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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Ritual Failure' is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory Do societies change and then their ritual Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in relation to wider social and chronological developments. The collected papers in this book introduce the concept of 'ritual failure' to archaeology. The analysis explores ways in which ritual may have been instrumental in sustaining cultural continuity during demanding social conditions, or how its functionality might have failed - resulting in discontinuity, change or collapse. The collected papers draw attention to those turbulent social times of change for which ritual practices are a sensitive indicator within the archaeological record. The book reviews archaeological evidence and theoretical approaches, and suggests models which could explain socio-cultural change through ritual failure. The concept of 'ritual failure' is also often used to better understand other themes, such as identity and wider social, economic and political transformations, shedding light on the social conditions that forced or introduced change. This book will engage those interested in ritual theory and practices, but will also appeal to those interested in exploring new avenues to understanding cultural change. From transformations in the use of ritual objects to the risks inherent in practicing ritual, from ritual continuity in customs to sudden and profound change, from the Neolithic Near East to Roman Europe and Iron Age Africa, this book explores what happens when ritual fails.Contents:IntroductionVasiliki G. Koutrafouri and Jeff SandersForeword: Introductory Thoughts on the Theme of 'Ritual Failure. Archaeological Perspectives'.by Timothy InsollThe Passage of Matter: Transformations of Objects and Ritual Meanings in the Neolithic of the Near East.Marc VerhoevenThe sky almost never falls on your head - why ritual rarely fails Jeff SandersRitual Failure in the Business Records of Mesopotamian TemplesMichael KozuhRitual Failure and the Temple collapse of prehistoric Malta.Caroline Malone and Simon StoddartFrom wells to pillars, and from pillars to. Ritual systems transformation and collapse in the early prehistory of CyprusVasiliki G. KoutrafouriWhen Ancestors become Gods: The Transformation of Cypriote Ritual and Religion in the Late Bronze AgeDavid CollardColonial Entanglements and Cultic Heterogeneity on Rome's Germanic FrontierKarim MataThe Dead Acrobat: Managing Risk and Minoan IconographyEvangelos KyriakidisDiscussion: Defining momentsby Richard Bradley.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region's archaeological heritage. The geopolitical and cultural diversity of the Caribbean, the general lack of awareness of island histories and multiple stakeholders involved in the preservation process, have in many cases slowed down the effective enforcement of regulations and heritage legislation. The development of archaeological heritage management (AHM) in the Dutch Caribbean islands started slowly in the early years of their semi-autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1954 onwards. With the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao and St. Martin obtained a more autonomous status within the Kingdom, similar to Aruba has since 1986. Simultaneously, Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius became special overseas municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Consequently, these islands now fall under Dutch regulations for cultural resource management. Irrespective of these geopolitical changes, AHM has been developing on the six islands over the past 25 years, partly because of the active role of localized island-specific archaeological institutions. This volume provides a background to the history of archaeological research in the Dutch Caribbean and compiles a number of compliance archaeology projects that have been carried out under and in the spirit of the Valetta Treaty. In addition, with its discussion of the successful creation of localized community-based archaeological heritage associations serving as an excellent model for other island communities in the Caribbean, this volume represents a unique contribution to AHM in a wider regional perspective. This publication is part of the Taboui Caribbean Archaeology Series.

Condizione: New. While terrestrial archaeology has engaged with contemporary philosophy, maritime archaeology has remained in comparative disciplinary - or subdisciplinary - isolation. However, the issues that humans face in the Anthropocene - from global warming to global .

Condizione: New. The first comprehensive study of Polynesian barkcloth.Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the live.

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 274 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called ¿amulets,¿ from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small carvings of spirit beings perforated for suspension against the body. The data are drawn from new photographs, measurements, and observations of 535 specimens compiled by the author during 2011-2018 in research visits to 34 museums and private collections in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. In analyzing this corpus, the author documents high stylistic diversity within the region, naming nine new figure pendant styles and situating these in space and time. This high diversity of local styles and subject matter suggests a previously undocumented religious pluralism in the ancient Caribbean, in accord with emergent understandings of cultural and political diversity within the region. The author finds that the subject matter of figure pendants is unconnected with elite cohoba spiritualism as documented ethnohistorically, which leads to a search for what the phenomenon represents socially and religiously. Figure pendants generally are far more common than the paraphernalia of cohoba, probably documenting the existence of a religious institution existing at the village level. The author hypothesizes that they were commissioned from pendant carvers by initiates of secret societies dedicated to healing or warfare. In this scenario, the supernatural subjects of the pendants were the patrons of regional sodalities with distinct histories. The book is intended for readers with interests in the indigenous art, religion and society of the ancient Caribbean and more broadly, Latin America. Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Orientation 2. The Puerto Plata Style 3. Sequencing the Puerto Plata Style 4. The Yaguajay Style 5. The Madre Vieja Style 6. The Comendador Style 7. The Cibao Style 8. The Luquillo Style 9. Imbert and Related Styles 10. Miniatures: La Caleta, Altagracia, and Other Styles 11. Same Subjects, Additional Styles 12. Comparisons 13. Conclusions Bibliography Appendix: Figure Pendants in the Database and in the Sala de Arte Pre-Hispánico.

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 428 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book presents a historical archaeological study of the saltpans in the Venezuelan Caribbean from the 17th to the late 19th centuries.

Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This volume brings together interdisciplinary and multi-national archaeologists, historians, and geographers to discuss and debate religious 'space' and 'place' in the Early Medieval World.

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 436 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Water & Heritage . tells the story of water heritage in all its diversity. It reveals the technical ingenuity that water heritage has always inspired, and it presents the challenges that this heritage faces, along with possible solutions. Reflecting the depth of cooperation between UNESCO and ICOMOS, this book was launched . as a showcase of cooper.

Condizione: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 356 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region's archaeological heritage.

Condizione: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 436 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Water & Heritage . tells the story of water heritage in all its diversity. It reveals the technical ingenuity that water heritage has always inspired, and it presents the challenges that this heritage faces, along with possible solutions. Reflecting the depth of cooperation between UNESCO and ICOMOS, this book was launched . as a showcase of cooper.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba's ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba's geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and gender in Saba's social environment, and the processes behind these ideological relations that contributed to the material things that are found across Saba's social landscape.This provides insights into archaeologies of poverty, approaches towards differentiating between low class and slavery in the archaeological record, and the importance of powered perspectives in defining and situating poverty on local and regional scales.

Condizione: New. Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place o.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning, or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things, places and the environment contribute with their own agencies to the shaping of relations.This means that the environment cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Parallel to this, the field of environmental humanities poses the question of how to work with the intermeshing of humans and their surroundings.To allow the environment back in as an active agent of change, means that landscape archaeology can deal better with issues such as global warming, an escalating loss of biodiversity as well as increasingly toxic environment. However, this does not leave human agency out of the equation. It is humans who reinforce the environmental challenges of today.The scholarly field of the humanities deal with questions like how is meaning attributed, what cultural factors drive human action, what role is played by ethics, how is landscape experienced emotionally, as well as how concepts derived from art, literature, and history function in such processes of meaning attribution and other cultural processes. This humanities approach is of outmost importance when dealing with climate and environmental challenges ahead and we need a new landscape archaeology that meets these challenges, but also that meets well across disciplinary boundaries. Here inspiration can be found in discussions with scholars in the emerging field of Environmental Humanities.ContentsEnvironmental humanities a rethinking of landscape archaeology Sjoerd Kluiving, Kerstin Lidén, Christina FredengrenNature and society: an integrated multi-perspective landscape approach in practiceOscar JacobssonTravel books as landscape archaeology reports: from history to ecological responsibility: The Example of British and American Travellers in the PyreneesFrancoise BessonFragments of the Wild: Wordsworth's Yew Trees and Contemporary ArchaeologyAndrew HoaenGeological and historical findings reveal differential anthropogenic substrate control in unique streets of Diemen, The NetherlandsRonald van Gelder, Sjoerd Kluiving, Inger Leemans, Ruben den Ouden, Jan GoedhartRe-thinking Deep Time LandscapesChristina Fredengren 108 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume represents a bold attempt by the editors to bring scholars from distinct research orientations together, to discuss the interplay between the geographic and social dimensions of different kinds of interaction networks.Within the humanities, networks afford an umbrella of approaches to the study of social relations and their patterning, both through qualitative and quantitative applications, with two main perspectives standing out: those centered on space and those concerned with the social dimension of interaction. In this book, we aim to highlight the potential for integrating these different research directions and identify common ground for developing new interdisciplinary insights.The volume demonstrates how a network approach can successfully incorporate and frame different kinds of theoretical perspectives and methodological applications, drawing on multiple strands of social and geographical theory and using data as diverse as archaeological artefacts, roads/infrastructure, textual sources, and information from living informants. As such, it will appeal to archaeologists, historians, geographers, and sociologists, as well as anyone interested in exploring further the potential for employing network-based methodologies within the Humanities and Social Sciences, and in enriching their understanding of the theoretical and interdisciplinary underpinnings of widely employed concepts in network science.The volume stems from a workshop held at the Freie Universität Berlin which was funded and hosted by the Excellence Cluster Topoi. The publication of the proceedings has been made possible thanks to generous financial support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation.ContentsBridging social and geographical space through networks: IntroductionH. Dawson and F. IaconoThree simple geographical network models for the Holocene Bismarck SeaM. Golitko and J.E. TerrellTerrestrial transportation networks and power balance in Etruria and Latium Vetus between the beginning of the Early Iron Age and the end of the Archaic PeriodF. Fulminante, S. Lozano, L. Prignano, and I. MorerGetting around the City: A Space Syntax perspective on post-medieval NurembergD. WehnerMemory as a network of affects: bridging the humanities and social sciences to understand the social spaces of storytellingS. De NardiAt the heart of Mare Nostrum: Islands and 'small world networks' in the central Mediterranean Bronze AgeH. DawsonMarx, networks and the social logic of interactionF. Iacono 130 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Ritual Failure' is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory Do societies change and then their ritual Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in relation to wider social and chronological developments. The collected papers in this book introduce the concept of 'ritual failure' to archaeology. The analysis explores ways in which ritual may have been instrumental in sustaining cultural continuity during demanding social conditions, or how its functionality might have failed - resulting in discontinuity, change or collapse. The collected papers draw attention to those turbulent social times of change for which ritual practices are a sensitive indicator within the archaeological record. The book reviews archaeological evidence and theoretical approaches, and suggests models which could explain socio-cultural change through ritual failure. The concept of 'ritual failure' is also often used to better understand other themes, such as identity and wider social, economic and political transformations, shedding light on the social conditions that forced or introduced change. This book will engage those interested in ritual theory and practices, but will also appeal to those interested in exploring new avenues to understanding cultural change. From transformations in the use of ritual objects to the risks inherent in practicing ritual, from ritual continuity in customs to sudden and profound change, from the Neolithic Near East to Roman Europe and Iron Age Africa, this book explores what happens when ritual fails.Contents:IntroductionVasiliki G. Koutrafouri and Jeff SandersForeword: Introductory Thoughts on the Theme of 'Ritual Failure. Archaeological Perspectives'.by Timothy InsollThe Passage of Matter: Transformations of Objects and Ritual Meanings in the Neolithic of the Near East.Marc VerhoevenThe sky almost never falls on your head - why ritual rarely fails Jeff SandersRitual Failure in the Business Records of Mesopotamian TemplesMichael KozuhRitual Failure and the Temple collapse of prehistoric Malta.Caroline Malone and Simon StoddartFrom wells to pillars, and from pillars to. Ritual systems transformation and collapse in the early prehistory of CyprusVasiliki G. KoutrafouriWhen Ancestors become Gods: The Transformation of Cypriote Ritual and Religion in the Late Bronze AgeDavid CollardColonial Entanglements and Cultic Heterogeneity on Rome's Germanic FrontierKarim MataThe Dead Acrobat: Managing Risk and Minoan IconographyEvangelos KyriakidisDiscussion: Defining momentsby Richard Bradley 170 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century. The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism.The subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of experiences, interactions and interpretations. They trace the building of socio-cultural and professional networks, the casual encounters of everyday life, and the travel, translation, and preserving of life stories in different media. In these multiple ways the book makes a strong case for reclaiming lost personal narratives that have been passed over by more orthodox nation-state focused approaches.These explorations make use of social and historical categories such as class, gender, religion and race in a transnational context, arguing that the transnational characteristics of these categories overflow the nation-state frame. In this way they can be used to 'unhinge' the primarily national context of history-writing.By drawing on personal records and other primary sources, the chapters in this book release many layers of subjectivity otherwise lost, enabling a richer understanding of how individuals move through, interact with and are affected by the major events of their time.ContentsIntroductionBabs Boter and Marleen RensenArchival tracesMieke Bouman (1907-1966) and the Jungschläger/Schmidt trialsErnestine HoegenColonialism, class, and collaboration: A wartime encounter on JavaEveline Buchheim'The Voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria, 1952': Doing Race in Life Writing from South Africa to the NetherlandsBarbara HenkesNetworkingSleepwalking to a poem: A theory of Adrienne Rich's translations from the DutchDiederik OostdijkW.E.B. Du Bois at Ons Suriname: Amsterdam transnational networks and Dutch anti-colonial activism in the late 1950sLonneke GeerlingsFollowing the letters: Emile de Laveleye's transnational correspondence networkThomas D'haeninckCirculationBooker T. Washington's Up From Slavery in the Dutch Empire, 1902-1995Marijke HuismanThe production and contestation of biography: New approaches from South AfricaCiraj RassoolOrdinary lives: teaching history with life narratives in transnational perspectiveNancy MykoffStarring Morgenland! The life and work of Jan Johannes Theodorus Boon (1911-1974)Edy SeriesePositionings'She is English, isn't she ': transnationality as part of Cissy van Marxveldt's self-presentationMonica Soeting'A caveman in a canal house': The rejection of transnationalist biography in Hafid Bouazza's A Bear in Fur CoatSjoerd-Jeroen MoenandarAfterword: Reflections from a diplomatic historianGiles Scott-Smith 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives - sometimes controversial - about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and for what reasons This volume aims to showcase a number of illustrative examples, and thus to provide a deeper understanding of twenty-first-century reception of Antiquity.After a general introduction in Part I, the volume focuses on two main fields: controversies referencing ancient and modern literary works; and controversies surrounding heritage ethics.Part II takes literary evidence from the USA to Italy as its starting point: it shows how metaphors about early Christianity find their way into American conservative discourse; how Sparta is evoked in right-wing thinking in the USA, Germany, France and Scandinavia; and how Aeneas plays a role in recent Italian debates on migrations. The last paper discusses the depiction of classicists in modern novels.Part III focuses on heritage ethics and material culture, in first instance taking practices at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) - on the display of death, queering and orientalism - as case studies. The last paper delves into the history of the Via Belgica to show how antiquity has been weaponised for political aims for many centuries.Together, these papers show that academics should engage with the receptions of antiquity in the recent past and present. If they want their research and museum displays to be part of current reception, they should make their voice heard.About the EditorsKim Beerden is a lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She has published in the field of ancient divination, see her monograph Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context (Brill, Leiden: 2013; paperback 2021).Timo Epping is a museum educator at the National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden, The Netherlands). He has published several articles in journals for history teachers and museum education.ContentsPart I: IntroductionPrefaceKim Beerden1. Introduction: Stop the Steal!Frederick G. NaereboutPart II: Controversies and Literary Traditions2. Whose persecution Early Christianity as a Metaphor in Contemporary American Political DiscourseK.P.S. (Renske) Janssen3. Spartans on the Capitol: Recent Far-Right Appropriations of Spartan Militarism in the USA and their Historical RootsStephen Hodkinson4. Leonidas Goes North: Swedish Appropriations of Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae and their Wider European ContextJohannes Siapkas and Thomas Sjösvärd5. Pop Culture against Modernity: New Right-Wing Movements and the Reception of SpartaJulia Müller6. Fato Profugus. Aeneas the Refugee: an Italian DebateMarco Gay7. The Classicist as a Literary Character in Contemporary Literature: the Depiction of a DisciplineBarbara HollerPart III: Controversies and Heritage Ethics8. Ancient Death and the Contemporary World: the Role of Graeco-Roman Death in Museum DisplayPatricia Kret9. Queering the National Museum of AntiquitiesSuus van den Berg10. Dummie de Mummie: an Egyptian Body as the Undead, Oriental OtherDaniel Soliman11. Who Owns the Road to the Roman Past The Case of the Via Vipsania aka the chaussée romaine, the Römerstrasse, the Romeinse kassei, aka the Via BelgicaLiesbeth Claes 234 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean's archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture, bodies) and social (practice) components of built space.Compiling the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellenistic architecture as an action context, perceived in movement through built space. Sanctuaries, as a particularly coherent kind of built space featuring well-defined sets of architecture combined with ritual action, were chosen as the general frame for the analyses. The reciprocity between this sacred architecture and (religious) human action is traced through several layers starting from three specific case studies (Messene, Samothrace, Pella), extending to architectural modules, and finally encompassing overarching principles of design and use. As two additional case studies on caves and agorai show, the far-reaching entanglement of architecture and human action was neither restricted to highly architecturalised nor sacred spaces, but is characteristic of Hellenistic built space in general. 208 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe's largest surviving prehistoric copper mines. The ore from the mine was smelted into metal that was cast and worked into the rich variety of copper and bronze objects synonymous with the Bronze Age in Britain and Europe.This book presents an original synthesis and reinterpretation of the complex prehistoric archaeology of the Great Orme mine. It uses previously unpublished data in a novel and comprehensive analysis to determine where, when and how mining took place at this landmark site during the Bronze Age.The author draws on a wealth of information on the archaeology of the contemporary landscape and practices of metal production and working to examine the social nature of prehistoric mining. Observations are offered and conclusions drawn about who participated in mining; the character of social relations at the mine; the relationship between mining and identity; and how mining for copper ore shaped the miners' worldview.Well supported by the evidence and embedded in contemporary theoretical discussions of Bronze Age social life, this significant study establishes an important research agenda for ongoing work at the Great Orme mine and makes a substantial contribution to broader debates about the nature of Bronze Age society. It offers for the first time a fully contextualised interpretation of Bronze Age mining in Britain from the perspective that it was a fundamentally social activity. Community, Technology and Tradition is for anyone interested in prehistoric mining and metallurgy, the British Bronze Age and the archaeology of past lives.ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Bronze Age mining as a social phenomenonChapter 2. The Bronze Age mine: structure and developmentChapter 3. The technology of mining: its sequence and contentChapter 4. Mining and the taskscapeChapter 5. Mining and the construction of communityChapter 6. A fundamentally social archaeology of Bronze Age miningBibliographyAppendices 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This work is an intensive study of the Neolithic deposition of copper objects from Neuenkirchen in North-East Germany. This unique ensemble represents one of the very rare hoard finds from the early Early Neolithic, and is the first of its kind for nearly 100 years, matched only by the famous younger hoard find from Bygholm (Denmark).The beginning of neolithization at the end of the fifth millennium is not only characterised by a change in the subsistence strategy, but also by the development of far-reaching networks of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker societies in Northern Germany. Proof is provided by the first metal finds which also appear at the same time in the North and were imported from the early metallurgical centres in the Balkan-Carpathian area. The hoard of Neuenkirchen is an outstanding example for these new, long-distance contacts.Drawing from a multi-method approach, the study attempts to trace the life and journey of the individual objects in the hoard and the transformation processes they underwent before they finally ended up in the ground. To this end, an intensive typological discussion, use-wear analysis, plus trace element and lead isotopes analyses of the objects are paired with a comprehensive overview of the natural environment, deposition practices, and settlement activities in the vicinity of Neuenkirchen. In the context of comparable hoard finds from the 5th/4th millennium, and the development of early metallurgy in Southeast Europe, these results make the journey and transformation of the objects from Neuenkirchen comprehensible.Contents1. Introduction2. Topographical posistion of Neuenkirchen3. State of research on the Funnel Beaker North Group in present-day Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania4. Chronology of the Funnel Beaker Societies5. Anthropogenic activities in the surroundings of Neuenkirchen at the time of the Funnel Beaker Societies6. Finds and features of the hoard find from Neuenkirchen7. Analysis of traces of manufacture and use8. X-ray flurorescence and lead isotopes analyses9. Early Copper in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania10. Typo-chronological analyses of the Neuenkirchen artefacts11. Neuenkirchen in the mirror of the development of Early Metallurgy in Southeast Europe12. Neuenkirchen - profane, ritual and/or social practice 13. Summary14. References 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven ideas of socio-environmental connectivities are described, which form the basis of the Cluster of Excellence in its research.A discussion of the fluidness of the term 'connectivity' and the applicability of the concept opens the arena for diverse interpretations. With various case and concept studies, the reader may advance into the perspectives that develop from the new interdisciplinary interaction. These include both rarely considered dependencies between nomadic and urban lifestyles, and aspects of water supply and water features, which represent an area of connectivity between the environment and agglomerated human settlement structures. Moreover, diachronic aspects are presented in various studies on the role of connectivities in the development of social inequality, the use of fortification or also waste behaviour, and the creation of linguistic features in written media.In sum, facets of connectivity research are revealed that are also being investigated in numerous other disciplines with further results in the Kiel Excellence Cluster ROOTS.ContentsPreface of the series editorsLutz Käppel, Johannes Müller, Wolfgang RabbelPreface of the volume editorJohannes MüllerIntroductionSocial, environmental, and cultural connectivity: A concept for an understanding of society and the environmentJohannes Müller, Lutz Käppel, Andrea Ricci, Mara WeineltOn the concept of connectivityV.P.J. ArponenNodes of connectivity: The role of religion in the constitution of urban sites in nomadic Inner AsiaJonathan Ethier, Christian Ressel, Birte Ahrens, Enkhtuul Chadrabaal, Sampildonov Chuluun, Martin Oczipka, Henny PiezonkaWater supply, settlement organisation and social connectivityAnnette Haug and Ulrich MüllerAn archaeological perspective on social structure, connectivity and the measurements of social inequalityTim Kerig, Johannes Bröcker ( ), René Ohlrau, Tanja Schreiber, Henry Skorna, Fynn WilkesConnectivity and fortificationsOliver Nakoinz, Anna K. Loy, Christoph Rinne, Jutta Kneisel, Tanja Schreiber, Maria Wunderlich, Nicole TaylorConnecting linguistics and archaeology in the study of identity: A first explorationJohn Peterson, Nicole Taylor, Ilja A. Serzant, Henny Piezonka, Ariba Hidayet Khan, Norbert NüblerThe dimensions of refuse: Discard studies as a matter of connectivityJens SchneeweißIdeology and identity in grammar: A diachronic-quantitative approach to language standardisation processes in Ancient GreekIlja A. Serzant and Dariya Rafiyenko 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Religious spaces are often some of the most debated, contested, or otherwise scrutinized in the early medieval world. That space and place were important to people in the past is evident in their architecture, artwork, literature, and in their cemeteries and burial grounds. While these observations are not new, this volume brings together interdisciplinary and multi-national archaeologists, historians, and geographers to discuss and debate 'space' and 'place' with a focus on new methodologies and current approaches to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The papers in this volume address such themes as phenomenological and experiential issues in the archaeology of space and place; access to and visibility of spaces (locations) in the past; the transformation and appropriation of spaces beyond the 'Christian/Pagan' dichotomy; and aspects of community and memory building in the medieval world. The contributors to this volume recognize that terms such as 'Christianisation', 'Islamisation', and indeed 'space' and 'place' themselves are loaded words and each paper takes a different route to the discussion of sacred space in the past. Together, they offer a current discussion about the role of 'space' and 'place' in religious history.ContentsIntroduction: Defining Religious 'Space' and 'Place' Brittany Thomas and Chantal BielmannChapter 1. The Evolution of Forum Space in Late Antique Hispania: the Genesis of a New Urbanism Pilar Diarte-BlascoChapter 2. Malta in Late Antiquity: Mortuary Places and SpacesGlen FarrugiaChapter 3. A Case for Space: Rereading the Imperial Panels of San VitaleBrittany ThomasChapter 4. The Early Medieval architecture of the cult places in the Western Alps: The Verbano Cusio Ossola districtFrancesca GaranziniChapter 5. Identifying the Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries in the Tees Valley, North-East EnglandStephen J. SherlockChapter 6. Religious Change vs Cultural Change: The Case of Islamisation in the Early Medieval PeriodJose Carvajal LopezChapter 7. Interactions between the Clerical Enclosure and the Extra-Claustral Clergy in Carolingian Francia: A Sacred Space with Porous Walls Stephen LingChapter 8. The monastery of Saint Maurice of Agaune (Switzerland) in the first millenniumAlessandra Antonini (translated by Chantal Bielmann)Chapter 9. Exploring Monastic Space and Place in the Swiss AlpsChantal BielmannChapter 10. Sacred Ground: Community and Separation in a Norse Churchyard, GreenlandJess Angus McCulloughChapter 11. Light and Life in the Catacombs: Questioning the Early Christian and Early Medieval Pilgrim ExperienceNeil ChristieConclusion: Looking for Beliefs and Visions in ArchaeologyDeirdre O'Sullivan 218 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place of original deposition and with no assurance of legal provenance or authenticity. The consequences of these questionable acquisition practices for scholarship and for our understanding of the past are the focus of much enquiry.Recent high-profile acquisitions (and subsequent returns) of text-bearing objects by prominent private collectors and museums and the appearance on the market of demonstrably modern forgeries have resulted in increased scrutiny of the intellectual and commercial impacts of academic engagement. Scholarly research can abet the antiquities market directly or indirectly through identification, authentication and legitimation of illegally traded text-bearing objects.These harmful complications of well-established academic practice raise important questions about how and even if the academy should engage with ancient texts and text-bearing objects of uncertain provenance. Through a wide-ranging set of case studies, Variant Scholarship focuses on the methodological, theoretical, and ethical dilemmas facing scholars when working with ancient texts in modern contexts.This book is intended for those interested in the historical practices of research into ancient manuscripts, ethical quandaries in studying unprovenanced textual materials, and the unintended consequences of scholarly interactions with problematic text-bearing objects.ContentsVariant scholarship: ancient texts in modern contextsNeil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, and Josephine Munch RasmussenDisciplinary pitfalls: how good philology can mask bad provenanceNils H. KorsvollThe provenance of the Dead Sea Scrolls: five examplesÅrstein JustnesPerforming papyrology: cartonnage, discovery and provenanceRoberta MazzaThe Ilves Collection: a Finnish manuscript collector and the academic facilitatorsRick BonnieNoxious scholarship The study and publication of First Sealand Dynasty cuneiform tabletsNeil BrodieConsuming PalmyraMichael PressEthical guidelines for publishing ancient textsPatty GerstenblithThe trouble with textsMorag M. KerselThe value of forgeries for historical researchChrista Wirth and Josephine M. RasmussenSomeone else's manuscripts: the ethics of textual scholarshipLiv Ingeborg LiedBetween representation and the real: the forgeries of Constantine SimonidesRachel Yuen-CollingridgeProvenance: genocide. The transfer of Armenian sacred objects to art collectionsHeghnar Zeitlian WatenpaughDigitizing manuscripts and the politics of extractionRaha Rafii 250 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age saw many developments in metalworking, social structure, food production, nutrition, and diet. At the same time, networks in Europe intensified and human impact on the environment changed in character. What influence did these transformations have on daily life Which proxies can researchers use to study these topics This volume presents scientific contributions from different fields of expertise within modern archaeology in order to investigate past living conditions through aspects of the archaeological record related to production (e.g. of food and metal), well-being (e.g. diet, health), human relations (e.g. violence), and the local environment (e.g. pollution, waste disposal, and water management). It also critically addresses contemporary graphic representations of Bronze Age living conditions. This volume compiles papers from a session with the same title organized for an international open workshop of the Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes', entitled 'Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Development of Landscapes IV', which took place in 2017, in Kiel, Germany. Publications detailing overarching core research on subsistence systems, societal transformations, and resilience versus rupture dynamics already exist. With this volume, we aim to provide a closer look at everyday life in past communities.ContentsIntroductionPart 1. Life in Action: Metal Production, Health Conditions and Dietary choicesCopper Output, Demand for Wood and Energy Expenditure - Evaluating Economic Aspects of Bronze Age MetallurgyJohanna BrinkmannWarriors' Lives. The Skeletal Sample from the Bronze Age Battlefield Site in the Tollense Valley, Northeastern GermanyGundula Lidke, Ute Brinker, Annemarie Schramm, Detlef Jantzen, Thomas TerbergerEnvironmental Imposition or Ancient Farmers' Choice A Study of the Presence of 'Inferior' Legumes in the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin (Hungary)Sonja Filatova, Ferenc Gyulai, Wiebke KirleisPart 2. The Place of Living: Routine Activities, the Management of Waste and of Natural ResourcesThe Fossil Plant remains of the Early Bronze Age site Rothenkirchen on Rügen. Inside Distribution Patterns as a Mirror of HousekeepingAlmuth AlslebenWaste Disposal In The Bronze Age: Plants In Pits At Wismar-Wendorf, Northern GermanyDragana Filipovic Frank Mewis, Lars Saalow, Jens-Peter Schmidt, Wiebke KirleisAn Overview of Olive Trees in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Mid-Late Holocene: Selective Exploitation or Established Arboriculture Asli Oflaz, Walter Dörfler, Mara WeineltOn-site Palaeoecological Investigations from the Hünenburg Hillfort-Settlement Complex, with Special Reference to Non-pollen PalynomorphsMagdalena Wieckowska-Lüth, Immo HeskePart 3. Living the Past: The (Graphic) Representation of Past Living ConditionsCreating an Understanding of Life in and around a Bronze Age House through Science-based Artist ImpressionsYvonne F. van AmerongenCase Study 'How Was Life in Early Bronze Age Bruszczewo' - Archaeology and the View of Prehistory in Reconstruction ImagesJutta Kneisel 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Multimodality - the integration of different semiotic resources in communication - plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and Anglo-Saxon cultures, the diverse visual and textual compositions of ancient civilizations have been less explored.This book presents the findings of a working group on multimodal communication in Ancient Egypt and explores the multimodal nature of Egyptian artifacts decorated with texts, images or text-image compositions through a new interdisciplinary perspective on their semiotic properties. Applying approaches from semiotics, linguistics and visual studies to these ancient materials opens up new perspectives that deepen our understanding of how space and spatial relationships contribute to the interpretation of decorated artifacts.The spatial arrangement of these artifacts within and interactions with their physical surroundings - whether on walls, on statues or within architectural complexes - offer crucial insights into communicative practices in Ancient Egypt and reveal the sophisticated ways in which space was used to convey complex messages. By examining the spatiality of different objects and groups of objects, this volume demonstrates that the multimodal approach not only enriches the interpretation of individual artifacts, but also leads to a more comprehensive analysis of communicative strategies within Ancient Egyptian culture. 214 pp. Englisch.