Beyond Use-Wear Traces
Going from tools to people by means of archaeological wear and residue analyses
Edited by Sylvie Beyries, Caroline Hamon & Yolaine Maigrot | 2021
This book brings together 30 papers by leading scholars in the field of usewear and residue analysis. This publication aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches…
Pots and practices
An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies
Edited by Annelou van Gijn, Janine Fries-Knoblach & Philipp W. Stockhammer | 2020
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…
Grave Reminders
Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory
Daniel R. Turner | 2020
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, filling…
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
Katharina Fuchs | 2020
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…
Cleaning and Value
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur | 2020
This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology…
Cultures of Stone
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
Edited by Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly & Sol Mallía-Guest | 2020
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…
Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies
The macro and microscopic characteristics of experimental samples
Theresa Emmerich Kamper | 2020
The importance of skin processing technologies in the history and expansion of humankind cannot be overstated, yet these technologies can be difficult to identify in the archaeological record. This research outlines the development of a…
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Beyond Use-Wear Traces
Going from tools to people by means of archaeological wear and residue analyses
Edited by Sylvie Beyries, Caroline Hamon & Yolaine Maigrot | 2021
This book brings together 30 papers by leading scholars in the field of usewear and residue analysis. This publication aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches…
Pots and practices
An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies
Edited by Annelou van Gijn, Janine Fries-Knoblach & Philipp W. Stockhammer | 2020
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…
Grave Reminders
Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory
Daniel R. Turner | 2020
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, filling…
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
Katharina Fuchs | 2020
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…
Cleaning and Value
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur | 2020
This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology…
Cultures of Stone
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone
Edited by Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly & Sol Mallía-Guest | 2020
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…
Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies
The macro and microscopic characteristics of experimental samples
Theresa Emmerich Kamper | 2020
The importance of skin processing technologies in the history and expansion of humankind cannot be overstated, yet these technologies can be difficult to identify in the archaeological record. This research outlines the development of a…
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