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The chapters, written by an international group of scholars, cover
the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging
case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and
stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social
life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the
current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in
the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well
as Paris’s chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the
source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the
Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in
the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis, built 1140–44, and a
valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian order
in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also investigated are relationships
between manuscript illuminators in the fourteenth century and
representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the
late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that shaped the Medieval City
updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle
Ages and is for Medieval Archaeologists and Historians.
This book explores the diachronic development of the ideological
content of Pompey and Caesar's monuments in Rome, emphasising the
importance of the late Republican period as a precursor to imperial
propaganda through architecture. In the final years of the Roman
Republic, individuals such as Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar
exploited the communicative power of architecture. The former
promoted the first and largest stone theatre in Rome; the latter
started comprehensive town-planning projects that arguably verged
on the utopian. Yet the study of the politics expressed by these
monuments and how complex late Republican politics shaped the
monuments themselves has attracted less attention than that of
subsequent imperial architecture. Zampieri addresses this
imbalance, exploring the ideological meaning of late Republican
monuments and highlighting that monuments were fluid, adaptable
entities, even in the lifespan of a single individual. Accompanied
by detailed maps and images, this volume shows how late Republican
architecture should be considered an important source for
understanding politics of this period. Politics in the Monuments of
Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar will be of use to anyone working
on the politics and social world of the late Roman Republic, and on
Roman architecture and patronage.
La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily
rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The
ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most
extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most
colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the
Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world,
nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan
reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb's
contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and
embellished. With more than two hundred color images of the
archaeological treasures unearthed at La Mina--remarkable works in
ceramic and metal that are among the greatest masterpieces of art
from the ancient world--students and scholars will welcome the
mystery of how careful archaeological sleuthing can piece together
valuable information to recover what seemed to be unrecoverable.
The British Isles have been continually settled since 12500 years
ago when hunter-gatherer bands returned in the wake of the
retreating ice sheets. For 7000 years, until the introduction of
farming, people subsisted by hunting wild game and gathering the
fruits of the forest and foreshore. In archaeolgical terms they
belonged to the late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods, and have
hitherto, been studied mainly in terms of their stone tools. Today,
in an age when there is growing concern over the relationship
between human beings and a rapidly changing environment, an earlier
period when this relationship was both intimate and immediate is of
considerable interest. "Late Stone Age Hunters of the British
Isles" places the archaeological evidence - mainly stone tools and
animal bones - within a wider, ecological context. The book
examines aspects of the hunter-gatherer way of life and how it can
be studied from archaeological evidence. There follows a review of
environmental change in the period covered and three chapters of
case studies in which different examples of hunter-gatherer
activity are examined within their ecological context. This book
should be of interest to students a
Commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of work in
the royal burial ground by the 5th Earl of Carnavon and Howard
Carter, this book presents an up-to-date review of the developments
in excavation, mapping and research in the Valley of the Kings.
The Romans commemorated many different events with inscriptions,
and not just carved in stone: they are found also on such materials
as bronze, wood, mosaic, glass and pottery. They range from the
official and highly formulaic to the ordinary and personal.
Lawrence Keppie introduces the non-specialist to the subject of
inscriptions and provides clear guidance towards translating the
Latin texts. Reading the text is only part of interpretation,
however, and this book also gives an account of the other aspects
needed for a full understanding of inscriptions. The author covers
such subjects as local government; the armies and frontiers;
religion; the titles of emperors; business and commerce; as well as
the craft of stonecutting, developments in the alphabet and the
discovery and publication of material.
Tea on the terrace takes the reader on a journey up and down the
Nile with famous archaeologists and Egyptologists. Spending time
with these fascinating men and women at their hotels and on their
boats, the book reveals that a great deal of archaeological work
took place away from field sites and museums. Arriving in
Alexandria, travellers such as Americans Theodore Davis, Emma
Andrews and James Breasted, and Britons Wallis Budge, Maggie Benson
and Howard Carter moved on to Cairo before heading south for Luxor,
the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. The book follows
them on their journey, listening in on their conversations and
observing their activities. Applying insights from social studies
of science, it reveals that hotels in particular were crucial
spaces for establishing careers, building and strengthening
scientific networks, and generating and experimenting with new
ideas. Combining archaeological tourism with the history of
Egyptology, and drawing on a wide array of archival materials, Tea
on the terrace takes the reader behind the scenes of familiar
stories, showing Egyptologists' activities in a whole new light. --
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What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book
investigates the problem of seriousness of offence in English law
from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a
semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness
are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and
performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law
discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and
between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed
by different people or when performed in different ways. Recurring
elements include location and the offender's social statue. The
closing chapter considers some of the implications for the current
debate about crime and punishment.
First Published in 1991.This study is the product of the discovery,
excavation, processing, data collection and analysis of nearly 500
human skeletons from the Crow Creek Massacre Project, South Dakota.
In about 1325 AD nearly 500 American Indians were massacred, and
their remains were discovered, excavated and cleaned in 1978. The
general purpose of the Crow Creek osteological study were to
describe the remains as fully as time permitted and compare these
results with other samples. This volume presents information
concerning the Crow Creek bone elements, paleodemography, cranial
affiliations, mutilations and stature. It emphasizes the unique
feature of the sample and compares the Crow Creek sample with other
skeletal samples from the Plains.
Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put.
The widespread construction of castles in Britain began as soon as
Duke William of Normandy set foot on the shores of southern England
in 1066. The castles that were constructed in the ensuing
centuries, and whose ruins still scatter the British countryside
today, provide us with an enduring record of the needs and
ambitions of the times. But the essence of the medieval castle—a
structure that is equal parts military, residential, and
symbolic—reveals itself not only through the grandeur of such
architectural masterpieces as the Tower of London, and the imposing
nature of such royal residences as Windsor, but also in the aging
masonry carvings, enduring battlements, and more modest earthen
ramparts that have survived alongside them. Through a
feature-by-feature account of the architectural elements and
techniques used in constructing the medieval castle, author Lise
Hull allows the multiple functions of these multifarious forms to
shine through, and in so doing, lends a new vitality to the
thousand faces that the medieval world assumed to discourage its
enemies, inspire its friends, and control its subjects. This
compelling investigation takes a unique look at each of the
medieval castle's main roles: as an offensive presentation and
defensive fortification, as a residential and administrative
building, and as a symbolic structure demonstrating the status of
its owner. Each chapter focuses on one specific role and uses
concrete architectural features to demonstrate that aspect of the
medieval castle in Britain. A wealth of illustrations is also
provided, as is a glossary explaining the distinct parts of the
castle and their functions. This book should be of interest to
students researching architecture, the Middle Ages, or military
history, as well as general readers interested in castles or
considering a trip to Britain to observe some of these magnificent
sites themselves.
This book examines the possibility and role of a Cahokian diaspora
to understand cultural influence, complexity, historicity, and
movements in the Mississippian Southeast. Collectively the chapters
trace how the movements of Cahokian and American Bottom materials,
substances, persons, and non-human bodies converged in the creation
of Cahokian identities both within and outside of the Cahokia
homeland through archaeological case studies that demonstrate the
ways in which population movements foment social change. Drawing
initial inspiration from theories of diaspora, the book explores
the dynamic movements of human populations by critically engaging
with the ways people materially construct or deconstruct their
social identities in relation to others within the context of
physical movement. This book is of interest to students and
researchers of archaeology, anthropology, sociology of migration
and diaspora studies. Previously published in Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory Volume 27, issue 1, March 2020
Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and
Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is
relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume
highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and
the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in
the history of ancient technology. The subject matter of the book
is the technological framework of the Greek and Roman cultures from
ca. 800 B.C. through ca. A.D. 500 in the circum-Mediterranean world
and Northern Europe. Each chapter discusses a technology or family
of technologies from an analytical rather than descriptive point of
view, providing a critical summation of our present knowledge of
the Greek and Roman accomplishments in the technology concerned and
the evolution of their technical capabilities over the
chronological period. Each presentation reviews the issues and
recent contributions, and defines the capacities and
accomplishments of the technology in the context of the society
that used it, the available "technological shelf," and the
resources consumed. These studies introduce and synthesize the
results of excavation or specialized studies. The chapters are
organized in sections progressing from sources (written and
representational) to primary (e.g., mining, metallurgy,
agriculture) and secondary (e.g., woodworking, glass production,
food preparation, textile production and leather-working)
production, to technologies of social organization and interaction
(e.g., roads, bridges, ships, harbors, warfare and fortification),
and finally to studies of general social issues (e.g., writing,
timekeeping, measurement, scientific instruments, attitudestoward
technology and innovation) and the relevance of ethnographic
methods to the study of classical technology. The unrivalled
breadth and depth of this volume make it the definitive reference
work for students and academics across the spectrum of classical
studies.
This is the first comprehensive overview of gender in the ANE that
deals equally with both men and women. The overviews of ANE history
and contemporary gender theory make it accessible to students with
no background in these areas, allowing ANE students to learn about
gender, and gender studies students to access the ancient material.
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The ancient Greeks established the very blueprint of Western
civilization—our societies, institutions, art, and culture—and
thanks to remarkable new findings, we know more about them than
ever, and it's all here in this up-to-date introductory volume.
Ancient Greece chronicles the rise, decline, resurgence, and
ultimate collapse of the Greek empire from its earliest stirrings
in the Bronze Age, through the Dark Ages and Classical period, to
the death of Cleopatra and the conquests by Macedon and Rome
(roughly 3000 B.C.E. to 30 B.C.E.). Drawing on the latest
interpretations of artifacts, texts, and other evidence, this
handbook takes both newcomers and long-time Hellenophiles inside
the process of discovery, revealing not only what we know about
ancient Greece but how we know it and how these cultures continue
to influence us. There is no more authoritative or accessible
introduction to the culture that gave us the Acropolis, Iliad and
Odyssey, Herodotus and Thucydides, Sophocles and Aeschylus, Plato
and Aristotle, and so much more.
This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in
Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to
interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using
social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region
where, traditionally, such approaches have not played a major
role.There are a number of factors that account for why social
theory is often under-exploited by archaeologists in this part of
the world. In many countries, where large numbers of the foreign
archaeologists are involved, a division between those doing
fieldwork and those undertaking archaeological interpretation can
easily arise. Or, the lack of interest in social theory may stem
from a legacy of positivism that overrides other approaches. There
is also the fact that archaeology and anthropology often belong to
separate academic departments and are considered two separate
disciplines disconnected from each other. In some cases the
centrality of historical paradigms has precluded the use of social
theory.There are also divisions between universities and other
research institutions, such as departments of antiquities, which is
not conductive to interdisciplinary cooperation. This factor is
especially debilitating in contexts of rapid destruction of sites
and the exponential growth of salvage excavations and emergency
surveys.The papers integrate a wide range of perspectives including
'New' or 'Processual' archaeology, Marxist, 'Post-Processual',
evolutionist, cognitive, symbolic, and Cyber- archaeologies and
touch on many topics including 3D representation, GIS, mapping and
social theory, semiotics and linguistics, gender and
bioarchaeology, social and technical identities, and modern
historical modellingy and social practices in Middle Eastern
archaeology.
This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of
Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh
insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in
English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important
contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social
use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a
timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are
the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range
from the first century AD to post classical periods (including
early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other
papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation,
iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction
written by the co-editors.
Goto introduces the diverse and multilayered skylore and cultural
astron- omy of the peoples of the Japanese Archipelago. Going as
far back as the Jomon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods, this book examines
the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers,
fishermen, sailors, priests, and the ruling classes throughout
Japan's ancient and medieval history. As well as covering the
systems of the dominant Japanese people, he also explores the
astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, and of the people of the
Ryukyu Islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of
astronomy in official rituals, mythol- ogy, and Shinto and Buddhist
ceremonies. This book provides a unique overview of cultural
astronomy in Japan and is a valuable resource for researchers as
well as anyone who is inter- ested in Japanese culture and history.
Gifts for the Gods is an enlightening and richly illustrated book
on animal mummies from ancient Egypt. Introducing readers to the
wealth of animal mummies in British museums and private
collections, this fascinating collection focuses on the prevalent
type of animal mummy to be found in Britain: the votive offering.
In a series of chapters written by experts in their field, Gifts
for the Gods details the role of animals in ancient Egypt and in
museum collections. It concentrates on the unique relationship of
British explorers, travellers, archaeologists, curators and
scientists with this material. The book describes a best-practice
protocol for the scientific study of animal mummies by the Ancient
Egyptian Animal Bio Bank team, whilst acknowledging that the
current research represents only the beginning of a much larger
task.
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