Mortuary practices and territoriality
Author | : Anna J. Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Anna J. Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lane Anderson Beck |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1489913106 |
In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.
Author | : Vicki Cummings |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1361 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191025275 |
For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.
Author | : Anthony Harding |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191007331 |
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable future.
Author | : Leland C. Bement |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 029279195X |
Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but until now little information has been available on their burial practices, due to the scarcity of known burial sites. This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from Bering Sinkhole in Kerr County, the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas. The remains in Bering Sinkhole were deposited from 7,500 to 2,000 years ago. Leland Bement's analysis reveals a growing elaboration in burial rituals during the period and also uncovers important data on the diet and health of the hunter-gatherers. He discusses climate change based on faunal remains and compares burial goods such as bone, antler, freshwater shell, marine shell, turtle, and stone artifacts with those found at other Texas mortuary sites and with deposits at hunter-gatherer habitation sites in Central Texas.
Author | : Colin Renfrew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107082730 |
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004448659 |
Law | Book | Culture in the Middle Ages takes a detailed view on the role of manuscripts and the written word in legal cultures, spanning the medieval period across western and central Europe.
Author | : Nikolas Dimakis |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Burial |
ISBN | : 9781789694420 |
This volume brings together early career scholars working on funerary customs in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Roman period. Papers present various thematic and interdisciplinary analysis in which funerary contexts provide insights on individuals, social groups and communities.
Author | : Mike Parker Pearson |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2021-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0750999039 |
The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way of life, their social organisation and their view of the world. This ambitious book reviews the latest research in this huge and important field, and describes the sometimes controversial interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our understanding of life and death in the distant past. A unique overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past, it covers archaeology's most breathtaking discoveries, from Tutankhamen to the Ice Man, and will find a keen market among archaeologists, historians and others who have a professional interest in, or general curiosity about, death and burial.
Author | : Kimberly D. Williams |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2024-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1803275308 |
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the evidence for Early Bronze Age mortuary rituals on the Oman Peninsula, describing the research conducted, synthesizing the resulting data, and presenting a complete view of the state of knowledge on the topic.