Download or read book Archaeology Economy and Society written by David A. Hinton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written on particular aspects of medieval archaeology, or on particular parts of the period, but synthesis across the whole spectrum has not been attempted before. The aim of this book is to examine the contribution that archaeology can make to an understanding of the social, economic, religious and other developments that took place in England from the migrations of the fifth and sixth centuries to the beginning of the Renaissance, showing how society and economy evolved in that time-span. Drawing on the latest available material, the book takes a chronological approach to the archaeological material of the post-Roman period in order to emphasize the changes that can be observed in the physical evidence and some of the reasons for them that can be suggested. The environment in which people functioned and how they expressed themselves - for example in their houses and burial practices, their pottery and their clothes - show how they were constrained by social customs and economic pressures.
Download or read book Archaeology Economy and Society written by David Alban Hinton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic, religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start of the fifth century to the beginnings of the Renaissance at the end of the fifteenth. The first edition of the book was published in 1990, and remains the only synthesis of the whole spectrum of medieval archaeology. This new edition is completely rewritten and extended, but uses the same chronological approach to investigate how society and economy evolved. It draws on a wide range of new data, derived from excavation, investigation of buildings, metal-detecting, and scientific techniques. It examines the social customs, economic pressures, and environmental constraints within which people functioned, the technology available to them, and how they expressed themselves, for example in their houses, their burial customs, their costume, and their material possessions such as pottery. Their adaptation to new circumstances, whether caused by human factors such as the re-emergence of towns or changing taxation requirements, or by external ones such as volcanic activity or the Black Death, is explored throughout each chapter. The new edition of Archaeology, Economy and Society remains essential reading for students and researchers of the archaeology of Medieval England.
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Roman Economy written by Kevin Greene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeology Economy and Society written by David A. Hinton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written on particular aspects of medieval archaeology, or on particular parts of the period, but synthesis across the whole spectrum has not been attempted before. The aim of this book is to examine the contribution that archaeology can make to an understanding of the social, economic, religious and other developments that took place in England from the migrations of the fifth and sixth centuries to the beginning of the Renaissance, showing how society and economy evolved in that time-span. Drawing on the latest available material, the book takes a chronological approach to the archaeological material of the post-Roman period in order to emphasize the changes that can be observed in the physical evidence and some of the reasons for them that can be suggested. The environment in which people functioned and how they expressed themselves - for example in their houses and burial practices, their pottery and their clothes - show how they were constrained by social customs and economic pressures.
Download or read book Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe written by Sherratt A. Sherratt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.
Download or read book The Critique of Archaeological Economy written by Stefanos Gimatzidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies past economics from anthropological, archaeological, historical and sociological perspectives. By analyzing archeological and other evidence, it examines economic behavior and institutions in ancient societies. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it critically discusses dominant economic models that have influenced the study of past economic relations in various disciplines, while at the same time highlighting alternative theoretical trajectories. In this regard, the book’s goal is not only to test theoretical models under scrutiny, but also to present evidence against the rationalization of past economic behavior according to the rules of modern markets. The contributing authors cover various topics, such as trade in the classical Greek world, concepts of commodity and value, and management of economic affluence.
Download or read book Economic Archaeology written by Alison Sheridan and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes papers presented at a conference entitled "Economic archaeology, towards an integrated approach," held at New Hall, Cambridge, in January 1979.
Download or read book The Organization of Ancient Economies written by Kenneth Hirth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written that examines ancient and premodern economies from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.
Download or read book Subsistence and Society in Prehistory written by Alan K. Outram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how recent scientific advances have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric diet, economy and society.
Download or read book The Social Archaeology of Food written by Christine A. Hastorf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : The Social Life of Food -- Part I. Laying the Groundwork -- Framing Food Investigation -- The Practices of a Meal in Society -- Part II. Current Food Studies in Archaeology -- The Archaeological Study of Food Activities -- Food Economics -- Food Politics : Power and Status -- Part III. Food and Identity : The Potentials of Food Archaeology -- Food in the Construction of Group Identity -- The Creation of Personal Identity : Food, Body and Personhood -- Food Creates Society
Download or read book The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land written by Thomas Evan Levy and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and highly illustrated study explores the human history in the Holy Land, from the earliest prehistoric hominids, through the biblical and historical periods, up to the twentieth century. Chronologically organized, each chapter outlines the major cultural transitions which occurred in a given archaeological period and provides a review of the most recent research concerning settlement patterns, innovations and technology, religion and ideology, and social organization.
Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies written by James A. Nyman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the important social relationships that form among people who participate in small-scale economic transactions, contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of intimate and shadow economies—terms used to describe trade that takes place outside formal market systems. Case studies from a variety of historical contexts around the world reveal the ways such transactions created community and identity, subverted class and power relations, and helped people adapt to new social realities. In Maine, woven baskets sold by Native American artisans to Euroamerican consumers supported Native strategies for cultural survival and agency. Alcohol exchanged by Scandinavian merchants for furs and skins enabled their indigenous trading partners to expand social webs that contested colonialism. Moonshine production in Appalachia was an integral part of economic exchanges in isolated mountain communities. Caribbean and American plantations contain evidence of interactions, exchanges, and attachments between enslaved communities and poor whites that defied established racial boundaries. From brothel workers in Boston to seal hunters in Antarctica, the examples in this volume show how historical archaeologists can use the concept of intimate economies to uncover deeply meaningful connections that exist beyond the traditional framework of global capitalism.
Download or read book Empire and Domestic Economy written by Terence N. D'Altroy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project is a benchmark for a new level of quality in Andean archaeological research. This volume continues to develop UMARP approaches to understanding prehistoric Andean economy and polity. --
Download or read book Material Symbols written by John E. Robb and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret agents: culture, economy, and social reproduction / John E. Robb -- Structure, agency, and the locus of the social: why poststructural theory is good for archaeology / John C. McCall -- On the genesis of value in early hierarchical societies / Richard Lesure -- Why Maya lords sat on jaguar thrones / Mary W. Helms -- An economy of substances in earlier neolithic Britain / Julian Thomas -- Structure strikes back: intuitive meanings of ceramics from Qale Rostam, Iran / Reinhard Bernbeck -- Marking territory, making territory: burial mounds in interior Virginia / Gary H. Dunham -- Prestige, agency, and change in middle-range societies / Dean J. Saitta -- Symbolic dimensions of animals and meat at Opovo, Yugoslavia / Nerissa Russell -- Symbolic artifacts and spheres of meaning: groundstone tools from Copper Age Portugal / Katrina T. Lillios -- Tradition, community, and Nilgiri rock art / Allen Zagarell -- Metals, symbols, and society in Bronze Age Denmark / Janet E. Levy -- Olmec thrones as ancestral altars: the two sides of power / Susan D. Gillespie -- Multiple sources of prestige and the social evaluation of women in prehispanic Mesoamerica / Julia A. Hendon -- The value of tradition: the development of social identities in early Mesopotamian states / Geoff Emberling -- Representations of hegemony as community at Cahokia / Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E. Emerson -- Material symbols among the precolonial Swahili of the East African coast / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Elite identities in Apalachee Province: the construction of identity and cultural change in a Mississippian polity / John F. Scarry -- Wampum: a material symbol of cultural value to the Iroquois peoples of northeastern North American / Gary S. Snyder -- Comparability, equivalency, and contestation / Michael Fotiadis -- Digging through material symbols / Alex W. Barker.
Download or read book Bronze Age Economics written by Timothy Earle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge
Download or read book Modes of Production and Archaeology written by Robert M. Rosenswig and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than a century, scholars have critiqued, misinterpreted, and bickered about Marx's concept of mode of production. Modes of Production and Archaeology cuts through the dense and thorny intellectual thicket that grew up from these debates. The book presents an easily understood discussion of Marx's concepts and demonstrates how archaeologists can analyze modes of production to explain long-term patterns in cultural change."--Randall McGuire, author of Archaeology as Political Action "Shows clearly how historical materialist ideas and concepts are productive in developing the theory and practice of archaeology."--Robert Chapman, author of Archaeologies of Complexity "Covers a huge range of ground and brings together ideas and analyses in a way that has not really been done yet in archaeology."--Colin Grier, Washington State University Contributors to this volume explain how archaeologists can use Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' mode of production concept to study long-term patterns in human society. Mode of production analysis describes how labor is organized to create surplus which is then used for political purposes. This type of analysis allows archaeologists to compare and contrast peoples across distant continents and eras, from hunter-gatherer groups to early agriculturalists to nation-states. Presenting a range of different perspectives from researchers working in a wide variety of societies and time periods, this volume clearly demonstrates why historical materialism matters to the field of archaeology.
Download or read book Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies written by Gary M. Feinman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies explores past societies that are characterized by hierarchical organization where the production and circulation of goods transcend domestic units. Based on contributions to the biennial Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Roundtable, Gary Feinman and Linda Nicholas bring together twelve leaders in the field whose contributions consider such questions as the emergence of rank within a previously egalitarian society, the regional organization of preindustrial economic systems, different modes of craft specializations, and the relation between high-status consumption and long-distance trade. Areas of study include most of the core areas of early complex society development, and analytical scales that range from domestic units to macroregional networks, demonstrating how archaeological research and data can help explicate the economic intricacies of past societies. The volume reinvigorates the archaeological investigation of preindustrial economies, offering both new theoretical perspectives and new empirical foundations.
