Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action
A Case of Reciprocal Influence
Edited by Annette Haug & Asja Müller | 2020
This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean’s archaeological and historical record are detectable,…
Pandemien und Krisen
Entfernte Zeiten so nah
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archäologie leistet einen Beitrag für das gesellschaftliche Verständnis von Krisen, einschließlich gegenwärtiger und potentieller zukünftiger Notlagen. Auch Krankheiten wie Pandemien wurden und werden von der Archäologie in vergangenen Gesellschaften beobachtet. Einige solche Beispiele finden sich…
Pandemics and Crises Reloaded
Distant Times So Close
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archaeology is all about how the present came into existence. Thus, it contributes to the social understanding of crises, including present and potential future adversities. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and…
Stereotype
The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices
Karsten Wentink | 2020
Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set…
Cultures of Stone
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
Edited by Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly & Sol Mallía-Guest | 2020
This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has…
Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies
The macro and microscopic characteristics of experimental samples
Theresa Emmerich Kamper | 2020
The importance of skin processing technologies in the history and expansion of humankind cannot be overstated, yet these technologies can be difficult to identify in the archaeological record. This research outlines the development of a…
Sur les pas de l’âne dans la religion égyptienne
Marie Vandenbeusch | 2020
L’âne, animal essentiel au commerce et à l’agriculture de l’Égypte ancienne, apparaît dans des sources de tout ordre, témoignant de sa prégnance dans l’univers égyptien. Une grande partie des attestations relatives à cet animal provient…
Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action
A Case of Reciprocal Influence
Edited by Annette Haug & Asja Müller | 2020
This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean’s archaeological and historical record are detectable,…
Pandemien und Krisen
Entfernte Zeiten so nah
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archäologie leistet einen Beitrag für das gesellschaftliche Verständnis von Krisen, einschließlich gegenwärtiger und potentieller zukünftiger Notlagen. Auch Krankheiten wie Pandemien wurden und werden von der Archäologie in vergangenen Gesellschaften beobachtet. Einige solche Beispiele finden sich…
Pandemics and Crises Reloaded
Distant Times So Close
Edited by Lutz Käppel, Cheryl Makarewicz & Johannes Müller | 2020
Archaeology is all about how the present came into existence. Thus, it contributes to the social understanding of crises, including present and potential future adversities. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and…
Stereotype
The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices
Karsten Wentink | 2020
Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set…
Cultures of Stone
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
Edited by Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly & Sol Mallía-Guest | 2020
This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has…
Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies
The macro and microscopic characteristics of experimental samples
Theresa Emmerich Kamper | 2020
The importance of skin processing technologies in the history and expansion of humankind cannot be overstated, yet these technologies can be difficult to identify in the archaeological record. This research outlines the development of a…
Sur les pas de l’âne dans la religion égyptienne
Marie Vandenbeusch | 2020
L’âne, animal essentiel au commerce et à l’agriculture de l’Égypte ancienne, apparaît dans des sources de tout ordre, témoignant de sa prégnance dans l’univers égyptien. Une grande partie des attestations relatives à cet animal provient…
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