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In die Töpfe geschaut
Biochemische und kulturgeschichtliche Studien zum früheisenzeitlichen Essen und Trinken
2020 || Paperback || Philipp Stockhammer e.a. || Sidestone Press
Band 2 der BEFIM-Reihe enthält sieben Beiträge des BEFIM-Teams und enger Kooperationspartner. Die Zwischenberichte aus Band 1 werden darin vertieft, abgeschlossen und in Gesamtinterpretationen eingebettet. Ein einleitender Artikel befasst sich einführungs- und überblicksartig mit der Aussagekraft von Biomarkern und Isotopenanalysen bei der Untersuchung alter organischer Reste.
Den Kern bilden drei Aufsätze, die den eigentlichen archäologisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen von BEFIM ...
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Pots and practices
An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies
2020 || Paperback || Annelou Van Gijn e.a. || Sidestone Press
This third volume of the BEFIM series addresses the life history of vessels from the Early Celtic hillfort settlements of Heuneburg and Vix-Mont Lassois, from a detailed examination of the manufacturing process to the use and modifications of the final products. Pivotal was an extensive experimental program of dozens of experiments directed at a better understanding of the way this pottery was made and used.
The participation of an experienced potter allowed us to reproduce exact replicas of ...
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Distant Times so Close
Pandemics and Crises Reloaded
2022 || Paperback || Lutz Käppel e.a. || Sidestone Press
Archaeology is all about how the present came into existence. Thus, it contributes to the social understanding of crises, including present and potential future adversities. Even diseases, such as pandemics in past societies, were and are observed by archaeology. Some examples can be found in this booklet. The scientists of the Kiel Cluster of Excellence ROOTS describe human reactions in past societies that were organized quite differently from ours. This is precisely why it is possible to id...
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Cultures of Stone
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
2020 || Paperback || Gabriel Cooney e.a. || Sidestone Press
This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone.
Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such a...
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Unhinging the National Framework
Perspectives on Transnational Life Writing
2020 || Paperback || Babs Boter e.a. || Sidestone Press
This book focuses on the 20th century lives of men and women whose life-work and life experiences transgressed and surpassed the national boundaries that existed or emerged in the 20th century. The chapters explore how these life-stories add innovative transnational perspectives to the entangled histories of the world wars, decolonization, the Cold War and post-colonialism.
The subjects vary from artists, intellectuals, and politicians to ordinary citizens, each with their own unique set of e...
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Past Societies
Human Development in Landscapes
2020 || Paperback || Johannes Müller e.a. || Sidestone Press
The Kiel Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes' has conducted research on socio-environmental issues of past societies during the last years. From the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East, different attempts on the interfluve of environments and societies in landscapes describe certain historical moments and processes in which the interplay of ecological and societal factors is entangled. Events, processes and structures are described on local, regional...
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Textiel uit Egypte
2020 || Paperback || Geralda Jurriaans-Helle e.a. || Sidestone Press
De Egyptische weeftraditie is eeuwenoud. Het goed bewaarde textiel uit het eerste millennium na Christus vormt hierin een bijzondere groep. Deze weefsels zijn hoofdzakelijk in graven teruggevonden. Aan de overledenen werden kledingstukken en ander textiel meegegeven. Sommige weefsels waren speciaal voor de begrafenis gemaakt, terwijl andere stukken kostbare eigendommen uit het dagelijks leven waren. Via het textiel toonden de eigenaren een deel van hun identiteit, waardoor we letterlijk en fi...
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Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia
Paperback || Onesius Otenieli Daeli || Sidestone Press
Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat - an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya) - who live in the middle of a huge tidal swampy area. Owning a ci is part of the Asmat's habitus because ci is a guarantee for mobility, both individually and collectively. The ci is essential for the everyday lives of the Asmat. However, the existence of these dugout canoes is now critical as they tend to b...
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Crossing the Alps
Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC)
2020 || Paperback || Lorenzo Zamboni e.a. || Sidestone Press
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the urbanisation processes that took place south and north of the Alps during the early first millennium BC, highlighting the interactions between the different geographical areas.
The 26 chapters included in this book provide a combination of theoretical and methodological insights into urbanisation processes, regional overviews, and up-to-date evidence from key archaeological sites. The latter comprise both well-established names such a...
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Law and Trade in Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia
Selected Papers by K.R. Veenhof
Paperback || N.J.C. Kouwenberg || Sidestone Press
This book contains a selection of nineteen articles published by K.R. Veenhof, focusing on his main field of study: law and trade in the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian society of the early second millennium B.C. They were originally published in journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes over the past fifty years. Their reissue here is motivated by their lasting value and their fundamental importance to the study of these subjects.
It includes both “broad” articles, which gi...