Giving the past a future : essays in archaeology and rock art studies in honour of Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu /
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This volume celebrates the work of Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu in his 40th year as director of Tanum Museum of Rock Carving and Rock Art Research Centre, Sweden. A feast of scholarly contributions pay respect to and acknowledge Gerhard's achievements in the fields of rock art documentation, research, international collaboration and outreach.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Festschrift for Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu. :
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9781784919719 (ebook) :
Wonders lost and found : a celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers /
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Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Professor Michael Vickers; from the Aegean Bronze Age to the use made of archaeology by dictators in the modern age. Seven contributions relate to Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and made his home.
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1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789693829 (PDF ebook) :
Archaeology : what it is, where it is, and how to do it /
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A practical introduction covering all core aspects of archaeology, this book is perfect for anyone looking to get involved in archaeology on a professional level or as a volunteer, or simply wanting an overview of the discipline. Aerial and ground survey, excavation and fieldwork, recording methods, soil sampling and small finds are all discussed.
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1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781789695601 (ebook) :
Approaches to the analysis of production activity at archaeological sites /
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Proceedings of a workshop held in Berlin, 2018, focusing on manufacturing activities identified at archaeological sites. New excavation techniques, ethnographic research, archaeometric approaches, GIS, experimental archaeology, and theoretical issues associated with how researchers understand production in the past, are presented here.
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Conference proceedings.
"Available both in print and Open Access"--Home page. :
1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Un sistema per la gestione dell'affidabilità e dell'interpretazione dei dati archeologici : percezione e potenzialità degli small finds : il caso studio di Festòs e Haghia Triada /...
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This work aims to identify methodological problems associated with the digital management of archaeological data and to introduce viable solutions that embrace interpretative aspects and the reliability concept. A prototype system is presented, managing small finds data from early 20th century excavations at Phaistos and Ayia Triada.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations. :
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9781789696646 (ebook) :
Arqueología y téchne : métodos formales, nuevos enfoques = Archaeology and techne : formal methods, new approaches /
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This work presents papers resulting from the EPNet project (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics) which aimed to investigate existing hypotheses about the Roman economy in order to understand which products were distributed through the different geographical regions of the empire, and in which periods.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (vi, 204 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Visualizing cityscapes of classical antiquity : from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models : with a case study from the ancient town of Koroneia in Boeotia, Gre...
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The study presented here makes a practical contribution to a new understanding and use of digital 3D reconstructions in archaeology, namely as 'laboratories' to test hypotheses and visualise, evaluate and discuss multiple interpretations.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784918903 (ebook) :
Experimental archaeology : making, understanding, story-telling : proceedings of a workshop in experimental archaeology : Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens with UCD Cen...
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In this text, based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 106 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Tales of three worlds : archaeology and beyond : Asia, Italy, Africa : a tribute to Sandro Salvatori /
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Tales of Three Worlds collects, as a sign of gratitude and affection, a series of papers by many authors who, in different times, contexts and contingencies, had the luck to meet Sandro Salvatori, and share with him a path of knowledge and mutual personal acquaintance. The book is divided in three sections: his long years of work in Middle Asia, from the plains of Sistan to those of the Indus, the coasts of the Omani peninsula and southern Turkmenistan; Sandro's activities in Italy, as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage) of his region; and the prehistory of north-eastern Africa, a context in which Sandro could work in full scientific and familiar ease, as he was prevented from doing in other situations.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
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9781789694413 (ebook) :
New advances in the history of archaeology : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France).
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This volume presents papers from three sessions organised by the History of Archaeology Scientific Commission at the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018) considering the development of stratigraphical methods in archaeology in many European countries, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the history of archaeology.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Environment, archaeology and landscape : papers in honour of Professor Martin Bell /
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'Environment, Archaeology and Landscape' is a collection of papers dedicated to Martin Bell on his retirement as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Reading. Three themes outline how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using multi-method approaches.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Open access.
Working with the past : towards an archaeology of recycling /
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Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like the incorporation of the past into the present. What archaeology has not insisted upon is the dimensional scale of the process, which operates from the micro-scale of the recycling of the ancestors' material, up to the macro-scale of the landscape. It is well known that there are direct relations between artefacts and landscapes in what concerns the materiality and mobility of objects. An additional relation between artefact and landscape may be the process of recycling. In many ways artefact and landscape can be considered as one aspect of material culture, perceived at a different scale, since both have the same materiality and suffer the same process of reutilisation.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
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9781784916305 (ebook) :
Archaeological heritage policies and management structures : proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain).
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This volume presents proceedings from sessions A15a, A15b, A15c of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain). Collectively this volume presents perspectives of archaeological heritage management in various countries and continents.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Conference proceedings. :
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9781784917395 (ebook) :
The dialectic of practice and the logical structure of the tool : philosophy, archaeology and the anthropology of technology /
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The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object -the socio-cultural and the natural- are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (92 pages). :
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Interpreting silent artefacts : petrographic approaches to archaeological ceramics /
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This volume presents a range of petrographic case studies as applied to archaeological problems, primarily in the field of pottery analysis, i.e. ceramic petrography. Petrographic analysis involves using polarising optical microscopy to examine microstructures and the compositions of rock and mineral inclusions in thin section, and has become a widely used technique within archaeological science. The results of these analyses are commonly embedded in regionally specific reports and research papers. In this volume, however, the analytical method takes centre stage and the common theme is its application in different archaeological contexts.
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Also issued in print: 2010. :
1 online resource (viii, 295 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) :
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Ceramic petrography : the interpretation of archaeological pottery & related artefacts in thin section /
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Thin section ceramic petrography is a versatile interdisciplinary analytical tool for the characterization and interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts, including ceramic building materials, refractories and plaster. Using over 200 colour photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts, archaeological periods and geographic regions, this book illustrates the spectrum of compositional and microstructural phenomena that occur within ancient ceramics under the micro-scope and provides comprehensive guidelines for their study within archaeology. The book is structured according to the main steps involved in the analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramic thin sections, including classification, characterization, the determination of provenance and the reconstruction of manufacturing technology.
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Also issued in print: 2013. :
1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) :
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Diversity in archaeology : proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2020/2021 /
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Thirty papers explore a wide range of topics such as women's voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of diversified science methods in archaeology; critical ethnographic studies; diversity in the archaeology of death, heritage studies, and archaeology of 'scapes'.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Selected conference papers. :
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CAA2014 21st century archaeology : concepts, methods and tools : proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology /
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This volume brings together a selection of papers proposed for the Proceedings of the 42nd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference (CAA), hosted at Paris 1 Panthǒn-Sorbonne University from 22nd to 25th April 2014. The program was divided into different themes and this structure has been maintained in the arrangement of articles in the various chapters of this book.
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3D delineation : a modernisation of drawing methodology for field archaeology /
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How can 3D models be integrated more fully alongside other forms of archaeological documentation? This work presents a method that combines the interpretative power of traditional archaeological drawings and the realistic visualisation capacity of 3D digital models.
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9781784913069 (PDF ebook) :
History of archaeology : international perspectives : proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1-7 September, Burgos, Spain).
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The present volume gathers the communications of the three sessions organized under the auspices of the Commission 'History of Archaeology' at the XVII UISPP World Congress Burgos 2014.
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9781784913984 (ebook) :