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Classifications are central to archaeology. Yet the theoretical
literature on the subject, both in archaeology and the philosophy
of science, bears very little relationship to what actually occurs
in practice. This problem has long interested William Adams, a
field archaeologist, and Ernest Adams, a philosopher of science,
who describe their book as an ethnography of archaeological
classification. It is a study of the various ways in which field
archaeologists set about making and using classifications to meet a
variety of practical needs. The authors first discuss how humans
form concepts. They then describe and analyse in detail a specific
example of an archaeological classification, and go on to consider
what theoretical generalizations can be derived from the study of
actual in-use classifications. Throughout the book, they stress the
importance of having a clearly defined purpose and practical
procedures when developing and applying classifications.
Museum Of Northern Arizona, Bulletin No. 36; Glen Canyon Series,
No. 3. Edited By Alan P. Olson. Foreword By Edward B. Danson.
Appendix By Hugh C. Cutler And John W. Bower.
William Y. Adams grew up in an Indian Service family in an Indian
Service town in the 1930s. Window Rock, Arizona was the newly
founded administrative capital for the vast Navajo reservation, and
all 298 of its residents were Indian Bureau employees or their
families. With the exception of a few low-level service personnel,
none were Navajo, nor did they have any detailed familiarity with
the world of hogans and corrals. They were technocrats, skilled in
agriculture, range management, forestry, mining, education, public
health, and law enforcement, among other things. Despite their
varied backgrounds and skills, however, they shared a common
determination to "do right by the Indians" after decades of
government neglect and mismanagement. That concept, however,
originated not in Window Rock but in Washington, the administrative
headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In the years
following World War II, Adams lived and worked among Navajos and
Hopis in a number of different capacities. As an archaeological
explorer, an ethnologist, an interviewer for the Arizona Bureau of
Ethnic Research, a livestock drive foreman, and - perhaps most
importantly - a trader, he became aware of the myth of the Indian:
a belief in "the Indian" as a kind of unitary, symbolic figure, who
stood as the surrogate for hundreds of tribes, cultures, and
languages spread across the American continent. In Indian Policies
in the Americas, Adams addresses the idea that "the Indian," as
conceived by colonial powers and later by different postcolonial
interest groups, was as much ideology as empirical reality. Adams
surveys the policies of the various colonial and postcolonial
powers, then reflects upon the great ideological, moral, and
intellectual issues that underlay those policies.
Museum Of Northern Arizona, Bulletin No. 36; Glen Canyon Series,
No. 3. Edited By Alan P. Olson. Foreword By Edward B. Danson.
Appendix By Hugh C. Cutler And John W. Bower.
In 1998 and 1999 volumes II and III of the reports on the
University of Kentucky excavations at Kulubnarti were published by
the Sudan Archaeological Research Society as numbers 2 and 4 in its
monograph series. Kulubnarti III was also available through British
Archaeological Reports in its International Series no. 814. Volume
I had long been out of print and, at the request of the author, the
Sudan Archaeological Research Society agreed to republish the first
volume. The excavations at Kulubnarti remain the only detailed
study of a late medieval and post-medieval landscape in the Sudan.
The extensive nature of the work on habitation sites of many
differing types, on monumental buildings such as the church and the
kourfa, on some of the associated cemeteries as well as of the rock
art provided an immense amount of data.
This second volume in a series publishing the results of the
UNESCO-Sudan Antiquities Service Survey in northern Sudan, ahead of
the flooding of the area by the Aswan High Dam, focuses on the
Christian Nubian period sites dating to between AD580 and 1500. The
sites are divided into site types: churches, fortifications,
habitation sites, industrial and commerical sites, and mortuary
sites. Within these, the sites are arranged in terms of their
location from north to south, and include a description of the site
and a list of finds. These finds, both pottery and other (including
objects made from glass, metal, stone, ivory, shell, and leather),
are discussed in more detail in subsequent chapters. The first
volume to be published (by BAR in 2004) dealt with the Meroitic and
Ballana phase sites. Future volumes will describe sites from the
earlier, pre-Pharaonic and Pharaonic phases.
This is the first report on survey work and excavations carried out
by the Sudan Antiquitites Service, supported by UNESCO, between
1960 and 1963 in the northernmost region of Sudanese Nubia, an area
threatened by dam construction. William Adams describes the study
area, the methodology of the work carried out there, its objectives
and priorities, and previous work undertaken. What follows is
essentially a catalogue of some of the 262 sites recorded and
investigated (which included sites dating from the Neolithic to
early modern period), focusing here on those of Meroitic and
Ballana age. The descriptions are arranged according to site type -
monumental, habitation, other non-mortuary sites, mortuary sites -
and location, from north to south.
This is the keenly awaited third of a projected five volumes,
presenting the results of excavations carried out at the Nubian
site of Meinarti in 1963 and 1964. (Before its inundation, Meinarti
was a low-lying alluvial island situated at the foot of the Second
Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of the town of The present
volume carries the story forward through Late and Terminal
Christian periods (Phases 5 and 6), and up to the final abandonment
of the site around AD 1600. This accomplished series of reports is
designed very much as a work of reference, and is consequently
highly user-friendly, with each section presented as a
self-contained study.
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Before its inundation in 1965, the island of Meinarti was situated
at the foot of the Second Nile Cataract, 10km south of the town of
Wadi Halfa. It was the last place that could be reached, at all
times of the year, by large watercraft travelling upriver, a
circumstance clearly important in shaping the history of the
settlement. The total excavation work covered 18 occupation levels,
varying in date from the 2nd or 3rd centuries to the 17th century
AD. This volume processes in detail the Late Meroitic and Ballana
phases (c. 200-660 AD), and is the first in five volume series.
This third volume concerns the funerary remains from the site of
Kulubnarti in the Northern Sudan. Graves from two different
cemeteries, one on the island of Kulubnarti, the other on the
adjacent left bank of the Nile, are described and discussed in
terms of their location, descriptions of the grave types within
their medieval context, the grave goods and analysis of the
skeletal remains. In particular, Nettie Adams provides a detailed
study of the well preserved textiles which ascribe to the practice
of wrapping the bodies in cloth, sometimes secured with bindings,
prior to deposition, occasionally laid on a woven mat. The two
cemeteries date to the pre-Christian period and from c.AD 600 to
recent times, respectively. Volume I of this report outlines the
architectural remains and volume II the artefactual evidence.
This volume completes the documentation of excavations at the
Nubian site of Qasr Ibrim conducted by the Egypt Exploration
Society, continuing the tradition of documenting the history and
archaeology of the site phase-by-phase. Previous monographs dealt
with the Ballana phase (c. AD 350-600), the earlier (c. 600-1172)
and the later medieval period (c. 1172-1500). The present work
carries the story forward to the final abandonment of the site in
AD 1812, the period when Lower Nubia was annexed to the Ottoman
Empire, and an Ottoman garrison was installed at Qasr Ibrim. Part I
deals with the historical record of the site, based on archival
sources, Part II presents the archaeological evidence, followed in
Part III by brief summaries on the Ottoman period artefacts found
at the site, in particular pottery (by William Y. Adams), basketry
(by Boyce N. Driskell), and textiles (by Nettie K. Adams)
This volume records the results of excavations and investigations
undertaken by the EES between 1963 and 1998 on the largest
surviving building, the Cathedral Church, at the site of Qasr
Ibrim, one of the very few not totally destroyed by inundation
following the construction of the Aswan Dam and the creation of
Lake Nasser. It sets out the archaeological evidence, which has
resulted from excavations and a detailed study of the surviving
fabric, and provides an interpretation of that evidence for the
construction of the Cathedral Church, including its subsequent
abandonment and use as a domestic dwelling and then an Ottoman
Mosque. It also places the building and the site within the context
of medieval Nubia.
Throughout its long history, Qasr Ibrim was the most important
settlement in Egyptian Nubia. During the Middle Ages, is was both
an administrative capital and a centre of Christian worship. As an
archaeological site it has produced an unprecedented wealth of
material, including objects of wood, leather, and textile that are
rarely preserved archaeologically. Also preserved are hundreds of
specimens of written material in many different languages. This
volume describes and illustrates in detail the architectural,
artifactual, and textual finds from the earlier medieval period,
from about AD 550 to 1200. An earlier volume in the same series
(Qasr Ibrim, the Later Medieval Period) describes the remains from
the succeeding period.
This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty
of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the
twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional
as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as
it exists today. The book begins with a discussion of the
historical context of Boasian anthropology, and an overview of its
nature and limitations. The work of Boas and his leading students
is then discussed in detail, including biographical data, a review
and critique of their research, a review in detail of each of their
major publications, and an overall assessment of their contribution
to anthropology, as seen in their own time and today.
Anthropologists claim to have made mankind aware of its own
prehistory and its importance to human self-understanding. Yet,
anthropologists seem hardly to have discovered their own
discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance. William
Y. Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying
anthropology's own tools on itself and uncovering the discipline's
debt to earlier thinkers.
Like most anthropologists, Adams had previously accepted the
premise that anthropology's intellectual roots go back no further
than the moral philosophy of the Enlightenment, or perhaps at the
earliest to the humanism of the Renaissance. In this volume, Adams
recognizes that many good ideas were anticipated in antiquity and
that these ideas have had a lasting influence on anthropological
models in particular. He has chosen five philosophical currents
whose influence has been, and is, very widespread, particularly in
North American anthropology: progressivism, primitivism, natural
law, German idealism, and "Indianology." He argues that the
influences of these currents in North American anthropology occur
in a unique combination that is not found in the anthropologies of
other countries. Without neglecting the anthropologies of other
countries, this work serves as the basis for the explanation of the
true historical and philosophical underpinnings of anthropology and
its goals.
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