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  • - Current Issues in the Archaeology of a Sicilian Polis
    av Natascha Sojc
    1 373

  • av Natalia Donner
    1 373

  • - The Role of Domestic and Wild Resource Exploitation in Bronze Age Subsistence
    av Yvonne van Amerongen
    1 373

    This volume focuses on reconstructing the daily lives of Bronze Age farmers as well as the landscape for their subsistence practices. Doing so, Wild West Frisia analyses the separate components comprising Bronze Age subsistence (i.e. crop and animal husbandry, hunting and gathering) rather innovatively: instead of summarizing the known data for each subsistence strategy and drawing conclusions solely based on these observations, this study first determines what may have been present yet perhaps is no longer visible. Contrasting this expectation with the actual archaeological data reveals missing elements, findings for which include recognizing that wild resource exploitation was perhaps equally if not more vital to farming life than crop and animal husbandry. Comparing the case-study area of West Frisia, the Netherlands, with north-west European coastal communities in general, local variation appears to be a consistent feature of Bronze Age farming. It can in fact be regarded as a common feature of subsistence during this time. Yvonne F. van Amerongen is a palaeo-ecologist at the archaeological company EARTH in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

  • - Developing a New Approach to Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
    av Jonathan Sharfman
    1 373

  • - A GIS Procedure to Study Settlement Organization in Early Roman Colonial Territories
    av Anita Anita Casarotto
    680,-

  • - The Islands of Paros and Naxos During the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
    av Konstantinos Roussos
    1 373

  • - Early Medieval Textiles from the Netherlands
    av Chrystel Brandenburgh
    1 373

    Textiles from the early medieval period that are occasionally found in excavations are the scarce remains of garments, household fabrics, sails etc. Although several authors have published textile finds from the Netherlands in the past,systematic research of these finds has not been conducted yet. Where the surrounding countries have witnessed a development in which textile archaeology has become a fundamental part of archaeological research, a similar development has been lacking in the Netherlands. As a result our knowledge of the production and use of textiles is mainly derived from the surroundingcountries, where more research has been carried out.In this book Chrystel Brandenburgh has focused on the use of cloth and clothingin the area now defined as the Netherlands, in the period between 400 and1000 AD. For this purpose textile remains from both settlements andcemeteries have been analysed from different parts of the country. Thisgeographical distribution, the large timespan of the dataset as well as theobvious differences in site context result in a very varied picture of the use of fabrics in this period. Using the textile remains from the Dutch cemeteries it was nevertheless possible to reconstruct the way people were dressed whenburied, as well as to establish the differences between cemeteries and groupsof individuals within these cemeteries. Moreover, by studying the fabrics fromthe settlements insight was gained into the production process and techniquesused in this period.Chrystel Brandenburgh obtained her degree in archaeology in 1997 at theFaculty of Archaeology of Leiden University. From 2003 onwards she has beenworking as a municipality archaeologist of Leiden. In 2008 Chrystel registeredas a PhD extramural at Leiden University. During subsequent years shecombined her job in Leiden with her PhD-research on early medieval textilesfrom the Netherlands.

  • - Materials and Materiality of Aegyptiaca Romana
    av Sander Muskens
    999

    The 35th volume of the ASLU series develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective. Current approaches to these objects are often still plagued by top-down projections of modern definitions and understandings of Egypt and Egyptian material culture onto the Roman world. "Egypt beyond representation" instead argues that these artefacts should be studied in their own right, without reducing them from the onset to fixed (Egyptian) meanings. Starting from a novel focus on the materials and materiality of a selection of stone Aegyptiaca from Rome, and by combining archaeological and archaeometric perspectives, this study shows that, while 'Egyptianness' may have been among Roman associations, these objects were able to do much more than merely representing notions of Egypt.Sander Müskens is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Leiden University.

  • - Hekeng People's Heritage
    av Renyu Wang
    680,-

    Tulou are traditional fortified multifamily dwellings prevalent in southern Fujian. In this 34st volume of the ASLU series Renyu Wang discusses three aspects of Chinese tulou heritage management. He first examines the tulou interpretation prevailing in southern Fujian. Based on building studies, oral history, genealogies and interviews, Wang tries to reconstruct a relatively complete landscape biography to describe the essential episodes of built environment evolution in the Hekeng River Valley. This biography highlights the part non-tulou architecture and non-agricultural economic forms have played in the evolution of the settlement environment. It then discusses the regulations and laws which may have direct impact on not only the built heritage but also the life of local lineage society and criticizes the harsh control of the local government over local people's built heritage and their environment in the name of heritage preservation. Further, Wang examines the roles of different stakeholders in the heritage framework concerning the use of local people's built heritage. And finally he explores the possibility of reaching equilibrium among all the heritage players in the form of contracts, and offers some suggestions to the stakeholders getting involved in the tulou management issues.Renyu Wang majored in linguistics and cultural studies (BA) in mainland China and obtained his Master's degree in cultural heritage studies from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL). He has worked in various positions in the fields of archaeological heritage management.

  • - An Archaeological Survey
    av Michalis Karambinis
    889

  • - New insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic
    av N. Shirai
    680,-

  • - Contemporary Maya Calendar Knowledge and Practices in the Highlands of Guatemala
    av Paul van den Akker
    680,-

  • - Perceptions of the Indigenous Communities on Their Involvement and Use of Traditional Conservation Practices
    av Simon Makuvaza
    680,-

    Since 1992, when the World Heritage Committee established its category of "cultural landscapes", scholarly debates have ensued on how they could best be managed. One approach, which appears to have gained significance over the past two decades or so, considers using traditional conservation practices as well as engaging local indigenous communities in the stewardship of these exemplary sites. To examine the efficacy of this recent approach, this book explores the concept of indigenous communities, the nature of traditional conservancy in the Matobo Hills Cultural World Heritage Landscape where this study was conducted, as well as the management history of the area. Based on the perspectives of the indigenous people of the Matobo Hills, this investigation studies the extent to which both traditional conservation practices and local involvement can be germane to the administration of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes.Simon Makuvaza is currently a Research Fellow in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Previously, he lectured archaeology at the Catholic University of Malawi. He also worked as an archaeologist for the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe.

  • - Production, Use and Re-Use of Pre-Colonial Documents
    av Ludo Snijders
    1 373

    This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica's precolonial codices. Today less than twenty extant manuscripts are all that remains of the Mesoamerican book-making tradition. These pictographic and hieroglyphic texts have often been studied for their content, but in doing so their nature as physical objects faded into the background. By tracing the paths these books have followed over the past five hundred years, this study acquaints the reader with their production, use and re-use, destruction, rediscovery and reinvention. Even today, in fact, these books continue to add new chapters to their biography. That is, thanks to the most cutting-edge technology currently available, it has now been possible to uncover a completely new text from inside one of these precious and fragile manuscripts. Ludo Snijders is an archaeologist specialising in Mesoamerican cultures. This work is the result of collaboration with the TU Delft and the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, within the NWO Science4Arts funded project "Shedding light on endangered mutual heritage".

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