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An outline of Czech history and its county houses illustrated with
water colours and pen and ink sketches.
The papers given at this conference range over many historic and
prehistoric periods as well as regions. Great strides have been
made in recent decades in the various forms of botanical and
physical analysis of archaeological finds which have enabled
students to gain greater insight into diet and cooking technologies
than was possible when all they had to go on was the survival of
artefacts. These papers emanate from the cutting edge of
archaeological research, among postgraduates and young lecturers
from here and overseas. The main articles cover the following
topics: Cookery in the Ertebolle Culture in Southern Scandinavia
(5th millennium BC); Lifestyles in Early Iron Age Corinthia
(1200-680 BC), Greece; Provisioning and Diet in Anglo-Saxon
Southampton; Food and Drink in the London Playhouses of the 16th
and 17th centuries; Honey and Bees in British Prehistory;
Contextualising the Animal Remains from the Kabeirion Sanctuary at
Thebes; The Exploitation of Hares in British Prehistory; Malting
grains; Evidence of Roman diet from the sewer at Herculaneum;
Nutritional Analysis of Medieval Skeletons from Durres, Albania.
The first book to focus specifically on introducing archaeologists
to the concept of assemblage.
The first book to focus specifically on introducing archaeologists
to the concept of assemblage.
How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval
archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and
identities? These are the questions addressed in this book which
develops a new approach to the study of pottery in medieval
archaeology. Utilising an interpretative framework which focuses
upon the relationships between people, places and things, the
effect of the production, consumption and discard of pottery is
considered, to see pottery not as reflecting medieval life, but as
one factor which contributed to the development of multiple
experiences and realities in medieval England. By focussing on
relationships we move away from viewing pottery simply as an object
of study in its own right, to see it as a central component to
developing understandings of medieval society. The case studies
presented explore how we might use relational approaches to
reconsider our approaches to medieval landscapes, overcome the
methodological and theoretical divisions between documents and
material culture and explore how the use of objects could have
multiple implications for the formation and maintenance of
identities. The use of this approach makes this book not only of
interest to pottery specialists, but also to any archaeologist
seeking to develop new interpretative approaches to medieval
archaeology and the archaeological study of material culture.
How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people
using archaeological evidence? To answer this question,
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn
from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse
as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the
deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish
migrants to North America, the relationship between people and
animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use
of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship
between rules, lived experience, and social identity.
This volume derives from a session held at the 2010 Theoretical
Archaeology Group conference (Bristol University). The aims of this
session were to explore occurrences of compromise (or making do)
and repair (mending) in the past, with a particular focus on
material culture. This original scope broadened to encompass reuse
- inextricably linked to the central themes, particularly when
considered through a biographical approach. Contents: Introduction:
Archaeologies of Compromise, Repair and Reuse (Ben Jervis and
Alison Kyle); 1) What did the apocrypha know? Glued pottery vessels
from Springhead and other Romano-British sites in south and eastern
England (Kayt Marter Brown and Rachael Seager Smith); 2) Modifying
Material: Social biographies of Roman material culture (Lousia
Campbell); 3) Reuse, Repair and Reconstruction. Functioning
aqueducts in post-Roman Spain (Javier Martinez Jimenez); 4) A Hole
for the Soul? Possible functions of post-firing perforations and
lead plugs in early Anglo-Saxon cremation urns (Gareth Perry); 5)
Riveting Biographies. The theoretical implications of early
Anglo-Saxon brooch repair, customisation and use adaptation (Toby
Martin); 6) Making-do or Making the World? Tempering choices in
Anglo-Saxon pottery manufacture (Ben Jervis); 7) More Than Just a
Quick Fix? Repair Holes on Early Medieval Souterrain Ware (Alison
Kyle); 8) Beyond a 'Make-do and Mend' Mentality. Repair and reuse
of objects from two medieval village sites in Buckinghamshire
(Carole Wheeler); 9) When is a Pot Still a Pot? (Duncan H Brown);
10) Survival and Significance: Some Concluding Remarks on Reuse as
an Aspect of Cultural Biography (Mark A Hall).
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