Debido a unas labores de construcción en el sector de Playa Bonita, en la depresión de Quíbor, al noroccidente de Venezuela, los obreros hallaron de manera fortuita restos óseos prehispánicos, razón ...por la que se llevó a cabo un proyecto arqueológico de rescate para extraer los enterramientos. Se registró el contexto y se analizaron las prácticas funerarias y las series esqueléticas para compararlas con los demás cementerios que se han descubierto en el territorio. Se realizó un proceso de divulgación con la comunidad que hace vida en el sector y con la población estudiantil como parte integral de la labor arqueológica. En este reporte se presentan algunos de los resultados de la investigación en curso como es la excavación de ocho enterramientos humanos, el análisis del contexto funerario, así como el abordaje comunitario y comunicacional del proyecto. Se logra identificar este sitio como perteneciente a la Fase Boulevard, una tradición cultural funeraria de este territorio, que evidencia la extensión de una ocupación humana clasificada como cacical en toda la depresión de Quíbor.
La información arqueológica que se presenta en este documento hace parte de los resultados del Programa de Arqueología Preventiva que se llevó a cabo en el marco de la ejecución del Proyecto Vial ...Rumichaca-Pasto. La investigación se basa en la excavación de 47 contextos funerarios inalterados que se hallaron en la vereda El Porvenir, municipio de Iles, (Nariño, sur de Colombia). El cementerio se fechó sobre los siglos IV y V d. C., lo que permite aproximarse al entendimiento de los procesos de ocupación y el modo de vida social y simbólico de los grupos prehispánicos que se asentaron en la región. Se hallaron evidencias en la tipología cerámica y las fechas que relacionan El Porvenir con los grupos humanos prehispánicos que se asentaron en el norte de Ecuador, lo que visibiliza un gran uso de este territorio que, en términos políticos, es importante. Así mismo, los hallazgos de esta importante cantidad de contextos funerarios reafirman el reconocimiento y legitimación social y simbólica del territorio. En términos de sitios de enterramientos, estos contextos se diferencian de otros de su misma temporalidad y cultura, debido a la gran variabilidad encontrada entre las estructuras.
Palabras clave Turd de Peralada; contexto domestico; Iberico Pleno-Tardio; brasero de bronce Abstract The last excavation campaigns carried out on the lower sector of the archeological Turd de ...Peralada site have uncovered two new houses dating from the full to late Iberian period. With this new evidence, as well as its dereliction in the mid-ist century BC due to the irruption of the Roman world, warrants a new up-to-date interpretation that takes into account this recent significant discoveries and revises previous interpretations regarding the settlement inhabitation. Los usos actuates del suelo dificultan enormemente la investigation y conservation de los restos arqueologicos, por la limitation de que las unicas intervenciones sean de caracter preventive, sujetas a obras puntuales y diseminadas, y sin poder llevar a cabo proyectos de investigation en extension, ademas de la parcialidad del registro documentado, tanto por la sucesion de fases de ocupacion como por la extension y potencia permitidas por los rebajes en el subsuelo. Por todas estas razones, el yacimiento se convirtid en un enclave fundamental para el control del hinterland emporitano, tanto en el dominio territorial como para la estructuracidn de los mercados de la region (Llinas et al., 1998: 39) (figura 2).
A masterful art historical analysis of how Late Preclassic (300 BC to AD 250) rulers in Chiapas, Mexico, created an elite visual language to express political and supernatural authority which spread ...through much of the Maya world.
In The Archaeology of the Caucasus, Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive survey of a key area in the Eurasian land mass, from the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron Age. ...Examining the bewildering array of cultural complexes found in the region, he draws on both Soviet and post-Soviet investigations and synthesises the vast quantity of diverse and often fragmented evidence across the region's frontiers. Written in an engaging manner that balances material culture and theory, the volume focuses on the most significant sites and cultural traditions. Sagona also highlights the accomplishments of the Caucasian communities and situates them within the broader setting of their neighbours in Anatolia, Iran, and Russia. Sprinkled with new data, much of it published here for the first time, The Archaeology of the Caucasus contains many new photographs, drawings and plans, many of which have not been accessible to Western researchers.
This book is the first synthesis of the archaeology of the Urals and Western Siberia. It presents a comprehensive overview of the late prehistoric cultures of these regions, which are of key ...importance for the understanding of long-term changes in Eurasia. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, the Urals and Western Siberia are characterized by great environmental and cultural diversity which is reflected in the variety and richness of their archaeological sites. Based on the latest achievements of Russian archaeologists, this study demonstrates the temporal and geographical range of its subjects starting with a survey of the chronological sequence from the late fourth millennium BC to the early first millennium AD. Recent discoveries contribute to an understanding of issues such as the development of Eurasian metallurgy, technological and ritual innovations, pastoral nomadism and its role in Eurasian interactions, and major sociocultural fluctuations of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in April of 2003
provoked a world outcry at the loss of artifacts regarded as part
of humanity's shared cultural patrimony. But though the losses were
...unprecedented in scale, the museum looting was hardly the first
time that Iraqi heirlooms had been plundered or put to political
uses. From the beginning of archaeology as a modern science in the
nineteenth century, Europeans excavated and appropriated Iraqi
antiquities as relics of the birth of Western civilization. Since
Iraq was created in 1921, the modern state has used archaeology to
forge a connection to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia
and/or Islamic empires and so build a sense of nationhood among
Iraqis of differing religious traditions and ethnicities.
This book delves into the ways that archaeology and politics
intertwined in Iraq during the British Mandate and the first years
of nationhood before World War II. Magnus Bernhardsson begins with
the work of British archaeologists who conducted extensive
excavations in Iraq and sent their finds to the museums of Europe.
He then traces how Iraqis' growing sense of nationhood led them to
confront the British over antiquities law and the division of
archaeological finds between Iraq and foreign excavators. He shows
how Iraq's control over its archaeological patrimony was directly
tied to the balance of political power and how it increased as
power shifted to the Iraqi government. Finally he examines how
Iraqi leaders, including Saddam Hussein, have used archaeology and
history to legitimize the state and its political actions.
The ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh (present-day Kültepe, Turkey) was a continuously inhabited site from the early Bronze Age through Roman times. The city flourished c.2000–1750 BCE as an Old ...Assyrian trade outpost and the earliest attested commercial society in world history. More than 23,000 elaborate clay tablets from private merchant houses provide a detailed description of a system of long-distance trade that reached from central Asia to the Black Sea region and the Aegean. The texts record common activities such as trade between Kanesh and the city state of Assur and between Assyrian merchants and local people. The tablets tell us about the economy as well as culture, language, religion, and private lives of individuals we can identify by name, occupation, and sometimes even personality. This book presents an in-depth account of this vibrant Bronze Age Anatolian society, revealing the daily lives of its inhabitants.
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the ...Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today’s Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and “global” economies during the eight centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts, botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the classical Mediterranean world and Asia.
In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations ...from the Neolithic to modern times. The North has fascinated Europeans throughout history, as an enchanted world of natural and supernatural marvels: a land of light and dark, of northern lights and the midnight sun, of witches and magic and of riches ranging from amber to oil. Northern lands conflate fantasies and realities. Rich archaeological, historical, ethnographic and folkloric materials combine in this book with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives drawn from relational ontologies and epistemologies, producing a fresh approach to the prehistory and history of a region that is pivotal to understanding Europe-wide processes, such as Neolithization and modernization. This book examines the mythical and actual northern worlds, with northern relational modes of perceiving and engaging with the world on the one hand and the ‘place’ of the North in European culture on the other. This book is an indispensable read for scholars of archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies and folklore in northern Europe, as well as researchers interested in how the North is intertwined with developments in the broader European and Eurasian world. It provides a deep-time understanding of globally topical issues and conflicting interests, as expressed by debates and controversies around Arctic resources, nature preservation and indigenous rights.
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