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Author : James A. Bell
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566391597
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Prehistory written by James A. Bell and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new method of theorizing about the prehistoric past
Author : Stella Xu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498521452
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Ancient Korean History written by Stella Xu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the contested re-readings of “Korea” in early Chinese historical records and their influence on the formation of Korean-ness in later periods. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents produced during the Han dynasty, from the third century BCE to the third century CE. Since then, these early Chinese records have been used as primary sources for writing early Korean history in Korea, China, and Japan. This study analyzes the various reinterpretations and utilizations of these early records that became more diverse by the late nineteenth century, when the reconstruction of ancient history became a crucial part of the formation of Korean national consciousness. Korea’s modern historiography was complicated by a thirty-five year colonial experience (1910–1945) under Japan. During this period, Japanese colonial scholars attempted to depict Korean history as stagnant, heteronymous, and replete with factional strife, while Korean nationalist historians strove to construct an indigenous Korean nation in order to mobilize Koreans’ national consciousness and recover political sovereignty. While focused on Korea and Northeast Asia, the links between historiography and political ideology investigated in this study are pertinent to historians in general.
Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317350278
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Ancient Lives written by Brian M. Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory and Methods in Archaeology and Prehistory Written for complete beginners in a narrative style, Ancient Lives is aimed at introductory courses in archaeology and prehistory that cover archaeological methods and theory, as well as world prehistory. The first half of Ancient Lives covers the basic principles, methods, and theoretical approaches of archaeology. The second half is devoted to a summary of the major developments of human prehistory: the origins of humankind and the archaic world, the origins and spread of modern humans, the emergence of food production, and the beginnings of civilization. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: Understand the basic principles of archaeology Summarize the major developments of human prehistory
Author : Ernestine S. Elster
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770838
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Sitagroi written by Ernestine S. Elster and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Volume 2 presents the concluding research on Sitagroi, a prehistoric settlement mound in northeastern Greece, excavated between 1968 and 1970. This volume offers a detailed report on the plant remains along with a full treatment of craft and technology: artifacts of adornment; tools of bone and flaked stone; artifacts and tools of bone and ground and polished stone (and petrology); tools of the spinner, weaver and mat maker; pottery technology; metallurgy; and special clay finds such as seals, miniatures, and utensils. This rich presentation offers unparalleled insights into the life of the prehistoric inhabitants of the area. Sitagroi now becomes one of the most comprehensively published sites from prehistoric Europe and will be indispensable for all those concerned with European prehistory.
Author : Edgar C. Polomé
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110867923
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Languages and Cultures written by Edgar C. Polomé and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Tomasz Derda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788394684808
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Fragments, Holes, and Wholes written by Tomasz Derda and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume offers a variety of case studies rather than a theoretically oriented survey of trends and overall approaches towards the fragmentarily preserved ancient material. Nevertheless, the discussions of specific cases are not confined to merely illustrating with examples the patterns already detected and followed by scholars, but also formulate some new theoretical proposals applicable to different kinds of material. This book stems from the international conference Fragments, Holes, and Wholes: Reconstructing the Ancient World in Theory and Practice (Warsaw, 12-14 June 2014), which was organized by the Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Warsaw, the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw, and the Institute of Classical Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
Author : Gowan Dawson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633287X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Show Me the Bone written by Gowan Dawson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs, and feet. Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after the method on which it was based had been refuted. In so doing, Gowan Dawson reveals how decisively the practices of the scientific elite were—and still are—shaped by their interactions with the general public.
Author : Ronald B. Davis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400926553
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Paleolimnology and the Reconstruction of Ancient Environments written by Ronald B. Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: stable or falling water levels, and permit differen tiation between gradual and sudden transgression The level of Lake Ontario was long assumed to of the shoreline. Vegetational succession reflects have risen at an exponentially decreasing rate shoreline transgression and increasing water solely in response to differential isostatic rebound depth as upland species are replaced by emergent of the St. Lawrence outlet since the Admiralty aquatic marsh species. If transgression continues, Phase (or Early Lake Ontario) 11 500 years B. P. these are in turn replaced by floating and sub (Muller & Prest, 1985). Recent work indicates merged aquatic species, commonly found in water that the Holocene water level history of Lake to 4 m depth in Ontario lakes, below which there Ontario is more complex than the simple rebound is a sharp decline in species richness and biomass model suggests. Sutton et al. (1972) and (Crowder et al. , 1977). This depth varies with Anderson & Lewis (1982, 1985) indicate that physical limnological conditions in each basin. periods of accelerated water level rise followed by Because aquatic pollen and plant macrofossils are temporary stabilization occurred around 5000 to locally deposited, an abundance of emergent 4000 B. P. The accelerated water level rise, called aquatic fossils reflects sedimentation in the littoral the 'Nipissing Flood', was attributed to the cap zone, the part of the basin shallow enough to ture of Upper Great Lakes drainage. support rooted vegetation.
Author : Christine D. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874806021
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet written by Christine D. White and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In light of recently discovered population centers of pre-colonial Maya that could not have been sustained by the slash-and-burn agriculture which most anthropologists believe was the dominant method of food production for the culture, the editors of this volume view the analysis of the Maya diet as particularly important for understanding the pre-Columbian population. They present 12 papers that discuss evidence from the fields of faunal and botanical analysis, paleopathology, and bone chemistry. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107647754
Total Pages : 5256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge World Prehistory written by Colin Renfrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 5256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics, and examine the essential questions of human development around the world. The volumes are organised geographically, exploring the evolution of hominins and their expansion from Africa, as well as the formation of states and development in each region of different technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy and food production. The Cambridge World Prehistory reveals a rich and complex history of the world. It will be an invaluable resource for any student or scholar of archaeology and related disciplines looking to research a particular topic, tradition, region or period within prehistory.
Author : Cynthia Eller
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807067932
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory written by Cynthia Eller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before recorded history. Society was centered around women, with their mysterious life-giving powers, and they were honored as incarnations and priestesses of the Great Goddess. Then a transformation occurred, and men thereafter dominated society. Given the universality of patriarchy in recorded history, this vision is understandably appealing for many women. But does it have any basis in fact? And as a myth, does it work for the good of women? Cynthia Eller traces the emergence of the feminist matriarchal myth, explicates its functions, and examines the evidence for and against a matriarchal prehistory. Finally, she explains why this vision of peaceful, woman-centered prehistory is something feminists should be wary of.
Author : George Erdosy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110816431
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia written by George Erdosy and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ward Hunt Goodenough
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698650
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific written by Ward Hunt Goodenough and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand publication. Thse papers are from two symposia at the APS, and the Univ. of PA Museum. Contents: "Intro.," by Ward Goodenough; "The Pre-Austronesian Settlement of Island Melanesia: Implications for Lapita Archaeology," by Jim Allen; "Austronesian Culture History: The Windows of Language," by Robert Blust; "Archaeology of SE China and Its Bearing on the Austronesian Homeland," by Kwang-chih Chang and Ward Goodenough; "Lapita and Its Aftermath: The Austronesian Settlement of Oceania," by Patrick Kirch; "Colonizing an Island World," by Ben Finney; and "Beyond the Austronesian Homeland: The Austric Hypothesis and Its Implications for Archaeology," by Robert Blust. Illustrations. Second Printing, 1998
Author : Hong-Sen Yan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402064608
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery written by Hong-Sen Yan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South pointing chariots, walking machines and the astronomical mechanical clock are all used as illustrated examples in this fascinating and unique study of lost machinery in ancient China. This is the first book of its kind, combining creative mechanism design methodology with mechanical evolution and variation theory to set out how some ancient designs can be recreated. Furthermore the book reflects on how age-old wisdoms could stimulate stunning new machinery in the future.
Author : Katalin É. Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110902222
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages written by Katalin É. Kiss and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Grammar (more precisely, in terms of a hypothetical model of UG). Their studies, discussing syntactic and morphosyntactic questions of Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit, demonstrate that descriptive problems which have proved unsolvable for the traditional, inductive approach can be reduced to the interaction of regular operations and constraints of UG. The proposed analyses also bear on linguistic theory. They provide crucial new data and new generalizations concerning such basic questions of generative syntax as discourse-motivated movement operations, the correlation of movement and agreement, a shift from lexical case marking to structural case marking, the licensing of structural case in infinitival constructions, the structure of coordinate phrases, possessive constructions with an external possessor, and the role of event structure in syntax. In addition to confirming or refuting certain specific hypotheses, they also provide empirical evidence of the perhaps most basic tenet of generative theory, according to which UG is part of the genetic endowment of the human species - i.e., human languages do not "develop" parallel with the development of human civilization. Some of the languages examined in this volume were spoken as much as 5000 years old, still their grammars do not differ in any relevant respect from the grammars of languages spoken today.
Author : Eric Delson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135582270
Total Pages : 2060 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory written by Eric Delson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB
Author : Mark Q. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351605224
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Archaeology written by Mark Q. Sutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past provides an introduction to the broad and fascinating world of archaeology from the scientific perspective. Conveying the exhilaration of archaeological work, it explores the ways archaeologists analyse and interpret evidence. Varying perspectives are considered to provide holistic coverage of archaeological techniques and methods and show how the complexity of the past can be captured by the empirical science of archaeology. The Fifth Edition has been updated and revised to include the latest archaeological approaches and the impact developments in archaeological science have made in recent years. The chapter on bioarchaeology has been completely rewritten to reflect these developments. Archaeology: An Introduction will allow students to understand the theoretical and scientific aspects of archaeology and how various archaeological perspectives and techniques help us understand how and what we know about the past.
