Research Catalog

Title

Combining the past and the present : archaeological perspectives on society : proceedings from the conference "Prehistory in a global perspective" held in Bergen, August 31st - September 2nd 2001, in honour of Professor Randi Haaland's 60th anniversary / edited by Terje Oestigaard, Nils Anfinset, Tore Saetersdal.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Oestigaard, Terje.
• Anfinset, Nils.
• Saetersdal, SaTore.

Description

viii, 216 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 1210

Subject

Archaeology > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Sex pots of ancient Peru: post-gender reflections / Joan M. Gero -- Death and ambivalent materiality- human flesh as culture and cosmology / Terje Oestigaard -- Bridal jewels- in life and death / Siv Kristoffersen -- Another F-word? Feminist gender archaeology / Ericka Engelstad -- Hunter-gatherer intensification and the straight arrow of progress: Australia and Northwest Europe compared / Peter Rowley-Conwy -- Metallurgy and pastoral nomads in the chalcolithic of the Southern Levant / Nils Anfinset -- Iron technology and its social implications: the case of the Fipa of Southwestern Tanzania / Bertram B. B. Mapunda -- Ethongraphic observations of iron smelting in Nepal: the culture of traditional systems of iron working in Nepal / Suman Rijal -- The origins of modern human behaviour- exploring the African evidence / Christopher. S. Henshilwood -- Africa, agriculture and iron / J.E.G. Sutton -- Bantu ideology and Bantu great tradition / Knut Odner -- Gender and social structure in the Nubian A-Group / Hans-Åke Nordström -- Graeco-Roman documents about Azania: a new look at some controversial issues / Felix A. Chami -- Archaeological research in the Farafra Oasis (Egypt): contribution to the study of early cultivation in the Eastern Sahara / Barbara E. Barich -- Food resources at Chibuene and Manyikeni, two archaeological sites in Southern Mozambique / Amelie Berger -- Discussion on the relationship between early iron pottery tradition of Kwale ware and later pottery tradition of Tana ware. The Dakawa pottery assemblage venue for discussion / Chediel S. Msuya -- Archaeology and identity: some examples from Southern Africa / Paul Sinclair -- Communing with the dead: an ethnoarchaeological interpretation of Shona mortuary practices / McEdward Murimbika -- Archaeology and cultural heritage management in Mozambique some experiences made and some future challenges / Solange Macamo and Tore Saetersdal -- Carved in stone? In search of a Finnish rock carving tradition / Lars Forsberg and Eva Walderhaug Saetersdal.

Call Number

JFG 04-549

ISBN

1841715735

OCLC

54973452

Title

Combining the past and the present : archaeological perspectives on society : proceedings from the conference "Prehistory in a global perspective" held in Bergen, August 31st - September 2nd 2001, in honour of Professor Randi Haaland's 60th anniversary / edited by Terje Oestigaard, Nils Anfinset, Tore Saetersdal.

Imprint

Oxford : Archaeopress, c2004.

Series

BAR international series ; 1210

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Oestigaard, Terje.

Anfinset, Nils.

Saetersdal, SaTore.

Research Call Number

JFG 04-549