Oursi Hu-Beero
A Medieval House Complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Edited by Lucas P. Petit, Maya von Czerniewicz & Christoph Pelzer | 2011
This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning “the big house of Oursi” in the locally spoken…
Communities in Contact
Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean
Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Anne van Duijvenbode | 2011
Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the fourth international Leiden in the Caribbean congress entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics…
Analysing allerzielen alom
Material culture in an emerging rite
William R. Arfman | 2011
Since 2005 Dutch artists Ida van der Lee’s Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls’ All around) project, as well as its various offshoots, have flowered throughout the Netherlands. In doing so they have brought a diverse…
Capturing value increase in urban redevelopment
A study of how the economic value increase in urban redevelopment can be used to finance the necessary public infrastructure and other facilities
Demetrio Muñoz Gielen | 2011
Everyone would agree that urban development, especially when involving the building of residential areas, should be accompanied by sufficient and good public infrastructure and facilities. We all want neighborhoods with the necessary roads, green areas,…
Blood is thicker than water
Amerindian intra- and inter-insular relationships and social organization in the pre-Colonial Windward Islands
Alistair J. Bright | 2011
This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (ca. 400 BC – AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the…
Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan
Kuel Maluil Jok | 2011
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern ‘Southern Sudan’. It gives an account of how the Animistic…
Iron Age Echoes
Prehistoric land management and the creation of a funerary landscape - the “twin barrows” at the Echoput in Apeldoorn
Edited by David Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjan Louwen | 2011
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe’s prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how “barrow landscapes” came into being . This book deals with that…
Oursi Hu-Beero
A Medieval House Complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Edited by Lucas P. Petit, Maya von Czerniewicz & Christoph Pelzer | 2011
This final report describes the study of an exceptionally well-preserved Iron Age building discovered in northern Burkina Faso, West Africa. The site of Oursi hu-beero, meaning “the big house of Oursi” in the locally spoken…
Communities in Contact
Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean
Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Anne van Duijvenbode | 2011
Communities in Contact represents the outcome of the fourth international Leiden in the Caribbean congress entitled From Prehistory to Ethnography in the circum-Caribbean. The contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of topics…
Analysing allerzielen alom
Material culture in an emerging rite
William R. Arfman | 2011
Since 2005 Dutch artists Ida van der Lee’s Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls’ All around) project, as well as its various offshoots, have flowered throughout the Netherlands. In doing so they have brought a diverse…
Capturing value increase in urban redevelopment
A study of how the economic value increase in urban redevelopment can be used to finance the necessary public infrastructure and other facilities
Demetrio Muñoz Gielen | 2011
Everyone would agree that urban development, especially when involving the building of residential areas, should be accompanied by sufficient and good public infrastructure and facilities. We all want neighborhoods with the necessary roads, green areas,…
Blood is thicker than water
Amerindian intra- and inter-insular relationships and social organization in the pre-Colonial Windward Islands
Alistair J. Bright | 2011
This study represents a contribution to the pre-Colonial archaeology of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. The research aimed to determine how the Ceramic Age (ca. 400 BC – AD 1492) Amerindian inhabitants of the…
Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan
Kuel Maluil Jok | 2011
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern ‘Southern Sudan’. It gives an account of how the Animistic…
Iron Age Echoes
Prehistoric land management and the creation of a funerary landscape - the “twin barrows” at the Echoput in Apeldoorn
Edited by David Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjan Louwen | 2011
Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe’s prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how “barrow landscapes” came into being . This book deals with that…
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