Download or read book Domestic Multicrafting for Exchange at Prehispanic Ejutla Oaxaca Mexico written by Gary M. Feinman and published by International. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform. Archaeological investigations at the prehispanic Ejutla site in Oaxaca, Mexico, have had a foundational role in reframing our perspectives on Mesoamerican economies, specifically craft specialization. This volume reports on the excavations of a residential complex located at the southern limits of the Valley of Oaxaca system, where evidence was recovered for multiple craft activities associated with a single non-elite domestic unit. The residential occupants crafted a variety of ornaments from marine shell, mostly sourced to the Pacific Coast, but few were consumed by the householders themselves. In addition, the Ejutla craftworkers produced a range of ceramic utilitarian vessels, including domestic wares and figurines, as well as small lapidary objects. Many of the craft goods produced were destined for exchange, circulating in both local and longer-distance networks. The findings have laid a basis for new theorizing on prehispanic economic production and the revision of prior notions that presumed principally local economies, in which specialized production for exchange was centered in nondomestic workshops.
Download or read book Cerro Danush written by Ronald K. Faulseit and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Economy Neoliberalism and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America written by Ty Matejowsky and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues on-going presentation of highly engaging anthropological research. This title contains a range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists that explore from various critical perspectives. It addresses questions of how political economy is articulated through processes of consumption, production, and evolution.
Download or read book Origins Foundations Sustainability and Trip Lines of Good Governance Archaeological and Historical Considerations written by Gary M. Feinman and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, scholarly consensus across the social sciences and history adhered to the view that the incorporation of citizen voice in governance (e.g., democracy) was an entirely Western phenomenon that mostly is a product of the emergence of rational thought and the modern world. These views are now empirically questioned and subject to serious reconsideration. Yet, even researchers who recognize a broader temporal span for democratic or “good” governance draw fundamental distinctions between these political forms in the past and present. Building on the collective action theories, in particular those focused on fiscal financing, the editors of this Research Topic outline fundamental characteristics (internal financing, equitable taxation, checks on power, and a functioning bureaucracy) at the core of good governance, which are neither the sole project of the contemporary West, nor tied to any specific ideological construct or form of leadership. Even elections can no longer be conceived as assurance of good governance. At this time of global challenges to democracy, understanding the comparative history of good governments, their core institutions, how they worked, their foundations, what led to their downfalls, and the factors that prompted their sustenance or their collapses are extremely important to document. The historical trends and coactive processes that underpinned those human cooperative arrangements, which fostered growth and general well-being, require comparative focus if we are to draw on the wealth of human history to help craft better governance in the future and forestall the tripwires that lead to its failures. We welcome contributions which focus on; • Diachronic examinations of changes in the fiscal foundations of governance and their impacts on governance. • Comparative analysis of governmental variability and its relationship to collective action and its fiscal financing. • Cross-temporal studies of shifts in the degree of good governance and relations to inequality, sustainability, bureaucracy, public goods and services, and fiscal financing. • The importance of social compacts and contracts in representative government and how these are sustained and break down. • Alternatives and supplements to elections as means of assessing subaltern voices. • The relationship between governance and inequality over time and across space. • Differences in modes of political collapse and their relationship to governance, fiscal financing, and responses of principals. • The role of public ritual in good versus autocratic governments. • Variance in communication and computation in good versus autocratic governments. • The relationship between comparative governance and the uses and spatial distributions of community/urban space, residential and non-residential architecture, sprawl versus compact settlement. • The relationship between comparative governance and neighborhood organization. • Was there one or many episodes of enlightenment? • The relationship between governance and coactive processes including considerations of demographic growth, patterns of migration, well-being, economic growth. • The relationship between slave labor and governance, spot resources and governance. • Non-hierarchical and egalitarian forms of governance in non-state societies. • Indigenous inspirations and influences on the Constitution of the United States. • Collective action and establishment of early cities. Our aim for this Research Topic is to compile a series of research essays drawn from a broad cross-regional and cross-temporal sample of historical settings to explore issues and themes relevant to the history and processes that have been at the heart of good governance.
Download or read book Fieldiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals written by Kitty F. Emery and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognition of the role of animals in ancient diet, economy, politics, and ritual is vital to understanding ancient cultures fully, while following the clues available from animal remains in reconstructing environments is vital to understanding the ancient relationship between humans and the world around them. In response to the growing interest in the field of zooarchaeology, this volume presents current research from across the many cultures and regions of Mesoamerica, dealing specifically with the most current issues in zooarchaeological literature. Geographically, the essays collected here index the different aspects of animal use by the indigenous populations of the entire area between the northern borders of Mexico and the southern borders of lower Central America. This includes such diverse cultures as the north Mexican hunter-gatherers, the Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Central American Indians. The time frame of the volume extends from the earliest human occupation, the Preclassic, Classic, Postclassic, and Colonial manifestations, to recent times. The book's chapters, written by experts in the field of Mesoamerican zooarchaeology, provide important general background on the domestic and ritual use of animals in early and classic Mesoamerica and Central America, but deal also with special aspects of human-animal relationships such as early domestication and symbolism of animals, and important yet otherwise poorly represented aspects of taphonomy and zooarchaeological methodology. Spanish-language version also available (ISBN 978-1-937040-12-3).
Download or read book The Spatial Structure of Kom El Hisn written by Anthony Cagle and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kom el-Hisn is one of the few Old Kingdom sites located in the Nile Delta to have been the subject of a systematic program of excavation. Based on this program of research Anthony Cagle analyses the site data through an approach based on Darwinian evolutionary theory.
Download or read book Columbanus and Merovingian Monasticism written by Howard B. Clarke and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ship Iconography in Mosaics written by Zaraza Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of ships are not unsuprisingly reasonably common in the Roman mosaics of the Mediterranean. Here Zaraza Friedman analyses some of the most important examples, asking what they can tell us about ancient ship construction, rigging, and sailing techniques, and compares the results with the evidence available from the archaeological record.
Download or read book Housework written by Kenneth G. Hirth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Households are, without question, the most important social units in human society. They are interactive social units whose primary concern is the day-to-day well being of their kith and kin. Households reproduce themselves and provide their members with the economic, psychological, and social resources necessary to live their lives. Although households vary enormously in size and organization, they are the fundamental social settings in which families are defined and cultural values are transmitted through a range of domestic activities and rituals. Despite their many functions, it is the range and productivity of their economic activities that determine the success, survival and well being of their members. Households are the primary production and consumption units in society and provide the vehicle through which resources are pooled, stored, and distributed to their members. Survival and reproduction is their business and the work they do determines their success.
Download or read book Forming Identities written by Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez and published by British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the manufacturingtechniques of Corinthian potters during the Archaic Period, as well as therelationships established with their natural environment. The results of thisresearch show that the advent of the Black Figure pottery style wasintrinsically related to the adoption by Corinthian potters of newmanufacturing techniques and recipes for their paints and slips. This change ofthe paint and gloss recipes required the use of new raw materials, which takesthe discussion on pottery production at the site from purely technical issuesto social and economic ones, such as access and control of these scarceresources or the relationships between potters and their local community. Thesignificance of this discovery also sheds new light upon the diversity of localstyles in Greece.
Download or read book Hill of Prosperity written by Helmut Loofs-Wissowa and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khok Charoen (Hill of Prosperity) is aneolithic burial ground in Central Thailand, excavated in the 1960s and 70s bythe Thai-British Archaeological Expedition, but because of the substantialAustralian contribution these excavations can rightly be called the firstAustralian venture into Southeast Asian archaeology. The site, dated to the latter half of thesecond and the beginning of the first millennium BC, consists of threecemeteries with a total of 65 burials, straddling a discontinuity caused byfloods, which greatly disturbed these burials and their finds, which include513 pots, but no bronze. The study of this pottery is the key to theunderstanding of the cultural and social history of the site, explainingkillings and grave robberies within a divided society. The aim of this book is to present, with thehelp of a great number of illustrations, an overall picture of this site at thejunction of Stone and Bronze.
Download or read book An Early Pottery Neolithic Occurrence at Beisamoun the Hula Valley Northern Israel written by Danny Rosenberg and published by British Archaeological Reports Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 2007 a large-scale salvage excavation took place on the western margins of Beisamoun in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, as part of the development of the Rosh Pina-Qiryat Shmona highway. Excavation in the western part of the greater area of the Beisamoun site, formerly known for its Pre-Pottery Neolithic B finds, revealed a wealth of a archaeological objects attributed to an early phase of the Pottery Neolithic period. This volume presents the final reports of the 2007 salvage excavation, and it discusses relevent issues concerning the Prehistory of the Hula Valley during the earliest stages of the Pottery Neolithic period. Chapter 1) The site and the 2007 salvage excavation (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 2) Geological and geomorphological settings (Nurit Shtober ); Chapter 3) The stone component of the pits and pavements (Danny Rosenberg and Nurit Shtober); Chapter 4) The pottery assemblage (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 5) The lithic assemblage (Iris Groman-Yeroslavski and Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 6) The obsidian assemblage (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 7) The stone assemblage (Danny Rosenberg); Chapter 8) The Skeletal Remains (Vered Eshed); Chapter 9) The faunal remains (Noa Raban-Gerstel and Guy Bar-oz); Chapter 10) Cremation from the Hellenistic period at Beisamoun and other finds of historic periods (Yotam Tepper); Chapter 11) The Early Pottery Neolithic of Beisamoun and the Neolithic of the Hula Valley - Summary and Discussion (Danny Rosenberg).
Download or read book From Space to Place written by Stefano Campana and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference at Rome in December 2006, promoted the use of integrated methodologies in remote sensing archaeology so as to help in the creation of new and sustainable policies in the monitoring, interpretation, fruition and communication of the cultural heritage. Including 67 papers from 10 sessions.
Download or read book A River In Drought written by John Burn and published by International. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ecological analyses of the riverine habitat as it may have developed in times of excess nutrient load within the river.
Download or read book Sasanian Clay Sealings in the Bandar Abbas Museum written by Kamal Aldin Niknami and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the newly discovered assemblage of 800 Sasanianclay sealings which is now kept in the Persian Gulf Museum of Bandar Abbas,Iran. In 2012, this collection was confiscated in Bandar Khamir, HormozganProvince when in transit from Iran to UAE, and was delivered to the HormozganCenter of Cultural Heritage Organization. Unfortunately the provenance of thecollection is still unknown, but in comparison with the large Sasanian archivesof Qasr- ? Abu Nasr and Taxt- i Soleyman, which comprise 505and 241 clay sealings, respectively, such a large number of clay sealings isremarkable. The book introduces this new and hitherto unpublished archive ofSasanian clay sealings and we hope that the archive in question will expand ourknowledge of Sasanian economic systems.
Download or read book Looking for the Prehispanic Filipino written by William Henry Scott and published by . This book was released on 1992-06-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we know so much more about Philippine history, than was the case say ten or twenty years ago, the task of reconstructing and reinterpreting it in light of centuries of misinterpretations, distortions and omissions remains a formidable and overwhelming one. To compensate for this horrendous neglect of our history, we need to identify and rectify the imbalances in historical scholarship, to apply the best techniques, use the best perspectives not only of the discipline of history but also those of sister disciplines in the social sciences and humanities as well as access the voluminous historical data in archives and libraries in many parts of the world. It hardly need be stated that there is also a need to re-read the earlier historical presentations for many of them have served only to obscure the real contours of our development as a people. We have reached a stage in our historical development where the rescue of our culture is of utmost importance: we must make any aspect of our culture ever present and easy of access to see its assonance with (or significance in) our present life and to free it from the alienating forces that have prevented its self-appraisal. Obviously, any scholar who engages in the above process would also contribute to the affirmation of the Filipino identity and provide substance to the truism that history can be an instrument of liberation.
