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Author : Vere Gordon Childe
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Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Most Ancient East written by Vere Gordon Childe and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vere Gordon Childe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226317595
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe written by Vere Gordon Childe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although V. Gordon Childe died 36 years ago, he remains the world's most renowned prehistorian. His What Happened in History, first published in 1942, is probably the most widely read book ever written by an archaeologist. His influence and reputation endure despite the fact that many of the theoretical ideas he propounded, as well as his interpretations of European and West Asian prehistory, have been profoundly modified, or even rejected, since his death. With contributions from such distinguished prehistorians as Kent V. Flannery, David Harris, Leo S. Klejn, John Mulvaney, Colin Renfrew, Michael Rowlands, and Bruce Trigger, The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe is an attempt to evaluate Childe's achievement from different "partly national" perspectives and to assess how far, and why, his work remains significant today. The contributors examine such persistent themes in Childe's thought as the nature of culture and the role of diffusion in cultural evolution and debate the question of whether Childe anticipated "processual archaeology" in his famous models of the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions. Also included are evaluations of Childe's early career in Australia, his relations with Soviet archaeology, including a previously unknown letter from Childe to Soviet archaeologists, and his impact on American archaeology.
Author : V. GORDON CHILDE
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Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book THE MOST ANCIENT EAST written by V. GORDON CHILDE and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vere Gordon Childe
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Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book New Light on the Most Ancient East; the Oriental Prelude to European Prehistory written by Vere Gordon Childe and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vere Gordon Childe
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Download or read book The Most Ancient East written by Vere Gordon Childe and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vere Gordon Childe
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Light on the Most Ancient East written by Vere Gordon Childe and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V. Gordon Childe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317606418
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book New Light on the Most Ancient East written by V. Gordon Childe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed survey on major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. This classic account focuses on the findings in three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus valley. Professor Childe discusses the excavation of the three cities of Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro on the Indus and Harappa on the Ravi, and what these sites have revealed about Indian civilization in the third millennium B.C. He describes the findings at the numerous tells between Mesopotamia and the Indus basin, and in the three provinces of the Fertile Crescent; the succession of cultures in pre-dynastic Egypt and the rise of the Pharaohs; the findings at Ur and Kish and the development of an urban civilization in Mesopotamia. Throughout the text, the author sets forth the step-by-step gathering of precise archaeological evidence, relating these findings both to the context of their particular culture and to the larger context of the origins of European history.
Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192558005
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Empires of Antiquities written by Billie Melman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of new regulation, new modes of knowledge, and international and local politics. A series of globally publicized spectacular archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine, which the book follows, made antiquity visible, palpable and accessible as never before. The new uses of antiquity and its relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war world order, imperial collaboration and collisions, and national aspirations. Empires of Antiquities uniquely combines a history of the internationalization of a new "regime of archaeology" under the oversight of the League of Nations and its web of institutions, a history of British passions for Near Eastern antiquity, on-the-ground colonial mechanisms and nationalist claims on the past. It points to the centrality of the mandate system, particularly mandates classified A, in Mesopotamia/Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, formerly governed by the Ottoman Empire, and of Egypt, in a new culture of antiquity. Drawing on an unusually wide range of archives in several countries, as well as on visual and material evidence, the book weaves together imperial, international, and local histories of institutions, people, ideas and objects and offers an entirely new interpretation of the history of archaeological discovery and its connections to empires and modernity.
Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library
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Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library, University of Chicago written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter F. Biehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009254944
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book 6000 BC written by Peter F. Biehl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present a comprehensive, up to date overview of archaeological and environmental data from the eastern Mediterranean world around 6000 BC. It brings together the research of an international team of scholars who have excavated at key Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Syria, Anatolia, Greece, and the Balkans. Collectively, their essays conceptualize and enable a deeper understanding of times of transition and changes in the archaeological record. Overcoming the terminological and chronological differences between the Near East and Europe, the volume expands from studies of individual societies into regional views and diachronic analyses. It enables researchers to compare archaeological data and analysis from across the region, and offers a new understanding of the importance of this archaeological story to broader, high-impact questions pertinent to climate and culture change.
Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199662266
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon written by Stephanie Dalley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look like ? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystery to piece together the enigmatic history of this elusive world wonder.
Author : Scott A J Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315512874
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? written by Scott A J Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why they offer only partial explanations of the failure of past civilizations. This engaging book offers a new theory of collapse, that of social hubris. Through an examination of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, Maya, Inca, and Aztec societies, Johnson persuasively argues that hubris blinded many ancient peoples to evidence that would have allowed them to adapt, and he further considers how this has implications for contemporary societies. Comprehensive and well-written, this volume serves as an ideal text for undergraduate courses on ancient complex societies, as well as appealing to the scholar interested in societal collapse.
Author : Ronald Williamson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575774
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Bruce Trigger written by Ronald Williamson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he has been an effective voice for non-oppositional forms of argument in archaeological theory. In The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger, leading scholars discuss their own approaches to the interpretation of archaeological data in relation to Trigger's fundamental intellectual contributions Contributors include Michael Bisson (McGill), Stephen Chrisomalis (Toronto), Jerimy J. Cunningham (Calgary), Brian Fagan (Lindbrior Corporation), Clare Fawcett (St. Francis Xavier), Junko Habu (California at Berkeley), Ian Hodder (Stanford), Jane Kelley (Calgary), Martha Latta (Toronto), Robert MacDonald (Archaeological Services Inc.), Randall McGuire (Binghamton), Lynn Meskell (Columbia), Toby Morantz (McGill), Robert Pearce (London Museum of Archaeology), David Smith (Toronto), Peter Timmins (Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants), Silvia Tomásková (North Carolina), Bruce G. Trigger (McGill), Alexander von Gernet (Toronto), Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier), Ronald F. Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc.), Alison Wylie (Washington), and Eldon Yellowhorn (Simon Frasier)
Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134370407
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Archaeology: The Key Concepts written by Colin Renfrew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method. Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written specifically by field specialists, and each entry offers a definition of the term, its origins and development, and all the major figures involved in the area. The entries include: thinking about landscape archaeology of cult and religion cultural evolution concepts of time urban societies the antiquity of humankind archaeology of gender feminist archaeology experimental archaeology multiregional evolution. With guides to further reading, extensive cross-referencing, and accessibly written for even beginner students, this book is a superb guide for anyone studying, teaching, or with any interest in this fascinating subject.
Author : Susan Pollock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137231
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Archaeologies of the Middle East written by Susan Pollock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologies of the Middle East provides an innovative introduction to the archaeology of this fascinating region and a window on both its past and present. Written by some of the top archaeologists of the Middle East: scholars from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of interests and intellectual approaches Coverage spans 100,000 years: from the Paleolithic to Hellenistic times Explores the connections between modern-day politics and the social context of archaeological practice and various underutilized approaches to archaeological interpretation Designed for student use
Author : Bernard Wailes
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780924171437
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Craft Specialization and Social Evolution written by Bernard Wailes and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1996-01-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. Gordon Childe was the first scholar to attempt a broad and sustained socioeconomic analysis of the archaeology of the ancient world in terms that, today, could be called explanatory. To most, he was remembered only as a diligent synthesizer whose whole interpretation collapsed when its chronology was demolished. There was little recognition of his insistence that the emergence of craft specialists, and their very variable roles in the relations of production, were crucial to an understanding of social evolution. The interrelationship between sociopolitical complexity and craft production is a critical one, so critical that one might ask, just how complex would any society have become without craft specialization. This volume derives from the papers presented at a symposium at the American Anthropological Association meetings on the centenary of Childe's birth. Contributors to the volume include David W. Anthony, Philip J. Arnold III, Bennet Bronson, Robert Chapman, John E. Clark, Cathy L. Costin, Pam J. Crabtree, Philip L. Kohl, D. Blair Gibson, Antonio Gilman, Vincent C. Piggott, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Gil J. Stein, Ruth Tringham, Anne P. Underhill, Bernard Wailes, Peter S. Wells, Joyce C. White, Rita P. Wright, and Richard L. Zettler. Symposium Series Volume VI University Museum Monograph, 93
Author : Lisa Cliggett
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759111165
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Economies and the Transformation of Landscape written by Lisa Cliggett and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.
