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After Stonehenge
Later prehistory and the historical period in the Stonehenge landscape
2022 || Paperback || Mike Parker Pearson e.a. || Sidestone Press
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the fourth of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes investigati...
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Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation
2019 || Paperback || Slawomir Kadrow e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
The problem of the social dimension of technology and transformation seen in the perspective of the habitus has been repeatedly undertaken in various works. However, the complexity of these phenomena causes subsequent attempts to be presented and explained again in new contexts, bringing interesting observations.
The edited volume aims to contribute to our better understanding of a system of embodied dispositions hidden under the term 'habitus'. This will be achieved by presenting the latest ...
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The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery
Paperback || Ashley Cooke || Sidestone Press
Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type of tomb was really used. No thorough and comprehensive investigation has ever been dedicated to the building techniques, materials and design of mastabas or, indeed, who built them.
"The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs" considers the architectural components of t...
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Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment
Paperback || Irene Vikatou || Sidestone Press
In many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio-economic and political processes that these societies underwent and/or instrumentalised. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such constructions form an useful research target in order to investigate both their associated societies as well as the underlying processes that generated differential construction levels. Monumental constructions may physically remain the s...
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Stonehenge for the Ancestors: Part 2
Synthesis
2022 || Paperback || Mike Parker Pearson e.a. || Sidestone Press
For many centuries, scholars and enthusiasts have been fascinated by Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle. In 2003 a team of archaeologists commenced a long-term fieldwork project for the first time in decades. The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context.This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of ...
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Rural Settlement
Relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age
2019 || Paperback || Manuel Fernández-Götz e.a. || Sidestone Press
The majority of humanity have lived out their lives in a 'rural' context, and even in our increasingly urbanised world almost half of the global population still live in rural areas. In the European Iron Age, the vast mass of the population clearly lived in small hamlets and farmsteads, and this overarching 'rurality' is important for understanding these societies. While there has been a pronounced focus in recent archaeological research on patterns of centralisation and urbanisation, there i...
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From ‘LUGAL.GAL’ to ‘Wanax’
kingship and Political Organisation in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
2019 || Paperback || Jorrit Kelder e.a. || Sidestone Press
In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised through the prism of archaeology and contemporary textual (Linear B, Egyptian and Hittite) evidence.
From the early 14th century BC onwards, Hittite texts refer to a land Ahhiya(wa). The exact geographic position of this land has been the focus of academic debate for more than a century, but most specialists nowadays agree that it must have been a Hittite desig...
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Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados
Past, Present, and Future Research Directions
2019 || Paperback || Maaike De Waal e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
This volume provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the archaeology of a single Caribbean island yet published. Drawing together scholars from the Caribbean, north America and Europe, all working from a range of disciplines within the broader scope of archaeology, and drawing upon recent and innovative fieldwork, the collected papers touch upon a wider variety of archaeological case studies.
Divided into four sections each under the editorial supervision of a specialist scholar, t...
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Heritage Education
Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A View from Teacher Practice
Paperback || Eldris Con Aguilar || Sidestone Press Dissertations
This book compiles the results of a doctoral research study that sought to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social studies. To this end, the questions focused on studying the relationships that are formed between individuals and the past in the school context. Taking into account teachers' perspectives on subject content and pedagogical practices can contribute to gaining a better understanding of the role of education in safeguarding herit...