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History from Things explores the many ways objects - defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery - can reconstruct and help to reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to "read" artifacts, how to "listen to" landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists. The contributors demonstrate that artifacts can be prime historical evidence that discloses important facts about the nature of past cultures. The book shows how, for example, the detailed examination of Chinese Zhou bronzes revealed that a factory system of production - nowhere attested to in documentary sources - existed in China as early as the fifth century B.C. Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. It expands and redirects the study of material culture - an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.

Archaeology and history --- Material culture --- Culture --- History --- Folklore --- Technology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Ugarit (Extinct city). --- Syria --- Antiquities. --- Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Dwellings --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Antiquities --- Cylinder seals --- Cylindrical seals --- Roll seals --- Seals (Numismatics) --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Archaeology and history --- Congresses. --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic. --- Pottery, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Préhistoire --- Catalogs. --- Ugarit (Extinct City) --- Pottery, Mycenaean --- Pottery, Ancient --- Inscriptions ougaritiques --- Inscriptions akkadiennes --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Ougarit (ville ancienne) --- History --- Civilization --- Ugaritic language --- Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions [Ugaritic ] --- Cuneiform inscriptions [Akkadian ] --- Mycenaean pottery --- Pottery --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic --- Ugaritic cuneiform inscriptions --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- Ancient pottery --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Syria - Ugarit (Extinct city) - Congresses. --- Archaeology and history - Syria - Ugarit (Extinct city) - Congresses. --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Syria - Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Pottery, Prehistoric - Syria - Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Neolithic period - Syria. --- Antiquities, Prehistoric - Syria. --- Fouilles (Archéologie) - Syrie - Ougarit (Ville ancienne). --- Préhistoire - Syrie. --- Cylinder seals - Syria - Ugarit (Extinct city) - Catalogs. --- Architecture, Domestic - Syria - Ugarit (Extinct City) --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Syria --- Syria - Antiquities