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ISBN:
Category : Egyptology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
AEB
Author: Annual Egyptological Bibliography
Author: Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum
Author: Josef Mario Briffa SJPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784915890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Ancient finds from the Maltese islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods.
The Archaeology of Punic Malta
Author: Claudia SagonaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, this large volume presents data and interpretation on the archaeology of Punic Malta, c.900BC to c.AD200.
Malta
Author: Juliet RixPublisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 1841623121
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There is much to see in Malta beyond the beach. With Bradt's "Malta" visitors will discover this island's history, archaeology and birds alongside eating and sleeping options of character and interest.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
VSMM 2000
Author: Hal ThwaitesPublisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9784274904073
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Making Senses of the Past
Author: Jo DayPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809333139
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Since the nineteenth century, museums have kept their artifacts in glass cases to better preserve them, and drawings and photographs have become standard ways of presenting the past. These practices have led to an archaeology dominated by visual description, even though human interaction with the surrounding world involves the whole body and all of its senses. In the past few years, sensory archaeology has become more prominent, and Making Senses of the Past is one of the first collected volumes on this subject. This book presents cutting-edge research on new theoretical issues. The essays presented here take readers on a multisensory journey around the world and across time. In ancient Peru, a site provides sensory surprises as voices resound beneath the ground and hidden carvings slowly reveal their secrets. In Canada and New Zealand, the flicker of reflected light from a lake dances on the faces of painted rocks and may have influenced when and why the pigment was applied. In Mesopotamia, vessels for foodstuffs build a picture of a past cuisine that encompasses taste and social activity in the building of communities. While perfume and flowers are examined in various cultures, in the chamber tombs of ancient Roman Palestine, we are reminded that not all smells are pleasant. Making Senses of the Past explores alternative ways to perceive past societies and offers a new way of wiring archaeology that incorporates the senses.
Meditarch
Author: Archaeology of Symbols
Author: Guido GuarducciPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales. This third volume in the Material Religion in Antiquity series stems from the First International Congress on the Archaeology of Symbols (ICAS I) that took place in Florence in May 2022. The archaeological process of reconstructing and understanding our past has undergone several reassessments in the last century, producing an equal number of new perspectives and approaches. The recent materiality turn emphasizes the necessity to ground those achievements in order to build fresh avenues of interpretation and reach new boundaries in the study of the human kind and its ecology. Symbols must not be conceived only as allegory but also, and perhaps mainly, as reason (raison d’être) and meaning (culture). They may be considered key elements leading to interpretation, not only in their physical manifestation but by being infused with the gestures, beliefs and intentions of their creators, created in a specific context and with a specific chaîne opératoire. In this volume a variety of case studies is offered, representing disparate ancient cultures in the Mediterranean and central Europe and the Near East. The thread that connects them revolves around the prominence of symbols and allegorical aspects in archaeology, whether they are considered as expressions of iconographic evidence, material culture or ritual ceremonies, seen from a multicultural perspective. This (and subsequent ICAS) volumes, therefore, aims to embrace all the different aspects pertaining to symbols in archaeology in a specific ‘place’, allowing the reader to deepen their knowledge of such a fascinating and multifaceted topic, by looking at it from a multicultural perspective.