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Author: Richard A. Gould
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1980-04-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521230933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology.
Author: Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1843837226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to explore how medieval life was actually lived - how people were born and grew old, how they dressed, how they inhabited their homes, the rituals that gave meaning to their lives and how they prepared for death and the afterlife. Its fresh and original approach uses archaeological evidence to reconstruct the material practices of medieval life, death and the afterlife. Previous historical studies of the medieval "lifecycle" begin with birth and end with death. Here, in contrast, the concept of life course theory is developed for the first time in a detailed archaeological case study. The author argues that medieval Christian understanding of the "life course" commenced with conception and extended through the entirety of life, to include death and the afterlife. Five thematic case studies present the archaeology of medieval England (c.1050-1540 CE) in terms of the body, the household, the parish church and cemetery, and the relationship between the lives of people and objects. A wide range of sources is critically employed: osteology, costume, material culture, iconography and evidence excavated from houses, churches and cemeteries in the medieval English town and countryside. Medieval Life reveals the intimate and everyday relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things.
Author: David A. Fiensy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1532673078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever wondered what it was like to live in the past? Did they experience reality in a much different way than we do now with our media, our fast travel, our fast food, and our leisure? Do you especially think about what it might have been like to have lived in Bible times? What would your childhood have been like? How would you have chosen a marriage partner? How would you probably have made a living? What sort of house would you have lived in? What diseases would have threatened your daily existence? How long would you have lived? How would you have practiced your religion? These are a few of the intriguing questions answered by this study. The book takes you on a journey into the past to view daily life through the lenses of not only texts but archaeological finds. The information from the past is also filtered through ethnographic studies of more contemporaneous, yet traditional, societies in the Middle East. The result is a presentation that may surprise you-even shock you-at times, but always will interest you.
Author: Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2010-11-16
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 075911997X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has synthetically examined how Native Americans have shaped archaeological practice in the Southwest and how archaeological practice has shaped Native American communities. From oral traditions to repatriations to disputes over sacred sites, the next generation of archaeologists (as much as the current generation) needs to grapple with the complex social and political history of the Southwest's Indigenous communities, the values and interests those communities have in their own cultural legacies, and how archaeological science has impacted and continues to impact Indian country.
Author: R. Layton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-08
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1134866216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and peoples they study and can easily disturb.
Author: Graeme Barker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 113458265X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates about desertification and the sustainability of dryland settlement.
Author: J. Jefferson Reid
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1999-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0816519145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Now two archaeologists who have devoted more than two decades to investigations at Grasshopper reconstruct the life and times of this fourteenth-century Mogollon community. Written for general readers - and for the White Mountain Apache, on whose land Grasshopper Pueblo is located and who have participated in the excavations there - the book conveys the simple joys and typical problems of an ancient way of life as inferred from its material remains."--BOOK JACKET. "Grasshopper Pueblo not only thoroughly reconstructs this past life at a mountain village, it also offers readers an appreciation of life at the field school and an understanding of how excavations have proceeded there through the years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Clive Gamble
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780415346597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA must for anyone considering the study of archaeology, designed to provide the reader with everything they should know when embarking on an archaeological course, whether A Level or first year undergraduate.
Author: Hein B. Bjerck
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781800500730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deep dive into the entanglements between humans and their things. It explores the notion that things themselves "remember" when left by "their" people.
Author: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-05
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1317279131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeology is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to the field which details how archaeologists study the human past in all its fascinating diversity. Now in its twelfth edition, this classic textbook has been updated to reflect the latest research and new findings in the field. Reflecting the global scope of the discipline, the book has a truly international coverage of important discoveries and sites from many corners of the globe. Individual chapters examine archaeology and its history, considering the role of the archaeologist and how they discover, investigate and classify sites and artifacts. This journey through archaeology also includes a discussion of important individuals and groups, and some of the ways in which archaeologists attempt to explain major social and cultural changes in the remote past. Archaeology ends with an outline of the complex world of cultural resource management and gives invaluable advice on how to become an archaeologist. Richly illustrated throughout, this popular and engaging textbook on archaeological methods has introduced generations of students to the captivating world of archaeology.
