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Book Synopsis Eurasian Prehistory by : Ofer Bar-Yosef
Download or read book Eurasian Prehistory written by Ofer Bar-Yosef and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Beeches Pit: Archaeology, assemblage dynamics and early fire history of a Middle Pleistocene site in East Anglia, UK J. A. J. Gowlett, J. Hallos, S. Hounsell, and V. Brant; Middle Pleistocene blade production in the Levant: An Amudian assemblage from Qesem Cave, Israel Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher, and Ron Shimelmitz;
Book Synopsis Classical Spies by : Susan Heuck Allen
Download or read book Classical Spies written by Susan Heuck Allen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected.” —William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spies is the first insiders’ account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars’ personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies disclosesevents where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, and organizing parachute drops. Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as University of Pennsylvania’s Rodney Young, Cincinnati’s Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale’s Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr’s Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II.
Author :Elizabeth C. Banks Publisher :American School of Classical Studies at Athens ISBN 13 :1621390128 Total Pages :505 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (213 download)
Book Synopsis The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV by : Elizabeth C. Banks
Download or read book The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV written by Elizabeth C. Banks and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995 Jeremy B. Rutter presented the pottery of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna in Lerna III: The Pottery of Lerna IV. The present volume is the companion to the Rutter volume, outlining the architectural sequence of the EH III period at the site with descriptions of the major building types and other features, such as hearths, ovens, and bothroi. Careful examination of the individual buildings and their contents constitutes the core of the text. The changing settlement patterns of the site through time are considered, and sources of influences are suggested.
Book Synopsis Philistine Iconography by : David Ben-Shlomo
Download or read book Philistine Iconography written by David Ben-Shlomo and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ikonographie lässt viele Rückschlüsse auf eine Gesellschaft zu. Die Ikonographie der Philister hilft, die sozialen, ethnischen, religiösen und ideologischen Aspekte dieser Kultur besser zu verstehen. Die Philister entwickelten während der Eisenzeit (ca. 1200-600 v.Chr.) eine distinguierte Kultur. David Ben-Shlomo präsentiert und diskutiert den Bestand der ikonographischen Darstellungen der Philisterkultur (Tonmalereien, Statuen, Eisenschnitzereien, Glyptik u.a.). Der figürliche Stil und der Symbolismus spiegelt sowohl die Rückbindung der Philisterkultur an die ägäische Heimat als auch den laufenden Prozess der Interaktion mit den lokalen Gastkulturen in der südlichen Levante eindrücklich wider. Die Ikonographie liefert so ein bedeutendes Zeugnis, das die sozialen, ethnischen, religiösen und ideologischen Aspekte der Philister und ihrer Nachbarn im östlichen Mittelmeerraum besser zu verstehen hilft.
Download or read book Cultures in Contact written by Joan Aruz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition "Beyond Babylon : Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.," held in 2008 - 2009 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrated the cultural enrichment that emerged from the intensive interaction of civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. During this critical period in human history, powerful kingdoms and large territorial states were formed. Rising social elites created a demand for copper and tin, as well as for precious gold and silver and exotic materials such as lapis lazuli and ivory to create elite objects fashioned in styles that reflected contacts with foreign lands. This quest for metals--along with the desire for foreign textiles--was the driving force that led to the establishment of merchant colonies and a vast trading network throughout central Anatolia during the early second millennium B.C. Texts from palaces at sites from Hattusa (modern Bogazköy) in Hittite Anatolia to Amarna in Egypt attest to the volume and variety of interactions that took place some centuries later, creating the impetus for the circulation of precious goods, stimulating the exchange of ideas, and inspiring artistic creativity. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence for these far-flung connections emerges out of tragedy--the wreckage of the oldest known seagoing ship, discovered in a treacherous stretch off the southern coast of Turkey near the promontory known as Uluburun. Among its extraordinary cargo of copper, glass, and exotic raw materials and luxury goods is a gilded bronze statuette of a goddess--perhaps the patron deity on board, who failed in her mission to protect the ship. To explore the themes of the exhibition--art, trade, and diplomacy, viewed from an international perspective--a two-day symposium and related scholarly events allowed colleagues to explore many facets of the multicultural societies that developed in the second millennium B.C. Their insights, which dramatically illustrate the incipient phases of our intensely interactive world, are presented largely in symposium order, beginning with broad regional overviews and examination of particular archeological contexts and then drawing attention to specific artists and literary evidence for interconnections. In this introduction, however, their contributions are viewed from a somewhat more synthetic perspective, one that focuses attention on the ways in which ideas in this volume intersect to enrich the ongoing discourse on the themes elucidated in the exhibition.
Book Synopsis Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting by : Darrell Arlynn Amyx
Download or read book Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting written by Darrell Arlynn Amyx and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies. Aftermath, by D. A. Amyx, is a catalogue of material supplementing his work in Corinth VII.2 but found after the cutoff of 1969 or omitted for some other reason. This article and Corinth VII.2 together stand as a full compilation of painters at present represented in the collection of the Corinth Excavations. The Chimaera Group at Corinth and Dodwellians in the Potters' Quarter are both by Patricia Lawrence. The first is a thoughtful analysis of this group of painters, based on a close examination of material found in the excavations at Corinth but including attributed pieces from other sites. The second studies 15 new fragments and reexamines material previously published in Corinth XV.3, demonstrating that the Geladakis Painter, as well as several Dodwellians, are represented there.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Mobility by : Hans Barnard
Download or read book The Archaeology of Mobility written by Hans Barnard and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that it tries to redefine pastoralism within a larger context by the term mobility. It presents many new ideas and thoughtful approaches, especially in the Central Asian region.
Download or read book Born to Rebel written by Mary Allsebrook and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Boyd was the first woman to lead an archaeological excavation in the Aegean. At a time when few women traveled on their own, she discovered, excavated and published an account of the Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. She was the first woman to lecture to the Archaeological Instituite of America - ten times in fourteen days in January 1902. While prominent as a lecturer and teacher, archaeology was only a part of her life: in 1897 she was nursing with the Red Cross in the Greco-Turkish war, in 1915 she was nursing Serbian typhoid victims on Corfu, and by 1917 she was in Northern France setting up a rehabilitation center within sound of the front. While the past and its arts were her profession, the present and the future were her passionate interest - whether local social problems in her home town of Boston or international affairs which took her to lunch with Mrs Roosevelt at the White House. Mary Allsebrook's lighthearted and extremely readable account of her mother's extraordinary experiences shows Harriet Boyd to be truly one of America's pioneers.
Book Synopsis Balkan Prehistory by : Douglass W. Bailey
Download or read book Balkan Prehistory written by Douglass W. Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed for an archaeology of the Balkans and will be required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Mesoamerica by : Richard E. W. Adams
Download or read book Prehistoric Mesoamerica written by Richard E. W. Adams and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec Empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.
Book Synopsis Urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th Centuries BC by : Helle Damgaard Andersen
Download or read book Urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th Centuries BC written by Helle Damgaard Andersen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume from the "Acta Hyperborea" series of archaeological studies covers the topic of urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th centuries BC. "Acta Hyperborea" is a periodical by a group of classical archaeologists associated with Danish universities and museums. Although primarily a journal of classical archaeology, it also covers other fields in classical scholarship. One of the main objectives of the periodical is the interdisciplinary approach to promote a dialogue between historians, philologists and archaeologists.
Download or read book Texnh written by Philip Betancourt and published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge collection of fifty-seven papers from the 6th International Aegean conference held in Philadelphia 1996. A small selection of the papers is: Arts and artefacts in the shaft graves (Oliver Dickinson); Aegean art before and after the LM IB Cretan destructions ( Paul Rehak); Minoan wall-painting (Fritz Blakolmer); Minoan clay figures and figurines (George Rethemiotakis); LM III tholois and theri builders (Paolo Belli); Pottery workshops at Phaestos and Haghia Triada in the Protopalatial period (Filippo M. Carinci); Mycenaean kylix painters at Zygouries (Patrick M. Thomas); The organisation of textile production on Bronze Age Crete (Brendan Burke); Itinerant craftsmen and trade in the Aegean Bronze Age (Edmund Bloedow); Minoan women and the challenges of weaving for home, trade and shrine (Elizabeth Barber).
Book Synopsis The Pylos Tablets by : Emmett Leslie Bennett
Download or read book The Pylos Tablets written by Emmett Leslie Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Zooarchaeology in Greece by : Eleni Kotjabopoulou
Download or read book Zooarchaeology in Greece written by Eleni Kotjabopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have always been integral to life and culture in Greece. Recently the study of animal bones has played an important role in investigations of Greek archaeology. In this volume the current position is reviewed with papers ranging from the Palaeolithic to the Medieval periods and employing a wide range of techniques and approaches. The papers cover not only the themes of subsistence and methodology but also symbolism, ritual and the artistic representation of animals. The interdisciplinary and international character of zooarchaeology is confirmed and many new avenues for research are suggested.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Bulgaria by : Douglass Whitfield Bailey
Download or read book Prehistoric Bulgaria written by Douglass Whitfield Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers introduces an English-speaking audience to Bulgarian prehistory, providing an ethnography of Bulgarian archaeology and a review of the periods, people, artifacts, monuments, and problems of the field. Topics include cultures of the Bulgarian Paleolithic, use-wear analysis,
Book Synopsis Exchange Networks and Local Transformations by : Maria Emanuela Alberti
Download or read book Exchange Networks and Local Transformations written by Maria Emanuela Alberti and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean societies appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networks which invariably affected local customs and historical developments. Archaeological evidence suggests social and economic phenomena, cultural expressions and technological skills stemmed from multifaceted encounters between local traditions and external influences. Examples of cultural openness and transcultural hybridisation seem to be more of a norm than an exception. The articles in the volume explore the dynamic relationship between regionally contextualized transformations and inter-regional exchange networks. Particular effort has been put in approaching the issue in a multidisciplinary perspective. Continental Europe and the Mediterranean may be characterized by specific development and patterns of relations, but the authors draw attention to how those worlds were not alien to each other and illustrate how common interpretative tools can be successfully applied and a comprehensive approach including both zones adopted.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Value by : Douglass Bailey
Download or read book The Archaeology of Value written by Douglass Bailey and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1998 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays originally presented as papers at the European Association of Archaeologists' Conference in Santiago de Compostela in 1995. Contents: On being famous through time and across space (Douglass W. Bailey); The value of tasks in the late Upper Palaeolithic (Anthony Sinclair); Consumer behaviour in early modern times (Carolina Andersson and Ann-Mari Hallans); Early Bronze Age burial as theatrical complexity (Mike Pearson); Cattle as wealth in Neolithic Europe (Nerissa Russell); Princely tombs in the central Balkan Iron Age (Aleksandar Palavestra); Wealth, status and prestige in the Iberian Iron Age (Fernando Quesada); Social, economic and symbolic values in central Europe in the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (Andrzej Pydyn); Objectification, embodiment and the value of placesand things (John Chapman); The social life of Italian Neolithic painted pottery (Robin Skeates) .
