viernes, 22 de octubre de 2010

Actas XVII Congreso de Arqueología Argentina

Arqueología Argentina en el Bicentenario de la Revolucón de Mayo
Editado por J. R. Bárcena y H. Chiavazza (2010)

En esta oportunidad les dejo los 5 tomos de los trabajos que fueron presentados en el XVII Congreso de Arqueología Argentina, que se llvo a cabo en la ciudad de Mendoza entre los días 11 y 15 de Octubre de 2010

Tomo I Tomo II Tomo III Tomo IV Tomo V

sábado, 2 de octubre de 2010

DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE

Libro editado por Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands y Christopher Tilley (1989)


Contenido:

Introduction
Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands and Christopher Tilley

Approaches to the study of domination and resistance
Structure of the book
Domination and resistance
Political economy and ideology: historical transformations
European expansion, colonialism and resistance
References

DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE

1 A question of complexity
Michael Rowlands

The cosmological origins of complexity
Complexity as historical narrative
Complexity as a master discourse
Simple and complex in creative contradiction
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References

2 Discourse and power: the genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture
Christopher Tilley

Discourse
The Cambridge inaugural lecture
Acknowledgements
References

3 The limits of dominance
Daniel Miller

Introduction
Theories of dominance
Dominance and inversion
The multifactorial nature of dominance
Dominance and legitimacy
How pervasive is hegemony?
Conclusion: archaeology and limits of dominance
References

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND IDEOLOGY: HISTORICAL
TRANSFORMATIONS

4 The roots of inequality
Barbara Bender

Farming as a precondition
‘Natural’ divisions in gatherer-hunter societies
An example from the Upper Palaeolithic of south-west France
Conclusions
Notes
References

5 Towards a theory of social evolution: on state systems and ideological shells
J.A.Hall

Introduction
‘Bureaucracy [in pre-industrial conditions] kills capitalism’ Trahison des clercs
The organic state in the state system
Reflections
References

6 The imperial form and universal history: some reflections on relativism and generalization
John Gledhill

State forms and the divergence of occidental history
Culture and ideology in the evolution of the New World empires
‘Political economies’ and class formation
Conclusions: imperial states in universal history
References

7 Factional competition in complex society
Elizabeth M.Brumfiel

Factionalism in complex society
Identifying factionalism in the archaeological record
References

8 Sensuous human activity and the state: towards an archaeology of bread and circuses
Susan Kus

Notes
References

9 Anurādhapura: ritual, power and resistance in a precolonial
South Asian city
R.A.L.H.Gunawardana

References

10 Monastery plan and social formation: the spatial organization of the Buddhist monastery complexes of the Early and Middle Historical period in Sri Lanka and changing patterns of
political power
Senake Bandaranayake

11 A Buddhist monastic complex of the medieval period in Sri Lanka
P.L.Prematilleke

References 210

12 Value, ranking and consumption in the European Bronze Age
Kristian Kristiansen

The social aspects of consumption
The ideological context of value and ranking
Conclusion
Reference

13 Marxist perspectives on social organization in the central European Early Bronze Age
Simon Mays

Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion
Summary
References

EUROPEAN EXPANSION, COLONIALISM AND RESISTANCE

14 Orientalism and Near Eastern archaeology
Mogens Trolle Larsen

Notes
References

15 The material culture of the modern era in the ancient Orient: suggestions for future work
Philip L.Kohl

References

16 Culture, identity and world process
Jonathan Friedman

Crisis and the structure of civilized identity
Fragmentation of the world system and the formation of cultural identity
Culture, in and out of the system
Culture and the global system
References

17 The archaeology of colonialism and constituting the African peasantry
Michael Rowlands

Introduction
The concept of Africa
Colonial representations
The archaeology of precolonial 19th-century Bamenda
Chiefdoms, states and the regional system
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References

18 Resistance to Western domination: the case of Andean cultures
Pedro Portugal

19 The development of an urban working-class culture on the Rhodesian Copperbelt
Owen B.Sichone

Introduction
Tribesmen, to wnsmen and peasants
The process of urbanization
The making of the urban culture
Conclusion
References

20 Class formation in precolonial Nigeria: the case of Eastern and Western Nigeria and the Middle Belt
Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali

Theoretical considerations on the question of class formation
Surplus production
Manifestations of the natural and technical divisions of labour
The appropriation of surplus
Other levels of socio-economic organization
Slavery
Aspects of accumulation
Conclusion
Notes
References

21 Violence and consent in a peasant society
B.K.Jahangir

Introduction
Class situation
Imposition of military society
Militarism: national and international class structures
National security: hegemony crisis
Class project and political project
Conclusion

miércoles, 15 de septiembre de 2010

Archaeological Approaches to Technology

Libro de Heather M. L. MILLER (2007)

Contenido:

1 Introduction: Archaeological Approaches to Technology
Terminology
Archaeology and Technology Studies
Overview of Volume

2 Methodology: Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Technology
Archaeological Field Techniques: Discovery/Recovery
The Examination of Archaeological Remains
Ordering and Analyzing Data
Analogy and Sociocultural Interpretation

3 Extractive-Reductive Crafts
Classification of Crafts
Stone/Lithics
Fibers: Cordage, Basketry, Textiles
Wood, Bone, and Other Sculpted Organics (Antler, Horn, Ivory, Shell)

4 Transformative Crafts
Fired Clay
Vitreous Silicates: Glazes, Faiences and Glass
Metals: Copper and Iron

5 Thematic Studies in Technology
Technological Systems: Reed Boat Production and Use
Innovation and the Organization of Labor
Technological Style

6 Thematic Studies in Technology (Continued)
Value, Status, and Social Relations: The Role of New Artificial Materials in the Indus Valley Tradition
Technologies of Religious Ritual in the American Southwest

7 The Analysis of Multiple Technologies
Cross-Craft Perspectives
Technological Style and Cross-Craft Interactions

Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt


Enciclopedia editada por Kathryn A.Bard (1999, versión digital 2005)

Contenido:

Overview essays:
Introduction
Paleolithic cultures
Epi-paleolithic cultures
Neolithic cultures
Predynastic period
Early Dynastic period
Old Kingdom
First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
New Kingdom
Third Intermediate Period
Late and Ptolemaic periods
Roman period

Entries A-Z

Glossary

Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution:

State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology

Libro editado por Shara E. Bailey e Jean-Jacques Hublin (2007)

Contenido:

Introduction
by S. Hillson

PART I. DENTAL EVOLUTION AND DENTAL MORPHOLOGY

1. Introduction
S.E. Bailey

2. Patterns of molar variation in great apes and their implications for hominin taxonomy
V. Pilbrow

3. Trends in postcanine occlusal morphology within the hominin clade: The case of Paranthropus
S.E. Bailey and B.A. Wood

4. Maxillary molars cusp morphology of South African australopithecines
J. Moggi-Cecchi and S. Boccone

5. Gran Dolina-TD6 and Sima de los Huesos dental samples: Preliminary approach to some dental characters of interest for phylogenetic studies
M. Martinón-Torres, J.M. Bermúdez de Castro, A. Gómez-Robles, M. Bastir, S. Sarmiento, A. Muela, and J.L. Arsuaga

6. Neural network analysis by using the Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) applied to human fossil dental morphology: A new methodology
F. Manni, R. Vargiu, and A. Coppa

7. Micro-computed tomography of primate molars: Methodological aspects of three-dimensional data collection
A.J. Olejniczak, F.E. Grine, and L.B. Martin

8. HRXCT analysis of hominoid molars: A quantitative volumetric analysis and 3D reconstruction of coronal enamel and dentin
D.G. Gantt, J. Kappelman, and R.A. Ketcham

PART II. DENTAL MICROSTRUCTURE AND LIFE HISTORY

1. Introduction
R. Macchiarelli and S.E. Bailey

2. Inferring primate growth, development and life history from dental microstructure: The case of the extinct Malagasy lemur, Megaladapis
G.T. Schwartz, L.R. Godfrey, and P. Mahoney

3. Histological study of an upper incisor and molar of a bonobo (Pan paniscus) individual
F. Ramirez Rozzi and R.S. Lacruz

4. New perspectives on chimpanzee and human molar crown development
T.M. Smith, D.J. Reid, M.C. Dean, A.J. Olejniczak, R.J. Ferrell, and L.B. Martin

5. Portable confocal scanning optical microscopy of Australopithecus africanus enamel structure
T.G. Bromage, R.S. Lacruz, A. Perez-Ochoa, and A. Boyde

6. Imbricational enamel formation in Neandertals and recent modern humans
D. Guatelli-Steinberg, D.J. Reid, T.A. Bishop, and C. Spencer Larsen

PART III. DENTAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Introduction
B.A. Wood

2. Of mice and monkeys: Quantitative genetic analyses of size variation along the dental arcade
L.J. Hlusko and M.C. Mahaney

3. Quantifying variation in human dental development sequences: An EVO-DEVO perspective
J. Braga and Y. Heuze

4. Dental calcification stages of the permanent M1 and M2 in U.S. children of African-American and European-American ancestry born in the 1990s
J. Monge, A. Mann, A. Stout, J. Rogér, and R. Wadenya

5. A computerized model for reconstruction of dental ontogeny: A new tool for studying evolutionary trends in the dentition
P. Smith, R. Müller, Y. Gabet, and G. Avishai

PART IV. DENTITION AND DIET

1. Introduction
F.E. Grine

2. An evaluation of changes in strontium/calcium ratios across the neonatal line in human deciduous teeth
L.T. Humphrey, M.C. Dean, and T.E. Jeffries

3. Dental topography and human evolution with comments on the diets of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus
P.S. Ungar

4. Dental microwear and paleoanthropology: Cautions and possibilities
M.F. Teaford

5. Tooth wear and diversity in early hominid molars: A case study
L. Ulhaas, O. Kullmer, and F. Schrenk

6. 3-D interferometric microscopy applied to the study of buccal enamel microwear
F. Estebaranz, J. Galbany, L.M. Martínez, and A. Pérez-Pérez

ARCHAEOLOGY AND FOLKLORE


Libro editado por Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf (1999)

Contenido:

Part I: Archaeology and folklore studies

1 ‘As long as ever I’ve known it…’: on folklore and archaeology
Amy Gazin-Schwartz and Cornelius Holtorf

Constructing the past in folklore and archaeology
Definitions
Historical perspectives
Defining new fields: folklore and archaeology in the nineteenth century
Folklore and archaeology in the twentieth century
Folklore as a source for the study of (pre-)history: problems of reliability
Folklore as relic
Folklore as invention
Accuracy and interpretation
Folklore as another way of understanding time and ancient monuments
Folklore and the politics of archaeology
Collective identity
Multiple pasts
The folklore of archaeology
Conclusion

2 Folklore and world view
Robert Layton

Introduction
Time and ‘the other’
Translating folklore
Archaeology and folklore

3 Focusing on time: disciplining archaeology in Sweden
Mats Burström

Introduction
Pre-modern archaeology
Disciplining archaeology
Focusing on time
Disregarding folklore
Focusing on meaning

4 Back to the future: resonances of the past in myth and material culture
Miranda J.Green

When pasts collide
Medieval myth and the archaeology of pre-Christian paganism
Ancestral voices: medieval storytellers and ancient survivals
Conclusion: corridors of time

5 Of thunderbirds, water spirits and chiefs’ daughters: contextualising archaeology and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) oral traditions
John Staeck

Introduction
Oral traditions as a corpus of data
Connecting social structure, oral traditions and archaeology
Results
Matricentred behaviour
Hierarchical behaviour
A structural caveat?
Conclusions

6 Feminism, paganism, pluralism
Lynn Meskell

Feminist forays
Visions of Çatalhöyük

7 Apocalypse past/future: archaeology and folklore, writ large
Kathryn E.L.Denning

The millennium cometh
Apocalypse
Popular archaeology, revelation and eschaton
Apocalypses within social history
Archaeology and apocalypse: adapting the formula and changing the ending
Conclusion

8 Songs remembered in exile? Integrating unsung archives of Highland life
James Symonds

The fairy-egg, and what became of it
The rise and fall of anthropological folklore
Landscapes, things, oral tradition and historical archaeology
Tir a’ Mhurain—Land of bent grass
Oral history and the problem of objectivity
Songs for everyday life?
Sun-wise motion
Technologies for remembering
Reintegrating folklore: towards a historical ethnography?

9 Of ‘The Green Man’ and ‘little green men’
John Collis

Folklore and popular culture
Equality of treatment
Levels of incorporation
Archaeologists in society

Part II: Interpreting monuments in archaeology and popular culture

10 Integrating the past: folklore, mounds and people at Çatalhöyük
David Shankland

Background and aims
Çatalhöyük and Küçükköy
The village and the remains of the past
Protecting the heritage
Those who are closer to God
Variations in belief and practice
Conclusion

11 On the folklore of the Externsteine—or a centre for Germanomaniacs
Martin Schmidt and Uta Halle

The history of research at the Externsteine
From 1945 to the present
Ordinary tourism
Neo-pagans
Neo-Nazi groups
Other esoteric groups
Pseudo-scientific groups
Conclusion

12 The continuing reinvention of the Etruscan myth
Diura Thoden van Velzen

Introduction
The dawn of the Renaissance Etruscan revival
The political dimension
The Etruscans in the oral tradition of the lower classes
Popular perceptions of the Etruscans from the Renaissance to modern times
Modern Etruscan myths: the tales that justify tomb robbing
The general public and the Etruscans: mystery and identity
Conclusion

13 Naming the places, naming the stones
Sara Champion and Gabriel Cooney

Introduction
Naming the places
Removing the stones, changing meanings
Same places, different stories
From megalith to non-place
Speaking from the hills

14 Clearance cairns: the farmers’ and the archaeologists’ views
Ingunn Holm

The antiquities
The tradition
The cairn fields and their popular interpretation
The archaeologist, the tradition and the local population

15 Coming to terms with local approaches to Sardinia’s nuraghi
Emma Blake

The local life of the nuraghi
The archaeological and the local: separate but equal?
Introducing a Pragmatist archaeology
Learning from the local

16 Archaeology as folklore: the literary construction of the megalith Pentre Ifan in west Wales
Julia Murphy

Early interpretations
Twentieth-century writings
Breaking with tradition
Conclusion

17 The last refuge of the faeries: archaeology and folklore in East Sussex
Martin Brown and Pat Bowen

Setting the ground
The landscape
Presenting pasts
Inner journeys, inner values
Experiencing space

Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science


Enciclopedia editada por John Gunn (2004, versión digital 2006)

Contenido:

Editor’s Introduction

Alphabetical List of Entries

Thematic List of Entries

Archaeology, Paleontology, and Cave Art
Biospeleology (Speleobiology)
Caves and Caving
Caves and Karst Regions
Conservation and Management
Geoscience
History
Resources and Development

Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science

Index

RITUAL COMUNICATION

Libro editado por Gunter Senft and Ellen B. Basso (2009)

Contenido:

Introduction
Ellen B. Basso and Gunter Senft

1 Little Rituals
John B. Haviland

2 Everyday Ritual in the Residential World
N. J. Enfield

3 Trobriand Islanders’ Forms of Ritual Communication
Gunter Senft

4 “Like a Crab Teaching Its Young to Walk Straight”: Proverbiality, Semantics, and Indexicality in English and Malay
Cliff Goddard

5 Access Rituals in West African Communities: An Ethnopragmatic Perspective
Felix K. Ameka

6 Ritual and the Circulation of Experience: Negotiating Community in the Twentieth-Century Amazon
Suzanne Oakdale

7 Communicative Resonance across Settings: Marriage Arrangement, Initiation, and Political Meetings in Kenya
Corinne A. Kratz

8 Ritualized Performances as Total Social Facts: The House of Multiple Spirits in Tokelau
Ingjerd Hoëm

9 Unjuk Rasa (“Expression of Feeling”) in Sumba: Bloody Thursday in Its Cultural and Historical Context
Joel C. Kuipers

10 Civility and Deception in Two Kalapalo Ritual Forms
Ellen B. Basso

11 Private Ritual Encounters, Public Ritual Indexes
Michael Silverstein

12 “While I Sing I Am Sitting in a Real Airplane”: Innovative Contents in Shuar and Achuar Ritual Communication
Maurizio Gnerre

13 Interior Dialogues: The Co-Voicing of Ritual in Solitude
John W. Du Bois

Perspectivas Actuales en Arqueología Argentina


Libro editado por Ramiro Barberena, Karen Borrazzo y Luis Alberto Borrero (2009)

Contenido:

1. Perspectivas actuales en arqueología argentina: introducción
Karen Borrazzo, Ramiro Barberena y Luis Alberto Borrero

2. Arqueología, paisaje y pensamiento decolonial. Reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica
Rafael Pedro Curtoni

3. Geoarqueología: explorando propiedades espaciales y temporales del registro arqueológico
Cristian M. Favier Dubois

4. Tafonomía: ¿tiranía o multivocalidad?
María A. Gutiérrez

5. La noción de transformación en arqueología antropológica y la interpretación del simbolismo santamariano
Javier Nastri

6. La materialidad del arte. Modelos económicos, tecnológicos y cognitivo-visuales
Dánae Fiore

7. Tradiciones, preguntas y estrategias en el abordaje arqueológico de la molienda
María del Pilar Babot

8. El estudio arqueológico de la continuidad/discontinuidad biocultural: el caso del sudeste de la Región Pampeana
Gustavo Barrientos

9. Procesos y patrones: una estructura evolutiva de niveles múltiples en arqueología evolutiva
Hernán Juan Muscio

10. Diversidad tecnológica en el extremo sur de Patagonia: tendencias y continuidades en el diseño y uso de materiales líticos
Myrian Alvarez

11. Una propuesta de aproximación teórico-metodológica a conjuntos de artefactos líticos tallados
Salomón Hocsman

12. Un enfoque regional en cazadores-recolectores del oeste argentino: el potencial de la ecología humana
Gustavo A. Neme

Language Relations across Bering Strait

Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence

Libro de Michael Fortescue (1998)

Contenido:

1. Introduction
2. Hypotheses concerning the internal and external relations between 'Paleo-Siberian' languages
3. A typological overview of the region
4. The reconstruction of common Eskimo-Aleut and Chukotko-Kamchatkan core morphology
5. Drawing Uralo-Yukagir morphology into the picture
6. Lexical correspondences between Uralo-Siberian languages
7. Who could have spoken Proto-Uralo-Siberian - and where?
8. Linguistic layering around the bottleneck: from Beringia to the Diomede Islands

CONTRA LA TIRANÍA TIPOLÓGICA EN ARQUEOLOGÍA:

UNA VISIÓN DESDE SURAMÉRICA


Libro editado por Cristóbal Gnecco y Carl Henrik Langebaek (2006)


Contenido:

CONTRA LA TIRANÍA DEL PENSAMIENTO TIPOLÓGICO
Cristóbal Gnecco - Carl Henrik Langebaek

CAMINOS A LA DESIGUALDAD: PERSPECTIVAS DESDE LAS TIERRAS BAJAS DE BRASIL
Cristiana Barreto

LOS SABIOS CIEGOS Y EL ELEFANTE: SISTEMAS DE INTERCAMBIO Y ORGANIZACIONES SOCIOPOLÍTICAS EN EL ORINOCO Y ÁREAS VECINAS EN LA ÉPOCA PREHISPÁNICA
Rafael A. Gassón

PALENQUES Y EMPALIZADAS: UNA REVISIÓN DEL PROBLEMA DE LA COMPLEJIDAD SOCIAL DURANTE EL PERÍODO DE CONTACTO EN EL ORIENTE DE VENEZUELA
Rodrigo Navarrete

AGRICOLA EST QUEM DOMUS DEMONSTRAT
Alejandro F. Haber

ESPACIO SOCIAL Y RECURSOS EN LA ARQUEOLOGIA DE LA DESIGUALDAD SOCIAL
Andrés Laguens

POBRES JEFES: ASPECTOS CORPORATIVOS EN LAS FORMACIONES SOCIALES PRE-INKAICAS DE LOS ANDES CIRCUMPUNEÑOS
Axel E. Nielsen

EVALUACIÓN DE UN MODELO DE LOCALIZACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA DE ASENTAMIENTOS EN EL ALTO MAGDALENA
Víctor González

LOS HIJOS DE LAS QUEBRADAS: CARACTERIZACIÓN CULTURAL DE LA CONFIGURACIÓN POLÍTICA NASA
Wilhelm Londoño

DESARROLLO PREHISPÁNICO DESIGUAL EN EL SUROCCIDENTE DE COLOMBIA
Cristóbal Gnecco

DE LAS PALABRAS, LAS COSAS Y LOS RECUERDOS: EL INFIERNITO, LA ARQUEOLOGÍA, LOS DOCUMENTOS Y LA ETNOLOGÍA EN EL ESTUDIO DE LA SOCIEDAD MUISCA
Carl Henrik Langebaek

lunes, 13 de septiembre de 2010

Life in Neolithic Farming Communities

Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation

Libro editado por Ian Kuijt (2002)

Contenido:

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 • Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: An Introduction
lan Kuijt

PARTII • REGIONAL ISSUES, SETTLEMENT PRACTICES, AND SEDENTISM

Chapter 2 • Early Sedentism in the Near East: A Bumpy Ride to Village Life
Anna Belfer-Cohen y OferBar-Yosef

Chapter 3• Hallan Çemi and Early Village Organization in Eastern Anatolia
Michael Rosenberg y Richard W. Redding

Chapter 4 • Households in Transition Neolithic Social Organizationwithin Southwest Asia
Brian F. Byrd

PARTIII • ORGANIZATIONOF SOCIALRELATIONS:MORTUARY RITUAL, SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION, AND SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS

Chapter 5 • The Quick and the Dead: TheSocial Context of Aceramic Neolithic Mortuary Practices as Seen from Kfar HaHoresh
Nigel Goring-Morris

Chapter 6 • Keeping the Peace: Ritual, Skull Caching, and Community Integration in the Levantine Neolithic
Ian Kuijt

Chapter7 • Ritual and Social Structure at Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal
Gary O. Rollefson

Chapter 8 • Is Size Important? Function and Hierarchy in Neolithic Settlements
Frank Hole

Chapter 9 • Villages on the Edge: Regional Settlement Change and the End of the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Alan H. Simmons

PART IV • SOCIAL RELATIONS AND MATERIAL CULTURE: SYMBOLISM AND MEANING

Chapter 10 • The Symbolic Foundations of the Neolithic Revolution in the Near East
Jacques Cauvin

Chapter 11 • Catal Höyüc in cntext: Ritual at Early Neolhic sites in Central and Eastern Turkey
Mary M. Voight

Chapter 12 • The Pottery Neolithic Period: Questions about Pottery Decoration, Symbolism, and Meaning
Estelle Orrelle and Avi Gopher

PART V. CONCLUSION

Chapter 13 • Near Eastern Neolithic research: directions and trends
Ian Kuijt

Nature and the Environment in Pre-Columbian American Life


Libro de Stacy Kowtko (2006)

Contenido:

Introduction
Timeline of Native History in Precontact North America
1. The People and the Environment: Who Was Here before Columbus
2. Animal and Human Interaction: Natural Cooperation in the Environment
3. Agriculture: Cultivating a Living out of the Environment
4. Human Habitation in the Environment: Live and Let Live
5. Survival of the Most Resourceful: Hunting and Gathering
6. Spiritual Environment: Religious Beliefs and Practices
7. Movement in the Environment: Migration and Transportation
8. The Art of Fun and Games: Native American Leisure and the Environment
9. Two Halves of the Same Environment: Gender Roles in Native American Society
Epilogue

Selective Remembrances

Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts

Libro editado por Philip L. Kohl, Mara kozelsky y Nachman Ben-Yehuda (2007)


Contenido:

Introduction
Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction,
Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
Philip L. Kohl, Mara kozelsky y Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Part One: Russia and Eastern Europe

1 Russian Response
Archaeology, Russian Nationalism, and the “Arctic Homeland”
Victor A. Shnirelman

2 The Challenges of Church Archaeology in Post-Soviet Crimea
Mara Kozelsky

3 The Writing of Caucasian Albania
Facts and Falsifications
Murtazali S. Gadjiev

4 Archaeology and Nationalism in The History of the Romanians
Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu

Part Two: The Near East

5 The Rise of the Hittite Sun
A Deconstruction of Western Civilization from the Margin
Wendy Shaw

6 The Sense of Belonging
The Politics of Archaeology in Modern Iraq
Magnus T. Bernhardsson

7 The Name Game
The Persian Gulf, Archaeologists, and the Politics of Arab-Iranian Relations
Kamyar Abdi

Part Three: Israel/Palestine

8 Excavating Masada
The Politics-Archaeology Connection at Work
Nachman Ben-Yehuda

9 Recovering Authenticity
West-Bank Settlers and the Second Stage of National Archaeology
Michael Feige

10 Appropriating the Past
Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel
Uzi Baram

11 An Archaeology of Palestine
Mourning a Dream
Ghada Ziadeh-Seely

Part Four: South and Southeast Asia

12 The Aryan Homeland Debate in India
Shereen Ratnagar

13 The Impact of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Archaeology of Thailand
Rasmi Shoocongdej

Material Agency

Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

Libro editado por Carl Knappett y Lambros Malafouris (2008)


Contenido:

1 Where Brain, Body and World Collide
Andy Clark

2 At the Potter’s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency
Lambros Malafouris

3 Material Agency, Skills and History: Distributed Cognition and the Archaeology of Memory
John Sutton

4 The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001
John Law y Annemarie Mol

5 Non-Human Agencies: Trees in Place and Time
Owain Jones and Paul Cloke

6 Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century
Richard Harper, Alex Taylor and Micheal Molloy

7 In Context: Meaning, Materiality and Agency in the Process of Archaeological Recording
Thomas Yarrow

8 The Neglected Networks of Material Agency: Artefacts, Pictures and Texts
Carl Knappett

9 Some Stimulating Solutions
Andrew Cochrane

10 On Mediation and Material Agency in the Peircean Semeiotic
Christopher M. Watts

11 When ANT meets SPIDER: Social theory for arthropods
Tim Ingold

12 Agency, Networks, Past and Future
Sander E. van der Leeuw

Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia


Volumen 8 perteneciente a la serie Recent Advances in Human Biology,
editado por Li Jin, Mark Seielstad y Chunjie Xiao (2000)

Contenido:

Part I: Prehistory of Human Populations: Archaelogical, Linguistic and Paleontological Perspectives

Prehistory, Language and Human Biology: Is There a Consensus in East and Southeast Asia
C.F.W. Higham

Human Diversity and Language Diversity
W.S.-Y. Wang

Before the Neolithic: Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Central Thailand
R. Thosarat

Part II: The Peopling of Southeast Asia

The Case for an African Rather Than an Asian Origin of the Human Y-Chromosome YAP Insertion
P.A. Underbill & C.C. Roseman

Genetic History of Ethnic Populations in Southwestern China
B. Su, C. Xiao & L. Jin

Y-Chromosomal Variation in Uxorilocal and Patrilocal Populations in Thailand
M. Srikummool, D. Kangwanpong, N. Singh & M. Seielstad

Genetic Relationships Among 16 Ethnic Groups from Malaysia and Southeast Asia
S.G. Tan

Part III: The Peopling of East Asia

Chinese Human Genome Diversity Project: A Synopsis
J. Chu

Origins and Prehistoric Migrations of Modern Humans in East Asia
B. Su & L. Jin

Part IV: The Peopling of Oceania

The Genetic Trail from Southeast Asia to the Pacific
R. Deka, B. Su & L. Jin

The Colonization of Remote Oceania and the Drowning of Sundaland
J.K. hum

domingo, 12 de septiembre de 2010

FUNDAMENTALS OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY


Libro de Linda L. Klepinger (2006)

Contenido:

PART I BACKGROUND SETTING FOR FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY

1 Introduction
Overview of the Field
Education and Training
Overview of the Book

2 The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Historical Context
The Somewhat Difficult Birth of a Specialty
The Middle Years
Approaching Senescence?

PART II TOWARDS PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION

3 Initial Assessments of Skeletal Remains
Human or Not?
Number of Individuals Represented

4 Assignment of Sex
Criteria for Sex Attribution in the Adult Skeleton
Pelvic Traits
The Skull
Visual Assessment
Discriminant Function Analysis
The Appendicular Bones
Femur
Humerus
Other Appendicular Elements
Miscellaneous Axial Bones
Attribution of Sex from the Skeletons of Children
Figuring the Error Rate

5 Age Estimation
The Early Years
Dental Age
Bone Age
Long Bone Length
Union of Primary Ossification Centers
Epiphyseal Fusion
The Adult Years
Macroscopic Methods
Face of the Pubic Symphysis
Sternal Extremity of the Rib
The Auricular Surface
Cranial Suture Closure
Dental Methods
Microscopic Methods
Other Age Indicators
Concluding Remarks on Adult Age Estimation

6 Deciphering Ancestral Background
The Biological and the Cultural
The Biological Context
The Cultural Component
Skeletal Indicators
The Skull
The Postcranium

7 Stature Estimation
How Tall Are You, Really?
Estimation of Living Stature from Skeletal Remains
The Fully Method
Stature Estimation From Long Bone Length
Comparison of Methods
Reporting Stature Estimates
Correcting Stature Estimates for Older Adults
Secular Trend
Stature Estimates from Fragmentary Long Bones
Stature Estimation from Short Bone Length
Footwear and Foot Length

8 Skeletal Markers of Activity and Life History
Childbirth Indicators
Handedness
Other Activity Markers
Partial Medical History
Medical Radiology

PART III PRINCIPAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ROLES IN MEDICAL–LEGAL INVESTIGATION

9 Trauma
Blunt Force Trauma
Cranial Fracture
Hyoid Fracture
Postcranial Fracture
Child Abuse
Penetrating and Perforating Trauma
Gunshot Wounds
Sharp Injuries

10 The Postmortem Period
Estimation of the Postmortem Interval
Postmortem Events
Carnivore Scavenging
Cremation
Has the Body Been Burned?
Fracturing
Bone Shrinkage
Dismemberment
Ritual Use of Skeletal Material

11 Professionalism, Ethics, and the Expert Witness
The Expert Witness
Standards and Credentials for Expert Testimony
Some Practical Issues
Ethics
Science in the Courtroom: Two Unfortunate Examples
When Good Science is not Presented
When Good Science is Ignored

12 Genetics and DNA
Serology and Mendelian Genetics
Forensic DNA Analysis
Legal Considerations

THE DAWN OF HUMAN CULTURE



Libro de Richard G. Klein con Blake Edgar (2002)

Contenido:

CHAPTER 1
Dawn at Twilight Cave

CHAPTER 2
Bipedal Apes

CHAPTER 3
The World’s Oldest Whodunit

CHAPTER 4
The First True Humans

CHAPTER 5
Humanity Branches Out

CHAPTER 6
Neanderthals Out on a Limb

CHAPTER 7
Body Before Behavior

CHAPTER 8
Nurture or Nature Before the Dawn?

APPENDIX
Placing Ancient Sites in Time

A MOVABLE FEAST

Ten Millennia of Food Globalization


Libro de Kenneth F. Kiple (2007)

Contenido:

INTRODUCTION : FROM FORAGING TO FARMING

Ch. 1: LAST HUNTERS, FIRST FARMERS

Ch. 2: BUILDING THE BARNYARD

Ch. 3: PROMISCUOUS PLANTS OF THE NORTHERN
FERTILE CRESCENT

Ch. 4: PERIPATETIC PLANTS OF EASTERN ASIA

Ch. 5: FECUND FRINGES OF THE NORTHERN FERTILE CRESCENT

Ch. 6: CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEOLITHIC

Ch. 7: ENTERPRISE AND EMPIRES

Ch. 8: FAITH AND FOODSTUFFS

Ch. 9: EMPIRES IN THE RUBBLE OF ROME

Ch. 10: MEDIEVAL PROGRESS AND POVERTY

Ch. 11: SPAIN’S NEW WORLD, THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

Ch. 12: NEW WORLD, NEW FOODS

Ch. 13: NEW FOODS IN THE SOUTHERN NEW WORLD

Ch. 14: THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE AND THE OLD WORLDS

Ch. 15: THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE AND NEW WORLDS

Ch. 16: SUGAR AND NEW BEVERAGES

Ch. 17: KITCHEN HISPANIZATION

Ch. 18: PRODUCING PLENTY IN PARADISE

Ch. 19: THE FRONTIERS OF FOREIGN FOODS

Ch. 20: CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM, AND CUISINE

Ch. 21: HOMEMADE FOOD HOMOGENEITY

Ch. 22: NOTIONS OF NUTRIENTS AND NUTRIMENTS

Ch. 23: THE PERILS OF PLENTY

Ch. 24: THE GLOBALIZATION OF PLENTY

Ch. 25: FAST FOOD, A HYMN TO CELLULITE

Ch. 26: PARLOUS PLENTY INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Ch. 27: PEOPLE AND PLENTY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

DICTIONARY OF ARTIFACTS


Diccionario de Barbara Ann Kipfer (2007)

Contenido:

• artifact analysis, examination, and identification
• artifact care, handling, and preservation
• artifact decoration
• artifact description (shape, use-wear, function)
• artifact production and technology (including materials and methods)
• prominent examples of artifacts (but not every type of adze, point, ware, etc.)
• specific artifact types (in bone/horn, ceramic, glass, lithic, metal, shell, textile/basket, wood, etc.)

viernes, 10 de septiembre de 2010

Exploring Ancient Skies

An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy


Libro de David H. Kelley y Eugene F. Milone (2005)

Contrenido:

1. Historical Perspectives

1.1. Perspectives of Ancient Astronomy
1.2. Archaeological, Anthropological, and Historical Contexts

Part I. Astronomical Background

2. Principal Features of the Sky

2.1. Star Patterns: Asterisms and Constellations
2.2. The Sphere of the Sky
2.3. Basic Motions of the Sun and Moon
2.4. The Planets

3. Observational Methods and Problems

3.1. Visibility of Phenomena
3.2. Types of Ancient Observations
3.3. Instruments and Observatories
3.4. Possibilities of Optical Aids

4. Time and the Calendar

4.1. The Perception and Measurement of Time
4.2. The Bases and Functions of Calendars
4.3. Chronology
4.4. Astronomical Dating of Artifacts and Cultures
4.5. Causes and Effects of Secular Variation

5. Transient Phenomena
5.1. Atmospheric Phenomena
5.2. Solar and Lunar Eclipses
5.3. Other Solar and Lunar Phenomena
5.4. Planetary Phenomena
5.5. Comets
5.6. Meteors and Meteorites
5.7. Zodiacal Light
5.8. Variable Stars

Part II. Astronomy in Cultures

6. Paleolithic and Neolithic Cultures
7. Antecedents of the Western Tradition
8. African Cultures
9. Indo-Iranian Cultures
10. China, Korea, and Japan
11. Oceanic Cultures
12. Mesoamerica
13. America North of Mexico
14. South American Cultures
15. The Descent of the Gods and the Purposes of Ancient Astronomy

Appendices

A. Archaeoastronomy Tools
A.1. Introduction
A.2. Spherical Astronomy Aids
A.3. Computational and Sky Simulation Software
A.4. Planetary Positions
A.5. Miscellaneous Tables
B. Modern Star Charts
C. Sample Exercises and Problems
D. Mayan Calendar Progression: A Sample

Innovations in GIS 4

Selected Papers from the Fourth National Conference on GIS Research UK (GISRUK)


Libro donde se presenta una selección de papers editado por Zarine Kemp (2005)
presentados en la Fourth National Conference on GIS Research UK (GISRUK)

Contenido:

Introduction

PART ONE Data Modelling and Spatial Data Structures

1 A multiresolution data storage scheme for 3D GIS
J.Mark Ware and Christopher B.Jones

2 Storage-efficient techniques for representing digital terrain models
David Kidner and Derek Smith

3 Modelling historical change in southern Corsica: temporal GIS development using an extensible database system
Janet Bagg and Nick Ryan

4 Towards a model for multimedia geographical information systems
Dean Lombardo and Zarine Kemp

PART TWO Spatial Analysis

5 Recent advances in the exploratory analysis of interregional flows in space and time
Duane Marble, Zaiyong Gou , Lin Liu and James Saunders

6 A genetic programming approach to building new spatial models relevant to GIS
Ian Turton, Stan Openshaw and Gary Diplock

7 Exploring categorical spatial data: an interactive approach
Chris Brunsdon

8 A universal translator of linguistic hedges for the handling of uncertainty and fitness-for-use in GIS
Allan Brimicombe

9 Scripting and tool integration in spatial analysis: prototyping local indicators and distance statistics
Roger Bivand

PART THREE Environmental Modelling

10 Environmental modelling with geographical information systems
Peter Burrough

11 VGIS: a GIS shell for the conceptual design of environmental models
Jochen Albrecht, Stefan Jung and Samuel Mann

12 Mapping sub-pixel boundaries from remotely sensed images
Peter M.Atkinson

13 Towards a 4D GIS: four-dimensional interpolation utilizing kriging
Eric J.Miller

14 Assessing the influence of digital terrain model characteristics on tropical slope stability analysis
James Hartshorne

PART FOUR GIS: Science, Ethics and Infrastructure

15 GIS without computers: building geographic information science from the ground up
Helen Couclelis

16 The ethics of six actors in the geographical information systems arena
Peter Fisher

17 Geographic information: a resource, a commodity, an asset or an infrastructure?
Robert Barr and Ian Masser

PART FIVE GIS: The Impact of the Internet

18 Designing a scientific database query server using the World Wide Web: the example of Tephrabase
Anthony Newton, Bruce Gittings and Neil Stuart

19 Open spatial decision-making: evaluating the potential of the World Wide Web
Steve Carver, Marcus Blake, Ian Turton and Oliver Duke-Williams

BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HUMAN SKELETON



Libro editado por M. Anne Katzenberg y Shelley R. Saunders (2008)

Contenido:

PART I THEORY AND APPLICATION IN STUDIES OF PAST PEOPLES

1 Bioarchaeological Ethics: A Historical Perspective on the Value of Human Remains
Phillip L. Walker

2 Forensic Anthropology: Methodology and Diversity of Applications
Douglas H. Ubelaker

3 Taphonomy and the Nature of Archaeological Assemblages
Ann L. W. Stodder

PART II MORPHOLOGICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL ANALYSES

4 Juvenile Skeletons and Growth-Related Studies
Shelley R. Saunders

5 Histomorphometry of Human Cortical Bone: Applications to Age Estimation
Alexander G. Robling and Sam D. Stout

6 Biomechanical Analyses of Archaeological Human Skeletons
Christopher B. Ruff

7 Morphometrics and Biological Anthropology in the Postgenomic Age
Benedikt Hallgr|¤msson, Miriam Leah Zelditch, Trish E. Parsons, Erika Kristensen, Nathan M. Young, and Steven K. Boyd

8 Reading Between the Lines: Dental Development and Subadult Age Assessment Using the Microstructural Growth Markers of Teeth
Charles M. FitzGerald and Jerome C. Rose

9 Dental Morphology
G. Richard Scott

PART III PREHISTORIC HEALTH AND DISEASE

10 Dental Pathology
Simon Hillson

11 Analysis and Interpretation of Skeletal Trauma
Nancy C. Lovell

12 Light and Broken Bones: Examining and Interpreting Bone Loss and Osteoporosis in Past Populations
Sabrina C. Agarwal

PART IV CHEMICAL AND GENETIC ANALYSES OF HARD TISSUES

13 Stable Isotope Analysis: A Tool for Studying Past Diet, Demography, and Life History
M. Anne Katzenberg

14 Bone Chemistry and Trace Element Analysis
James Burton

15 DNA Analysis of Archaeological Remains
Anne C. Stone

PART V QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND POPULATION STUDIES

16 Metric Analysis of Skeletal Remains: Methods and Applications
Michael Pietrusewsky

17 Nonmetric Trait Variation in the Skeleton: Abnormalities, Anomalies, and Atavisms
Shelley R. Saunders and Dori L. Rainey

18 Advances in Paleodemography
George R. Milner, James W. Wood, and Jesper L. Boldsen

19 Method and Theory in Paleodemography, with an Application to a Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Village from the Late Eastern Woodlands of North America
Richard S. Meindl, Robert P. Mensforth, and C. Owen Lovejoy

jueves, 9 de septiembre de 2010

UNGUJA UKUU ON ZANZIBAR

An archaeological study of early urbanism


Tesis doctoral de Abdurahman Juma (2004) publicada en Studies in Global Archaeology 3.
Uppsala, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History

Contenido:

I. BACKGROUND
1.1 The east African coast
1.2 Some archaeological sites of Zanzibar
1.3 Interaction networks
1.4 Zanzibar in recent times
1.5 The development of complexity
Overview
2. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
3. ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY
4. THE SITE SURVEYS
5. THE EXCAVATIONS AND DEPOSITS
6. POTTERY
7. OTHER FINDS
8. INTERPRETATION OF THE SITE
9. CONCLUSIONS

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology



Libro editado por Selim Kapur, Ahmet Mermut y Georges Stoops (2008)

Contenido:

The Role of Soil Micromorphology in the Light of the European Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection
W. E. H. Blum

Soil Micromorphology and Soil Hydraulics
Marcello Pagliai and Miroslav Kutilek

Micromorphology of a Soil Catena in Yucatán: Pedogenesis and Geomorphological Processes in a Tropical Karst Landscape
Sergey Sedov, Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo, Scott L. Fedick, Teresa Pi-Puig, Ernestina Vallejo-Gómez, and María de Lourdes Flores-Delgadillo

Soil Evolution Along a Toposequence on Glacial and Periglacial Materials in the Pyrenees Range
Jaume Boixadera, Montserrat Antúnez, and Rosa Maria Poch

A Micromorphological Study of Andosol Genesis in Iceland
G. Stoops, M. Gérard, and O. Arnalds

Improved Paleopedological Reconstruction of Vertic Paleosols at Novaya Etuliya, Moldova Via Integration of Soil Micromorphology and Environmental Magnetism
A. Tsatskin, T.S. Gendler, and F. Heller

Ferricretes in Tamil Nadu, Chennai, South-Eastern India: From Landscape to Micromorphology, Genesis, and Paleoenvironmental Signifi cance
Hema Achyuthan and N. Fedoroff

Palygorskite Dominated Vertisols of Southern Iran
A. Heidari, S. Mahmoodi, and G. Stoops

Contribution of Micromorphology to Classifi cation of Aridic Soils
Maria Gerasimova and Marina Lebedeva

Orientation and Spacing of Columnar Peds in a Sodic, Texture Contrast Soil in Australia
P.G. Walsh and G.S. Humphreys

Physical Fractionation and Cryo-Coupe Analysis of Mormoder Humus
J. van Mourik and S. Blok

Regional Manifestation of the Widespread Disruption of Soil-Landscapes by the 4 kyr BP Impact-Linked Dust Event Using Pedo-Sedimentary Micro-Fabrics
Marie-Agnès Courty, Alex Crisci, Michel Fedoroff, Kliti Grice, Paul Greenwood, Michel Mermoux, David Smith, and Mark Thiemens

Clay Illuviation in a Holocene Palaeosol Sequence in the Chinese Loess Plateau
He Xiubin, Bao Yuhai, Hua Lizhong and Tang Keli

Soil Microstructure and Solution Chemistry of a Compacted Forest Soil in a Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone in Canada
J. M. Arocena, Z. Chen and P. Sanborn

ABORIGINAL WOMAN Sacred and profane


Libro de Phyllis M.Kaberry (1939 re-editado 2004)

Contenido:

PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR A.P.ELKIN

I. WIELDERS OF THE DIGGING—STICK
II. THE SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL BACKGROUND OF THE ABORIGINAL CHILD
III. CHILDHOOD
IV. ON THE THRESHOLD OF MARRIAGE
V. THE LAWS OF MARRIAGE AND THE NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
VI. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF WOMEN IN MARRIAGE
VII. THE FUNCTIONS OF WOMEN IN THE LARGER SOCIAL GROUPS
VIII. THE SPIRITUAL HERITAGE OF ABORIGINAL WOMAN
XI. WOMEN’S CEREMONIES
X. WOMEN’S SECRET CORROBOREES
XI. ABORIGINAL WOMAN—SACRED AND PROFANE

The Languages of Archaeology

Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing


Libro de Rosemary A. Joyce con Robert W. Preucel, Jeanne Lopiparo, Carolyn Guyer y Michael Joyce (2002).

Contenido:

1 Introducing the First Voice

2 Writing the Field of Archaeology
Rosemary A. Joyce with Robert W. Preucel

3 Dialogues Heard and Unheard, Seen and Unseen

4 A Second Voice: Crafting Cosmos
Jeanne Lopiparo

5 Voices Carry Outside the Discipline
Rosemary A. Joyce with Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce

6 The Return of the First Voice

7 Final Dialogues

ARQUEOLOGÍA DE LA MUERTE

Prácticas funerarias en los límites de El Argar


Libro de F. J. Jover Maestre y J. A. Lopez Padilla (1997)

Contenido:

I. Planteamientos e hipótesis
II. La dimensión espacial
III. La base empírica
IV. Evaluación de los datos
IV.1. Prácticas funerarias fuera de las zonas de hábitat
IV.2. Prácticas funerarias dentro de las zonas de hábitat
IV.3. Prácticas funerarias: coste y valor social
V. Evaluación de las hipótesis
VI. "Arqueología de la muerte". Algunas reflexiones

Memory and Material Culture



Libro de Andrew Jones (2007)
publicado para la serie Topics in contempory archaeology editada por Richard Bradley

Contenido:

1 Memory and Material Culture?
2 From Memory to Commemoration
3 People, Time, and Remembrance
4 Improvising Culture
5 Continuous Houses, Perpetual Places: Commemoration and the Lives of Neolithic Houses
6 Culture, Citation, and Categorisation: Regionality in Late Neolithic Britain and Ireland
7 Chains of Memory: The Aesthetics of Memory in Bronze Age Britain
8 The Art of Memory: Memory, Inscription, and Place
9 Tracing the Past: Landscape, Lines, and Places
10 Coda

FEAST

Why Humans Share Food


Libro de Martin Jones (2007)

Contenido:

1. A return to the hearth
2. Are we so different? How apes eat
3. In search of big game
4. Fire, cooking, and growing a brain
5. Naming and eating
6. Among strangers
7. Seasons of the feast
8. Hierarchy and the food chain
9. Eating in order to be
10. Far from the hearth
11. The stomach and the soul
12. A global food web

Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice


Libro de Andrew Jones (2001) perteneciente a la serie editada por Richard Bradley Topics in Contemporary Archaeology

Contenido:

1 The archaeology of ‘two cultures’
2 Science as culture: creating interpretative networks
3 Archaeology observed
4 Materials science and material culture: practice, scale and narrative
5 Material culture and materials science: a biography of things
6 Abio graphy of ceramics in Neolithic Orkney
7 Making people and things in the Neolithic: pots, food and history
8 Before and after science

Remote Sensing in Archaeology

An Explicitly North American Perspective



Libro editado por Jay K. Johnson (2006)

Contenido:

1. Introduction
Jay K. Johnson

2. The Current and Potential Role of Archaeogeophysics in Cultural Resource Management in the United States
J. J. Lockhart and Thomas J. Green

3. A Cost-Benefi t Analysis of Remote Sensing Application in Cultural Resource Management Archaeology
Jay K. Johnson and Bryan S. Haley

4. Airborne Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis
Marco Giardino and Bryan S. Haley

5. Conductivity Survey: A Survival Manual
R. Berle Clay

6. Resistivity Survey
Lewis Somers

7. Ground-Penetrating Radar
Lawrence B. Conyers

8. Magnetic Susceptibility
Rinita A. Dalan

9. Magnetometry: Nature’s Gift to Archaeology
Kenneth L. Kvamme

10. Data Processing and Presentation
Kenneth L. Kvamme

11. Multiple Methods Surveys: Case Studies
Kenneth L. Kvamme, Jay K. Johnson, and Bryan S. Haley

12. Ground Truthing the Results of Geophysical Surveys
Michael L. Hargrave

13. A Comparative Guide to Applications
Jay K. Johnson

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: Non-destructive microanalysis of cultural heritage materials


Volumen número XLII de la serie Comprehensive analytical chemestry
editado por K. Janssens y R. Van Grieken (2004)

Contenido:

Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
K. Janssens, R. Van Grieken

Part I. Analytical reference section

Chapter 2. Ultraviolet, infrared and X-ray imaging
F. Mairinger

Chapter 3. Electron microscopy and its role in cultural heritage studies
A. Adriaens, M.G. Dowsett

Chapter 4. X-ray based methods of analysis
K. Janssens

Chapter 5. Ion beam microanalysis
T. Calligaro et al.

Chapter 6. X-Ray photoelectron and Auger electron spectroscopy
A. Hubin, H. Terryn

Chapter 7. Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
T.E. Jeffries

Chapter 8. Infrared, Raman microscopy and Fibre-Optic Raman Spectroscopy (FORS)
G.M. Howell et al.

Chapter 9. Secondary ion mass spectrometry. Application to archaeology and art objects
E. Darque-Ceretti1, M. Aucouturier

Part II. Case studies section

Chapter 10. The non-destructive investigation of copper alloy patinas
D.A. Scott

Chapter 11. Precious metals artifacts
G. Demortier

Chapter 12. Diagnostic methodology for the examination of Byzantine frescoes and icons. Non destructive investigation and pigment identification
Sister Daniilia et al.

Chapter 13. The provenance of medieval silver coins: analysis with EDXRF, SEM/EDX and PIXER
Linke et al.

Chapter 14. Pigment identification in illuminated manuscripts
P. Vandenabeele, L. Moens

Chapter 15. Provenance analysis of glass artefacts
B. Gratuze, K. Janssens

Chapter 16. Corrosion of historic glass and enamels
M. Schreiner

Chapter 17. A study of ancient manuscripts exposed to iron-gall ink corrosion
E. Bulska, B. Wagner

IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE

Libro de Matthew Johnson (2007)


Contenido:

The Argument

Preface: Thinking about Swaledale

1. Introduction
2. Lonely as a Cloud
3. A Good Pair of Boots
4. The Loss of Innocence
5. Landscape Archaeology Today
6. The Politics of Landscape
7. Conclusion

miércoles, 8 de septiembre de 2010

Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood

A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence



Libro editado por Robert Jarvenpa y Hetty Jo Brumbach (2006)

Contenido:

1. Introduction:
Gender, Subsistence, and Ethnoarchaeology
Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach

2. Chipewyan Society and Gender Relations
Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa

3. Chipewyan Hunters:
A Task Differentiation Analysis
Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach

4. Khanty Society and Gender Relations
Elena Glavatskaya

5. Khanty Hunter–Fisher–Herders: A Task Differentiation Analysis of Trom’Agan
Women’s and Men’s Subsistence Activities
Elena Glavatskaya

6. Sámi Society and Gender Relations
Jukka Pennanen

7. Sámi Reindeer Herders: A Task Differentiation Analysis
Jukka Pennanen

8. Iñupiaq Society and Gender Relations
Carol Zane Jolles

9. Iñupiaq Maritime Hunters: Summer SubsistenceWork in Diomede
Carol Zane Jolles

10. Conclusion: Toward a Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender
Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa

IDENTITY AND POWER IN THE ANCIENT ANDES

Tiwanaku Cities through Time


Libro de John Wayne Janusek (2004)


Contenido:

Introduction

Part 1

Chapter 1 Identity and Power in the Past
Chapter 2 Identity and Power in the Altiplano
Chapter 3 Investigating and Interpreting Tiwanaku

Part 2

Chapter 4 Ritual, Society, and the Rise of Urbanism
Chapter 5 Tiwanaku: Urbanism and Social Diversity
Chapter 6 Lukurmata: Urbanism and Community Identity

Part 3

Chapter 7 Urban Transformation in Tiwanaku
Chapter 8 Transformation in the Katari Valley and Beyond
Chapter 9 State Collapse and Cultural Revolution

Part 4

Chapter 10 Conclusions

Climate Changes during the Holocene and their Impact on Hydrological Systems

Libro de Arie S. Issar (2003)

Contenido:

1 Climate changes in the Levant during the Late Quaternary Period
1.1 Contemporary climate
1.2 The climate during the Late Pleistocene
1.3 Climate changes during the Holocene in the Levant
1.4 Correlation between climate changes and historical events in the Levant
1.4.1 The Neolithic period, c. 10ka to c. 7 ka BP
1.4.1.a The Lower Neolithic period, c. 10 ka to 8 ka BP (Pre-pottery Neolithic)
1.4.1.b The Middle and Upper Neolithic period, c. 8 ka to c. 7 ka BP (Pottery Neolithic)
1.4.2 The Chalcolithic period, c. 7 ka to c. 5 ka BP
1.4.3 The Early Bronze Age c. 5 ka to c. 4 ka BP
1.4.4 The Middle Bronze Age c. 4 ka to 3.5 ka BP
1.4.5 The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, 3.5 ka to 2.6 ka BP
1.4.6 The Roman–Byzantine period (2.3/2.2 ka to 1.3 ka BP), including the Roman–Byzantine transition period (1.7 ka to 1.6 ka BP)
1.4.7 The Moslem–Arab period, c. 1.3 ka to 1.0 ka BP
1.4.8 The Crusader period and Little Ice Age, 1.0 ka to 0.4 ka BP
1.4.9 The Moslem–Ottoman period, 0.4 ka to 0.1 ka BP
1.4.10 The Industrial period, 0.1 ka BP to the present

2 Climate changes during the Holocene Epoch in Europe
2.1 Climate
2.1.1 Contemporary climate
2.1.2 The Pleistocene–Holocene transition period
2.2 The Mediterranean region
2.2.1 The Balkan peninsula
2.2.2 The Italian peninsula and the French Mediterranean coast
2.2.2.a The island of Malta
2.2.3 The Iberian peninsula
2.2.3.a Contemporary climate
2.2.3.b Paleo-geomorphology
2.2.3.c Palynological time series
2.2.3.d Regional correlation
2.3 The Alps
2.4 Western and northwestern Europe
2.4.1 The Netherlands
2.4.1.a Contemporary climate
2.4.1.b Climate changes during the Upper Pleistocene
2.4.1.c Climate changes during the Holocene
2.4.2 The British Isles
2.4.3 Scandinavia and the northern Atlantic
2.4.3.a Scandinavia
2.4.3.b The northern Atlantic
2.4.3.c Greenland
2.5 Central and eastern Europe
2.5.1 Poland
2.5.2 The Caspian Sea

3 Climate changes during the Holocene in east Asia (China, Korea and Japan)
3.1 China
3.1.1 Contemporary climate
3.1.2 Climate changes during the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene transition period
3.1.2.a The loess plateau
3.1.2.b The Tibetan plateau and western China
3.1.2.c Eastern China
3.1.3 Climate changes during the Holocene
3.1.3.a The loess plateau
3.1.3.b The Tibetan plateau and western China
3.1.3.c Central and eastern China
3.1.4 Korea
3.1.5 Conclusions
3.2 Japan
3.2.1 Contemporary climate
3.2.2 The climate of Japan during the Last Glacial and Post Glacial Periods
3.2.3 Climate during the Holocene
3.2.3.a Palynological time series
3.2.3.b Geomorphological observations
3.2.3.c General conclusions

4 Climate changes during the Holocene in Africa
4.1 Egypt
4.1.1 Contemporary climate and hydrological regime of the Nile
4.1.2 Climate during the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene
4.2 The Sahara and the Sahel belt
4.2.1 Contemporary climate
4.2.2 Climate during the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene
4.2.3 Lakes of eastern Africa
4.3 Tropical Africa
4.3.1 Climatic changes during the Upper Pleistocene and the Holocene
4.3.1.a Tropical east Africa
4.3.1.b Tropical west Africa
4.4 South Africa
4.4.1 Contemporary climate
4.4.2 Climate conditions during the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene

5 Climate changes over western USA and Mexico during the Holocene
5.1 Southwestern USA
5.1.1 Contemporary climate
5.1.2 Climate changes during the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene
5.2 Central USA and Canada
5.3 Mexico
5.3.1 Contemporary climate
5.3.2 Climate changes during the Holocene

6 General conclusions
6.1 Climate changes during the Holocene: global correlation
6.2 The cause of the climate changes during the Holocene

Andean Archaeology III

North and South


Libro editado por William H. Isbell y Helaine Silverman (2006)

Contenido:

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Regional Patterns
William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman

PART II. THE NORTH
Introduction
William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman

Chapter 2. America’s First City? The Case of Late Archaic Caral
Ruth Shady Solís

Chapter 3. ReligiousWarfare at Chankillo
Ivan Ghezzi

Chapter 4. The Vicús-Mochica Relationship
Peter Kaulicke

Chapter 5. Competitive Feasting, Religious Pluralism and Decentralized Power in the Late Moche Period
Edward R. Swenson

Chapter 6. Northern Exposures: Recuay-Cajamarca Boundaries and Interaction
George F. Lau

Chapter 7. Chimu Craft Specialization and Political Economy: A View from the Provinces
Harmut Tschauner

PART III. THE SOUTH
Introduction
William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman

Chapter 8. Early Village Society in the Formative Period in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin
Matthew S. Bandy

Chapter 9. The Emergence of Complex Society in the Titicaca Basin: The View from the North
Aimée M. Plourde and Charles Stanish

Chapter 10. Redefining Plant Use at the Formative Site of Chiripa in the Southern Titicaca Basin
William T. Whitehead

Chapter 11. Ritual and Society in Early Intermediate Period Ayacucho: A View from the Site of Ñawinpukyo
Juan B. Leoni

Chapter 12. Missing Links, Imaginary Links: Staff God Imagery in the South Andean Past
William H. Isbell and Patricia J. Knobloch

Chapter 13. Water, Blood and Semen: Signs of Life and Fertility in Nasca Art
Suzette J. Doyon

Chapter 14. Burial Patterns and Sociopolitical Organization in Nasca 5 Society
Johny Isla and Markus Reindel

Chapter 15. When and Where Did the Nasca Proliferous Style Emerge?
Joerg Haeberli

Chapter 16. Violence and Rural Lifeways at Two Peripheral Wari Sites in the Majes Valley of Southern Peru
Tiffiny A. Tung and Bruce Owen

Chapter 17. Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire
Brian S. Bauer

PART IV. CONCLUSION

Chapter 18. Rethinking the Central Andean Co-Tradition
William H. Isbell and Helaine Silverman

Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology


Libro editado por Joel D. Irish y Greg C. Nelson (2008)

Contenido:

Section I: Context

1 Introduction
Joel D. Irish and Greg C. Nelson

2 History of dental anthropology
G. Richard Scott and Christy G. Turner

3 Statistical applications in dental anthropology
Edward F. Harris


Section II: Applications in assessing population health Using perikymata to estimate the duration of growth disruptions in fossil hominin teeth: issues of methodology and interpretation
Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg

5 Micro spatial distributions of lead and zinc in human deciduous tooth enamel
Louise T. Humphrey, Teresa E. Jeffries, and M. Christopher Dean

6 The current state of dental decay
Simon Hillson

7 Dental caries prevalence by sex in prehistory: magnitude and meaning
John R. Lukacs and Linda M. Thompson

8 Dental pathology prevalence and pervasiveness at Tepe Hissar: statistical utility for investigating inter-relationships between wealth, gender, and status
Brian E. Hemphill

Section III: Applied life and population history

9 Charting the chronology of developing dentitions
Gary T. Schwartz and M. Christopher Dean

10 Dental age revisited
Helen M. Liversidge

11 Primate dental topographic analysis and functional morphology
Peter S. Ungar and Jonathan M. Bunn

12 Forensic dental anthropology: issues and guidelines
Christopher W. Schmidt

13 Inter- and intra-specific variation in Pan tooth crown morphology: implications for Neandertal taxonomy
Shara E. Bailey

14 The quantitative genetic analysis of primate dental variation: history of the approach and prospects for the future
Oliver T. Rizk, Sarah K. Amugongo, Michael C. Mahaney, and Leslea J. Hlusko

Section IV: Forefront of technique

15 Methods of ingestion and incisal designs
Kalpana R. Agrawal, K. Y. Ang, Zhongquan Sui, Hugh T. W. Tan, and Peter W. Lucas

16 Dental reduction in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hominids: alternative approaches to
assessing tooth size
Charles M. Fitzgerald and Simon Hillson

17 Dental microwear analysis: historical perspectives and new approaches
Peter S. Ungar, Robert S. Scott, Jessica R. Scott, and Mark Teaford

18 Virtual dentitions: touching the hidden evidence
Roberto Macchiarelli, Luca Bondioli, and Arnaud Mazurier