Tag: Archaeologies

Free Download Barbara Hausmair, "Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: Between Text and Practice"
English | ISBN: 1785337653 | 2018 | 356 pages | PDF | 6 MB
How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Free Download Archaeologies of Memory By Ruth M. Van Dyke, Susan E. Alcock (eds.)
2003 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0631235841 | PDF | 3 MB
A unique collection of newly written essays by archaeologists working in a variety of contexts and geographical areas, Archaeologies of Memory is a groundbreaking text that presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. Serves as an accessible introduction to central issues in the study of memory, including authority and identity, and the role memory plays in their creation and transformation. Presents a collection of newly commissioned essays that provide a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. Brings together essays from both anthropological and classical archaeologists. Includes contributions drawn from a variety of cultures and time periods, including New Kingdom Egypt and the prehistoric American Southwest.Content: Chapter 1 Archaeologies of Memory: An Introduction (pages 1-14): Ruth M. Van Dyke and Susan E. AlcockChapter 2 Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory (pages 15-33): Carla M. SinopoliChapter 3 Memory’s Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice and Disjunctive Locales (pages 34-55): Lynn MeskellChapter 4 Memory Tattered and Torn: Spolia in the Heartland of Byzantine Hellenism (pages 56-80): Amy PapalexandrouChapter 5 Glories of the Past in the Past: Ritual Activities at Palatial Ruins in Early Iron Age Crete (pages 81-103): Mieke PrentChapter 6 Concrete Memories: Fragments of the Past in the Classic Maya Present (500-1000 AD) (pages 104-125): Rosemary A. JoyceChapter 7 Creating Memory in Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques of Southwest Iberia (pages 126-150): Katina T. LilliosChapter 8 Mounds, Memory, and Contested Mississippian History (pages 151-179): Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. AltChapter 9 Memory and the Construction of Chacoan Society (pages 180-200): Ruth M. Van DykeChapter 10 The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse of Sicily’s Prehistoric Rock?Cut Tombs (pages 201-220): Emma BlakeChapter 11 The Translation of Time (pages 221-227): Richard Bradley

Free Download Andrea Mirabile, "Multimedia Archaeologies "
English | ISBN: 9042038047 | 2014 | 216 pages | PDF | 24 MB
D’Annunzio’s hybrid experiments challenge Wagner’s ‘total artwork’ theories, search for a synthesis between pictorial stillness and filmic movement, and anticipate contemporary multimedia experiences. Ending suddenly at the outbreak of the Great War, Dannunzian total artworks have generated a controversial legacy that calls for renewed critical investigations.

Free Download Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism by Sandra Montón-Subías, María Cruz Berrocal, Apen Ruiz Martínez
English | PDF (True) | 2016 | 302 Pages | ISBN : 3319218840 | 13.8 MB
​​Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a global comparative perspective on colonial processes and colonial situations, and the ways in which they were experienced by the different peoples. But we also focus on marginal "unsuccessful" colonial episodes. Thus, some of the papers deal with very brief colonial events, even "marginal" in some cases, considered "failures" by the Spanish crown or even undertook without their consent. These short events are usually overlooked by traditional historiography, which is why archaeological research is particularly important in these cases, since archaeological remains may be the only type of evidence that stands as proof of these colonial events. At the same time, it critically examines the construction of categoriesand discourses of colonialism, and questions the ideological underpinnings of the source material required to address such a vast issue. Accordingly, the book strikes a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues, integrated to a lesser or greater extent in most of the chapters.​