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Toumaï: l'aventure humaine
Par Alain Beauvilain. 2003
Le 19 juillet 2001, quelque part au Tchad, dans un désert magnifique où la vie semble si improbable, un crâne…
est exhumé. Ce sont les restes d'un hominidé. On le baptise Toumaï. Il est à ce jour notre plus lointain ancêtre connu. Dorénavant, Lucy fait figure de gamine de la préhistoire. Cette recherche est en soi une épopée. [...] Le récit de l'invention de Toumaï est une histoire de passions. Une authentique odyssée humaine où se mêlent l'incertitude de la quête, l'étrange vie du désert, l'exaltation de la découverte... et, de retour à la civilisation, les convoitises, les jalousies, les tentatives de récupération ou d'appropriation. [...] -- 4e de couvSecrets of the Sphinx
Par James Giblin. 2004
Presents the probable history of the five-thousand-year-old Great Sphinx, the enormous sculpture of a pharoah's head on a lion's body…
that lies near the three pyramids of Giza at Cairo, Egypt. Discusses the difficulties of protecting this stone monument from air pollution. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2004Naissance de l'homme: nouvelles découvertes, nouvelles énigmes
Par Robert Clarke. 2001
Alimentée aux connaissances récentes de la paléontologie et de la préhistoire, cette synthèse accessible passe en revue les différentes étapes…
de l'évolution humaine, à partir des premiers hominiens jusqu'à l'aube de l'histoire. L'auteur est détenteur du prix Glaxo pour la vulgarisation scientifique. [SDMMysteries of the mummies: the story of the unwrapping of a 2,000-year-old mummy by a team of experts
Par A. Rosalie David. 1978
An account of how scientists and archaeologists have adopted new methods to further reveal the secrets of the past, as…
in the postmortem examination of a young girl dead for more than 2,000 years. Includes a brief explanation of Egyptian history and burial ritualsChasing Aphrodite: the hunt for looted antiquities at the world's richest museum
Par Jason Felch. 2011
In 2005, the art world was rocked by scandal when news broke that the prestigious J. Paul Getty Museum had…
a long history of purchasing looted antiquities. Beginning in the 1960's with Getty's purchase of questionable European statues, this story chronicles the rise of the world's richest museum, and documents how the museum's curators knowingly purchased stolen art until 2000, when a Rome magistrate sued for the return of Italian statues. California Book Award winner. Some strong languageAgency in Archaeology
Par John Robb, Marcia-Anne Dobres. 2000
Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential…
to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.Manual of Curatorship: A Guide to Museum Practice
Par Alexander Fenton, John M. A. Thompson, Douglas A. Bassett, Antony J. Duggan, Geoffrey D. Lewis. 1993
Based on original contributions by specialists, this manual covers both the theory and the practice required in the management of…
museums. It is intended for all museum and art gallery profession staff, and includes sections on new technology, marketing, volunteers and museum libraries.Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC – AD 476
Par Neil Faulkner. 2008
The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that…
in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people slaves, serfs and poor peasants were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.Prehistory of North America
Par Mark Sutton. 2007
A Prehistory of North America covers the ever-evolving understanding of the prehistory of North America, from its initial colonization, through…
the development of complex societies, and up to contact with Europeans.This book is the most up-to-date treatment of the prehistory of North America. In addition, it is organized by culture area in order to serve as a companion volume to “An Introduction to Native North America.” It also includes an extensive bibliography to facilitate research by both students and professionals.With firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands.Through…
most of the Second World War, Nazis occupied the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, two British Crown dependencies in the English Channel. With extensive research, archeologist Gilly Carr has uncovered the enduring legacies of this occupation. In Nazi Prisons in Britain, she shines a light on the lives of citizen resisters who became political prisoners on their own soil. Carr explores political prisoner consciousness and solidarity through the letters of the “Jersey 21” and the diaries of Frank Falla, Guernsey’s best-known resister. Drawing on memoirs, poetry, graffiti, official archives, and material culture—as well as the words of war criminals, traitors, surrealist artists, and many others—she reveals what life was like inside these brutal Nazi prisons.Human Sacrifice and Value: Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective (Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time)
Par Svein H. Gullbekk, Sean O’Neill, Marianne Moen, Matthew J. Walsh. 2024
The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council’s generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project…
(FRIPROHUMSAM 275947). It explores concepts of human sacrifice. This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value – or multiplicity of values – in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings. Bridging a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, it analyses a spectrum of sacrificial logics and actions, daring us to rethink the scholarship of sacrifice by considering the oft hidden, subliminal and even paradoxical values and motivations that underlie sacrificial acts. The chapters give needed attention to pivotal questions in studies of sacrifice and ritualized violence – such as how we might employ new approaches to the existing evidence or revise long-debated theories about what exactly ‘human sacrifice’ is or might be, or why human sacrifice seems to emerge so often and so easily in human social experience across time and in vastly different cultures and historical contexts. Thus, the volume will strike a chord with scholars of sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, religious studies, political science and economics –wherever interest is focused on critically rethinking questions of sacred and sanctified human violence, and the values that make it what it is.A Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons (Routledge Dictionaries Ser.)
Par Manfred Lurker. 1987
Containing around 1,800 entries this Dictionary covers, in one volume, all the important deities and demons from around the world.…
The gods of ancient mythology appear alongside the gods of contemporary religion, and `lesser' mythologies and religions are also fully covered. The author provides an extensive network of cross-references, allowing the reader to draw cross-cultural comparisons. The Dictionary will be an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in comparative religion or the diversity of religious views throughout the world.The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors: Settlement Patterns, Architecture, Hieroglyphic Texts and Ceramics
Par Geoffrey E. Braswell. 2014
The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered…
either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and exchange, multiethnic interaction in pluralistic frontier zones, the origins of settled agricultural life, and the nature of systemic collapse.Euphrates Expedition
Par John. S. Guest. 1992
First published in 1992. This book invites the reader to cast the mind a hundred and fifty years back to…
a short span of time between 1829 and 1842. This was an exciting period when Britain’s might, demonstrated to the world at Trafalgar and Waterloo, was fortified by leadership in steam technology and was given a new direction by the liberal philosophy that British statesmen, thinkers and poets proclaimed at home and abroad. The Euphrates expedition was an attempt by well-intentioned British governments to achieve a geopolitical end by a technological means. The objective was to halt Russian expansion in the Near East, where some observers saw a threat to Britain’s control of India.Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
Par Ian Hodder, Gavin Lucas, Michael Shanks, John Carman, Victor Buchli, Alexandra Alexandri, Jonathan Last. 1995
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America,…
Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value systems on the evidence which they presented.Food in the Social Order
Par Mary Douglas. 2002
First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is…
a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. It also includes a grid/group analysis of food consumption.Sharing Archaeology: Academe, Practice and the Public (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)
Par Peter G. Stone, Zhao Hui. 2014
As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last half-century. The increase in so-called ‘public archaeology,’ with its wide…
range of television programming, community projects, newspaper articles, and enhanced site-based interpretation has taken archaeology from a closed academic discipline of interest to a tiny minority to a topic of increasing interest to the general public. This book explores how archaeologists share information – with specialists from other disciplines working within archaeology, other archaeologists, and a range of non-specialist groups. It emphasises that to adequately address contemporary levels of interest in their subject, archaeologists must work alongside and trust experts with an array of different skills and specializations. Drawing on case studies from eleven countries, Sharing Archaeology explores a wide range of issues raised as the result of archaeologists’ communication both within and outside the discipline. Examining best practice with wider implications and uses beyond the specified case studies, the chapters in this book raise questions as well as answers, provoking a critical evaluation of how best to interact with varied audiences and enhance sharing of archaeology.The Archaeology of Iberia: The Dynamics of Change
Par Simon Keay, Margarita D. 1997
For many archaeologists, Iberia is the last great unknown region in Europe. Although it occupies a crucial position between South-Western…
Europe and North Africa, academic attention has traditionally been focused on areas like Greece or Italy. However Iberia has an equally rich cultural heritage and archaeological tradition. This ground-breaking volume presents a sample of the ways in which archaeologists have applied theoretical frameworks to the interpretation of archaeological evidence, offering new insights into the archaeology of both Iberia and Europe from prehistoric time through to the tenth century.The contributors to this book are leading archaeologists drawn from both countries. They offer innovative and challenging models for the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Early Medieval and Islamic periods. A diverse range of subjects are covered including urban transformation, the Iron Age peoples of Spain, observations on historiography and the origins of the Arab domains of Al-Andalus. It is essential reading for advanced undergraduates and those researching the archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula.Essays on the Sociology of Perception
Par Mary Douglas. 2002
First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends…
in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to improve the argument of Natural Symbols and is always hoping to find better applications to illustrate the power of the two dimensions used for accurate comparison.Territorial Fragilities in Cyprus: Planning and Preservation Strategies (Research for Development)
Par Alice Buoli, Oana Cristina Ţiganea. 2023
In this book, the authors present a combination of research-by-design, place-based, and policy-oriented approaches to the territorial fragilities of Nicosia. Nicosia,…
in Cyprus, is a city divided. Since 1974, a 180 km long Buffer Zone has separated the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and the Republic of Cyprus (RoC). This "open wound" cuts through the city's historical center, crossing the Venetian walls, a key cultural heritage asset, and impacting the city's spatial and cultural identity. Outcomes of an inter-doctoral research initiative, this edited book documents the local realities of the divided city and tests scenarios and spatial patterns of intervention to cope with the partition through the enhancement of local cultural heritage.The book targets an academic audience, architects, urban planners, heritage preservation professionals and policymakers, providing a transferable research method relevant to those approaching a complex, fragile, and contested "border territory".