ARCHAEOLOGY
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Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway
Marianne Skandfer, Hans Peter Blankholm, Bryan C. Hood
For a century, Stone Age research on the coast of north Norway has been influential on settlement studies in the larger region. Research on Stone Age and Sámi coastal sites has brought forward central debates in the general archaeology in Fennoscandia. Our knowledge of the inland has on the other...
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Mediterranean Resilience: Collapse and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies
Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash, Thomas P. Leppard
The aim of this volume is to examine various forms of adaptation adopted by coastal societies in the ancient Mediterranean in response to external pressures they occasionally experienced. The investigation spans the longue durée stretching from the epi-paleolithic to the Medieval period. Special...
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Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus
This book adopts an integrative approach to investigate the role of monumental architecture in shaping social dynamics and power relations on the island of Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (LBA; c.1700-1050 BCE). Using such an approach, archaeologists studying ancient societies elsewhere can analyz...
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Archaeology at Home
Archaeology at Home takes a deep dive into the entanglements between humans and their things, exploring the notion that things themselves "remember" when left by "their" people and illustrating how the integration of humans and things things involves connections running all the way from the present...
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Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology
This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the work of Professor A. Bernard Knapp and on some of the challenges thrown down in his extensive scholarship. Knapp is a central figure in the pre and proto-history of the Mediterranean in the last generation, and the essays in this volume will be...
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The Hunt for Ancient Israel
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, Pauline A. Viviano, Thomas Romer, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter, Steinar Skarpnes, Yairah Amit, Christoph Levin, Reinhard Muller, Benedetta Rossi, Bob Becking, Maria Hausl, Lowell K. Handy, Aren Maeir, David Hamidovic, Lester L. Grabbe, Daniel Pioske, James S. Anderson, Philippe Guillaume, Jason M. Silverman, Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Kåre Berge, Jorunn Okland
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Kristin Joachimsen, Ehud Ben Zvi, 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 of...
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Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe
Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe responds to the wishes of specialists in the history and archaeology of Islamicate societies in Europe to explore the integration of these societies into historical narratives. In order to deal with the multiple implications and wide r...
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Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
Margie M. Burton, Nicola Lercari, Thomas E. Levy, Benjamin W. Porter, Willeke Wendrich
In late August 2015, international media outlets and cultural institutions reported that the Islamic State beheaded the Syrian scholar Khaled al Asaad and destroyed the 1st-century CE Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria. The world was horrorstruck. Apart from the human tragedy, archaeologists and the in...
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Seaways to Complexity
This book focuses on the sociopolitical development and the organisational differences between societies in northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (2350-1100 BCE). Grounded in a political economy approach, the book presents a theoretical model that emphases a dialectic n...
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Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art
Jan Magne Gjerde, Mari Strifeldt Arntzen
Rock art is a global phenomenon with an enormous variation in shapes and figures and the research interest is wide and inclusive. The volume aims to explain differences observed in rock art through time and space, synchronically or diachronically. Differences can for example be in form, content, spa...