Homenaje al profesor Manuel Fernández-Miranda
Author: Manuel Fernández-Miranda
Publisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9788474915662
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Archaeologies of Complexity
Author: Robert Chapman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780415273077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Chapman addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social change, and debates the transition from perceived simple, egalitarian societies to our complex modern world.
The Prehistory of Iberia
Author: María Cruz Berrocal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0415885922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from social complexity, and the 'failures' of states to form in Prehistory. Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Europe.
From Leaders to Rulers
Author: Jonathan Haas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1461512972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? Why do people follow the commands of their leaders? Who gets to be king/chief/emperor and why? Why are some societies centralized while others are not? The papers in this volume draw on the archaeological record of societies from around the world to address these critical issues in contemporary social science.
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Author: Valentino Gasparini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-04-06
Total Pages: 647
ISBN-13: 3110557940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.
The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia
Author: Gonzalo Jimenez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1317588916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter more than a century of research, an enormous body of scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at the moment; recent works deal only with specific characteristics of Argaric societies or some of the regions where their influence spread. The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia offers a much-needed, comprehensive overview of Argaric Bronze Age societies, based on state-of-the-art research. In addition to expounding on recent insights in such areas as Argaric origin and expansion, social practices, and socio-politics, the book offers reflections on current issues in the field, from questions concerning the genealogy of discourses on the subject, to matters related to professional practices. The book discusses the values and interests guiding the evolution of El Argar studies, while critically reexamining its history. Scholars and researchers in the fields of Prehistory and Archaeology will find this volume highly useful.
Celtic from the West 3
Author: John T. Koch
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1785702300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. ‘Celts’) emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines—archaeology, genetics, and linguistics—the background in later European prehistory to these developments. There is a traditional scenario, according to which, Celtic speech and the associated group identity came in to being during the Early Iron Age in the north Alpine zone and then rapidly spread across central and western Europe. This idea of ‘Celtogenesis’ remains deeply entrenched in scholarly and popular thought. But it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile with recent discoveries pointing towards origins in the deeper past. It should no longer be taken for granted that Atlantic Europe during the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC were pre-Celtic or even pre-Indo-European. The explorations in Celtic from the West 3 are drawn together in this spirit, continuing two earlier volumes in the influential series.
Heraldry for the Dead
Author: Katina T. Lillios
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0292778104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southern Portugal and Spain. About the size of one's palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their symbols signify? How were the plaques produced? Were they worn during an individual's lifetime, or only made at the time of their death? Why, indeed, were the plaques made at all? Employing an eclectic range of theoretical and methodological lenses, Katina Lillios surveys all that is currently known about the Iberian engraved stone plaques and advances her own carefully considered hypotheses about their manufacture and meanings. After analyzing data on the plaques' workmanship and distribution, she builds a convincing case that the majority of the Iberian plaques were genealogical records of the dead that served as durable markers of regional and local group identities. Such records, she argues, would have contributed toward legitimating and perpetuating an ideology of inherited social difference in the Iberian Late Neolithic.
Time and Stone: The Emergence and Development of Megaliths and Megalithic Societies in Europe
Author: Bettina Schulz Paulsson
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1784916862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis analysis is concerned with the dating of megaliths in Europe and is based on 2410 available radiocarbon results and the application of a Bayesian statistical framework. It is, so far, the largest existing attempt to establish a supra-regional synthesis on the emergence and development of megaliths in Europe.
The Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula
Author: Katina T. Lillios
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1107113342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the only guides to the prehistoric archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula that engages with key anthropological and archaeological debates.
