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The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East.
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ISBN: 3959940874 9783959940870 9783959940863 3959940866 9783959941365 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin

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Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape : Mesa Verde and Beyond
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ISBN: 0816548811 0816519048 Year: 2022 Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility nor sedentism can be understood outside of its social context. Drawing on research in the Mesa Verde region that focuses on communities and households, Mark Varien expands the social, spatial, and temporal scales of archaeological analysis to propose a new model for population movement. Rather than viewing sedentism and mobility as opposing concepts, he demonstrates that they were separate strategies that were simultaneously employed. Households moved relatively frequently--every one or two generations--but communities persisted in the same location for much longer. Varien shows that individuals and households negotiated their movements in a social landscape structured by these permanent communities. Varien's research clearly demonstrates the need to view agriculturalists from a perspective that differs from the hunter-gatherer model. This innovative study shows why current explanations for site abandonment cannot by themselves account for residential mobility and offers valuable insights into the archaeology of small-scale agriculture.


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Ancient Households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado,

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In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and results of households as primary producers; and Section III investigates the role of, and interplay among, households in their greater political and socioeconomic communities. In the past few decades, household archaeology has made substantial contributions to our understanding and explanation of the past through the documentation of the household as a social unit-whether small or large, rural or urban, commoner or elite. These case studies from a broad swath of the Americas make Ancient Households of the Americas extremely valuable for continuing the comparative interdisciplinary study of households.


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Arraiais e vilas d'el rei : espaço e poder nas Minas setecentistas
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Year: 2011 Publisher: SciELO Books - Editora UFMG

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A afirmação de que Minas Gerais era a capitania mais urbanizada da colônia tornou-se quase um lugar-comum na historiografia brasileira. Poucos pesquisadores, no entanto, colocaram a questão urbana no centro de suas reflexões. Num enfoque interdisciplinar, que associa temas e métodos da história, da geografia e do urbanismo, Cláudia Damasceno Fonseca analisa as relações entre espaço e poder em suas múltiplas escalas e dimensões, revelando novas facetas da história política, socioeconômica e religiosa das Minas setecentistas.


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Midden-bronstijdsamenlevingen in het zuiden van de Lage Landen
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ISBN: 1299281869 9088901201 9789088901201 9789088900174 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Sidestone Press

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This thesis reviews and re-assesses the Hilversum Culture of the southern Netherlands and Flanders in the second millennium BC. Completed ten years ago, but re-issued with a new introduction by the author. Text in Dutch. In deze studie staan de overblijfselen van prehistorische boerengemeenschappen van omstreeks 3500 jaar geleden centraal. Het gaat om samenlevingen die de pleistocene zandgronden van Zuid-Nederland en Vlaanderen in de periode van 1800 tot 1050 voor Chr. bewoonden. Van hun boerenbestaan van toen rest niet veel, maar het databestand aan archeologische ontdekkingen uit deze period


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Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory
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ISBN: 081654879X 0816508313 Year: 2022 Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Beginning about A.D. 1250, the Zuni area of New Mexico witnessed a massive population aggregation in which the inhabitants of hundreds of widely dispersed villages relocated to a small number of large, architecturally planned pueblos. Over the next century, twenty-seven of these pueblos were constructed, occupied briefly, and then abandoned. Another dramatic settlement shift occurred about A.D. 1400, when the locus of population moved west to the "Cities of Cibola" discovered by Coronado in 1540. Keith W. Kintigh demonstrates how changing agricultural strategies and developing mechanisms of social integration contributed to these population shifts. In particular, he argues that occupants of the earliest large pueblos relied on runoff agriculture, but that gradually spring-and river-fed irrigation systems were adopted. Resultant strengthening of the mechanisms of social integration allowed the increased occupational stability of the protohistorical Zuni towns.


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Appendices to : A living landscape : Bronze Age settlement sites in the Dutch river area (c. 2000-800 BC)
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ISBN: 129928177X 9088901260 9088900124 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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This publication contains the six main appendices to the PhD thesis ""A Living Landscape: Bronze Age settlement sites in the Dutch river area (c. 2000-800 BC)"" by Stijn Arnoldussen which was published by Sidestone Press in 2008. That study comprises an analysis of the nature (i.e. the constituent components) and dynamics (i.e. diachronic approaches to settlement dynamics) of the settlement sites. It aims to integrate and synthesize interpretations of Bronze Age settlements based on a number of large-scale excavations. The discussion of the archaeological and geological research on these sites


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Body and image
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ISBN: 1315432838 1315432846 1315432854 1598747649 9781598747645 9781315432847 9781315432854 9781315432830 9781598743135 9781598743142 1598743139 1598743147 131543282X Year: 2008 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. Left Coast Press

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The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens-a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus, Chris Tilley argues, the iconographic approach falls short of understanding how ancient people interacted with their imagery. A kinaesthetic approach, one that uses the full body and all the senses, can better approximate the meaning that these artifacts had for their makers and today's viewers.


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Landscapes, documents and maps : villages in northern England and beyond, AD 900-1250
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ISBN: 1782974296 178297427X Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxbow Books,

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The last half century has seen many studies of the origin of the English village. As a cross-disciplinary enquiry this book integrates materials from geography, history, economic history, archaeology, place-name studies, anthropology and even church architecture. These provide varied foundations, but the underlying subject matter always engages with landscape studies. Beginning with a rigorous examination of evidence hidden within the surviving village and hamlet plans seen on eighteenth and nineteenth century maps, the first half of the book shows how these can be classified, mapped, analysed


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Midden-bronstijdsamenlevingen in het zuiden van de Lage Landen : Een evaluatie van het begrip 'Hilversum-cultuur'
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Year: 1999 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Sidestone Press,

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This thesis reviews and re-assesses the Hilversum Culture of the southern Netherlands and Flanders in the second millennium BC. Completed ten years ago, but re-issued with a new introduction by the author. Text in Dutch. In deze studie staan de overblijfselen van prehistorische boerengemeenschappen van omstreeks 3500 jaar geleden centraal. Het gaat om samenlevingen die de pleistocene zandgronden van Zuid-Nederland en Vlaanderen in de periode van 1800 tot 1050 voor Chr. bewoonden. Van hun boerenbestaan van toen rest niet veel, maar het databestand aan archeologische ontdekkingen uit deze period.

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