Archaeology

The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School (2008)

by Matthew Daniel Eddy

Author: Matthew Daniel Eddy.

'Matthew D. Eddy succeeds in making a significant contribution to [the] recent and more nuanced approach to... more 'Matthew D. Eddy succeeds in making a significant contribution to [the] recent and more nuanced approach to post-Kuhnian history of science… Students of eighteenth-century Scottish culture and medicine will find much of value here, as will students of eighteenth-century geology and chemistry.’

American Historical Review


Classification is an important part of science, yet the specific methods used to construct Enlightenment systems of natural history have proven to be the bête noir of studies of eighteenth-century culture. One reason that systematic classification has received so little attention is that natural history was an extremely diverse subject which appealed to a wide range of practitioners, including wealthy patrons, professionals, and educators. In order to show how the classification practices of a defined institutional setting enabled naturalists to create systems of natural history, this book focuses on developments at Edinburgh's medical school, one of Europe's leading medical programs. In particular, it uses the career of the influential naturalist Rev Dr John Walker, the school's professor of natural history, to reconstruct the cultural and scientific basis of early environmental science.

Walker was a traveller, cleric, author and advisor to extremely powerful aristocratic and government patrons, as well as teacher to hundreds of students, some of whom would go on to become influential industrialists, scientists, physicians and politicians. This book explains how Walker used his networks of patrons and early training in chemistry to become an eighteenth-century naturalist. Walker's mineralogy was based firmly in chemistry, an approach common in Edinburgh's medical school, but a connection that has been generally overlooked in the history of British geology. By explicitly connecting eighteenth-century geology to the chemistry being taught in medical settings, this book offers a dynamic new interpretation of the nascent earth sciences as they were practiced in Enlightenment Britain. Because of Walker's influence on his many students, the book also provides a unique insight into how many of Britain's leading Regency and Victorian intellectuals were taught to think about the composition and structure of the material world.

Archaeology and tourism

by Martin Moravec

Diploma work

This work deals with problems of relation between archaeology – tourism - popularization and society engagement in the... more This work deals with problems of relation between archaeology – tourism - popularization and society engagement in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and in the Czech Republic.
The author also presents a brief summary of frequently visited archaeological objects in both countries with accent to their services to public.
An introduction to new management methods and improvement or adaptation of older systematic approaches in the archaeology on the basis of existing useful cases seems to be a useful approach in the Czech archaeology. It should be supported by the Czech government. This cooperation can provide Czech society a many benefits.
However, it must be counted with threats, which should be evoided by Czech government through bonuses. For more effective protection of archaeological heritage there must be established an executive power apparatus. A useful approach to save our heritage is to seen by prevention starting in the first degree of the Czech education system and the edification by museums and volunteer societies.
The work includes a database of British and Czech archaeological tourist sites visited by author.

Archaeology of medieval fields

by Martin Moravec

Bachelor work

This work deals with problems of study of medieval fields in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and... more This work deals with problems of study of medieval fields in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

The author also presents a brief summary of excavations of extinct medieval villages where the field systems were found.
An introduction to new methods and improvement of older systematic approaches on the basis of existing literature seems to be a research future of excavated extinct medieval villages. The work includes a database of 76 villages with remains of the fields.

Actas JIA 2008

by Paloma de la Peña Alonso

Título: Actas de las I Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica: dialogando con la cultura material (JIA 2008).
Coordinadores: OrJIA
Editorial: Ediciones CERSA
Depósito Legal: M-55285-2008.
ISBN: 978-84-92539-25-3 (de la obra completa); 978-84-92539-23-9 (del tomo I); 978-84-92539-24-6 (del tomo II)
Año de edición: 2008

K. Konuk (ed.), STEPHANÈPHOROS. De l’économie antique à l’Asie Mineure. Hommages à Raymond Descat (Bordeaux, 2012).

by Koray Konuk

Two research themes are particularly representative of Raymond Descat’s scholarly career : the ancient economy and... more Two research themes are particularly representative of Raymond Descat’s scholarly career : the ancient economy and Asia Minor.
It is around these two themes, which he contributed widely to enlighten, that thirty-five colleagues, friends and former students from twelve countries have gathered to honour him on the occasion of his retirement by offering twenty-nine studies.
This volume celebrates a scientific career of international standing whose variety of approaches is mirrored by these essays which discuss ancient, social and economic history, historiography, archaeology, epigraphy, metrology and numismatics.

6000 år i grøften - arkæologi langs motorvejen mellem Fløng og Roskilde

by Ole Kastholm

Co-edited with A. Crone-Langkjær.

Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology

by Steve Wolverton

Co-Edited w/ R. Lee Lyman, University of Arizona Press, 2012

Not Yet Published - Coming Fall 2012
Until now, the research of applied zooarchaeologists has not had a... more Not Yet Published - Coming Fall 2012
Until now, the research of applied zooarchaeologists has not had a significant impact on the work of conservation scientists. This book is designed to show how zooarchaeology can productively inform conservation science. Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology offers a set of case studies that use animal remains from archaeological and paleontological sites to provide information that has direct implications for wildlife management and conservation biology. It introduces conservation biologists to zooarchaeology, a sub-field of archaeology and ethnobiology, and provides a brief historical account of the development of applied zooarchaeology.

The case studies, which utilize palaeozoological data, cover a variety of animals and environments, including the marine ecology of shellfish and fish, potential restoration sites for Sandhill Cranes, freshwater mussel biogeography and stream ecology, conservation of terrestrial mammals such as American black bears, and even a consideration of the validity of the Pleistocene "rewilding" movement. The volume closes with an important new essay on the history, value, and application of applied zooarchaeology by R. Lee Lyman, which updates his classic 1996 paper that encouraged zooarchaeologists to apply their findings to present-day environmental challenges.

Each case study provides detailed analysis using the approaches of zooarchaeology and concludes with precise implications for conservation biology. Essays also address issues of political and social ecology, which have frequently been missing from the discussions of conservation scientists. As the editors note, all conservation actions occur in economic, social, and political contexts. Until now, however, the management implications of zooarchaeological research have rarely been spelled out so clearly.

Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology

by Maxine Oland

Edited by Maxine Oland, Siobhan M. Hart, and Liam Frink

Available Fall 2012 from the University of Arizona Press.

2012. №1. Stratum plus. Herdsmen and Navigators of the Early Metal Age

by Stratum plus Journal

Volume editor - I. Manzura

Content

ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS

L. P. Nikolova (Salt Lake City, USA)
Criteria for... more Content

ECO-SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTIONS

L. P. Nikolova (Salt Lake City, USA)
Criteria for a Social Status Typology in Prehistory (open model for discussion) 17
S. V. Ivanova (Odessa, Ukraine), A. G. Nikitin (Allendale, MI, USA)
Dynamics of the Steppe Cultures of the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age from the Point of View of Archaeogenetics 31

DISCUSSIONS

D. L. Gaskevych (Kiev, Ukraine)
The Kamiana Mogyla-1 Site and the Beginning of the Neolithisation of the Northern Pontic Area: Hypotheses, Arguments, Facts 45
I. V. Bruyako (Odessa, Ukraine)
Cattle-Breeders and Nomads — Pastoral of the Steppe and a Study in Scarlet 67
D. V. Panchenko (St. Petersburg, Russia)
The Vikings of the Bronze Age and Their Legacy 79
A. Kaljanac (Sarajevo, Bosnia şi Herţegovina)
Legend of Cadmus and the Issue of the Origin of Encheleans 145

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

A. V. Kolesnik (Donetsk, Ukraine)
Variation of Forms of Productive Economies in Archaeology. Flint Treatment Aspect (the case of the Big Donbas) 183
A. F. Gorelik (Bochum, Germany), S. M. Degermendzhi (Donetsk, Ukraine)
Some Methodical Approaches to Treatment of an Archaeological Collection from the Neolithic Workshop Site Staritza XVIII on Severskiy Donets 193
I. V. Pistruil (Odessa, Ukraine)
The Stone Age Site of Katarzhino II near v. Chervonoznamenka (Ivanovka District of Odessa Region) 205
E. V. Tsvek (Kiev, Ukraine)
On the Question of Flint Industry in the Tripolye Culture 211
M. Yu. Videiko (Kiev, Ukraine)
Comprehensive Study of the Large Settlements of the Tripolye Culture: 1971—2011 225
N. B. Burdo, M. Yu. Videiko (Kiev, Ukraine), V. V. Chabaniuk (Legedzine, Ukraine), K. Rassmann, R. Gauss, F. Lüth, D. Peters (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Large-Scale Geomagnetic Prospections at Maydanetskoe. Using of New Equipment to Understanding the Tripolye Megasite Phenomenon 265
E. V. Yarovoy (Moscow, Russia), S. V. Ţerna, S. S. Popovici (Kishinev, Moldova)
The Late-Tripolye Cemetery near the Village of Oxentea (Dubăsari District, Republic of Moldova) 287
A. V. Nikolova, L. A. Chernykh (Kiev, Ukraine)
About Early Bronze Age “Razor” Knives from the North Black Sea Region 303

REVIEWS

E. Kaiser (Berlin, Germany)
[Rev.] Anthony D. W. The Horse, the Wheel and Language. How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN 13: 978-0-691-05887-0 325

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

List of Abbreviations
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Schulting, R.J. & L. Fibiger (2012). Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones. Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

by Linda Fibiger

Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective presents an up-to-date overview of the... more Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC. Unlike other lines of evidence - weapons, fortifications, and imagery - the human skeleton preserves the actual marks of past violent encounters.

The papers in this volume are written by the experts undertaking the archaeological analysis, and present evidence from eleven European countries which provide, for the first time, the basis for a comparative approach between different regions and periods. Difficulties and ambiguities in interpreting the evidence are also discussed, although many of the cases are clearly the outcome of conflict. Injuries often show healing, but others can be seen as the cause of death. In many parts of Europe, women and children appear to have been the victims of violence as often as adult men.

The volume not only presents an excellent starting point for a new consideration of the prevalence and significance of violence in Neolithic Europe, but provides an invaluable baseline for comparisons with both earlier and later periods.

Sacred Sex

by Roberta Rio

Sexual energy is the primary experience of the human body. It is an energy which can be active on both a physical and... more Sexual energy is the primary experience of the human body. It is an energy which can be active on both a physical and a spiritual level. Indeed, it underpins the conservation of the species (physical level) and at the same time accelerates, if used in a certain way, individual evolution by connecting the physical and the spiritual dimensions of our bodies.
In ancient times the knowledge that sex was something sacred was widespread, especially in the priesthood and initiation.
This book aims to present a historical overview on the role of sex in ancient times and is part of a process which naturally goes hand in hand with the revaluation of the body and matter.
Sacred Sex fills a preliminary role in the process which we can define as a path of theoretical and historical knowledge.
The ancient knowledge must however be adapted and tailored to the needs of our time.
The integration of them in our lives requires intense work personally and in the partnership to lift and eliminate patterns, prejudices, false beliefs and habits, which have discredited the body and sex during the last period of our history – the last few thousand years.

Ceremonial stone structures: the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Marae Complex in the Society Islands, French Polynesia

by Paul Wallin

PhD Thesis at Uppsala University. Published in AUN 18. Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis. Uppsala 1993.

La domus de janas 2 di Iloi, Sedilo

by Anna Depalmas

The Menial Art of Cooking. Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation

by Sarah Graff

Edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría

Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the... more Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten players in the daily lives of our ancestors. The Menial Art of Cooking shows how cooking activities provide a window into other aspects of society and, as such, should be taken seriously as an aspect of social, cultural, political, and economic life.

This book examines techniques and technologies of food preparation, the spaces where food was cooked, the relationship between cooking and changes in suprahousehold economies, the religious and symbolic aspects of cooking, the relationship between cooking and social identity, and how examining foodways provides insight into social relations of production, distribution, and consumption. Contributors use a wide variety of evidence-including archaeological data; archival research; analysis of ceramics, fauna, botany, glass artifacts, stone tools, murals, and painted ceramics; ethnographic analogy; and the distribution of artifacts across space-to identify signs of cooking and food processing left by ancient cooks.

The Menial Art of Cooking is the first archaeological volume focused on cooking and food preparation in prehistoric and historic settings around the world and will interest archaeologists, social anthropologists, sociologists, and other scholars studying cooking and food preparation or subsistence.

Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity in the pre-roman Mediterranean, Oxford [Oxbow] 2012.

by Gabriele Cifani

Co-edited with Simon Stoddart

The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity.
Contributors examine and... more The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity.
Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition.

They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity, either from fieldwork or from new combinations of old data.
Finally, in contrast to many traditional approaches to ethnicity, they examine the relative and interacting role of natural and cultural features in the landscape in the construction of ethnicity.

The volume is headed by the contribution of Andrea Carandini whose work challenges the conceptions of many in the combination of text and archaeology. He begins by examining the mythology surrounding the founding of Rome, taking into consideration the recent archaeological evidence from the Palatine and the Forum. Here primacy is given to construction of place and mythological descent. Anthony Snodgrass, Robin Osborne, Tim Cornell and Christopher Smith offer replies to his arguments.

Overall, the nineteen papers presented here show that a modern interdisciplinary and international archaeology that combines material data and textual evidence - critically - can provide a powerful lesson for the full understanding of the ideologies of ancient and modern societies. 336p, 120 illus (Oxbow Books, 2011).


Table of Contents
1. Introduction: contextualising ethnicity (Gabriele Cifani and Simon Stoddart)
2. Urban landscapes and ethnic identity of Early Rome (Andrea Carandini)
Comments (T. Cornell, C. Smith, A. Snodgrass and R. Osborne)
3. Landscape, ethnicity, and the Greek polis (Robin Osborne)
4. The discovery of Carian Melia and the archaic Panionion in the Mycale (Hans Lohmann)
5. Multi-ethnicity and population movement in Ancient Greece (John Bintliff)
6. Hybrid forms of identity (Greek/native Italic) on the border between Taranto and the Messapians (Gert-Jan Burgers)
7. Before the Samnites: Molise in the eighth and sixth century BC (Alessandro Naso)
8. Ethnicity, identity and state formation in the Latin Landscape. Problems and Approaches (Francesca Fulminante)
9. Ethnicity and identity of the Latins. Evidence from the sanctuaries between the sixth and the fourth centuries BC (Letizia Ceccarelli)
10. Political landscapes and local identities in Archaic central Italy – Interpreting the material from Nepi (VT, Lazio) and Cisterna Grande (Crustumerium, RM, Lazio) (Ulla Rajala)
11. Landscapes and ethnic frontiers in the middle Tiber valley (Gabriele Cifani)
12. The Grotte di Castro project: defining a boundary of identity (Gabriele Cifani, Letizia Ceccarelli and Simon Stoddart)
13. Between text, body and context: expressing Umbrian identity in the landscape (Simon Stoddart)
14. Space, boundaries and the representation of identity in the ancient Veneto (Kathryn Lomas)
15. Identities, Frontiers and Landscapes in the Guadalquivir Valley (Eighth century BC- fourth century BC) (Arturo Ruiz and Manuel Molinos)
16. Landscape and Ethnic Identities in the Iberian Early States: The example of the Eastern Iberian Peninsula (Ignacio Grau Mira)
17. The politics of identity: ethnicity and the economy of power in Iron Age northern Iberia (Alfredo González-ruibal)
18. Changing identities in a changing landscape: social dynamics from a colonial situation in early Iron Age Iberia (Jaime Vives-ferrándiz)
19. Endnote: Situating Ethnicity (Simon Stoddart and Skylar Neil)

Storia di una frontiera. Dinamiche territoriali e gruppi etnici nella media valle tiberina dalla prima età del ferro alla conquista romana. Roma, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2003.

by Gabriele Cifani

255 pp.; 146 figures; 17-20, foreword by Mario Torelli

ARTE RUPESTRE EN EL VALLE DEL GUADIANA. EL CONJUNTO DE GRABADOS DEL MOLINO MANZÁNEZ (PARTE III)

by Hipolito Collado Giraldo

(2006): Arte rupestre del valle del Guadiana. El conjunto de grabados del Molino Manzánez (Alconchel - Cheles, Badajoz). Memorias de Odiana, nº 4. EDIA

This book present the open air rock art in Molino Manzanez (Guadiana valley) in Extremadura region (SW of Spain). In... more This book present the open air rock art in Molino Manzanez (Guadiana valley) in Extremadura region (SW of Spain). In this place were discovered over 5000 engravings (animals, human figures, symbols, weapons, etc. from Palaeolithic age to contemporary period

ARTE RUPESTRE EN EL VALLE DEL GUADIANA. EL CONJUNTO DE GRABADOS DEL MOLINO MANZÁNEZ (PARTE II)

by Hipolito Collado Giraldo

(2006): Arte rupestre del valle del Guadiana. El conjunto de grabados del Molino Manzánez (Alconchel - Cheles, Badajoz). Memorias de Odiana, nº 4. EDIA

This book present the open air rock art in Molino Manzanez (Guadiana valley) in Extremadura region (SW of Spain). In... more This book present the open air rock art in Molino Manzanez (Guadiana valley) in Extremadura region (SW of Spain). In this place were discovered over 5000 engravings (animals, human figures, symbols, weapons, etc. from Palaeolithic age to contemporary period

ARTE RUPESTRE EN EL VALLE DEL GUADIANA. EL CONJUNTO DE GRABADOS DEL MOLINO MANZANEZ (PARTE I)

by Hipolito Collado Giraldo

COLLADO GIRALDO, HIPÓLITO (2006): Arte rupestre del valle del Guadiana. El conjunto de grabados del Molino Manzánez (Alconchel - Cheles, Badajoz). Memorias de Odiana, nº 4. EDIA

This book present the open air rock art in Molino Manzanez (Guadiana valley) in Extremadura region (SW of Spain). In... more This book present the open air rock art in Molino Manzanez (Guadiana valley) in Extremadura region (SW of Spain). In this place were discovered over 5000 engravings (animals, human figures, symbols, weapons, etc. from Palaeolithic age to contemporary period

Collaborating at the Trowel’s Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology.

by Stephen Silliman

Published by University of Arizona Press [2008]