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Title

A brief history of archaeology : classical times to the twenty-first century / Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani.

Author

Fagan, Brian M.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

Durrani, Nadia

Description

xxx, 271 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The vitality of a hands-on approach to data presentation and interpretation carried out primarily at the level of the individual site--the arena of research providing the bread and butter of zooarchaeological work conducted in southwest Asia--is demonstrated. Among the themes explored are shifting identities of late hunter-gatherers through interactions with settled agrarian societies; the management of camp sites by early complex hunter-gatherers; processes of assimilation of Roman culinary practices among Egyptian elites; and the propagation of medieval pilgrim identity through the use of seashell insignia. A wealth of new data is discussed and a wide variety of applications of analytical approaches are applied to particular case studies within the framework of social and contextual zooarchaeology. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th meeting of the ICAZ Working Group-Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA) [held at the University of Haifa in June 2013]"--From publisher's website.

Subject

• Archaeology > History
• Archaeology

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 13 After Processualism14 The Future; Glossary: Archaeological Sites and Cultural Terms; References; Index; Beginnings; A Past "Five Days Elder Than Ourselves"; Stone Tools and Scriptures; Herculaneum and Pompeii; Egypt and Mesopotamia; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Stratigraphic Geology; Humans and Extinct Animals; Evolution and Natural Selection: Human Progress; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Napoleon in Egypt; The Decipherment of Hieroglyphs; Looters and Archaeologists; Discovering the Assyrians; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; The Enlightenment and Human Progress.
• Flinders Petrie and the Small ObjectThe Discovery of Minoan Civilization; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Lubbock's Prehistoric Times; Oscar Montelius and the First Culture History; Stratigraphic Archaeology and Culture Change in the Americas; Diffusionism; Alfred Kidder and Pecos; Mesoamerica and the Andes; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Tutankhamun: The Golden Pharaoh; Leonard Woolley and Gertrude Bell: Carchemish and Ur; Aurel Stein: Archaeology in Central Asia; Early Archaeology in Africa; Australia and New Zealand; Summary; Guide to Further Reading.
• Field Archaeology and Aerial PhotographyMortimer Wheeler and Scientific Excavation; The Indus Civilization; Vere Gordon Childe: Prehistoric Revolutions; The Search for Human Origins; Excavating a Ghost Ship: Sutton Hoo; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; North American Archaeology: Tree Rings and Taxonomy; Grahame Clark and the Birth of Ecological Archaeology; Julian Steward and Cultural Ecology; Settlement Archaeology in the Americas; The Dead Sea Scrolls; The Sepulcher of the Maya Lord Pacal; Functional Archaeology; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Taylor's A Study of Archaeology.
• List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Authors' Note; Maps; Major Events in the History of Archaeology from A.D. 1600; 1 "The Backward Looking Curiosity"; 2 The Antiquity of Humankind; 3 Pharaohs and Assyrians; 4 Human Progress and the Three Ages; 5 Early American Archaeology; 6 Scriptures and Civilizations; 7 The Birth of Culture History; 8 Egypt, Iraq, and Beyond; 9 Archaeology Coming of Age, 1920 to 1950; 10 Culture History and Beyond; 11 Radiocarbon Dating and World Prehistory; 12 The "New Archaeology"?
• The Barrow DiggersThe Native Americans; The Three Ages; Three Ages Proven; The Swiss Lake Dwellings; Hand Axes and Lake Dwellers; Inevitable Human Progress?; Cultural Evolution and Human Progress; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; The Discovery of Ancient Maya Civilization; The Moundbuilders of North America; Science, the First Americans, and Moundbuilders; The Beginnings of Southwestern Archaeology; Summary; Guide to Further Reading; Underground Jerusalem; The Flood Tablets; The Sumerian Civilization; Heinrich Schliemann: Troy and Mycenae; The Beginnings of Scientific Excavation.

ISBN

• 9781138657076
• 1138657077
• 9781315621524 (canceled/invalid)
• 1315621525 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2015046760
• 40026217409

OCLC

931226930

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library