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Wrapping And Unwrapping Material Culture - Archaeological And Anthropological Perspectives

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 Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, and contemporary African textiles, twelve archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place.
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Plain Pottery Traditions Of The Eastern Mediterranean And Near East - Production, Use, And Social Significance

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 This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view.
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Ethnic Ambiguity And The African Past - Materiality, History, And The Shaping Of Cultural Identities

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 Authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in ancient Africa were made and unmade in their intersection with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power.
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Mediterranean Voyages - The Archaeology Of Island Colonisation And Abandonment

by Helen Dawson

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 This volume advances theoretical discussions of island archaeology by offering a comparative study of the archaeology of colonisation, abandonment, and resettlement of the Mediterranean islands in prehistory.
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Archaeology Of African Plant Use

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 The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.
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Living In A Landscape Of Scarcity - Materiality And Cosmology In West Africa

by Laurence Douny

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 In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity.
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Computational Approaches To Archaeological Spaces

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 This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.
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The Origins And Spread Of Domestic Animals In Southwest Asia And Europe

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 This benchmark volume is a valuable synthesis of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication in the Near East and Europe.
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Becoming Roman? - Diverging Identities And Experiences In Ancient Northwest Italy

by Ralph Haeussler

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 Few empires had such an impact on the conquered peoples as did the Roman empire, yet this volume shows though the example of Northwest Italy how individualsâ€™ decisions introduced changes in material culture, identity and behavior on a regional level to resist homogenization.
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Reanimating Industrial Spaces - Conducting Memory Work In Post-Industrial Societies

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 Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches which incorporate and critique memory-work.
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Working Donkeys In 4th-3rd Millennium Bc Mesopotamia - Insights From Modern Development Studies

by Jill Goulder

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 Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies is a reassessment of the role and impact of working-animal adoption in antiquity, focusing on 4th-3rd millennium BC Mesopotamia but applicable to other periods and regions.
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Roman Coins From India

by Paula J Turner

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 This book is a detailed collation of the recorded finds of Roman coins on Indian soil. These are divided into Republican, Julio-Claudian and post-Julio-Claudian coins and there are chapters on the historical significance of the scarcity of Roman finds, the absence of base metal issues in the early empire, the predominance of early imperial denarii,
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Local Power, Territory And Institutions In European Metropolitan Regions - In Search Of Urban Gargantuas

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 A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government.
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Francisco Varo'S Glossary Of The Mandarin Language - Vol. 1: An English And Chinese Annotation Of The Vocabulario De La Lengua Mandarina Vol. 2: Pinyin And English Index Of The Vocabulario De La Lengua M

by W South Coblin

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 Francisco Varo (1627-1687), a Spanish Dominican based in the province of Fujian, was legendary for his superb mastery in Mandarin. His Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina, a Spanish-Chinese dictionary, is made available to modern readers in the present study, which is based on two manuscripts held in Berlin and London.
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Ceramics Of The Merv Oasis - Recycling The City

by Gabriele Puschnigg

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 Puschniggâ€™s detailed study of Mervâ€™s Sasanian pottery creates a benchmark for other work on this ceramic corpus. She dissects the frequency, dates, wares, and profiles of hundreds of securely excavated pieces and compares them with the finds from earlier Russian studies, generally unavailable to western researchers.
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Placing Animals In The Neolithic - Social Zooarchaeology Of Prehistoric Farming Communities

by Arkadiusz Marciniak

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 This book presents a new perspective on the social milieu of the Early and Middle Neolithic in Central Europe as viewed through relations between humans and animals, food acquisition and consumption, as well as refuse disposal practices.
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Silver Economy In The Viking Age

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 In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
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Palaeoepidemiology - The Measure Of Disease In The Human Past

by Tony Waldron

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 A concise, readable introduction to epidemiology for archaeologists and primer on archaeological analysis for epidemiologists, the volume shows how to assess illness and mortality in archaeological populations.
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The Identification Of Northern European Woods - A Guide For Archaeologists And Conservators

by Jon G Hather

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 This technical and well-illustrated guide for archaeologists and conservators aims to provide a methodology for the identification of the woody taxa used to manufacture artefacts recovered from archaeological excavations in Northern Europe.
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Buddhist Landscapes In Central India - Sanchi Hill And Archaeologies Of Religious And Social Change, C. Third Century Bc To Fifth Century Ad

by Julia Shaw

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 The first integrated study of settlement archaeology and Buddhist history provides an archaeological basis for assessing theories regarding the dialectical relationship between Buddhism and surrounding lay populations.
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Tracing Early Agriculture In The Highlands Of New Guinea - Plot, Mound And Ditch

by Tim Denham

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 In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands and how these practices were transformed through time. Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea is for a new audience, one that is not necessarily familiar with the geographical and historical nuances of the island of New Gui
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Roman Military Diplomas 1954 To 1977

by Margaret M Roxan

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 Features records of 82 diplomas or fragments which provide evidence for the Roman military and legal world.
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Roman Military Diplomas 1954 To 1977

by Margaret M Roxan

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 Features records of 82 diplomas or fragments which provide evidence for the Roman military and legal world.
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Divine Fertility - The Continuity In Transformation Of An Ideology Of Sacred Kinship In Northeast Africa

by Sada Mire

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 This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance, if not always complete acceptance.
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