J. N. L. MYRES
Description: The author’s chief purpose in compiling and presenting this illustrated guide to Anglo-Saxon pottery of the period from about AD 400–650 is to show how this pottery can be used as evidence for the early Anglo-Saxon period in England in terms of both political history and culture. Introductory chapters in Volume I explain the typology employed in classifying the pots and give evidence for the dating and development of each type and for the relationship which the English pieces bear to the corresponding series on the continent, mainly to be found in north Germany, Scandinavia and the Low Countries. The core of the work is the inventory of some 3,500 pots typologically arranged and described according to standardised formulae, each one illustrated in the catalogue of drawings which forms Volume 2. These volumes provide the detailed evidence on which Dr Myres’ earlier book Anglo-Saxon Pottery and the Settlement of England was based and therefore of value as much for the general history of early England as for the study of an important branch of archaeology. They will be of great help and interest to museum curators and archaeologists and students of ceramics generally.
Contents: A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Pottery of the Pagan Period Volume One J. N. L. Myres; A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Pottery of the Pagan Period Volume Two J. N. L. Myres.
Essential InformationContributors: J. N. L. Myres
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English literature, Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature
Level
academic researchers, graduate students
MICHAEL J. ROWLANDS
MOGENS LARSEN
AND KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN
Description: This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system. Their particular concern is the dependent relationship between technically and socially more developed societies with a strong state ideology at the centre and the simpler societies that functioned principally as sources of raw materials and manpower on the periphery of the system. The papers in the first part of the book are all concerned with political developments in the Ancient Near East and the notion of a regional system as a framework for analysis. Part 2 examines the problems of conceptualising local societies as discrete centres of development in the context of both the Near East and prehistoric Europe during the second millennium BC. Part 3 then presents a comprehensive analytical study of the Roman Empire as a single system showing how its component parts often relate to each other in uneven, even contradictory, ways.
Contents: Preface; Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. Centre and periphery: a review of a concept Michael Rowlands; Part II. Regional Systems and the Genesis of Dependency: 2. The ancient economy, transferable technologies and the Bronze Age world-system: a view from the north-eastern frontier of the Ancient Near East Phil Kohl; 3. Cedar forest to silver mountain: social change and the development of long-distance trade in early Near Eastern societies Leon Marfoe; 4. On tracking cultural transfers in prehistory: the case of Egypt and lower Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC P. R. S. Moorey; Part III. Regional Interaction and Crisis: 5. Commercial networks in the Ancient Near East Mogens Trolle Larsen; 6. Aspects of ceremonial exchange in the Near East during the late second millennium BC Carlo Zaccagnini; 7. The collapse of the Near Eastern regional system at the end of the Bronze Age: the case of Syria Mario Liverani; 8. Centre and periphery in Bronze Age Scandinavia Kristian Kristiansen; Part IV. Imperial Expansion and its Hinterland: zonal contrasts: 9. Imperial expansion under the Roman Republic Daphne Nash; 10. Culture process on the periphery: Belgic Gaul and Rome during the late Republic and early Empire Colin Haselgrove; 11. Empire, frontier and the barbarian hinterland: Rome and northern Europe from AD 1–400 Lotte Hedeager; Bibliography; Index.
Essential InformationContributors: Michael Rowlands, Phil Kohl, Leon Marfoe, P. R. S. Moorey, Mogens Trolle Larsen, Carlo Zaccagnini, Mario Liverani, Kristian Kristiansen, Daphne Nash, Colin Haselgrove, Lotte Hedeager
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archaeological theory, method
Level
academic researchers, graduate students
GRAHAME CLARK
Description: Throughout his career Grahame Clark has pioneered on a world scale the use of the archaeological record to document the economic and social life of prehistoric communities. In Europe he was the first to employ the concept of the ecosystem in archaeology and to underscore the necessarily reciprocal relationship that exists between culture and environment. In Britain he has played a major role in moving archaeology away from its preoccupation with typology and spurring on the newly emergent discipline of bioarchaeology. Economic Prehistory reflects all these concerns. Following a comprehensive bibliography of Professor Clark’s writing, the volume opens with a series of classic papers on basic subsistence activities such as seal hunting, whaling, fowling, fishing, forest clearance, farming and stock raising. Subsequent sections then deal with world prehistory and the thorny relationship between archaeology, education and society. The volume closes with a retrospective which looks critically at such figures of the past as Gordon Childe and Mortimer Wheeler and to the author’s own renowned excavations at the Mesolithic site of Starr Carr.
Contents: Preface; Part I. Economic Prehistory; Part II. World Prehistory; Part III. Archaeology and Society; Part IV. Retrospective; Index.
Essential InformationMarket (Subject)
archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East
Level
academic researchers, graduate students
Edited by IAN HODDER
GLYNN ISAAC
AND NORMAN HAMMOND
Description: David Clarke was until his death in 1976 ‘the acknowledged leader in Britain of the ‘new wave’ of archaeological thinking’. His work concentrated on the establishment of explicit theory and logic in archaeological method and the contributions to this volume demonstrate how vital was his inspiration and reflect its diversity. The contributors follow his lead in searching for ways of discovering and interpreting patterns, including spatial, economic and social patterns in the archaeological record of past human life. The studies in this book were all commissioned and have not appeared elsewhere. The book will be of importance for archaeologists and of interest to anthropologists and those concerned with the general methodology of the social sciences.
Contents: Preface; Introduction: towards a mature archaeology Ian Hodder; Part I. Ethnographic models: pre-depositional theory: 1. Anthropological models in archaeological perspective George Dalton; 2. Kalinga pottery: an ethnoarchaeological study William Longacre; 3. Society, economy and culture: an ethnographic case study amongst the Lozi Ian Hodder; 4. People and space: a case study on material behaviour Roland Flectcher; Part II. Settlement Pattern: despositional, post-depositional and analytical theory: 5. Stone Age visiting cards: approaches to the study of early land use patterns Glynn Isaac; 6. Off-site archaeology: an alternative approach for the short-sited Robert Foley; 7. Black holes in British prehistory: the analysis of settlement distributions Les Groube; 8. The colonisation of Europe: the analysis of settlement processes Fred Hamond; Part III. Subsistence Pattern: analytical and interpretive theory: 9. Population, resources and explanation in prehistory Paul Wilkinson; 10. Plough and pastoralism: aspects of the secondary products revolution Andrew Sherratt; 11. Counting sheep in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece Paul Halstead; 12. The effects of environmental change on the scheduling of visits to the Elands Bay Cave, Cape Province S.A John Parkington; Part IV. Social Pattern: analytical and interpretive theory: 13. Conceptual frameworks for the explanation of sociocultural change Christopher Tilley; 14. Archaeological theory and communal burial in prehistoric Europe Robert Chapman; 15. Towards a socioeconomic model for the Middle Bronze Age in southern England Ann Ellison; Index.
Essential InformationContributors: Ian Hodder, George Dalton, William Longacre, Roland Flectcher, Glynn Isaac, Robert Foley, Les Groube, Fred Hamond, Paul Wilkinson, Andrew Sherratt, Paul Halstead, John Parkington, Christopher Tilley, Robert Chapman, Ann Ellison
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archaeology
Level
academic researchers, graduate students
Edited by ROBERT D. LEONARD
AND GEORGE T. JONES
Description: One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through history. Recognising that diversity exists is not, however, to explain it nor to measure it effectively. The aim of the contributors to Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology is therefore to examine what we mean by diversity, to review the methods of measurement and formulae we an apply and assess the pitfalls that exist. Richness and evenness, the two main components of diversity measures developed in the biological sciences are considered, as are the value of diversity measures in the study of style, ecology, cultural geography and faunal, lithic and spatial analysis. Subsequent papers consider critically why the archaeological remains of particular cultures vary so markedly between sites, localities and regions.
Contents: Preface; Part I. The diversity concept: 1. The concept of diversity: an introduction George T. Jones and Robert D. Leonard; 2. The theory and mechanics of ecological diversity in archaeology Peter T. Bobrowsky and Bruce F. Ball; 3. Diversity, variation and selection David Rindos; Part II. Components of diversity: richness, evenness and factors influencing their assessment: 4. Sample size, significance and measures of diversity Keith W. Kintigh; 5. Formation processes of Broken K Pueblo: some hypotheses Michael B. Schiffer; 6. Structure and diversity in intrasite spatial analysis Jan F. Simek; 7. Measures of diversity and expedient lithic technologies George T. Jones, Charlotte Beck and Donald K. Grayson; 8. Sample size and relative abundance in archaeological analysis: illustrations from spiral fractures and seriation Donald K. Grayson; Part III. Assessments of archaeological diversity: 9. Diversity in hunter-gatherer cultural geography David Hurst Thomas; 10. The effect of urbanisation on faunal diversity: a comparison between New York City and St Augustine, Florida, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Nan A. Rothschild; 11. Changing strategies of Anasazi lithic procurement on Black Mesa, Arizona Robert D. Leonard, F. E. Smiley and Catherine M. Cameron; 12. Ceramic diversity, production and use Prudence M. Rice; 13. The use of diversity in stylistic analysis Margaret W. Conkey; Part IV. Commentary: 14. The concept of diversity in archaeological theory George L. Cowgill; 15. Diversity in archaeology: a group of measures in search of application? Robert C. Dunnell; References; Index.
Essential InformationContributors: George T. Jones, Robert D. Leonard, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Bruce F. Ball, David Rindos, Keith W. Kintigh, Michael B. Schiffer, Jan F. Simek, Charlotte Beck, Donald K. Grayson, David Hurst Thomas, Nan A. Rothschild, Robert D. Leonard, F. E. Smiley, Catherine M. Cameron, Prudence M. Rice, Margaret W. Conkey, George L. Cowgill, Robert C. Dunnell
Market (Subject)
Research methodologies, statistics
Level
academic researchers, graduate students
Edited by ROBERT CHAPMAN
IAN KINNES
AND KLAVS RANDSBORG
Description: Evidence for the disposal of the dead is one of the most common classes of archaeological data; in both prehistoric and historic contexts, archaeologists have long used the remains of death and burial as a source for interpretations of society, culture and ethnic identity. This volume, bringing together studies on the disposal of the dead, explores the frontiers and potential of research and presents critical appraisals of theory about social organisation and culture change. It contains case studies from both North America and Europe and themes include the complex social factors behind burial in monuments and cemeteries, the relationship between status, diet, disease and mortality, the use of differential burial practices to define rank and the underlying reasons for major changes in burial patterns.
Contents: List of contributors; Preface; 1. Approaches to the archaeology of death Robert Chapman and Klavs Randsborg; 2. The search for rank in prehistoric burials James A. Brown; 3. Social configurations and the archaeological study of mortuary practices: a case study John O’Shea; 4. One-dimensional archaeology and multi-dimensional people: spatial organisation and mortuary analysis Lynne Goldstein; 5. The emergence of formal disposal areas and the ‘problem’ of megalithic tombs in prehistoric Europe Robert Chapman; 6. Dialogues with death Ian Kinnes; 7. ‘Various styles of urn’ - cemeteries and settlement in southern England Richard Bradley; 8. Burial, succession and early state formation in Denmark Klavs Randsborg; 9. Mortuary practices, palaeodemography and palaeopathology: a case study from the Koster site (Illinois) Jane E. Buikstra; 10. Mortality, age structure and status in the interpretation of stress indicators in prehistoric skeletons Della C. Cook; Bibliography; Index.
Essential InformationContributors: Robert Chapman, Klavs Randsborg, James A. Brown, John O’Shea, Lynne Goldstein, Ian Kinnes, Richard Bradley, Jane E. Buikstra, Della C. Cook
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archaeology (general)
Level
academic researchers, graduate students
Edited by GEOFF BAILEY
AND JOHN PARKINGTON
Description: The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines offers a conspectus of recent work on coastal archaeology examining the various ways in which hunter-gatherers and farmers across the world exploited marine resources such as fish, shellfish and waterfowl in prehistory. Changes in sea levels and the balance of marine ecosystems have altered coastal environments significantly over the last ten thousand years and the contributors assess the impact of these changes on the nature of human settlement and subsistence. An overview of coastal archaeology as a developing discipline is followed by ten case studies from a wide variety of places including Scandinavia, Japan, Tasmania and New Zealand, Peru, South Africa and the United States.
Contents: 1. The archaeology of prehistoric coastlines: an introduction Geoff Bailey and John Parkington; 2. Reconstructing past shorelines as an approach to determining factors affecting shellfish collecting in the prehistoric past J. C. Shackleton; 3. Holocene coastal settlement patterns in the western Cape John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel , Bill Buchanan, Tim Robey, Tony Manhire and Judy Sealy; 4. Tasmanian Aborigines in the Hunter Islands in the Holocene: island resources use and seasonality Sandra Bowdler; 5. Island biogeography and prehistoric human adaptation on the southern coast of Maine David R. Yesner; 6. Cultural and environmental change during the Early Period of Santa Barbara Channel prehistory Michael A. Glassow, Larry R. Wilcoxon and Jon Erlandson; 7. Variability in the types of fishing adaptation of the later Jomon hunter-gatherers Takeru Akazawa; 8. Coastal subsistence economies in prehistoric southern New Zealand A. J. Anderson; 9. Sedentary coastal hunter-fishers: an example from the Younger Stone Age of northern Norway M. A. P. Renouf; 10. A molluscan perspective on the role of foraging in Neolithic farming economies Margaret R. Deith; 11. Fishing, farming and the foundations of Andean civilisation Michael E. Mosley and Robert A. Feldman; Bibliography; Index.
Essential InformationContributors: Geoff Bailey, John Parkington, J. C. Shackleton, John Parkington, Cedric Poggenpoel , Bill Buchanan, Tim Robey, Tony Manhire, Judy Sealy, Sandra Bowdler, David R. Yesner, Michael A. Glassow, Larry R. Wilcoxon, Jon Erlandson, Takeru Akazawa, A. J. Anderson, M. A. P. Renouf, Margaret R. Deith, Michael E. Mosley, Robert A. Feldman
Market (Subject)
physical geography
Level
academic researchers, graduate students