Archaeology & History
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Archaeology at Home
Archaeology at Home combines contemporary and deep time archaeology by human-thing entanglements - how things remember when left by their people, and how the integration of human-things has lines that run from today to deep time. The author attempts to balance personal experiences and scholarly...
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The Hunt for Ancient Israel
Ehud Ben Zvi, Kristin Joachimsen, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Pauline A. Viviano
This volume celebrates the contribution of Diana V. Edelman to the field and celebrates her personally as researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague, and mastermind of new research paths and groups. It salutes her unconventional, constantly thinking and rethinking outside the box and her challenging...
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries
This book provides a timely and original overview of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and its longer term affects on the social and physical landscape of England and Wales during the decades that followed. Combining for the first time the full wealth of archaeological evidence gathered over the...
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Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World
John Baines, Yi Samuel Chen Chen, Tim Rood, Henriette van der Blom
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers nineteen linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Sinology, Biblical Studies, Cl...
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The New Nomadic Age
It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Ma...
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Framing Archaeology in the Near East
This volume presents a series of studies by scholars working in Middle Eastern archaeology who actively apply social theory to interpret their fieldwork. It aims to highlight the value of using social theory in the interpretation of field work in a region where, traditionally, such approaches have n...
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The German Ocean
The German Ocean examines archaeological and historical evidence for the development of economies and societies around the North Sea from the beginning of the 12th century until the end of the 16th century. It draws in material from Scandinavia to Normandy and from Scotland to Kent. While largely co...
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Summer Farms
John Collis, Franco Nicolis, Mark Pearce
Summer farms occur throughout the world where there are rich pastures that can only be utilised for part of the year, mainly because they are under snow and ice during the winter. In Europe transhumance is often a major event when the cattle and other livestock leave their home villages and move up...
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A History of Biblical Israel
Philippe Guillaume, Axel Knauf
There was probably only one past, but there are many different histories. As mental representations of narrow segments of the past, 'histories' reflect different cultural contexts and different historians, although 'history' is a scientific enterprise whenever it processes representative data using...
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The Archaeology of Medieval Spain, 1100-1500
Avelino Gutierrez, Magdalena Valor
Since 1985, Spanish archaeology has radically improved its organisation and effectiveness, supported by law and the transfer of powers to deal with archaeology from central to regional governments. There have been many excavations on development sites in towns and the countryside, but also new studi...