Author: University of Michigan. Office of Research AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author: The J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892360186
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.
Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
Author: Martin SterryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108494447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Material Evidence
Author: Robert ChapmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317576233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
How do archaeologists make effective use of physical traces and material culture as repositories of evidence? Material Evidence takes a resolutely case-based approach to this question, exploring instances of exemplary practice, key challenges, instructive failures, and innovative developments in the use of archaeological data as evidence. The goal is to bring to the surface the wisdom of practice, teasing out norms of archaeological reasoning from evidence. Archaeologists make compelling use of an enormously diverse range of material evidence, from garbage dumps to monuments, from finely crafted artifacts rich with cultural significance to the detritus of everyday life and the inadvertent transformation of landscapes over the long term. Each contributor to Material Evidence identifies a particular type of evidence with which they grapple and considers, with reference to concrete examples, how archaeologists construct evidential claims, critically assess them, and bring them to bear on pivotal questions about the cultural past. Historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers, and science studies scholars are increasingly interested in working with material things as objects of inquiry and as evidence – and they acknowledge on all sides just how challenging this is. One of the central messages of the book is that close analysis of archaeological best practice can yield constructive guidelines for practice that have much to offer archaeologists and those in related fields.
Materia Magica
Author: Andrew WilburnPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472117793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Materia Magica approaches magic as a material endeavor, in which spoken spells, ritual actions, and physical objects all played vital roles in the performance of a rite. Through case studies drawing on objects excavated or discovered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century at three Mediterranean sites, Andrew T. Wilburn identifies previously unknown forms of magic. He discovers evidence of the practice of magic in objects of ancient daily life, suggesting that individuals frequently turned to magic, particularly in times of crises. Studying the remains of spells enacted by practitioners, Wilburn examines the material remains of magical practice by identifying and placing them within their archaeological contexts. His method of connecting an analysis of the texts and inscriptions found on artifacts of magic with a close consideration of the physical form of these objects illuminates an exciting path toward new discoveries in the field.
Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700
Author: Roger S. BagnallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521871379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A comprehensive portrayal of Egypt from the fourth to the seventh centuries.
Mediterranean Families in Antiquity
Author: Sabine R. HuebnerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119143721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines.
The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt
Author: Darlene L. Brooks HedstromPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107161819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt's monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.
Households in Context
Author: Caitlín Eilís BarrettPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501772597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and domestic life to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households reveals the power of the everyday: the critical role of quotidian experiences, objects, and images in creating the worlds of the people who live with them. The contributors to this book share contemporary research on houses and households in both Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt to reshape the ways we think about ancient people's lived experiences of family, community, and society. Households in Context places the archaeology and history of Greco-Roman Egypt in dialogue with research on dwelling, daily practice, and materiality to reveal how ancient households functioned as laboratories for social, political, economic, and religious change. Contributors: Youssri Abdelwahed, Richard Alston, Anna Lucille Boozer, Paola Davoli, David Frankfurter, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Melanie Godsey, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Sabine R. Huebner, Gregory Marouard, Miriam Müller, Lisa Nevett, Bérangère Redon, Bethany Simpson, Ross I. Thomas, Dorothy J. Thompson
The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey
Author: John G PedleyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
If Indiana Jones had relied on trains . . .
The Architecture of Ancient Greece
Author: William Bell DinsmoorPublisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602831
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description