This volume is a critical study of recent archaeology in the Western Wall Plaza area, Jerusalem. Considered one of the holiest places on Earth for Jews and Muslims, it is also a place of controversy, ...where the State marks ‘our’ remains for preservation and adoration and ‘theirs’ for silencing.
The publication of the 18th Annual Southern Conference proceedings is the fifth volume in an ongoing publication series of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Southern district in cooperation with the ...Department of Biblical Studies, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The present book contains sixteen scientifically peer-reviewed articles, seven in English, nine in Hebrew. The majority of the articles were presented at the conference in March of 2022. The articles include new findings in archaeological excavations and research of Israel's south, conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority and by Ben Gurion University in the Negev, as well as articles on Historical Archaeology of the south and new archaeological excavations and research conducted by various institutions along the "Judean Kings' Trail", at sites along its route.
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations. According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Ta&iactue;nos or ...Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has used population as an important variable in explaining many social, political, and economic processes such as migration, changes in subsistence systems, and the development of institutionalized social stratification. In Caribbean Paleodemography, L. Antonio Curet argues that population has been used casually by Caribbean archaeologists and proposes more rigorous and promising ways in which demographic factors can be incorporated in our modeling of past human behavior. He analyzes a number of demographic issues in island archaeology at various levels of analysis, including inter- and intra-island migration, carrying capacity, population structures, variables in prehistory, cultural changes, and the relationship with material culture and social development. With this work, Curet brings together the diverse theories on Greater Antilles island populations and the social and political forces governing their growth and migration.
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form ...of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice as well as substantive changes in the power relations between archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions concerning the development of ethical archaeological practices are at the heart of this process.
L’étude des occupations fortifiées de hauteur est aujourd’hui l’un des thèmes centraux de la recherche en archéologie des territoires et des peuplements, en particulier pour les âges des Métaux et la ...fin de l’Antiquité ainsi que le début du Moyen Âge. Pourtant, l’évolution des occupations de hauteur sur le temps long au cours de la Protohistoire et du haut Moyen Âge reste encore mal connue, tant du point de vue des dynamiques intra-sites qu’à l’échelle territoriale. C’est certainement là l’une des originalités de la journée d’étude organisée le 12 novembre 2019 par l’axe « Fabrique du paysage » de l’UMR ARTEHIS dont découlent les contributions présentées au sein de ce recueil. L’approche comparative entre Protohistoire et haut Moyen Âge, au-delà d’une confrontation des modes d’occupation des reliefs et de l’appréhension de logiques spatiales communes aux deux périodes, se veut également méthodologique, avec pour ambition principale d’établir les premiers jalons d’un dialogue pérenne entre spécialistes. Au travers de six contributions faisant état des connaissances acquises sur des sites localisés en Auvergne, dans les Vosges et dans l’actuelle région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, ce dossier propose de nouvelles perspectives pour l’approche des occupations de hauteur, en prônant notamment une collaboration plus étroite entre spécialistes des deux principaux champs chronologiques abordés. Au final, le dossier ici réuni constitue une première étape modeste, appelant le renouvellement de ce type d’initiative dans le cadre de discussions plus larges pour mieux appréhender les liens entre dynamique d’occupation humaine sur le temps long et dynamique des paysages.
A growing number of archaeologists are applying Geographic Information Science (GIS) technologies to their research problems and questions. Advances in GIS and its use across disciplines allows for ...collaboration and enables archaeologists to ask ever more sophisticated questions and develop increasingly elaborate models on numerous aspects of past human behavior. Least cost analysis (LCA) is one such avenue of inquiry. While least cost studies are not new to the social sciences in general, LCA is relatively new to archaeology; until now, there has been no systematic exploration of its use within the field.
This edited volume presents a series of case studies illustrating the intersection of archaeology and LCA modeling at the practical, methodological, and theoretical levels. Designed to be a guidebook for archaeologists interested in using LCA in their own research, it presents a wide cross-section of practical examples for both novices and experts. The contributors to the volume showcase the richness and diversity of LCA’s application to archaeological questions, demonstrate that even simple applications can be used to explore sophisticated research questions, and highlight the challenges that come with injecting geospatial technologies into the archaeological research process.
This manual is intended to accompany the training of future ceramic specialists in the Arab world. Resulting from the collaboration of four major institutions of French archaeology abroad: the ...Section française de la direction des Antiquités du Soudan (Sfdas), the Institut français d’Archéologie orientale (Ifao), the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) and the Centre français de recherche de la péninsule arabique (Cefrepa), it draws on the recent work of specialists from the Nile Valley, the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula to shed light on the theoretical reflections that have enriched ceramic studies in recent decades. Providing a genuine field tool, this volume is nonetheless a skilfully illustrated collection of the contribution of ceramic studies to the understanding of human history. This is the English version of the manual. The bilingual version (English / Arabic) is available here: https://page.hn/yq8gch.
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