Archaeology – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 10

Eric J. Harvey
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader …

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Traces of the Distant Human Past

Traces of the Distant Human Past offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing for a more scientific, theoretically informed approach to archaeolo…

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Markus Eberl
War Owl Falling

Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, this book shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies

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Julian Heath
Prehistoric Europe

A full-color examination of 50 fascinating and important archaeological discoveries from prehistoric Europe.

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Fredrik Hagen
Hieratic

Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, …

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Shelley Hales
Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire.The complex and multifaceted roles pla…

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Georgia Mouroutsou
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers i…

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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
The World of Homer

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origin…

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Antioch on the Orontes

Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence sp…

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Maya Nadkarni
Remains of Socialism

Охватывая в своем исследовании более двух десятилетий политической, социальной и экономической трансформации, в ходе которых Венгрия прошла путь от оптимизма конца восьмидесятых и до недавнего правого пов…

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Anna Lucille Boozer
At Home in Roman Egypt

What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a …

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Roderick Campbell
The Shang Economy

This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeol…

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Shu-Li Wang
In Search of National Ancestors

This Element examines how international heritage discourses are internalized and reshaped in China, using the Yellow Emperor cults as a lens to explore broader themes of intangible heritage, religious res…

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Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience

Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.

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Jean Lave
Learning and Everyday Life

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Monica L. Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Richard Hodges
Butrint

Focusing on the archaeology and history of Butrint in southern Albania, this book begins by looking at its foundation in the Bronze Age period through to the contemporary era, where it is now a popular to…

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