Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts /
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How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? In recent years these questions have been approached through studies of the extended occupation and use of landscapes, monuments and artefacts to explore concepts of time and memory. But what of objects that were already old in the past? Interpretations for these items have ranged from the discard of scrap to objects of veneration. Evidence from a range of periods would suggest objects of the past were an important part of many later societies that encountered them, either as heirlooms with remembered histories or rediscovered curiosities from a more distant past. This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.
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1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692495 (PDF ebook) :
Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts /
:
How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? In recent years these questions have been approached through studies of the extended occupation and use of landscapes, monuments and artefacts to explore concepts of time and memory. But what of objects that were already old in the past? Interpretations for these items have ranged from the discard of scrap to objects of veneration. Evidence from a range of periods would suggest objects of the past were an important part of many later societies that encountered them, either as heirlooms with remembered histories or rediscovered curiosities from a more distant past. This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.
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1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692495 (PDF ebook) :
Rites aux portes /
: Papers from a conference held at the Universite de Geneve, May 2-3, 2014. "Ce deux journees avaient pour but de donner une vue d'ensemble de nos connaissances sur les rites lies aux portes dans l'Antiquite, plus precisement en Egypte, en Mesopotamie, en Anatolie, en Grece at dans le monde biblique."--Avant-propos. : 132 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographcial references. : 9783034330442
Meroitic inscriptions, part II : Napata to Philae and miscellaneous /
: Meroitic inscriptions, pt. I, Sôba to Dangêl, forms with "The island of Meroë, by J.W. Crowfoot," the 19th memoir of the Archaeological survey of Egypt, London, 1911. : 2, [vii]-xii, [3], 80 pages : illustrations, plates ; 32 cm.