Rethinking the Neolithic

Rethinking the Neolithic

Author: Julian Thomas

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1991-10-31

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780521403771

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Neolithikum - Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Saskralgebäude.


Understanding the Neolithic

Understanding the Neolithic

Author: Julian Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-02-07

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1134621434

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This book employs contemporary theoretical perspectives to investigate the Neolithic period in southern britain. It is a fully reworked edition of the author's Rethinking the Neolithic (1991).


The Neolithic of Southeast China

The Neolithic of Southeast China

Author: Tianlong Jiao

Publisher: Cambria Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1934043168

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Leading archaeologist Tianlong Jiao takes readers on an archaeological investigation into the patterns and processes involved in the cultural changes on the coast of Southeast China during the Neolithic period. (Archeology/Anthropology)


Rethinking Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Architecture in Central Anatolia

Rethinking Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Architecture in Central Anatolia

Author: Jana Anvari

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781407357713

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This book evaluates the epistemology by which archaeology has translated the architectural record at Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic (6500-5500 BC) sites in central Anatolia into interpretations of social organisation. The first part of the book provides a summary of existing knowledge on the study region, architecture in particular. The second part conducts a content analysis of 284 publications and systematically maps and critiques the archaeological discourse around Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic architecture and social organisation. As a by-product of this discussion, the book also provides an exploration of how people in central Anatolia during this period used architecture to create communities. In the tradition of reflexive archaeology, the main purpose of this book is to critically evaluate past research practices to contribute to their improvement. It seeks to improve the research tools to understand the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic as important transformative time periods in Anatolian prehistory that influenced the further course of southwest Asian and European prehistory, for example by initiating development towards social stratification.


Rethinking Comparison in Archaeology

Rethinking Comparison in Archaeology

Author: Joana Alves-Ferreira

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1443878979

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Although comparative exercises are used or applied both explicitly and implicitly in a large number of archaeological publications, they are often uncritically taken for granted. As such, the authors of this book reflect on comparison as a core theme in archaeology from different perspectives, and different theoretical and practical backgrounds. The contributors come from different universities and research contexts, and approach themes and objects from Prehistory to the Early Middle Ages, presenting case studies from Western Europe, the Near East and Latin America. The chapters here also relate archaeology with other disciplines, like art studies, photography, cinema, computer sciences and anthropology, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not only archaeologists and those interested in the area of social sciences, but for all those interested in how we construct the past today.


American Neolithic

American Neolithic

Author: Terence Hawkins

Publisher: Calliope Group

Published: 2019-11-04

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781733647427

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On the day after tomorrow, America has become Police State Lite. The drones of the Homeland Police are always watching. Enter Blingbling. Implicated in a murder, he's foreign-looking and undocumented. His lawyer Raleigh keeps the Homeland cops at arm's length until a routine DNA test exposes a secret thousands of years old.


The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age

The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age

Author: Richard Rudgley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2000-01-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0684862700

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Examines the history of mankind during the Neolithic Age, and presents evidence that the Stone Age human was more advanced than science originally thought. Includes figures and photographs.


The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant

Author: Margreet L. Steiner

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 0191662542

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This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical geographical term referring to a large area which today comprises the modern states of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, western Syria, and Cyprus, as well as the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Unique in its treatment of the entire region, it offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the current state of the archaeology of the Levant within its larger cultural, historical, and socio-economic contexts. The Handbook also attempts to bridge the modern scholarly and political divide between archaeologists working in this highly contested region. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through Persian periods - a time span during which the Levant was often in close contact with the imperial powers of Egypt, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. This volume will serve as an invaluable reference work for those interested in a contextualised archaeological account of this region, beginning with the 'agricultural revolution' until the conquest of Alexander the Great that marked the end of the Persian period.


Chair

Chair

Author: Galen Cranz

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780393319552

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Traces the history of the chair and provides guidelines to assist the reader in choosing a chair that suits one's body.


Home

Home

Author: Francis Pryor

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0141971339

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In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In Home, the Time Team expert explores the first nine thousand years of life in Britain, from the retreat of the glaciers to the Romans' departure. Tracing the settlement of domestic communities, he shows how archaeology enables us to reconstruct the evolution of habits, traditions and customs. But this, too, is Francis Pryor's own story: of his passion for unearthing our past, from Yorkshire to the west country, Lincolnshire to Wales, digging in freezing winters, arid summers, mud and hurricanes, through frustrated journeys and euphoric discoveries. Evocative and intimate, Home shows how, in going about their daily existence, our prehistoric ancestors created the institution that remains at the heart of the way we live now: the family. 'Under his gaze, the land starts to fill with tribes and clans wandering this way and that, leaving traces that can still be seen today . . . Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' - Guardian Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent over thirty years studying our prehistory. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of The Making of the British Landscape, Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.