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Book Synopsis Popular Receptions of Archaeology by : Susanne Duesterberg
Download or read book Popular Receptions of Archaeology written by Susanne Duesterberg and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon: Focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies, and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Susanne Duesterberg analyses the popular reception of archaeology in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. She offers an interdisciplinary and comparative view on the reception of the different archaeologies, reflecting contemporary sociocultural concerns in connection with identity formation. With its focus on popular culture as well as identity and memory studies, the book appeals to both a general public and experts from various disciplines.
Book Synopsis From Stonehenge to Las Vegas by : Cornelius Holtorf
Download or read book From Stonehenge to Las Vegas written by Cornelius Holtorf and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana Jones. Lara Croft. Archaeologist as folk hero, detective, treasure hunter. The meaning of things below the surface. The life history of Stonehenge. Las Vegas' Luxor Hotel. Copies of artifacts as contemporary kitch. The connections between archaeology and contemporary culture are endless. Cornelius Holtorf merges archaeological and cultural theory to take readers on an erudite tour of these intersections, using wide-ranging examples and compelling images to support his often controversial theses. Deliberately blurring the borders between past people and present meanings, this ambitious project seeks no less than the redefinition of the term "archaeology." Equal parts amusing, infuriating, and provocative, this work will interest students and teachers in archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies and human geography, as well as professionals in heritage management and museums.
Book Synopsis Popular Archaeology by : Dan McLerran Editor
Download or read book Popular Archaeology written by Dan McLerran Editor and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first, special premier print edition of Popular Archaeology Magazine is designed as a premium quality "coffee table" magazine book, published on high quality stock and featuring arguably the finest article content yet published in a single special issue of the magazine. In this beautiful volume, readers will learn about: recent discoveries that are radically changing what we know about human evolution; a sensational discovery in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico that shows us how an ancient paleo-american is speaking to us from a watery grave deep underground, shedding new light on Native American origins; how conservationists in a lab are bringing ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies back to life; the resurrection of an Egyptian pharaoh's grand throne room; the hundreds of new archaeological discoveries being made in Iraqi Kurdistan, where ancient Mesopotamian cities once thrived; new wall-painting discoveries at Angkor Wat; and eye-opening new findings at what is now the largest ancient Mycenaean city ever discovered.
Book Synopsis Popular Archaeology by : Dan McLerran
Download or read book Popular Archaeology written by Dan McLerran and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first, special premier print edition of Popular Archaeology Magazine is designed as a premium quality "coffee table" magazine book, published on high quality stock and featuring arguably the finest article content yet published in a single special issue of the magazine. In this beautiful volume, readers will learn about: recent discoveries that are radically changing what we know about human evolution; a sensational discovery in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico that shows us how an ancient paleo-american is speaking to us from a watery grave deep underground, shedding new light on Native American origins; how conservationists in a lab are bringing ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies back to life; the resurrection of an Egyptian pharaoh's grand throne room; the hundreds of new archaeological discoveries being made in Iraqi Kurdistan, where ancient Mesopotamian cities once thrived; new wall-painting discoveries at Angkor Wat; and eye-opening new findings at what is now the largest ancient Mycenaean city ever discovered.
Book Synopsis Introducing Archaeology by : Robert J. Muckle
Download or read book Introducing Archaeology written by Robert J. Muckle and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition highlights recent developments in the field and includes a new chapter on archaeology beyond mainstream academia. It also integrates more examples from popular culture, including mummies, tattoos, pirates, and global warming.
Book Synopsis Introducing Archaeology, Third Edition by : Robert J. Muckle
Download or read book Introducing Archaeology, Third Edition written by Robert J. Muckle and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating archaeology in academic, social, and political contexts, the third edition emphasizes the ethics and the scholarship of women and includes considerable focus on the archaeology of recent and contemporary times.
Book Synopsis Archaeology Is a Brand! by : Cornelius Holtorf
Download or read book Archaeology Is a Brand! written by Cornelius Holtorf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impact is there on the field to recognize that archaeology is a regular feature in daily life and popular culture? Based upon the study of England, Germany, Sweden and the USA, Cornelius Holtorf examines the commonalities and peculiarities of media portrayal of archaeology in these countries, and the differences between media presentations and audience knowledge and attraction to the subject, In his normal engaging, populist style, Holtorf discusses the main strategies available to archaeologists in engaging with their popular representations. Possessors of a widely recognized, positively valued and well underpinned brand, archaeologists need to take more seriously the appeal of their work.
Book Synopsis Key Concepts in Public Archaeology by : Gabriel Moshenska
Download or read book Key Concepts in Public Archaeology written by Gabriel Moshenska and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad overview of the key concepts in public archaeology, a research field that examines the relationship between archaeology and the public, in both theoretical and practical terms. While based on the long-standing programme of undergraduate and graduate teaching in public archaeology at UCL’s renowned Institute of Archaeology, the book also takes into account the growth of scholarship from around the world and seeks to clarify what exactly ‘public archaeology’ is by promoting an inclusive, socially and politically engaged vision of the discipline. Written for students and practitioners, the individual chapters provide textbook-level introductions to the themes, theories and controversies that connect archaeology to wider society, from the trade in illicit antiquities to the use of digital media in public engagement, and point readers to the most relevant case studies and learning resources to aid their further study. This book was produced as part of JISC's Institution as e-Textbook Publisher project. Find out more at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/institution-as-e-textbook-publisher Praise for Key Concepts in Archaeology 'Littered throughout with concise and well-chosen case studies, Key Concepts in Public Archaeology could become essential reading for undergraduates and is a welcome reminder of where archaeology sits in UK society today.' British Archaeology
Download or read book Archaeology written by Hannah Cobb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated sixth edition of a classic classroom text is essential reading for core courses in archaeology. Archaeology: An Introduction explains how the subject emerged from an amateur pursuit in the eighteenth century into a serious discipline and explores changing trends in interpretation in recent decades. The authors convey the excitement of archaeology while helping readers to evaluate new discoveries by explaining the methods and theories that lie behind them. In addition to drawing upon examples and case studies from many regions of the world and periods of the past, the book incorporates the authors’ own fieldwork, research and teaching. It continues to include key reference and further reading sections to help new readers find their way through the ever-expanding range of archaeological publications and online sources as well as colour illustrations and boxed topic sections to increase comprehension. Serving as an accessible and lucid textbook, and engaging students with contemporary issues, this book is designed to support students studying Archaeology at an introductory level. New to the sixth edition: Inclusion of the latest survey and imaging techniques, such as the use of drones and eXtended reality. Updated material on developments in dating, DNA analysis, isotopes and population movement, including consideration of the ethical considerations of these techniques. Coverage of new developments in archaeological theory, such as the material turn/ontological turn, and work on issues of equality, diversity and inclusion. A whole new chapter covering archaeology in the present, including new sections on heritage and public archaeology, and an updated consideration of archaeology’s relationship with the climate crisis. A revised glossary with over 200 new additions or updates.
Book Synopsis Archaeology and Folklore by : Amy Gazin-Schwartz
Download or read book Archaeology and Folklore written by Amy Gazin-Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology and Folklore explores the complex relationship between the two disciplines to demonstrate what they might learn from each other. This collection includes theoretical discussions and case studies drawn from Western Europe, the Mediterranean and North. They explore the differences between popular traditions relating to historic sites and archaeological interpretations of their history and meaning.
Book Synopsis Experiencing Archaeology by : Lara Homsey-Messer
Download or read book Experiencing Archaeology written by Lara Homsey-Messer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, many general-education archaeology courses are large, lecture-style class formats that present a challenge to providing students, particularly non-majors, with opportunities to learn experientially. This laboratory-style manual compiles a wide variety of uniquely designed, hands-on classroom activities to acquaint advanced high school and introductory college students to the field of archaeology. Ranging in length from five to thirty minutes, activities created by archaeologists are designed to break up traditional classroom lectures, engage students of all learning styles, and easily integrate into large classes and/or short class periods that do not easily accommodate traditional laboratory work.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Archaeology and the City by : Laura McAtackney
Download or read book Contemporary Archaeology and the City written by Laura McAtackney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belém, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.
Book Synopsis Popular Archaeology by : Dan McLerran Rebecca
Download or read book Popular Archaeology written by Dan McLerran Rebecca and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology by : Denys A. Stocks
Download or read book Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology written by Denys A. Stocks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and engaging volume examines the evidence for masonry in ancient Egypt. Through a series of experiments with over two hundred replica tools, Denys A. Stocks brings alive the methods and practices of ancient Egyptian craftworking.
Book Synopsis Museums and Archaeology by : Robin Skeates
Download or read book Museums and Archaeology written by Robin Skeates and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers from a range of disciplines interested in museum, gallery and heritage studies, including public archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), but also the wide range of professionals and volunteers in the museum and heritage sector who work with archaeological collections. The volume’s balance of theory and practice and its thematic and geographical breadth is explored and explained in an extended introduction, which situates the readings in the context of the extensive literature on museum archaeology, highlighting the many tensions that exist between idealistic ‘principles’ and real-life ‘practice’ and the debates that surround these. In addition to this, section introductions and the seminal pieces themselves provide a comprehensive and contextualised resource on the interplay of museums and archaeology.
Download or read book Time Detectives written by Brian Fagan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on some notable archaeological finds of recent years. The author describes how today's archaeologists use science and technology to recapture the past, for instance, by studying ancient diets from bone collagen and reconstructing lost landscapes from fossilized seeds and grains.
Book Synopsis Re-constructing Archaeology by : Michael Shanks
Download or read book Re-constructing Archaeology written by Michael Shanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It is a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.
