Labouring with large stones
A study into the investment and impact of construction projects on Mycenaean communities in Late Bronze Age Greece
Yannick Boswinkel | 2021
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large…
Acclimatising to higher ground
The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People
Keith Dixon | 2021
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll…
Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate
Animals and Society in Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Northern France
Ginette Auxiette & Lamys Hachem | 2021
Building on the experience of twenty-five years of fieldwork and archaeozoological analyses carried out during research projects in various regions of northern France, this book examines animal husbandry and hunting practices over the 5000 year…
Bones at a crossroads
Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology
Edited by Markus Wild, Beverly A. Thurber, Stephen Rhodes & Christian Gates St-Pierre | 2021
Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more…
Gender stereotypes in archaeology
A short reflection in image and text
Edited by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska & Uroš Matić | 2021
Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men…
Le verre de l'Europe celtique
Approches archéométriques, technologiques et sociales d'un artisanat du prestige au second âge du Fer
Joëlle Rolland | 2021
Au cours des quatre derniers siècles av. n.è. les sociétés d’Europe continentale de la culture dite de La Tène développent leur propre artisanat du verre. Cette période de mutations économiques et sociales saisissantes, où les…
Insights into Social Inequality
A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany
Ralph Grossmann | 2021
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are…
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Labouring with large stones
A study into the investment and impact of construction projects on Mycenaean communities in Late Bronze Age Greece
Yannick Boswinkel | 2021
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large…
Acclimatising to higher ground
The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People
Keith Dixon | 2021
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll…
Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate
Animals and Society in Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Northern France
Ginette Auxiette & Lamys Hachem | 2021
Building on the experience of twenty-five years of fieldwork and archaeozoological analyses carried out during research projects in various regions of northern France, this book examines animal husbandry and hunting practices over the 5000 year…
Bones at a crossroads
Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology
Edited by Markus Wild, Beverly A. Thurber, Stephen Rhodes & Christian Gates St-Pierre | 2021
Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more…
Gender stereotypes in archaeology
A short reflection in image and text
Edited by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska & Uroš Matić | 2021
Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men…
Le verre de l'Europe celtique
Approches archéométriques, technologiques et sociales d'un artisanat du prestige au second âge du Fer
Joëlle Rolland | 2021
Au cours des quatre derniers siècles av. n.è. les sociétés d’Europe continentale de la culture dite de La Tène développent leur propre artisanat du verre. Cette période de mutations économiques et sociales saisissantes, où les…
Insights into Social Inequality
A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany
Ralph Grossmann | 2021
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are…
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