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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9781789693201 (PDF 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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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694055 (ebook) :
The archaeological dictionary : English-Greek, Greek-English /
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The absence of a specialized bilingual dictionary (or glossary) of terminology which would facilitate the work of both scholars and students of archaeology (and, to a lesser degree, history) has long been noted. Several dictionaries or compact encyclopaedias of archaeological terms have been published in both Greek and English since the 19th century (some of the latter have been translated in Greek as well). All of them however have been written in one of those languages, explaining (quite often with useful images) each term but not providing its equivalent in the other language. It is hoped that the present work will cover this lacuna in international bibliography.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Parallel title in Greek script. :
1 online resource (xxv, 155 pages) :
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9781789698589 (PDF ebook) :
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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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699425 (PDF ebook) :
Conjuring up prehistory : landscape and the archaic in Japanese nationalism /
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This study considers the ways in which archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been appropriated in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsuro Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. :
1 online resource (iv, 79 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271156 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Archeo.FOSS XIV 2020 : open software, hardware, processes, data and format in archaeological research : proceedings of the 14th international conference 15-17 October 2020 /
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This volume represents the editorial outcome of the 14th edition of ArcheoFOSS international conference, which took place online between 15-17 October 2020. The event has been held annually since 2006 and is dedicated to the theoretical framework and actual application of free and open source software solutions and the promotion and encouragement of the Open Data paradigm for archaeology and, more generally, for Cultural Heritage. This volume represents the approach taken at the conference and the extensive participation it received, with 18 high-level and peer reviewed papers, well distributed in two thematic sections - application cases and development, and open data - contributed by more than 40 Italian and foreign scholars, researchers and freelance archaeologists working in the field of Cultural Heritage.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271255 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Approaches to disruptions and interactions in archaeology : proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Annual Conferences in 2017-2019 /
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Here is a collection of papers presented at the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conferences 2017-2019. The papers draw out different aspects of the key themes of interaction, mobility, entanglement and disruption amongst various communities and demonstrated through material culture, relating to a range of time periods.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Selected conference papers. :
1 online resource (132 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
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9781803272849 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Archaeologiae una storia al plural : studi in memoria di Sara Santoro /
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Dedicated to the late Sara Santoro, an archaeologist and multifaceted scholar who worked actively in Italy, France and Albania, this volume is divided into six sections, considering topics that include iconography and philology; Adriatic studies; field research; valorisation and planning in cultural heritage; 'minor' settlements; and more.
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Festschrift for Sara Santoro.
Also issued in print: 2022.
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1 online resource (766 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803272979 (PDF ebook) :
Beyond the Steppe and the Sown : Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology /
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In this collection of 29 articles, leading researchers and a generation of new scholars join together in questioning the dominant opposing dichotomy in Eurasian archaeology of the 'steppe and sown,' while forging new approaches which integrate local and global visions of ancient culture and society in the steppe, mountain, desert and maritime coastal regions of Eurasia. This ground-breaking volume demonstrates the success of recently established international research programs and challenges readers with a wide variety of fresh new perspectives. The articles are conveniently divided into four sections on Local and Global Perspectives, Regional Studies, New Directions in Theory and Practice, and Paleoecology and Environment, and cover a broad period from the Copper Age to early Mediaeval times in the Independent States of the former USSR, as well as Turkey, China and Mongolia.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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The 10th century in Western Europe : change and continuity /
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11 essays from both historians and archaeologists achieve a re-reading of a the tenth century, which has been central to the interpretation of the historical development of Europe over the past decade.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (v, 137 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803275147 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.