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Visual Studio .NET, and more specifically, Visual Basic .NET give
developers more productivity and more power to develop
applications, but at the cost of a complex development environment
together with a whole new set of potential bugs. This text analyses
the new defect types that arise with VB .NET, and investigates the
debugging of every type of VB .NET application together with many
common debugging scenarios. Mark Pearce also shows developers how
to use the powerful new .NET debugging tools to find bugs wherever
they hide, even deep inside distributed applications.
Summer farms occur throughout the world where there are rich
pastures that can only be utilised for part of the year, mainly
because they are under snow and ice during the winter. In Europe
transhumance is often a major event when the cattle and other
livestock leave their home villages and move up into the mountains,
and likewise on their return. The best known sites in Europe are
perhaps those found in the Alpine areas, but they occur everywhere
where there are suitable highland areas to exploit. Traditionally
they have been the subject of the studies of ethnographers and
anthropologists, especially in the second half of the 20th century
when technological and economic changes led to the gradual
abandonment of the farms and to other ways of exploiting the
highlands. The last of these farmers are gradually disappearing and
with them the oral records and memories. Now it is archaeologists
who are leading the recording of this material and also looking at
the history of such farming from prehistory and from the Bronze Age
with the rise in importance of 'Secondary Products' such as cheese
which could be stored for use over winter.Much of the evidence can
only be gathered by surface survey and by excavation, though in
some cases there are good written sources which have yet to be
fully exploited. This volume provides case studies, as well as
brief summaries of other projects in Europe, extending from the
Black Sea in the east to northern Spain and Iceland in the west,
though with a concentration on the Alpine area. One thing that
emerges is the very varied nature of these sites in terms of their
chronology, who went to the farms, the distances travelled, and the
other activities associated with transhumance such as mining. In
some cases the products were primarily for the subsistence of the
agricultural population, but in other cases they were traded and
could produce a large amount of profit. This is the first overview
of these sites in Europe written from an archaeological point of
view.
The Death of Archaeological Theory? addresses the provocative
subject of whether it is time to discount the burden of somewhat
dogmatic theory and ideology that has defined archaeological debate
and shaped archaeology over the last 25 years. Seven chapters meet
this controversial subject head on, also assessing where
archaeological theory is now, and future directions. John Bintliff
questions what theory is and argues that archaeologists should be
freed from 'Ideopraxists', or those who preach that a single
approach or model is right to the exclusion of all others. Marc
Pluciennik again questions what we mean by archaeological theory
and argues that the role of intellectual fashion is underestimated.
He predicts pressure from outside archaeology to redirect our
dominant theories towards genetic and human impact theory. Kristian
Kristiansen argues that theory cannot die, but it can change
direction and sees signs of a retreat from the present post-modern
and post-processual cycle towards a more science based,
rationalistic cycle of revived modernity. To Mark Pearce the most
striking thing about the present state of archaeological theory is
that there is no emerging paradigm to be discerned; he proposes
that Theory is not dead, but has instead become more eclectic and
nuanced. Two papers offer a different perspective from other areas
of the world; Alexander Gramsch examines the issue from the German
tradition and shows that in Central and Eastern Europe not only has
Anglo-American Theory had limited impact, but current discussions
on the future of method and theory offer a broader view of the
discipline in which older traditions are seen to form the
foundation. Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that
American archaeologists do not foresee the death of a genuinely
archaeological theory (which they believe has never existed) but
fear the real catastrophe would be the death of anthropological
theory, because some anthropology today has become decidedly
anti-scientific, rejecting not only the controlled comparison and
contrast of cultures, but also the use of generalisation, both of
which are crucial to theories and models and without which the
longue duree will always be invisible.
Summer farms occur throughout the world where there are rich
pastures that can only be utilised for part of the year, mainly
because they are under snow and ice during the winter. In Europe
transhumance is often a major event when the cattle and other
livestock leave their home villages and move up into the mountains,
and likewise on their return. The best known sites in Europe are
perhaps those found in the Alpine areas, but they occur everywhere
where there are suitable highland areas to exploit. Traditionally
they have been the subject of the studies of ethnographers and
anthropologists, especially in the second half of the 20th century
when technological and economic changes led to the gradual
abandonment of the farms and to other ways of exploiting the
highlands. The last of these farmers are gradually disappearing and
with them the oral records and memories. Now it is archaeologists
who are leading the recording of this material and also looking at
the history of such farming from prehistory and from the Bronze Age
with the rise in importance of `Secondary Products' such as cheese
which could be stored for use over winter. Much of the evidence can
only be gathered by surface survey and by excavation, though in
some cases there are good written sources which have yet to be
fully exploited. This volume provides case studies, as well as
brief summaries of other projects in Europe, extending from the
Black Sea in the east to northern Spain and Iceland in the west,
though with a concentration on the Alpine area. One thing that
emerges is the very varied nature of these sites in terms of their
chronology, who went to the farms, the distances travelled, and the
other activities associated with transhumance such as mining. In
some cases the products were primarily for the subsistence of the
agricultural population, but in other cases they were traded and
could produce a large amount of profit. This is the first overview
of these sites in Europe written from an archaeological point of
view.
A large number of the contributors to the Ravenna (1997) meeting of
the European Association of Archaeologists spoke about the
explosion of research interest and new discoveries on the island of
Sardinia. This book groups their papers together, providing a
useful snapshot of current work.
In this, the first of four volumes from the meeting, sixty-nine
authors from Europe and the USA debate under three headings: The
visibility of nomads and herders across the archaeological record';
The rise and decline of complex in Mediterranean Europe during the
Middle and Late Bronze Age' and Archaeology and ethnicity'.
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