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The bioarchaeology of ritual and religion
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ISBN: 1785708317 1785708295 9781785708299 1785708287 9781785708282 9781785708312 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxbow Books,

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The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion' is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of 'environmental' remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behaviour, this book investigates notions of ritual and religion through the lens of perishable material culture. Research centring on bioarchaeological evidence and drawing on methods from archaeological science has traditionally focused on functional questions surrounding environment and economy. However, recent years have seen an increased recognition of the under-exploited potential for scientific data to provide detailed information relating to ritual and religious practice. This volume explores the diverse roles of plant, animal and other organic remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and worked artefacts. It also provides insights into how archaeological science can shed light on the reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing of rituals. The 14 papers showcase current and new approaches in the investigation of bioarchaeological evidence for elucidating complex social issues and worldviews. The case studies are intentionally broad, encompassing a range of sub-disciplines of bioarchaeology, including archaeobotany, anthracology, palynology, micromorphology, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology (including avian and worked bone studies), archaeomalacology and organic residue analysis. The temporal and geographical coverage is equally wide, extending across Europe from the Mediterranean and Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period. The volume also includes a discursive paper by Prof. Brian Hayden, who suggests a different interpretative framework of archaeological contexts and rituals.


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The bioarchaeology of ritual and religion
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ISBN: 9781785708282 1785708287 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books,

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The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion' is the first volume dedicated to exploring ritual and religious practice in past societies from a variety of 'environmental' remains. Building on recent debates surrounding, for instance, performance, materiality and the false dichotomy between ritualistic and secular behaviour, this book investigates notions of ritual and religion through the lens of perishable material culture. Research centring on bioarchaeological evidence and drawing on methods from archaeological science has traditionally focused on functional questions surrounding environment and economy. However, recent years have seen an increased recognition of the under-exploited potential for scientific data to provide detailed information relating to ritual and religious practice. This volume explores the diverse roles of plant, animal and other organic remains in ritual and religion, as foods, offerings, sensory or healing mediums, grave goods, and worked artefacts. It also provides insights into how archaeological science can shed light on the reconstruction of ritual processes and the framing of rituals. The 14 papers showcase current and new approaches in the investigation of bioarchaeological evidence for elucidating complex social issues and worldviews. The case studies are intentionally broad, encompassing a range of sub-disciplines of bioarchaeology, including archaeobotany, anthracology, palynology, micromorphology, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology (including avian and worked bone studies), archaeomalacology and organic residue analysis. The temporal and geographical coverage is equally wide, extending across Europe from the Mediterranean and Aegean to the Baltic and North Atlantic regions and from the Mesolithic to the medieval period. The volume also includes a discursive paper by Prof. Brian Hayden, who suggests a different interpretative framework of archaeological contexts and rituals.


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Lands of the Shamans : archaeology, cosmology and landscape
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ISBN: 1785709550 1785709577 9781785709579 9781785709555 9781785709548 1785709542 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books,

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'Shamanism' is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or 'shaman' and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered from an anthropological viewpoint, but this book gathers the most recent studies on a subject which has not been comprehensively studied by archaeologists. By putting together experts from two continents who have studied the phenomenon of shamanism, Lands of the Shamans, through carefully selected case studies, uses the archaeological evidence to construct the shamans' worldview, landscape, and cosmology.Recent interdisciplinary studies support the idea of the existence of shamanistic representations as long ago as the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic, but at the same time, do not follow developments during the history of humankind. As ethnographic evidence shows, shamanistic activity represents a complex phenomenon that is extremely diversified, its spiritual activity possessing a large variety of expressions in the material culture. In other words, shamanism could be defined as a series of differing spiritual world views which model the material culture and the landscape.Throughout the archaeological record of all prehistoric and historic periods, there is a series of visual representations and objects, and landscape alterations that could be ascribed to these differing world views, many thought to represent shamanistic cognition and activity. The shaman's landscape reveals itself to the world as one of multifaceted spiritual and material activity. Consequently, this first book dedicated completely to the shamanistic landscape presents in fresh perspective the landscapes of the lower and upper worlds as well as their phenomenological experience. Case Studies come from Europe, North America, and Asia.


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Architecture, décor, organisation de l'espace : Les enjeux de l'archéologie médiévale
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ISBN: 2356681922 2356680438 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lyon : Alpara,

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Père de l'archéologie médiévale à Lyon, Jean-François Reynaud a mené avec le succès que l'on sait ses recherches sur le Lyon paléochrétien et médiéval. Puis il a ouvert ses investigations sur la région Rhône-Alpes, en ajoutant à la pratique de l'archéologie sédimentaire, celle, encore balbutiante, de l'archéologie du bâti. Son enseignement a reflété ses activités scientifiques, assurant à l'université Lumière Lyon 2 une riche moisson de maîtrises, DEA et thèses composés dans ces deux domaines. Les travaux que ses collègues, disciples et amis ont réunis dans ce volume de mélanges sont le fruit de l'enseignement et de la formation pratique que Jean-François Reynaud a dispensés au fil de sa carrière. Aussi a-t-il paru souhaitable d'y associer les nouvelles générations – la relève – qui sont les héritières par voie directe. Leurs interventions montreront que le dynamisme initial s'est conservé, la recherche amplifiée et les intérêts diversifiés. Les monographies de site ouvrent le volume. Elles constituent des laboratoires vivants où s'élaborent méthodes et problématiques, où se dessinent de grandes synthèses historiques et où la restauration et la conservation du patrimoine puisent des conseils performants. Dans un second temps, l'organisation de l'espace religieux fait entrer le lecteur dans le domaine délicat des relations entre l'architecture, l'image monumentale, la liturgie et la vie quotidienne au sein de l'église, du quartier canonial ou du monastère. Au fil des siècles, la morphogenèse des lieux et des bâtiments se nourrit de ces données déterminantes. Enfin, est abordée la pertinence de ces approches fondées sur des méthodes renouvelées englobant largement l'histoire de l'art et l'archéologie, de la sculpture et des techniques de construction aux analyses spatiales et à la conservation des sites archéologiques.

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