Aesthetics, applications, artistry and anarchy : essays in prehistoric and contemporary art : a festschrift in honour of John Kay Clegg, 11 January 1935 - 1 March 2015 /
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This volume, in honour of John Kay Clegg, consists of papers by rock art researchers from around the world on topics such as aesthetics, the application of statistical analyses, frontier conflict and layered symbolic meanings, the deliberate use of optical illusion, and the contemporary significance of ancient and street art.
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Festschrift for John Kay Clegg.
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Quebrando rocas, una aproximación metodológica para el estudio del cuarzo en contextos arqueológicos de Córdoba (Argentina) /
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This text offers a valuable contribution to the development of a methodology to address the study of archaeological quartz artifacts, combining various analytical tools to study these objects so that we might better understand the technological strategies of hunting societies who made use of this raw material.
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1 online resource (vi, 214 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Grabados rupestres en La Mancha centro : documentacíon y estudio de un patrimonio desconocido = Rock engravings in La Mancha center : documentation and study of an unknown heritage...
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This text deals with the documentation and interpretation of the rock sites located in La Mancha center (Spain), from the detailed study of the symbols that have been engraved in the rock.
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Burial mounds in Europe and Japan : comparative and contextual perspectives /
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This title brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The text aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa.
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Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland /
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Represents a reappraisal of the relationship between play - an activity which is most often understood in terms of something 'set apart' - and everyday life. Via a series of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic investigations, it leads towards the conclusion that play is not in fact so separate as is often assumed.
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Profane death in burial practices of a pre-industrial society : a study from Silesia /
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This title discusses phenomena characteristic of funeral practices of the pre-industrial society of Silesia (Poland). The author explores specific groups of people and the places they were interred, supplementing the study with analysis of the results of archaeological research, which mainly involved fieldwork carried out at former execution sites.
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The Poole Iron Age logboat /
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This text is the culmination of significant multi-disciplinary work carried out by a variety of specialists, from conservators to woodworking and boatbuilding experts, exploring the history of the Poole Iron Age logboat (today imposingly displayed in the entrance to Poole Museum in Dorset) and also its functionality - or lack of - as a vessel.
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Mobile peoples - permanent places : nomadic landscapes and stone architecture from the Hellenistic to early Islamic periods in north-eastern Jordan /
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This study explores the relationship between nomadic communities in the Black Desert of north-eastern Jordan (c. 300 BC and 900 AD) and the landscapes they inhabited and extensively modified. This book focuses on the architectural features created in the landscape some 2000 years ago which were used and revisited on multiple occasions.
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Carving interactions : rock art in the nomadic landscape of the Black Desert, north-eastern Jordan /
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The Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that lived there in antiquity. This comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in North-Eastern Jordan is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs.
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Landscapes of human evolution : contributions in honour of John Gowlett /
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Fourteen papers are presented here in honour of John Gowlett. John has a wide range of research interests primarily focused on the human genus Homo and is a world leader in understanding the cognitive and behavioural preconditions necessary for the emergence of complex behaviours such as language and art.
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Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research /
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The papers in this volume focus especially on the relationship between ground stone artefacts and foodways and include archaeological and ethnographic case studies ranging from the Palaeolithic to the current era, and geographically from Africa to Europe and Asia.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
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La séquence paléolithique de Karain E (Antalya, Turquie) : analyses techniques et typologiques (1989-2009) /
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The long Paleolithic sequence of Karain (Antalya, Turkey) began around 500,000 years ago and continued until the final Paleolithic around 10,000 BC. This volume presents all the cultural and technical variations during this immense period, situated in a context which joins Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley : trade, place-making, and social complexity /
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Foragers were present in the Limpopo Valley (South Africa) before the arrival of farmers and not only witnessed but also participated in local systems leading to the appearance of a complex society. Despite numerous studies in the valley, forager involvement in socio-political developments has been, until now, largely ignored.
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Bronze Age tell communities in context : an exploration into culture, society, and the study of European prehistory.
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This is the second part of a study on Bronze Age tells and on our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on the material remains of long-term architectural stability and references back to ancestral place.
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Visual culture, heritage and identity : using rock art to reconnect past and present /
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This text presents a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. It focuses on how ancient heritage is recognized and reified in the modern world, and how rock art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making.
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Between the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC : exploring cultural diversity and change in late prehistoric communities /
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This collection of studies on the cultural reconfigurations that occurred in western Europe between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE focuses on the evidence from the West of the Iberian Peninsula, and one on the South of England. They explore regional diversity and challenge grand narratives regarding Chalcolithic and Bronze Age communities.
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The early Iron Age metal hoard from the Al Khawd area (Sultan Qaboos University), Sultanate of Oman /
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Numerous metallic artefacts, deposited in a hoard in ancient times, came to light by chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Khawd, Sultanate of Oman. Mostly fashioned from copper, these objects compare well with numerous documented artefact classes from south-eastern Arabia assigned to the Early Iron Age (1200-300 BCE).
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Published by Archaeopress Publishing in association with the Ministryo of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman. :
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Plant food processing tools at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe /
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This volume reconstructs plant food processing at this key Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8000 BC) site, with an emphasis on cereals, legumes and herbs as food sources, on grinding and pounding tools for their processing, and on the vessels implied in the consumption of meals and beverages. Functional investigations on grinding and pounding tools and on stone containers through use-wear and residue analyses are at the core of the book.
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Funerary and related cups of the British Bronze Age /
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Cups are the least studied of all Bronze Age funerary ceramics and their interpretations are still based on antiquarian speculation. This book presents the first study of these often highly decorated items including a fully referenced and illustrated national corpus that will form the basis for future studies.
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Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete : a perspective from archaeomythology and modern matriarchal studies /
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This text makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.
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