Archaeology
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- 34011
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- Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities (Paskey and Cisneros)
- This book is intended for use in a variety of introductory archaeology settings, such as in lectures and lab courses. This text can complement an existing traditional text or completely replace a standard text. It can be used for its activities or as a study resource. When we wrote this text, we designed the chapters to be brief, providing concise and to-the-point information.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology
- 2: History (up until the 1960s)
- 3: History (the 1960s and beyond)
- 4: The Archaeological Record and Site Formation Processes
- 5: Artifact Preservation
- 6: How to Find Archaeological Sites
- 7: Excavation
- 8: Dating Methods – Relative and Absolute Dating
- 9: Artifact Analysis
- 10: Reconstructing Environments and Subsistence Patterns
- 11: Social Archaeology
- 12: Bioarchaeology
- 13: Archaeological Interpretation and Application of Theory
- 14: Historical Archaeology
- 15: New Frontiers in Archaeology
- 16: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Archaeology
- Back Matter
- Archaeology (Ruth)
- Archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture specifically artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes.
- Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook (Lemke)
- Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist students in the Intro to Archaeology course by giving them questions and assignments to reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures.
- Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium (Piquette et al.)
- Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, color, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day.
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction - Developing an Approach to Writing as Material Practice (Kathyrn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse)
- 2: The Twisting Paths of Recall - Khipu (Andean Cord Notation) as Artifact (Frank Salomon)
- 3: Writing as Material Technology - Orientation within Landscapes of the Classic Maya World (Sarah E. Jackson)
- 4: Writing (and Reading) as Material Practice - The World of Cuneiform Culture as an Arena for Investigation (Roger Matthews)
- 5: Re-Writing the Script - Decoding the Textual Experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c.2000-1150 BC) (Rachael Thyrza Sparks)
- 6: The Function and Meaning of Writing in the Prehistoric Aegean - Some Reflections on the Social and Symbolic Significance of Writing from a Material Perspective (Helène Whittaker)
- 7: Form Follows Function- Writing and Its Supports in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sarah Finlayson)
- 8: Materiality of Minoan Writing- Modes of Display and Perception (Georgia Flouda)
- 9: Saving on Clay- The Linear B Practice of Cutting Tablets (Helena Tomas)
- 10: Straight, Crooked and Joined-Up Writing - An Early Mediterranean View (Alan Johnston)
- 11: "It Is Written"? - Making, Remaking and Unmaking Early 'Writing' in the Lower Nile Valley (Kathyrn E. Piquette)
- 12: Written Greek but Drawn Egyptian - Script Changes in a Bilingual Dream Papyrus (Stephen Kidd)
- 13: The Other Writing - Iconic Literacy and Situla Art in Pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) (Elisa Perego)
- 14: "Tombstones" in the North Italian Iron Age - Careless Writers or Athletic Readers? (Ruth D. Whitehouse)
- 15: Different Times, Different Materials and Different Purposes - Writing on Objects at the Grand Arcade Site in Cambridge (Craig Cessford)
- 16: Writing Conservation - The Impact of Text on Conversation Decisions and Practice (Elizabeth Pye)
- 17: Epilogue (John Bennet)
- Back Matter
Thumbnail: Ancient cemetery in England (Pixabay license; Pexels via Pixabay)