Ceramic traditions and technical borrowings in the Senegal Valley
Author: Agnès Gelbert
Publisher: Les Editions de la MSH
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9782735109593
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Ceramic manufacturing techniques and cultural traditions in Nubia from the 8th to the 3rd millennium BC
Author: Giulia D’Ercole
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-12-31
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1784916722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a comprehensive critical analysis of diverse ceramic assemblages from Sai Island, in the Middle Nile Valley of Northern Sudan, on the border between ancient Upper and Lower Nubia. The assemblages included in this study cover about five millennia, spanning the period c. 8000 to c. 2500 BC.
Ceramics and Society
Author: Valentine Roux
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-14
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 3030039730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPottery is the most ubiquitous find in most historical archaeological excavations and serves as the basis for much research in the discipline. But it is not only its frequency that makes it a prime dataset for such research, it is also that pottery embeds many dimensions of the human experience, ranging from the purely technical to the eminently symbolic. The aim of this book is to provide a cutting-edge theoretical and methodological framework, as well as a practical guide, for archaeologists, students and researchers to study ceramic assemblages. As opposed to the conventional typological approach, which focuses on vessel shape and assumed function with the main goal of establishing a chronological sequence, the proposed framework is based on the technological approach. Such an approach utilizes the concept of chaîne opératoire, which is geared to an anthropological interpretation of archaeological objects. The author offers a sound theoretical background accompanied by an original research strategy whose presentation is at the heart of this book. This research strategy is presented in successive chapters that are geared to explain not only how to study archaeological assemblages, but also why the proposed methods are essential for achieving ambitious interpretive goals. In the heated debate on the equation stating that “pots equal people”, which is a rather fuzzy reference to assumed relationships between (mostly) ethnic groups and pottery, technology enables us to propose with conviction the equation “pots equal potters”. In this way, a well-founded history of potters is able to achieve a much better cultural and anthropological understanding of ancient societies.
Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture
Author: Michela Spataro
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015-10-31
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1782979506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socioeconomic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioral schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence.
Cultural Transmission and Material Culture
Author: Miriam T. Stark
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 081654929X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and why people develop, maintain, and change cultural boundaries through time are central issues in the social and behavioral sciences in generaland anthropological archaeology in particular. What factors influence people to imitate or deviate from the behaviors of other group members? How are social group boundaries produced, perpetuated, and altered by the cumulative outcomeof these decisions? Answering these questions is fundamental to understanding cultural persistence and change. The chapters included in this stimulating, multifaceted book address these questions. Working in several subdisciplines, contributors report on research in the areas of cultural boundaries, cultural transmission, and the socially organized nature of learning. Boundaries are found not only within and between the societies in these studies but also within and between the communities of scholars who study them. To break down these boundaries, this volume includes scholars who use multiple theoretical perspectives, including practice theory and evolutionary traditions, which are sometimes complementary and occasionally clashing. Geographic coverage ranges from the indigenous Americas to Africa, the Near East, and South Asia, and the time frame extends from the prehistoric or precontact to colonial periods and up to the ethnographic present. Contributors include leading scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Together, they employ archaeological, ethnographic, ethnoarchaeological,experimental, and simulation data to link micro-scale processes of cultural transmission to macro-scale processes of social group boundary formation, continuity, and change.
TRADITIONAL WEST AFRICAN POTTERY Kuli Village
Author: Terry deBardelaben
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781495488757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis photographic VISUAL guide takes the viewer on a step-by-step journey into the technical building practices of the women potters of the village of Kuli located in the Upper Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. These pages expose pottery techniques practiced over the centuries in this remote village and document the entire creative process from vessel formation, pre-firing, firing, and surface design to 21st century innovations of this ceramic style.
Investigating Archaeological Cultures
Author: Benjamin W. Roberts
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-06-04
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1441969705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefining "culture" is an important step in undertaking archaeological research. Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture. The study of archaeology has many accepted definitions of particular cultures, but recently these accepted definitions have come into question. As archaeologists struggle to define cultures, they also seek to define the components of culture. This volume brings together 21 international case studies to explore the meaning of "culture" for regions around the globe and periods from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age and beyond. Taking lessons and overarching themes from these studies, the contributors draw important conclusions about cultural transmission, technology development, and cultural development. The result is a comprehensive model for approaching the study of culture, broken down into regions (Russia, Continental Europe, North America, Britain, and Africa), materials (Lithics, Ceramics, Metals) and time periods. This work will be valuable to all archaeologists and cultural anthropologists, particularly those studying material culture.
Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling
Author: Mehdi Saqalli
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-04
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 3030127230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling. This text fills the gap between conceptual modeling (which usually relies on narratives describing the life of a past community) and formalized/computer-based modeling which are usually environmentally-determined. Methods combining both environmental and social issues through niche and agent-based modeling are presented. These methods help to translate data from paleo-environmental and archaeological society life cycles (such as climate and landscape changes) into the local spatial scale. The epistemological discussions will appeal to readers as well as the resilience socio-anthropological factors provide facing climatic fluctuations. Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling will appeal to students and researchers in the field.
SOMA 2012: Near eastern identities. The Luristan-Hamrin cultural sphere (4th-3rd millennium BC). Pottery identity as intra-societies interactions
Author: Luca Bombardieri
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Ubaid
Author: Catherine Marro
Publisher: Editions de Boccard
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe time period between the end of the Ubaid and the beginning of the Uruk expansion is one of the least known, yet most important eras in the ancient history of the Middle East. This era, which is often referred to as the "Post-Ubaid" period, is marked by major structural changes such as the rise of social hierarchies, technological innovations and economic reorganisation, which eventually led to the emergence of proto-states and cities. The recent finding of "Post-Ubaid-related" sites in regions deemed to be located far beyond the Ubaid purview, such as Cilicia, Cappadocia or the south Caucasus, has added another dimension to this picture: these sites suggest that the organic relationships more or less implicitly established between the "Post-Ubaid horizon" and the Ubaid world may in fact be much weaker than once thought.
