis.
| Author | : M. C. Gatto |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2018-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108577458 |
This ground-breaking volume explores a series of inter-related key themes in Saharan archaeology and history. Migration and identity formation can both be approached from the perspective of funerary archaeology, using the combined evidence of burial structures, specific rites and funerary material culture, and integrated methods of skeletal analysis including morphometrics, palaeopathology and isotopes. Burial traditions from various parts of the Sahara are compared and contrasted with those of the Nile Valley, the Maghreb and West Africa. Several chapters deal with the related evidence of human migration derived from linguistic study. The volume presents the state of the field of funerary archaeology in the Sahara and its neighbouring regions and sets the agenda for future research on mobility, migration and identity. It will be a seminal reference point for Mediterranean and African archaeologists, historians and anthropologists as well as archaeologists interested in burial and migration more broadly.
| Author | : D. J. Mattingly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2017-11-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108195407 |
Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largely invisible archaeologically, being either of high value like gold and ivory, or organic like slaves and textiles or consumable commodities like salt. However, new research on the Libyan people known as the Garamantes and on their trading partners in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires us to revise our views substantially. In this volume experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought.
| Author | : Martin Sterry |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 765 |
| Release | : 2020-03-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108494447 |
This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 1108 |
| Release | : 2020-03-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004422420 |
This collection of studies is the result of a six-year interdisciplinary research project undertaken by an international team, and constitutes a completely new approach to environmental, cultural and settlement changes around the mid-first millennium AD in Central Europe.
| Author | : Lidewijde de Jong |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2017-07-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107131413 |
This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.
| Author | : Anna Lucille Boozer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Egypt |
| ISBN | : 9781108914543 |
"What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a "life course" approach to the study of Roman Egypt and Egyptology more generally. Based on evidence drawn from objects, portraits, and letters, she focuses on the quotidian details that were most meaningful to those who lived during the centuries of Roman occupation. Boozer explores these individuals through each phase of the life cycle - from conception, childbirth, childhood, and youth, to adulthood and old age - and focuses on essential themes such as religion, health, disability, death, and the afterlife. Illuminating the lives of people forgotten by most historians, her richly illustrated volume also shows how ordinary people experienced and enacted social and cultural change"--
| Author | : Sarah Semple |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 626 |
| Release | : 2007-10-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 178297508X |
Volume 14 of the Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History series is dedicated to the archaeology of early medieval death, burial and commemoration. Incorporating studies focusing upon Anglo-Saxon England as well as research encompassing western Britain, Continental Europe and Scandinavia, this volume originated as the proceedings of a two-day conference held at the University of Exeter in February 2004. It comprises of an Introduction that outlines the key debates and new approaches in early medieval mortuary archaeology followed by eighteen innovative research papers offering new interpretations of the material culture, monuments and landscape context of early medieval mortuary practices. Papers contribute to a variety of ongoing debates including the study of ethnicity, religion, ideology and social memory from burial evidence. The volume also contains two cemetery reports of early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries from Cambridgeshire.
| Author | : Sarah Tarlow |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 921 |
| Release | : 2013-06-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0191650390 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
| Author | : Rebecca Gowland |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2009-04-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1782972706 |
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased.
