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Hambledon Hill Dorset England
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Author : Roger Mercer
language : en
Publisher: English Heritage Publishing
Release Date : 2014-02-15
Hambledon Hill Dorset England written by Roger Mercer and has been published by English Heritage Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-15 with Social Science categories.
A programme of excavation and survey directed by Roger Mercer between 1974 and 1986 demonstrated that Hambledon was the site of an exceptionally large and diverse complex of earlier Neolithic earthworks, including two causewayed enclosures, two long barrows and several outworks, some of them defensive. The abundant cultural material preserved in its ditches and pits provides information about numerous aspects of contemporary society, among them conflict, feasting, the treatment of the human corpse, exchange, stock management and cereal cultivation. The distinct depositional signatures of various parts of the complex reflect their diverse use. The scale and manner of individual episodes of construction hint at the levels of organisation and co-ordination obtaining in contemporary society. Use of the complex and the construction of its various elements were episodic and intermittent, spread over 300-400 hundred years, and did not entail lasting settlement. As well as stone axe heads exchanged from remote sources, more abundant grinding equipment and pottery from adjacent regions may point to the areas from which people came to the hill. If so, it had important links with territories to the west, north-west and south, in other words with land off the Wessex Chalk, at the edge of which the complex lies. Within the smaller compass of the immediate area of the hill, including Cranborne Chase, field walking survey suggests that the hill was the main focus of earlier Neolithic activity. A complementary relationship with the Chase is indicated by a fairly abrupt diminution of activity on the hill in the late fourth millennium, when the massive Dorset cursus and several smaller monuments were built in the Chase. Renewed activity on the hill in the late third millennium and early second millennium was a prelude to occupation on and around the hill in the second millennium in the mid to late second millennium, which was followed by the construction of a hillfort on the northern spur from the early first millennium. Late Iron Age and Romano-British activity may reflect the proximity of Hod Hill. A small pagan Saxon cemetery may relate to settlement in the Iwerne valley which it overlooks.
Hambledon Hill
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Author : Roger J. Mercer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Hambledon Hill written by Roger J. Mercer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with England categories.
Hambledon Hill Dorset England
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Author : Roger J. Mercer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Hambledon Hill Dorset England written by Roger J. Mercer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Archaeological surveying categories.
Hambledon Hill Child Okeford Hanford And Iwerne Courtney Dorset
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Author : Alastair Oswald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Hambledon Hill Child Okeford Hanford And Iwerne Courtney Dorset written by Alastair Oswald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Archaeology categories.
Medicine Healing And Performance
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Author : Effie Gemi-Iordanou
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2014-02-13
Medicine Healing And Performance written by Effie Gemi-Iordanou and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with Medical categories.
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick.
Molluscs In Archaeology
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Author : Michael J. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Molluscs In Archaeology written by Michael J. Allen and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Social Science categories.
The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of mollusks in archaeology. It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those landscapes. It includes Marine, Freshwater and land snails studies, and examines topics such as diet, economy, climate, environmental and land-use, isotopes and mollusks as artifacts. It aims to provide archaeologists and students with the first port of call giving them a) methods and principles, and b) the potential information mollusks can provide. It concentrates on analysis and interpretation most archaeologists and students can undertake and understand, and to 'review' the 'heavier' science in terms of potential, application and interpretational value.
The Archaeology Of Anxiety
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Author : Jeffrey Fleisher
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-17
The Archaeology Of Anxiety written by Jeffrey Fleisher and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-17 with Social Science categories.
Recent efforts to engage more explicitly with the interpretation of emotions in archaeology have sought new approaches and terminology to encourage archaeologists to take emotions seriously. This is part of a growing awareness of the importance of senses—what we see, smell, hear, and feel—in the constitution and reconstitution of past social and cultural lives. Yet research on emotion in archaeology remains limited, despite the fact that such states underpin many studies of socio-cultural transformation. The Archaeology of Anxiety draws together papers that examine the local complexities of anxiety as well as the variable stimuli—class or factional struggle, warfare, community construction and maintenance, personal turmoil, and responsibilities to (and relationships with) the dead—that may generate emotional responses of fear, anxiousness, worry, and concern. The goal of this timely volume is to present fresh research that addresses the material dimension of rites and performances related to the mitigation and negotiation of anxiety as well as the role of material culture and landscapes in constituting and even creating periods or episodes of anxiety.
The Past From Above
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Author : Georg Gerster
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2005
The Past From Above written by Georg Gerster and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Photography categories.
Catalog for an exhibition at the Ruhrlandmuseum in Essen, honoring Georg Gerster for over 40 years of aerial photography of archaeological sites around the world.
Assembling Past Worlds
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Author : Oliver J.T. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Assembling Past Worlds written by Oliver J.T. Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Social Science categories.
Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment in the emergence of new ways of living, as well as new relationships between materials, people and new forms of architecture. It achieves two things. First, it identifies the major challenges that archaeology faces in the light of current theoretical shifts. New ideas place new demands on how we write and think about the past, sometimes in ways that can seem contradictory. This volume identifies seven major challenges that have emerged and sets out why they matter, why archaeology needs to engage with them and how they can be dealt with through an innovative theoretical approach. Second, it explores how this approach meets these challenges through an in-depth study of Neolithic Britain. It provides an insightful diagnosis of the issues posed by current archaeological thought and is the first volume to apply the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the extended analysis of a single period. Assembling Past Worlds shows how new approaches are transforming our understandings of past worlds and, in so doing, how we can meet the challenges facing archaeology today. It will be of interest to both students and researchers in archaeological theory and the Neolithic of Europe.
Iron Age Hillforts In Britain And Beyond
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Author : Dennis Harding
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Iron Age Hillforts In Britain And Beyond written by Dennis Harding and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe. Harding reviews the changing perceptions of hillforts and the future prospects for hillfort research, highlighting aspects of contemporary investigation and interpretation.