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This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field
offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural
landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being
explored through computational social science. It focuses on the
continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern
recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly
model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and
addresses those applications where situated human experience and
perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in
computational technology over the past decade, the authors bring in
examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and
the Americas to demonstrate the variety of applications available
to the contemporary researcher.
This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field
offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural
landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being
explored through computational social science. It focuses on the
continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern
recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly
model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and
addresses those applications where situated human experience and
perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in
computational technology over the past decade, the authors bring in
examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and
the Americas to demonstrate the variety of applications available
to the contemporary researcher.
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global
capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the
cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of
urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in
various permutations in places as diverse as the Bronze Age
Mediterranean and Early Modern Europe. What the contributions in
this volume also vividly document, both in past social contexts and
recent ones as diverse as the kingdoms of Cameroon, Socialist
Hungary or online EBay auctions, is the need to understand branded
commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of
gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice. Bringing together the work of
cultural anthropologists and archaeologists, this volume obliges
specialists in marketing and economics to reassess the relationship
between branding and capitalism, as well as adding an important new
concept to the work of economic anthropologists and archaeologists.
Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global
capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the
cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of
urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in
various permutations in places as diverse as the Bronze Age
Mediterranean and Early Modern Europe. What the contributions in
this volume also vividly document, both in past social contexts and
recent ones as diverse as the kingdoms of Cameroon, Socialist
Hungary or online eBay auctions, is the need to understand branded
commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of
gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice. Bringing together the work of
cultural anthropologists and archaeologists, this volume obliges
specialists in marketing and economics to reassess the relationship
between branding and capitalism, as well as adding an important new
concept to the work of economic anthropologists and archaeologists.
The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during
the Bronze Age produced the most prolific and diverse range of
stone vessel traditions known at any time or anywhere in the world.
Stone vessels are therefore a key class of artefact in the early
history of this region. As a form of archaeological evidence, they
offer important analytical advantages over other artefact types -
virtual indestructibility, a wide range of functions and values,
huge variety in manufacturing traditions, as well as the
subtractive character of stone and its rich potential for
geological provenancing. In this 2007 book, Andrew Bevan considers
individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers
a highly comparative and value-led perspective on production,
consumption and exchange logics throughout the eastern
Mediterranean over a period of two millennia during the Bronze Age
(ca.3000-1200 BC).
Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term
human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the
past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural
sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering
Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and
Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history. Small
islands are particularly interesting because their human, plant and
animal populations often experience abrupt demographic changes,
including periods of near-complete abandonment and recolonization,
and Antikythera proves to be one of the best-documented examples of
these shifts over time. Small islands also play eccentric but
revealing roles in wider social, economic and political networks,
serving as places for refugees, hunters, modern eco-tourists,
political exiles, hermits and pirates. Antikythera is a rare case
of an island that has been investigated in its entirety from
several systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, not
least of which is an intensive archaeological survey. The authors
use the resulting evidence to offer a unique vantage on settlement
and land use histories.
The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during
the Bronze Age produced the most prolific and diverse range of
stone vessel traditions known at any time or anywhere in the world.
Stone vessels are therefore a key class of artefact in the early
history of this region. As a form of archaeological evidence, they
offer important analytical advantages over other artefact types -
virtual indestructibility, a wide range of functions and values,
huge variety in manufacturing traditions, as well as the
subtractive character of stone and its rich potential for
geological provenancing. In this 2007 book, Andrew Bevan considers
individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers
a highly comparative and value-led perspective on production,
consumption and exchange logics throughout the eastern
Mediterranean over a period of two millennia during the Bronze Age
(ca.3000-1200 BC).
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