• Introduction: reform and the beginning of the end / James T. Palmer and Matthew Gabriele
• The Chronicle of Hydatius of Chavez: a historical guidebook to the last days of the western Roman Empire / Veronika Wieser
• To be found prepared: eschatology and reform rhetoric ca. 570-ca. 640 / James T. Palmer
• The final countdown and the reform of the liturgical calendar in the early Middle Ages / Immo Warntjes
• Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii / Peter Darby
• Creating futures through the lens of revelation in the rhetoric of the Carolingian reform ca. 750 to ca. 900 / Miriam Czock
• Eschatology and reform in early Irish law: the evidence of Sunday legislation / Elizabeth Boyle
• Apocalypse, eschatology and the interim in England and Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Helen Foxhall Forbes
• Apocalypticism and the rhetoric of reform in Italy around the year 1000 / Levi Roach
• This time. Maybe this time. Biblical commentary, monastic historiography, and lost cause-ism at the turn of the first millennium / Matthew Gabriele
• Against the silence: twelfth-century Augustinian reformers confront apocalypse / Jehangir Y. Malegam
• Afterword / Jay Rubenstein.

Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century. It explores and challenges accepted narratives about both the development of apocalyptic thought and the way it intersected with cultures of reform to influence major transformations in the medieval world. Bringing together a wealth of knowledge from academics in Britain, Europe and the USA this book offers the latest scholarship in apocalypse studies. It consolidates a paradigm shift, away from seeing apocalypse as a radical force for a suppressed minority, and towards a fuller understanding of apocalypse as a mainstream cultural force in history. Together, the chapters and case studies capture and contextualise the variety of ideas present across Europe in the Middle Ages and set out points for further comparative study of apocalypse across time and space. Offering new perspectives on what ideas of `reform' and `apocalypse' meant in Medieval Europe, Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides students with the ideal introduction to the study of apocalypse during this period.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138684041 20181022

• 1. The European History of Health project: introduction to goals, materials, and methods Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Charlotte A. Roberts and Joerg Baten--
• 2. Contextual dimensions of health and lifestyle: isotopes, diet, migration, and the archaeological and historical records Rimantas Jankauskas and Gisela Grupe--
• 3. Measuring community health using skeletal remains: a health index for Europe Richard H. Steckel and Anna Kjellstroem--
• 4. The history of European oral health: evidence from dental caries and antemortem tooth loss Ursula Witwer-Backofen and Felix Engel--
• 5. Proliferative periosteal reactions: assessment of trends in Europe over the past two millennia Carina Marques, Vitor Matos and Nicholas J. Meinzer--
• 6. Growth disruption in children: linear enamel hypoplasias Zsolt Bereczki, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Antonia Marcsik, Nicholas Meinzer and Joerg Baten--
• 7. History of anemia and related nutritional deficiencies: evidence from cranial porosities Anastasia Papathanasiou, Nicholas J. Meinzer, Kimberly D. Williams and Clark Spencer Larsen--
• 8. Agricultural specialization, urbanization, workload and stature Nicholas Meinzer, Richard H. Steckel and Joerg Baten--
• 9. History of degenerative joint disease in people across Europe - bioarchaeological inferences about lifestyle and activity from osteoarthritis and vertebral osteophytosis Kimberly D. Williams, Nicholas J. Meinzer and Clark Spencer Larsen--
• 10. The history of violence in Europe: evidence from cranial and postcranial bone trauma Joerg Baten and Richard H. Steckel--
• 11. The developmental origins of health and disease: early life experiences and adult age at death in Europe: evidence from skeletal remains Charlotte A. Roberts and Richard H. Steckel--
• 12. Climate and health: Europe from the pre-Middle Ages to the nineteenth century Richard H. Steckel and Felix Engel--
• 13. Multidimensional patterns of European health, work, and violence over the past two millennia Joerg Baten, Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen and Charlotte A. Roberts--
• 14. Data collection codebook Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen, Paul W. Sciulli and Phillip L. Walker--
• 15. Database creation, management, and analysis Charlotte A. Roberts, Richard H. Steckel and Clark Spencer Larsen.
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Using human skeletal remains, this volume traces health, workload and violence in the European population over the past 2,000 years. Health was surprisingly good for people who lived during the early Medieval Period. The Plague of Justinian of the sixth century was ultimately beneficial for health because the smaller population had relatively more resources that contributed to better living conditions. Increasing population density and inequality in the following centuries imposed an unhealthy diet - poor in protein - on the European population. With the onset of the Little Ice Age in the late Middle Ages, a further health decline ensued, which was not reversed until the nineteenth century. While some aspects of health declined, other attributes improved. During the early modern period, interpersonal violence (outside of warfare) declined possibly because stronger states and institutions were able to enforce compromise and cooperation. European health over the past two millennia was hence multifaceted in nature.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781108421959 20190129

• Introduction - Kathleen Christian and Bianca de Divitiis
• 1 A local Renaissance: Florentine Quattrocento palaces and all'antica styles - Richard Schofield
• 2 The arch of Trajan in Ancona and civic identity in the Italian Quattrocento from Ciriaco d'Ancona to the death of Matthias Corvinus - Francesco Benelli
• 3 Roma caput mundi: Rome's local antiquities as symbol and source - Kathleen Christian
• 4 A local sense of the past: spolia, re-use and all'antica building in southern Italy, 1400-1600 - Bianca de Divitiis
• 5 The Gaulish past of Milan and the French invasion of Italy - Oren Margolis
• 6 Reusing and redisplaying antiquities in early modern France - William Stenhouse
• 7 Local antiquities in Spain: from Tarragona to Cordoba - Fernando Marias
• 8 Local antiquaries and the expansive sense of the past: a case study from Counter-Reformation Spain - Katrina B. Olds
• 9 Luis de Camoes's The Lusiads and the paradoxes of expansion - Joao R. Figueiredo
• 10 Semini and his progeny: the construction of Antwerp's antique past - Edward Wouk
• 11 Resurrecting Belgica romana: Peter Ernst von Mansfeld's garden of antiquities in Clausen, Luxemburg, 1563-90 - Krista De Jonge
• 12 On Romans, Batavians and giants: the quest for the true origin of architecture in the Dutch Republic - Konrad Ottenheym
• 13 The role of ancient remains in the Sarmatian culture of early modern Poland - Barbara Arciszewska
• 14 Inventing England: English identity and the Scottish 'other', 1586-1625 - Jenna M. Schultz Index
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This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants. -- .
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781526131027 20181227

• List of illustrations Acknowledgments Authors' Note List of Abbreviations Introduction: On the Trail of Crystal Skulls
• Chapter 1. Caveat Emptor
• Chapter 2. Between Old World and New
• Chapter 3. Mexico: Ancient to Modern
• Chapter 4. Mexico at Mid-Century
• Chapter 5. The Emperor's Antiquarian: A Collection Takes Shape
• Chapter 6. Confronting a Different Paris
• Chapter 7. Marketing a Collection
• Chapter 8. A Premier Collection
• Chapter 9. Narratives of Provenance
• Chapter 10. The Rue du Sommerard Decade
• Chapter 11. Of Fakes and Fakers
• Chapter 12. From Student to Teacher: Dealer to Curator
• Chapter 13. Good Deals and Bad
• Chapter 14. Back in Business
• Chapter 15. Fingerprints on Crystal Skulls
• Chapter 16. Courting the Smithsonian
• Chapter 17. Of Fakes, Forgers and Frauds
• Chapter 18. "El Tocayo's" Triumph
• Chapter 19. Later Life
• Chapter 20. Afterlife Epilogue References Index.
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Eugene Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully "palmed off" a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe's leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugene Boban; this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781789200959 20190218

• Table of contents
• Notes on contributors
• Series preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Sheila Watson, Amy Jane Barnes and Katy Bunning
• Part I: Heritage contexts, past and present
• Introduction to Part I
• Amy Jane Barnes
• Heritage pasts and heritage presents: temporality, meaning and the scope of heritage studies
• David C. Harvey
• Museum studies and heritage: independent museums and the `heritage debate' in the UK
• Anna Woodham
• People [extracts]
• Alan Bennett
• The crisis of cultural authority
• Tiffany Jenkins
• Editorials: History Workshop Journal
• Editorial Collective/Raphael Samuel
• Hybrids
• Raphael Samuel
• Understanding our encounters with heritage: the value of 'historical consciousness'
• Ceri Jones
• Weighing up intangible heritage: a view from Ise
• Simon Richards
• From monument to cultural patrimony: The concepts and practices of heritage in Mexico
• Cintia Velazquez Marroni
• We come from the land of the ice and snow: Icelandic heritage and its usage in present day society
• Gudrun D. Whitehead
• Por la encendida calle antillana: Africanisms and Puerto Rican architecture
• Arleen Pabon
• Iconoclash in the age of heritage [extracts]
• Peter Probst
• Part II: Authenticity and tourism
• Introduction to Part II
• Sheila Watson
• 13. Touring the slave route: inaccurate authenticities in Benin, West Africa
• Timothy R. Landry
• 14. Steampunking heritage: How Steampunk artists reinterpret museum collections
• Jeanette Atkinson
• 15. Why fakes?
• Mark Jones
• 16. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
• Walter Benjamin
• 17. After authenticity at an American heritage site
• Eric Gable and Richard Handler
• 18. Makeover for Mont-Saint-Michel: a renovation project harnesses the power of the sea to preserve one of the world's most iconic islands
• Alexander Stille
• 19. Resonance and wonder
• Stephen Greenblatt
• 20. `Introduction' to In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
• Regina Bendix
• Part III: Emotions and materiality
• Introduction to Part III
• Sheila Watson
• 21. Invoking affect
• Clare Hemmings
• 22. The archaeology of mind [extracts]
• Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
• 23. 'The trophies of their wars': affect and encounter at the Canadian War Museum
• Sara Matthews
• 24. Huddled masses yearning to buy postcards: the politics of producing heritage at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island National Monument.
• Joanne Maddern
• 25. The Holocaust and the museum world in Britain: a study of ethnography
• Tony Kushner
• 26. Senses of place, senses of time and heritage
• Gregory John Ashworth and Brian Graham
• 27. Making heritage pay in the Rainbow Nation
• Lynn Meskell
• 28. The concept and its varieties
• Anthony Smith
• 29. Materiality matters: experiencing the displayed object
• Sandra Dudley
• 30. Concepts of identity and difference
• Kathryn Woodward
• 31. Emotional engagement in heritage sites and museums: ghosts of the past and imagination in the present
• Sheila Watson
• 32. The Third World
• Jeremy Black
• 33. Turkish delight: Antonio Gala's La pasion turca as a vision of Spain's contested Islamic heritage
• Nicola Gilmour
• 34. `The cliffs are not the cliffs': the cliffs of Dover and national identities in Britain, c.1750 - c.1950
• Paul Readman
• Part IV: Diversity and identity
• Introduction to Part IV
• Katy Bunning
• 35. Museums as intercultural spaces
• Simona Bodo
• 36. Gradients of alterity: museums and the negotiation of cultural difference in contemporary Norway
• Marzia Varutti
• 37. Museums in a global world: a conversation on museums, heritage, nation and diversity in a transnational age
• Conal McCarthy, Rhiannon Mason, Christopher Whitehead, Jakob Ingemann Parby, Andre Cicalo, Philipp Schorch, Leslie Witz, Pablo Alonso Gonzalez, Naomi Roux, Eva Ambos and Cirai Rassool
• 38. Reflections on the Confluence Project: assimilation, sustainability, and the perils of a shared heritage
• Jon Daehnke
• 39. Ethnic heritage for the nation: debating 'identity museums' on the National Mall
• Katy Bunning
• 40. Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?
• Neil Siberman
• 41. Un-placed heritage: making identity through fashion
• Malika Kraamer and Amy Jane Barnes
• Part V: Participatory heritage
• Introduction to Part V
• Katy Bunning
• 42. Research on community heritage: moving from collaborative research to participatory and co-designed research practice
• Andrew Flinn and Anna Sexton
• 43. Beyond the rhetoric: negotiating the politics and realising the potential of community-driven heritage engagement
• Corinne Perkin
• 44. From representation to participation: inclusive practices, co-curating and the voice of the protagonists in some Italian migration museums
• Anna Chiara Cimoli
• 45. Museums, trans youth and institutional change: transforming heritage institutions through collaborative practice
• Serena Iervolino
• 46. Embrace the margins: adventures in archaeology and homelessness
• Rachael Kiddey and John Schofield
• 47. Developing dialogue in co-produced exhibitions: between rhetoric, intentions and realities
• Nuala Morse, Morag Macpherson and Sophie Robinson
• 48. Community engagement, curatorial practice and museum ethos in Alberta, Canada
• Bryony Onciul
• Part VI: Contested histories and heritage
• Introduction to Part VI
• Sheila Watson
• 49. Contested townscapes: the walled city as world heritage
• Oliver Creighton
• 50. Reassembling Nuremberg, reassembling heritage.
• Sharon Macdonald
• 51. Can there be a conciliatory heritage?
• Erica Lehrer
• 52. Palimpsest memoryscapes: materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone
• Paul Basu
• 53. Representing the China Dream: a case study in revolutionary cultural heritage
• Amy Jane Barnes
• 54. Contested trans-national heritage: the demolition of Changi prison, Singapore
• Joan Beaumont
• 55. The politics of community heritage: motivations, authority and control
• Elizabeth Crooke
• 56. 'To make the dry bones live': Amedee Forestier's Glastonbury Lake Village
• James E. Phillips
• 57. `Introduction' to Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place
• Barbara Bender
• 58. Sensuous (re)collections: The sight and taste of socialism at Grutas Statue Park, Lithuania
• Gediminis Lankauskas
• Index.
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Heritage's revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and non-Western philosophies and practices, and a growing respect for the intangible. Heritage has, thus far, focused on management, tourism and the traditionally `heritage-minded' disciplines, such as archaeology, geography, and social and cultural theory. Widening the scope of international heritage studies, A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage explores heritage through new areas of knowledge, including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration, and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage. Drawing on a range of disciplines and the best from established sources, the book includes writing not typically recognised as 'heritage', but which, nevertheless, makes a valuable contribution to the debate about what heritage is, what it can do, and how it works and for whom. Including heritage perspectives from beyond the professional sphere, the book serves as a reminder that heritage is not just an academic concern, but a deeply felt and keenly valued public and private practice. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from other disciplines offers readers international views of the past and future of this growing field. A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage offers a wider, more current and more inclusive overview of issues and practices in heritage and its intersection with museums. As such, the book will be essential reading for postgraduate students of heritage and museum studies. It will also be of great interest to academics, practitioners and anyone else who is interested in how we conceptualise and use the past.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138950931 20190121

• Foreword / Jodie Lewis
• Dead relevant : introducing the public archaeology of death / Howard Williams
• The St Patrick's Chapel excavation project : public engagement with the rescue excavation of an early medieval cemetery in south west Wales / Marion Shiner, Katie A. Hemer and Rhiannon Comeau
• Death's diversity : the case of Llangollen Museum / Suzanne Evans and Howard Williams
• Displaying the deviant : Sutton Hoo's Sand people / Madeline Walsh and Howard Williams
• Grave expectations : burial posture in popular and museum representations / Sian Mui
• Photographing the dead : images in public mortuary archaeology / Chiara Bolchini
• Death on canvas : artistic reconstructions in Viking age mortuary archaeology / Leszek Gardeła
• Envisioning cremation : art and archaeology / Aaron Watson and Howard Williams
• Controversy surrounding human remains from the First World War / Sam Munsch
• Here lies "ZOMBIESLAYER2000", may he rest in pieces : mortuary archaeology in MMOs, MMORPGs, and MOBAs / Rachael Nicholson
• Death's drama : mortuary practice in Vikings season 1-4 / Howard Williams
• Afterword / Karina Croucher.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: defining artifacts
• Chapter 1: It is all in the mind
• Chapter 2: Artifacts and the Body
• Chapter 3: making space for the invisible
• Chapter 4: Wrapping the surface, rethinking art
• Chapter 5: The autonomy of objects
• Epilogue: Towards an ecology with objects
• Index.
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Artifacts are hybrids, both natural and cultural. They are also an essential component in the process of human evolution. In recent years, a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science, sociology, art history, and anthropology, have all grappled with the nature of artifacts, leading to the emergence of a renewed interdisciplinary focus on material culture. The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective develops an argument for the artifact as a status conferred by human engagement with material. On this basis, artifacts are considered first in terms of their relationship to concepts and cognitive functions, and then to the physical body and sense of self. The book builds on and incorporates the latest developments in archaeological research, particularly from the archaeology of human evolution, and integrates this wealth of new archaeological data with new research in fields such as cognitive science, haptics, and material culture studies. Making the latest research available for the general reader interested in material culture, while also providing archaeologists with new theoretical perspectives built on a synthesis of interdisciplinary research, this book is suitable for courses taught at both graduate and undergraduate students, and is broadly accessible.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138217805 20190129

• Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction: A Depositional Approach to the Study of Archaeological Excavations
• 1
• 1 Principles of Site-formation or Depositional Processes
• 11 1.1 The Concept of the Deposit
• 11 1.2 Types of Archaeological Deposits
• 14 1.3 Anthropogenic Sediments
• 14 1.4 Some Misconceptions of Site-formation and Depositional Processes
• 16 1.5 Soils and Post-Depositional Processes
• 16 1.6 Recording Deposits and Site-formation Processes (Stratigraphy)
• 18
• 2 Natural Sediments and Processes in Sites
• 21 2.1 Introduction
• 21 2.2 Principles of the Transport and Deposition of Sediments
• 22 2.2.1 Physical Processes
• 22 2.2.2 Sediment Properties
• 24 2.2.3 Fabric
• 28 2.2.4 Sedimentary Structures
• 28 2.2.5 Some Remarks on the Interpretation of Textures, Fabrics, and Sedimentary Structures
• 33 2.3 Mass Movement in Sites
• 34 2.3.1 Slides and Slumps
• 35 2.3.2 Rock and Debris Falls, and Avalanches and Grain Flows
• 37 2.3.3 Solifluction
• 40 2.3.4 Debris Flows and Mudflows
• 43 2.4 Water Flows in Sites
• 47 2.4.1 Shallow Water Flows
• 47 2.4.2 Hyperconcentrated Flows
• 57 2.4.3 High-energy Flows
• 60 2.5 Aeolian Processes
• 63 2.6 Biological Sediments and Processes
• 68 2.6.1 Dung, Coprolites, and Guano
• 68 2.6.2 Bioturbation
• 71 2.7 Post-depositional Features and Processes
• 75 2.7.1 Erosional Features, Deflation, Lags, Stone Lines, and Pavements
• 76 2.7.2 Diagenesis
• 78 2.7.3 Soil-forming Processes
• 86 2.8 Concluding Remarks
• 93
• 3 Anthropogenic Sediments
• 99 3.1 Introduction
• 99 3.2 Burnt Remains
• 100 3.3 Organic Remains and Human Activities
• 116 3.3.1 Biological Constructions (Matting, Roofing)
• 116 3.3.2 Stabling
• 117 3.4 Formation of Construction Materials
• 124 3.4.1 Living and Constructed Floors
• 124 3.4.2 Mudbricks, Daub and Other Mud Construction Materials
• 132 3.4.3 Mortar, Wall Plaster
• 135 3.5 Maintenance and Discard Processes
• 138 3.5.1 Sweeping and Raking
• 138 3.5.2 Dumping and Filling
• 140 3.5.3 Trampling
• 146 3.6 Concluding Remarks
• 148
• 4 Site Stratigraphy
• 149 4.1 Introduction
• 149 4.2 Historical Overview
• 150 4.3 The Definition of Stratigraphic Units in an Excavation
• 151 4.4 Nature of Contacts
• 154 4.5 Time and Stratigraphy
• 157 4.6 Massive Thick Layers
• 157 4.7 Basic Stratigraphic Principles
• 158 4.7.1 The Principle of Superposition of Beds
• 158 4.7.2 The Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships
• 159 4.7.3 The Principle of Original Continuity of Layers
• 160 4.7.4 The Principle of Original Horizontality of Layers
• 160 4.7.5 The Principle of Included Fragments
• 160 4.8 What is `In Situ'?
• 161 4.9 Human Constructions and Depositional Stratigraphy
• 162 4.10 The Concept of Facies
• 162 4.11 Practicing Stratigraphy
• 164 4.11.1 Erosional Contacts and Unconformities
• 166 4.11.2 The Importance of Baulks and Sections
• 167 4.11.3 Inclined Layers
• 168 4.12 Concluding Remarks
• 169
• 5 Non-architectural Sites
• 171 5.1 Introduction
• 171 5.2 Open-air vs Cave Sites
• 172 5.2.1 Caves
• 172 5.2.2 Open-air Sites
• 189 5.3 Other Stratigraphic Themes
• 192 5.3.1 Burials
• 192 5.3.2 Palimpsests
• 194 5.4 Concluding Remarks
• 197
• 6 Architectural Sites
• 199 6.1 Introduction
• 199 6.2 Roofed Facies
• 199 6.3 Diachronic Spatial Organization
• 203 6.4 Unroofed Facies
• 204 6.4.1 How to Recognize an Unroofed Area
• 204 6.4.2 Destruction and Abandonment of Buildings
• 205 6.4.3 Courtyards, Gardens, and Other Open Spaces
• 209 6.4.4 Street Deposits
• 211 6.5 House Pits, Pueblos and Kivas
• 213 6.5.1 House Pits
• 213 6.5.2 Plastered Floors from Structure
• 116
• 216 6.5.3 Pueblos and Kivas
• 217 6.6 Tombs
• 218 6.7 Monumental Earthen Structures
• 219 6.8 Concluding Remarks
• 221
• 7 Some Approaches to Field Sediment Study
• 223 7.1 Introduction
• 223 7.2 Drawing
• 223 7.3 Photography
• 224 7.4 Sampling Strategy
• 225 7.5 Representative Sampling
• 225 7.5.1 Sampling Methods
• 225 7.5.2 Number of Samples
• 226 7.5.3 Size of Samples
• 227 7.5.4 Micromorphological Sampling
• 228 7.5.5 Microarchaeological Sampling
• 229 Concluding Remarks
• 231 References
• 233 Index 265.
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A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and practical aspects of depositional processes in an archaeological site. It contains an in-depth discussion on the role of stratigraphy that helps determine how deposits are organised in time and space. The authors -- two experts in the field -- include the information needed to help recognise depositional systems, processes and stratigraphic units that aid in the interpreting the stratigraphy and deposits of a site in the field. The book is filled with practical tools, numerous illustrative examples, drawings and photos as well as compelling descriptions that help visualise depositional processes and clarify how these build the stratigraphy of a site. Based on the authors' years of experience, the book offers a holistic approach to the study of archaeological deposits that spans the broad fundamental aspects to the smallest details. This important guide: Offers information and principles for interpreting natural and anthropogenic sediments and physical processes in sites Provides a framework for reconstructing the history of a deposit and the site Outlines the fundamental principles of site formation processes Explores common misconceptions about what constitutes a deposit Presents a different approach for investigating archaeological stratigraphy based on sedimentary principles Written for archaeologists and geoarchaeologists at all levels of expertise as well as senior level researchers, Reconstructing Archaeological Sites offers a guide to the theory and practice of how stratigraphy is produced and how deposits can be organised in time and space.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781119016434 20181008

• 1. From Petrarch to Bacon, Technecology Style: Introduction I. The Comedy of Errata
• 2. From Print Error to Human Errancy in Print
• 3. The Literary Erotics of Print and Misprint II. Arms or the Man
• 4. The Golden Age of Chivalry in the Iron Age of Gunpowder
• 5. Plebeian Presence in the Age of Gunpowder III. Plus Ultra! Further Yet!
• 6. Renegotiating the World by Compass and Card
• 7. Space, Place, and Literary Self-Projection
• 8. Technological Inter-animation, Writ Large: Conclusion.
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This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human's inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319968988 20190114

• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contribuors
• Series Editor's forward
• The practices and politics of safeguarding
• NATSUKO AKAGAWA AND Laurajane Smith
• PART I
• Legal, Administrative and Conceptual Challenges
• Further reflections on community involvement in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage
• Janet Blake
• Intangible heritage safeguarding and intellectual property protection in the context of implementing the UNESCO ICH Convention
• Harriet Deacon Rieks Smeets
• Intangible heritage economics and the law: Listing, commodification and market alienation
• Lucas Lixinski
• Inside the UNESCO apparatus: from intangible representations to tangible effects
• Kristin Kuutma
• Intangibility re-translated
• Min-Chin Chiang
• Language as world heritage? Critical perspectives on language-as-archive
• Ana Deumert and Anne Storch
• The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage:
• absentees, objections and assertions
• MAIREAD NIC CRAITH, ULLRICH KOCKEL AND KATHERINE LLOYD
• PART II
• The Complexities of `Safeguarding'
• BATIK as a creative industry: political, social, economic use of intangible heritage
• NATSUKO AKAGAWA
• Replacing faith in spirits with faith in heritage: a story of the management of the Gangneung Danoje Festival
• CedarBough T. Saeji
• World Heritage communities, anchors and values for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in southern Africa: Botswana and Zimbabwe
• Stella Basinyi and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya
• ICH-isation of popular religions and the politics of recognition in China
• Ming-chun Ku
• National identity, culinary heritage and UNESCO: Japanese washoku
• Natsuko Akagawa
• Beyond safeguarding measures, or a tale of strange bedfellows: improvisation as heritage
• Mustafa Coskun
• Playing with intangible heritage: video game technology and procedural re-enactment
• Jakub Majewski
• Index.
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The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing an accessible account of the different ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined and managed in both national and international contexts. As Safeguarding Intangible Heritage reveals, the concept and practices of safeguarding are complicated and often contested, and there is a need for international debate about the meaning, nature and value of heritage and what it means to `safeguard' it. Safeguarding Intangible Heritage presents a significant cross section of ideas and practices from some of the key academics and practitioners working in the area, whose areas of expertise span anthropology, law, heritage studies, linguistics, archaeology, museum studies, folklore, architecture, Indigenous studies and history. The chapters in this volume give an overarching analysis of international policy and practice and critically frame case studies that analyze practices from a range of countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Taiwan, the UK and Zimbabwe. With a focus on conceptual and theoretical issues, this follow-up to Intangible Heritage, by the same editors, will be of great interest to students, scholars and professionals working in the fields of heritage and museum studies, heritage conservation, heritage tourism, global history, international relations, art and architectural history, and linguists.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138580749 20180910

Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the wide scale introduction of coinage. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach that unites archaeological, numismatic, and metallurgical analyses, Kershaw and Williams examine the uses and sources of silver in both monetary and social transactions, addressing topics such as silver fragmentation, hoarding, and coin production and re-use. Uniquely, it also goes beyond silver, giving the first detailed consideration of the monetary role of butter, cloth, and gold in the Viking economy. Indeed, it is instrumental in developing methodologies to identify such commodity monies in the archaeological record. The use of silver and other commodities within Viking economies is a dynamic field of study, fuelled by important recent discoveries across the Viking world. The 14 contributions to this book, by a truly international group of scholars, draw on newly available archaeological data from eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the North Atlantic, and the British Isles and Ireland, to present the latest original research. Together, they deepen understanding of Viking monetary and social economies and advance new definitions of 'economy', 'currency', and 'value' in the ninth to eleventh centuries.
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• La vie de l'abbé Bignon
• La tribu Bignon, une famille récente
• La formation et les débuts de la carrière de l'abbé Bignon
• Le caractère de l'abbé Bignon
• La tribu des Pontchartrain
• La situation politique de la France
• Les demeures et le testament de Bignon
• Une "nouvelle Caprée". La maison de L'Isle-Belle
• Le testament de l'abbé
• Le conseil des Affaires religieuses
• La gouverne des institutions scientifiques
• L'Académie des inscriptions en 1694
• L'Académie des sciences
• Le Journal des sçavans
• Le Collège royal
• La reconquête de la direction de la Librairie et de la bibliothèque du Roi
• La situation de la bibliothèque en 1718
• La prise de pouvoir
• Les bâtiments de la bibliothèque du Roi
• L'hôtel de Nevers
• L'installation des collections
• Le personnel de la bibliothèque du Roi
• Le cabinet des estampes et l'affaire Chancey
• Interprètes et "jeunes de langue"
• La reliure
• Les affres du catalogue
• Le budget de fonctionnement de la bibliothèque du Roi
• L'ouverture de la bibliothèque au public et les prêts
• Les acquisitions
• Une équipe de rabatteurs à l'étranger
• Les missions au Levant
• Les affaires chinoises
• La petite bibliothèque du Roi à Versailles
• Les correspondants français de l'abbé Bignon
• L'affaire du Sacre de Louis XV
• Les affaires de la Marine
• Des savants parfois extravagants
• Imprimeurs et libraires
• Bignon et l'Europe savante
• L'Angleterre jacobite et les amis de Londres
• Savants allemands et scandinaves
• L'Italie
• Le legs de Bignon
• Arrêt du conseil du 11 octobre 1720
• Sources manuscrites relatives à l'abbé Bignon
• Sources à l'étranger
• Dictionnaire bio-bibliographique des correspondants de l'abbé Bignon
• Bibliographie spécifique à l'abbé Bignon.

"Le nom de l'abbé Bignon est connu de tous ceux qui fréquentent l'actuelle BnF du "site Richelieu", mais aucune biographie n'a été consacrée à celui qui fut le réorganisateur de la bibliothèque du Roi, lors de son installation rue de Richelieu où elleest restée jusqu'à nos jours, malgré les transformations apportées par Labrouste au XIXe siècle et k déménagement plus récent des livres imprimés sur le site dit "de Tolbiac". Ce personnage, issu du monde parlementaire et oncle du ministre Maurepas, eut également la tutelle des Académies des sciences et des inscriptions et belles-lettres auxquelles il insuffla une nouvelle activité. Enfin, par un réseau international de correspondants à l'étranger, il fut sans conteste l'un des plus grands citoyens de la République des Lettres au Siècle des Lumières. Il enrichit considérablement les collections de manuscrits, d'imprimés et d'estampes et mena à bien le premier catalogue imprimé des collections de la bibliothèque auxquelles il donna un classement qui demeura jusqu'à nos jours. C'est cette activité multiple qui est retracée ici."--Page 4 of cover.