Download or read book Chiefdom societies in prehistoric Malta written by Alberto Cazzella and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2017-04-05T00:00:00+02:00 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As is well known, years ago C. Renfrew adopted the social model of chiefdom to explain the emergence of outstanding megalithic centres in the Maltese archipelago in the mid-4th millennium BC. This represented a pioneering attempt to apply to a Prehistoric Mediterranean context the model, advanced by Neoevolutionary American anthropologists, that exemplifies unequal societies with an established hierarchy based on birthrights. Since then, the concept of chiefdom has been widely debated among scholars. In order to test the actual applicability of the chiefdom model in a real case study, which appears more fruitful than an abstract speculation, the authors reconsider the specific prehistoric context of Malta between the 3500 and the 1500 BC. As for the Temple period, a central question is posed: are the megalithic centres the materialised traces of an early emergence of social inequality in the central Mediterranean? Moreover, the possible reasons behind the collapse of Temple period society are discussed, as well as the socio-ideological transformations occurred during the Early Bronze Age. | Come è noto, diversi anni fa C. Renfrew utilizzò il modello sociale del chiefdom per spiegare l’affermazione di imponenti centri megalitici nell’arcipelago maltese intorno alla metà del IV millennio a.C. Questo tentativo pionieristico si proponeva di applicare a un contesto preistorico mediterraneo tale modello (formulato da alcuni antropologi neoevoluzionisti statunitensi), che esprime la connotazione specifica di società disuguali con una gerarchia stabile basata su diritti di nascita. Da allora il concetto di chiefdom è stato ampiamente dibattuto tra gli studiosi. Per cercare di verificare l’attuale applicabilità del modello del chiefdom a un caso di studio reale, gli autori riprendono in esame il contesto maltese tra il 3500 e il 1500 a.C. Per quel che riguarda il Periodo dei Templi, si pone un quesito principale: i centri megalitici rappresentano le tracce materializzate di una precoce insorgenza della disuguaglianza sociale nel Mediterraneo centrale? Inoltre sono discusse le possibili ragioni alla base del collasso della società del Periodo dei Templi, così come le trasformazioni avvenute durante il Bronzo antico.
Download or read book The late prehistory of Malta Essays on Bor in Nadur and other sites written by Davide Tanasi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borg in-Nadur, Malta, is a major multi-period site, with archaeological remains that span several thousand years. Excavations were carried out here in 1881 and again in 1959. This volume provides an exhaustive account of the stratigraphy, the pottery, the lithic assemblages, the bones, and the molluscs.
Download or read book Monumentalising Life in the Neolithic written by Anne Birgitte Gebaer and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the principal characteristics of the European Neolithic is the development of monumentality in association with innovations in material culture and changes in subsistence from hunting and gathering to farming and pastoralism. The papers in this volume discuss the latest insights into why monumental architecture became an integral part of early farming societies in Europe and beyond. One of the topics is how we define monuments and how our arguments and recent research on temporality impacts on our interpretation of the Neolithic period. Different interpretations of Göbekli Tepe are examples of this discussion as well as our understanding of special landmarks such as flint mines. The latest evidence on the economic and paleoenvironmental context, carbon 14 dates as well as analytical methods are employed in illuminating the emergence of monumentalism in Neolithic Europe. Studies are taking place on a macro and micro scale in areas as diverse as Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Germany, the Dutch wetlands, Portugal and Malta involving a range of monuments from long barrows and megalithic tombs to roundels and enclosures. Transformation from a natural to a built environment by monumentalizing part of the landscape is discussed as well as changes in megalithic architecture in relation to shifts in the social structure. An ethnographic study of megaliths in Nagaland discuss monument building as an act of social construction. Other studies look into the role of monuments as expressions of cosmology and active loci of ceremonial performances. Also, a couple of papers analyse the social processes in the transformation of society in the aftermath of the initial boom in monument construction and the related changes in subsistence and social structure in northern Europe. The aim of the publication is to explore different theories about the relationship between monumentality and the Neolithic way of life through these studies encompassing a wide range of types of monuments over vast areas of Europe and beyond.
Download or read book The Hal Saflieni Prehistoric Hypogeum at Casal Paula Malta written by Themistocles Zammit and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Malta written by Themistocles Zammit and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Temple and Tomb written by New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archaeology of Malta written by Claudia Sagona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maltese archipelago is a unique barometer for understanding cultural change in the central Mediterranean. Prehistoric people helped reshape the islands' economy and when Mediterranean maritime highways were being established, the islands became a significant lure to Phoenician colonists venturing from their Levantine homeland. Punic Malta also sat at the front line of regional hostilities until it fell to Rome. Preserved in this island setting are signs of people's endurance and adaptation to each new challenge. This book is the first systematic and up-to-date survey of the islands' archaeological evidence from the initial settlers to the archipelago's inclusion into the Roman world (c.5000 BC–400 AD). Claudia Sagona draws upon old and new discoveries and her analysis covers well-known sites such as the megalithic structures, as well as less familiar locations and discoveries. She interprets the archaeological record to explain changing social and political structures, intriguing ritual practices and cultural contact through several millennia.
Download or read book Sky and Purpose in Prehistoric Malta written by Tore Lomsdalen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household and Community Organization in the Late Prehistoric Society Island Chiefdoms French Polynesia written by Jennifer Girard Kahn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transition to Statehood in the New World written by Grant D. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1982 collection of eight original anthropological essays provides an exciting synthesis of theory and practice in one of the key issues of contemporary cultural evolutionary thought. The contributors ask why complex, highly stratified societies emerged at several locations in the New World at the same point in prehistory. Focusing primarily on the initial centers of civilization in Mesoamerica and the Andean region, they consider the sociopolitical, environmental and ideological factors in state formation. The essays discuss the prehistoric conditions and processes that simulated the development of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica and Peru, and explore the difficulties archaeologists must face in their direct analysis of physical remains. In general, the contributors recognize a growing need for better archaeological solutions to the question of state origin and for more sensitivity to the problems as well as to the possibilities of ethnographic analogy.
Download or read book Facets of Maltese Prehistory written by Prehistoric Society of Malta and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Maltese Islands written by John Davies Evans and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1971 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Port Authority of Rotterdam
Download or read book Evolutionism In Cultural Anthropology written by Robert L. Carneiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of evolutionism in cultural anthropology, beginning with its roots in the 19th century, through the half-century of anti-evolutionism, to its reemergence in the 1950s, and the current perspectives on it today. No other book covers the subject so fully or over such a long period of time.. Evolutionism and Cultural Anthropology traces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-first century. It is a focused examination of how the idea of evolution has continued to provide anthropology with a master principle around which a vast body of data can be organized and synthesized. Erudite and readable, and quoting extensively from early theorists (such as Edward Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, John McLennan, Henry Maine, and James Frazer) so that the reader might judge them on the basis of their own words, Evolutionism and Cultural Anthropology is useful reading for courses in anthropological theory and the history of anthropology. 0813337666 Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology : a Critical History
Download or read book Economic and Social Organization of a Complex Chiefdom written by Timothy Earle and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, Timothy Earle worked with Marshall Sahlins doing archaeological and ethnohistorical research on the Halelea district in Kaua’i, Hawaii. In this volume, Earle reports on his archaeological and historical research on irrigation in this region. He also discusses modern taro agriculture and community organization. Illustrations by Eliza H. Earle.
Download or read book Pathaways through Arslantepe written by Matteo Pontoglio Emilii and published by Edizioni Sette Città. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 1231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raccolta di articoli in onore di Marcella Frangipane riguardo il sito archeologico Arslantepe, in Antaolia orientale
Download or read book Society Culture and Identity in Early Modern Malta written by Carmel Cassar and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cult in Context written by Caroline Malone and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult. Archaeology has great difficulties in providing satisfactory interpretation or recognition of these elusive but important parts of ancient society, and methodologies are often poorly equipped to explore the evidence. This collection of papers explores a wide range of prehistoric and early historic archaeological contexts from Britain, Europe and beyond, where monuments, architectural structures, megaliths, art, caves, ritual activity and symbolic remains offer exciting glimpses into ancient belief systems and cult behaviour. Different theoretical and practical approaches are demonstrated, offering both new directions and considered conclusions to the many problems of studying the archaeology of cult and ritual. Central to the volume is an exploration of early Malta and its intriguing Temple Culture, set in a broad perspective by the discussion and theoretical approaches presented in different geographical and chronological contexts.
