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Appendices: Persistent traditions
a long-term perspective on communities in the process of neolithisation in the lower rhine area (5500-2500 cal bc)
Hardcover || Luc Amkreutz || Sidestone Press Dissertations
The adoption of agriculture is one of the major developments in human history. Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the trajectories of Neolithisation in Northwest Europe were diverse. This book presents a study into the archaeology of the communities involved in the process of Neolithisation in the Lower Rhine Area (5500-2500 cal BC). It elucidates the role played by the indigenous communities in relation to their environmental context and in view of the changes that becoming Neolit...
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Hispaniola - Hell or Home?
Decolonizing Grand Narratives about Intercultural Interactions at Concepción de la Vega (1494-1564)
Hardcover || Pauline Kulstad-González || Sidestone Press Dissertations
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become independent, the questioning of Grand Narratives has permeated many disciplines in the region, and archaeology is no exception.
This work attempts to examine th...
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Neanderthalers in Noord-Nederland / Druk 2
Leven aan de rand van de oerwereld
2020 || Hardcover || Marcel Niekus e.a. || Koninklijke Van Gorcum || met inkijkexemplaar
Het boek Neanderthalers in Noord-Nederland, leven aan de rand van de oerwereld vertelt het verhaal van de oermensen die ca. 400.000 tot 40.000 jaar geleden Noord-Nederland bevolkten. Hoe leefden ze? Waar woonden ze? Hoe zagen ze eruit? Dit boek van de archeologen Marcel Niekus en Evert van Ginkel gaat uitgebreid in op de geschiedenis van het archeologische onderzoek naar Neanderthalers en de huidige stand van zaken.
In het boek passeren vele vondsten de revue en wordt uitgebreid ingegaan op ...
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Cultures of Stone
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
2020 || Hardcover || 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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Interdisciplinary analysis of the cemetery ‘Kudachurt 14’
Evaluating indicators of social inequality, demography, oral health and diet during the Bronze Age key period 2200-1650 BCE in the Northern Caucasus
Hardcover || Katharina Fuchs || Sidestone Press Dissertations
Representing both a barrier and a corridor between the Eurasian and Asian continents, the Caucasus has constituted the setting for various socio-economic transformations throughout prehistory. The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Northern Caucasus is a period characterised by a shift from pastoral lifeways in the steppe to sedentary lifestyles in the high mountains, and the change from hierarchical to egalitarian societies. In this context, this book provides basic sci...
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Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action
A Case of Reciprocal Influence
2020 || Hardcover || Annette Haug e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean's archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture, bodies) and social (practice) components of built space.
Compiling the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellen...
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Law and Trade in Ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia
Selected Papers by K.R. Veenhof
Hardcover || 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...