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Books > Humanities > Archaeology
Built in 1566 by Spanish conquistador Juan Pardo, Fort San Juan is
the earliest known European settlement in the interior United
States. Located at the Berry site in western North Carolina, the
fort and its associated domestic compound stood near the Native
American town of Joara, whose residents sacked the fort and burned
the compound after only eighteen months. Drawing on archaeological
evidence from architectural, floral, and faunal remains, as well as
newly discovered accounts of Pardo's expeditions, this volume
explores the deterioration in Native American-Spanish relations
that sparked Joara's revolt and offers critical insight into the
nature of early colonial interactions.
Searching for Jonah offers a fresh, eclectic, and indisputably
imaginative approach to interpreting one of the most famous stories
in all of literature. The author, a lifelong Bible scholar, applies
evidence from Hebrew and Assyrian history and etymology, along with
scientific and archeological discoveries. The author concludes that
Jonah was a state-sponsored evangelist and diplomat, acting on
behalf of an official cult in Bethel. He was sent to Nineveh in
Assyria to make alliance with a rebel faction that was friendly to
Israel. In this he succeeded, and changed history.
Thanks to powerful innovations in archaeology and other types of
historical research, we now have a picture of everyday life in the
Mayan empire that turns the long-accepted conventional wisdom on
its head. Ranging from the end of the Ice Age to the flourishing of
Mayan culture in the first millennium to the Spanish conquest in
the 16th century, The Ancient Maya takes a fresh look at a culture
that has long held the public's imagination. Originally thought to
be peaceful and spiritual, the Mayans are now also known to have
been worldly, bureaucratic, and violent. Debates and unanswered
questions linger. Mayan expert Heather McKillop shows our current
understanding of the Maya, explaining how interpretations of "dirt
archaeology," hieroglyphic inscriptions, and pictorial pottery are
used to reconstruct the lives of royalty, artisans, priests, and
common folk. She also describes the innovative focus on the
interplay of the people with their environments that has helped
further unravel the mystery of the Mayans' rise and fall.
Originally published: Washington City: Printed for the Author, by
Way and Gideon, 1823. 4], 316 pp. Hardcover. New.
Reprint of the uncommon first edition of the fourth and last of
Taylor's books on the United States Constitution. Little-known
today, Taylor's work is of great significance in the political and
intellectual history of the South and essential for understanding
the constitutional theories that Southerners asserted to justify
secession in 1861. Taylor was a leading advocate of states' rights,
agrarianism and a strict construction of the Constitution in the
political battles of the 1790s.
"Taylor and myself have rarely, if ever, differed in any political
principle of importance."-- Thomas Jefferson. Later Southern
political leaders, notably John C. Calhoun, shared this opinion.
Known as John Taylor of Caroline 1753-1824], Taylor fought in the
Revolutionary War and served briefly in the Virginia House of
Delegates before he became a Senator from Virginia. Taylor was the
author of Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated, A
Defence of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson,
attributed to Curtius, An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of
the Government of the United States and other works
Native American Artifacts of Wisconsin is designed to bridge the
gap between the professional and amateur archaeologist. In an easy
and logical format, it serves as an excellent reference on the
prehistoric artifacts found specifically in Wisconsin. The guide
provides time periods, detailed drawings, artifact photos, and
documented discovery locations quickly and easily, without the
reader having to wade through lengthy journal entries or detailed
scholarly papers. In addition, Paul Schanen and David Hunzicker
provide guidelines to collectors about the importance of
documenting the circumstances and locations of their own artifact
finds and how best to share this information with others in order
to increase our collective knowledge about these priceless,
prehistoric artifacts and the populations who created and used
them. Only through careful unearthing, detailed documentation and
collaborative sharing will we learn about the people(s) that lived
thousands of years ago. No doubt much remains for us to discover
about Native Americans from the daily tools they used as they
farmed, hunted, lived, hoped, dreamed, and died among the very same
forests, hills and streams Wisconsin residents call home today.
In 1996 on the banks of the Columbia River a 9,300-year old
skeleton was found that would become the impetus for the first
legal assault on the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The Kennewick Man, as it came to be
called, put to test whether the American Indian tribes of the area
were culturally affiliated with the skeleton as they claim and
their oral traditions affirm, or whether the skeleton was
affiliated with a people who are no longer present. At the same
time, another 9,000-year old skeleton was found in the storage
facility of the Nevada State Museum, where it had gone unnoticed
for the past 50 years. Like the Kennewick Man, the Spirit Cave
Mummy also brought to fore the question of cultural affiliation
between contemporary American Indian tribes of the western Great
Basin and those people who resided in the area during the Late
Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Cultural anthropologist Peter N.
Jones tackles these contentious questions in this landmark study,
Respect for the Ancestors. For the first time in a single work, the
question of cultural affiliation between the present-day American
Indians of the American West and the people of the distant past is
examined using multiple lines of evidence. Out of this
comprehensive study, a picture of continuous cultural evolution and
adaptation between the peoples of the ancient past and those of the
present-day emerges from the evidence. Further, important
implications for the field of anthropology are discussed as a
result of this benchmark study. Anyone working in the American West
today will benefit from this book.
Over its venerable history, Hadrian’s Wall has had an undeniable
influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and
figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, recent research has
implicated it in the collapse of a farming civilisation centuries
in the making, and in fuelling an insurgency characterised by
violent upheaval. Examining the everyday impact of the Wall over
the three centuries it was in operation, Matthew Symonds sheds new
light on its underexplored human story by discussing how the
evidence speaks of a hard border scything through a previously open
landscape and bringing dramatic change in its wake. The Roman
soldiers posted to Hadrian’s Wall were overwhelmingly recruits
from the empire’s occupied territories, and for them the frontier
could be a place of fear and magic where supernatural protection
was invoked during spells of guard duty. Since antiquity, the Wall
has been exploited by powers craving the legitimacy that came with
being accepted as the heirs of Rome: it helped forge notions of
English and Scottish nationhood, and even provided a model of
selfless cultural collaboration when the British Empire needed
reassurance. It has also inspired creatives for centuries,
appearing in a more or less recognisable guise in works ranging
from Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill to George R. R.
Martin’s A Game of Thrones. Combining an archaeological analysis
of the monument itself and an examination of its rich legacy and
contemporary relevance, this volume presents a reliable, modern
perspective on the Wall.
The first two centuries AD are conventionally thought of as the
"golden age" of the Roman Empire, yet Italy in this period has
often been seen as being in a state of decline and even crisis.
This book investigates the relationships between city and
countryside in Italy in the early Empire, using evidence from
literary texts and inscriptions, and the wealth of data derived
from archaeological field surveys over recent years. Looking at
individual towns and regions as well as at the broader picture, and
stressing the diversity of situations across Italy, John R.
Patterson examines how changing patterns of building and
benefaction in the cities were related to developments in the
country, and underlines the resourcefulness of the cities, both
large and small, in seeking to maintain and develop their civic
traditions.
This collection of twenty-eight essays presents an up-to-date
survey of pre-Islamic Iran, from the earliest dynasty of Illam to
the end of Sasanian empire, encompassing a rich diversity of
peoples and cultures. Historically, Iran served as a bridge between
the earlier Near Eastern cultures and the later classical world of
the Mediterranean, and had a profound influence on political,
military, economic, and cultural aspects of the ancient world.
Written by international scholars and drawing mainly on the field
of practical archaeology, which traditionally has shared little in
the way of theories and methods, the book provides crucial pieces
to the puzzle of the national identity of Iranian cultures from a
historical perspective. Revealing the wealth and splendor of
ancient Iranian society - its rich archaeological data and
sophisticated artistic craftsmanship - most of which has never
before been presented outside of Iran, this beautifully illustrated
book presents a range of studies addressing specific aspects of
Iranian archaeology to show why the artistic masterpieces of
ancient Iranians rank among the finest ever produced. Together, the
authors analyze how archaeology can inform us about our cultural
past, and what remains to still be discovered in this important
region.
This engaging work uses key discoveries, events, people,
techniques, and controversies to give the general reader a rich
history of archaeology from its beginnings in the 16th century to
the present. The history of archaeology leads from the musty
collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The
book identifies three major developmental periods-Birth of
Archaeology (16th-18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and
Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An
introductory essay acquaints the reader with the essence of the
science for each period. The short entries comprising the balance
of the book expand on the themes introduced in the essays.
Organized around personalities, techniques, controversies, and
conflicts, the encyclopedia brings to life the history of
archaeology. It broadens the general reader's knowledge by
detailing the professional significance of widely known discoveries
while introducing to wider knowledge obscure but important moments
in archaeology. Archaeology is replete with the visionaries and
swashbucklers of popular myth; it is also filled with careful and
dedicated scientists. 200 entries present chronological milestones
in the history of archaeology Includes 70 photographs and drawings
of people, sites, and artifacts Three maps locate sites mentioned
throughout the text Includes an extensive bibliography for
introductory essays and each entry
This book brings together new and original work by forty two of the
world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology and
linguistics from around the world. It shows the breadth and the
continuing liveliness of enquiry in an area which over the last
century and a half has opened many unique windows on the
civilizations of the ancient world. The volume is a tribute to Anna
Morpurgo Davies to mark her retirement as the Diebold Professor of
Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford.
The book's six parts are concerned with the early history of
Indo-European (Part I); language use, variation, and change in
ancient Greece and Anatolia (Parts II and III); the Indo-European
languages of Western Europe, including Latin, Welsh, and
Anglo-Saxon (Part IV); the ancient Indo-Iranian and Tocharian
languages (Part V); and the history of Indo-European linguistics
(Part VI).
Indo-European Perspectives will interest scholars and students of
Indo-European philology, historical linguistics, classics, and the
history of the ancient world.
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