The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt
Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC
Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno García, Stephen Quirke & Andréas Stauder | 2018
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the “imaginative” figure…
The urban graveyard
Archaeological perspectives
Edited by Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Kerry Fast, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester | 2018
It is commonly believed that in medieval and post-medieval towns and cities death outnumbered births and that these urban centres could only survive through the influx of migrants; a concept which has come to be…
We graven hier niet de bijbel op!
De Nederlandse opgraving op Tell Deir Alla (1960-1967)
Margreet L. Steiner & Bart Wagemakers | 2018
Dit is het verhaal van een bijzondere opgraving. Onderzocht werd een onaanzienlijke ruïneheuvel in Jordanië. De naam van de ruïneheuvel kwam niet in de Bijbel voor, en er was geen belangrijke stad onder het puin…
Mobility and Pottery Production
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Heitz & Regine Stapfer | 2017
For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as…
Archaeology and Geomatics
Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)
Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero-Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez | 2017
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various…
Archaeology of Touchstones
An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden
Martin Ježek | 2017
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed,…
The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities,…
The Arts of Making in Ancient Egypt
Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC
Edited by Gianluca Miniaci, Juan Carlos Moreno García, Stephen Quirke & Andréas Stauder | 2018
This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the “imaginative” figure…
The urban graveyard
Archaeological perspectives
Edited by Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats, Kerry Fast, Nico Arts & Jeroen Bouwmeester | 2018
It is commonly believed that in medieval and post-medieval towns and cities death outnumbered births and that these urban centres could only survive through the influx of migrants; a concept which has come to be…
We graven hier niet de bijbel op!
De Nederlandse opgraving op Tell Deir Alla (1960-1967)
Margreet L. Steiner & Bart Wagemakers | 2018
Dit is het verhaal van een bijzondere opgraving. Onderzocht werd een onaanzienlijke ruïneheuvel in Jordanië. De naam van de ruïneheuvel kwam niet in de Bijbel voor, en er was geen belangrijke stad onder het puin…
Mobility and Pottery Production
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Heitz & Regine Stapfer | 2017
For many past and present societies, pottery forms an integral part of material culture and everyday practice. This makes it a promising case example to address human-thing-relations on a more general level, as well as…
Archaeology and Geomatics
Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)
Edited by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, César Parcero-Oubiña & Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez | 2017
Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various…
Archaeology of Touchstones
An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden
Martin Ježek | 2017
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed,…
The Coffins of the Priests of Amun
Egyptian coffins from the 21st Dynasty in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
Edited by Lara Weiss | 2017
Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities,…
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