Author: Frank HolePublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 1949098478
Category : Khuzistan
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain
Author: Frank HolePublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 1949098478
Category : Khuzistan
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain
Author: Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain... by Frank Hole, Kent V. Flanner, James A. Neely. Paleoethnobotany by Hans Helbaek. Contributions by Cyril S. Smith, Colin Renfrew, I. W. Cornwall
Author: Frank HolePrehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain
Author: Flannery HolePrehistory and Human Ecology of the Western Prairies and Northern Plains
Author: Joseph A. TiffanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Bones and Identity
Author: Nimrod MaromPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785701754
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The vitality of a hands-on approach to data presentation and interpretation carried out primarily at the level of the individual site – the arena of research providing the bread and butter of zooarchaeological work conducted in southwest Asia – is demonstrated. Among the themes explored are shifting identities of late hunter-gatherers through interactions with settled agrarian societies; the management of camp sites by early complex hunter-gatherers; processes of assimilation of Roman culinary practices among Egyptian elites; and the propagation of medieval pilgrim identity through the use of seashell insignia. A wealth of new data is discussed and a wide variety of applications of analytical approaches are applied to particular case studies within the framework of social and contextual zooarchaeology. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th meeting of the ICAZ Working Group - Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA).
Current Paleoethnobotany
Author: Christine A. HastorfPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226318931
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A full discussion of the major stages and problems of paleoethnobotanical research, from designing and testing equipment to quantification and interpretation. Combining case studies and theoretical discussions, the volume explores a wide range of issues relevant to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting plant remains to provide accurate information about past human societies. Contributors offer data on specific regions as well as more general background information on the basic techniques of paleoethnobotany for the nonspecialist. Cloth ed. ($24.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Emergence of Civilisation
Author: Charles Keith MaiselsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134863284
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The Emergence of Civilisation is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near Eastern region. Charles Maisels argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth century speculations, are wrong. His investigation illuminates the changes in scale, complexity and hierarchy which accompany the development of civilisation. The book draws conclusions about the dynamics of social change and the processes of social evolution in general, applying those concepts to the rise of Greece and Rome, and to the collapse of the classical Mediterranean world.
Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours
Author: Cameron A. PetriePublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782972285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socio-economic and political transformation in the Iranian Plateau and its surrounding zones. This period witnessed the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centres, hierarchical administrative structures, and writing systems. These developments are indicative of significant changes in socio-political structures that have been interpreted as evidence for the rise of early states and the development of inter-regional trade, embedded in longer-term processes that began in the later fifth millennium BC. Iran was an important player in western Asia especially in the medium- to long-range trade in raw materials and finished items throughout this period. The 20 papers presented here illustrate forcefully how the re-evaluation of old excavation results, combined with much new research, has dramatically expanded our knowledge and understanding of local developments on the Iranian Plateau and of long-range interactions during the critical period of the fourth millennium BC.
The Ecological Transition
Author: John W. BennettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351304704
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of cultural-environmental relationships. While anthropologists have been studying relationships between humans and the physical environment for a very long time, only in the last thirty years have questions inherent in these relationships broadened beyond description and classification. For example, the concept of environment has been extended beyond the physical into the social. Although anthropologists have adopted many of the concepts that Bennett develops in the book, he also feels that the central issues have never been addressed, either by anthropologists or by people in related disciplines. The most important of these, in Bennett's opinion, is the failure to incorporate a respect for the environmental in contemporary culture, which would allow making exceptions in certain human practices in order to protect the environment. His point in The Ecological Transition is that a basic cultural change in modern civilization is necessary to achieve this end. Both a theoretical and a practical work, The Ecological Transition emphasizes the relationships between human culture, the physical environment, technology, and social policy. The Ecological Transition is a challenging volume that makes us face the consequences of human behavior in the modern world: its effect on pollution, natural resources, agriculture, the economy, and population, to name just a few areas. The book remains a significant contribution to the discourse on social, economic, and environmental problems. While the book was first published in 1976, it still reads as a contemporary tract.