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Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean
The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research. The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western Mediterranean region. Recent advances in radiocarbon dating, mathematical and computational models, archaeometric analysis and biomolecular techniques, together with new archaeological discoveries, provide novel insights into this topic. This volume is organized into five sections: · new discoveries and new ideas about the Mediterranean Neolithic · reconstructing times and modeling processes · landscape interaction: farming and herding · dietary subsistence of early farming communities · human dispersal mechanisms and cultural transmission This volume will also provide new empirical data to help readers assess different theoretical frameworks and narratives which underlie the models proposed to explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.
Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory
This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world. The transformative effect of the spread and adoption of agriculture in prehistory cannot be overstated. Consequently, archaeologists have often focused their research on this transition, hoping to understand both the ecological causes and impacts of this shift, as well as the social motivations and constraints involved. Given the complex interplay of socio-ecological factors, the answers to these types of questions cannot be found using traditional archaeological methods alone. Computational modeling techniques have emerged as...
Lost Laborers in Colonial California
Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical time for California Indians, as many were drawn into labor pools for the flourishing ranchos following the 1834 dismantlement of the mission system, but they are practically absent from the documentary record and from popular histories. This study focuses on Rancho Petaluma north of San Francisco Bay, a large livestock, agricultural, and manufacturing operation on which several hundredÑperhaps as many as two thousandÑNative Americans worked as field hands, cowboys, artisans, cooks, and servants. One of the largest ranchos in the regi...
Research, Education and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. Specific themes include Crow Canyon’s contributions to projects focused on community and regional settlement patterns, human-environment relationships, public education pedagogy, and collaborative partnerships with Indigenous communities. Contributing authors, deeply familiar with the center and its surrounding central Mesa Verde region, include Crow Canyon researchers, educators, and Indigenous scholars ins...
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory
This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and the historical and modern geographical distribution of language communities inform us about the spread of languages and linguistic phyla. The global distribution and the chronology of spread of Y chromosomal haplogroups appears closely correlated with the spread of language families. New findings on ancient DNA have greatly enhanced our understanding of the prehistory and provenance of our biological ancestors. The archaeological study of past material cultures provides yet a third independent window onto the complex prehistory of our species.
Arte, pensamiento simbólico y modos de vida en la Prehistoria
El libro adentra en el campo más actual de la Arqueología Prehistórica gracias a su multidisciplinar acercamiento metodológico. Con ese fin, la obra aparece estructurada en cinco grandes bloques. Por un lado, el primero de ellos se centra en el análisis del pensamiento simbólico, con especial atención al estudio del arte prehistórico de la península ibérica y el suroeste francés, mientras que el segundo bloque se detiene en el estudio de la diversidad de la cultura material adoptada por los grupos de cazadores-recolectores desde el norte de África hasta Irán. En el tercer bloque se profundiza en el territorio de las prácticas funerarias y el tratamiento de la muerte en el Mesol...
Kermes 134-135
Attualità Presentato alla fiera "Più Libri Più Liberi" di Roma il numero 133 di Kermes dedicato alla conservazione della plastica nell'arte contemporanea e nel design Restauro in equilibrio tra tecnologia e filologia. Il caso dell'Apollo del Belvedere nei Musei Vaticani Il bronzo di Donatello svelato dopo il restauro Michael Sweerts: «Chi [effettivamente] era costui?» Un libro sulle tavolozze degli artisti Restaurata la conceria di Pompei Legno archeologico imbibito. Diagnosi, primo intervento e conservazione Introduzione Aenaria: le strutture portuali in cassaforma lignea Alessandra Benini, Giulio Lauro Prospettive future nella progettazione di nuovi materiali a basso impatto ambiental...
(I)Mobilidades na Pré-história
(I)Mobilidades na Pré-história. Pessoas, recursos, objetos, sítios e territórios resulta do reconhecimento da mobilidade humana enquanto temática central na agenda da Arqueologia. Trata-se de uma obra plural, espelhada em contributos com distintas abordagens teórico-metodológicas, diversas referências empíricas, diferentes geografias e percorrendo uma larga diacronia. É esta dimensão holística e integrada que se exige ao estudo da mobilidade, um fenómeno complexo e multifacetado, mas de inegável importância para a compreensão das dinâmicas que marcaram as comunidades pretéritas, assim como as relações que estas estabeleceram, não só entre si, mas também com o território, dinâmicas essas materializadas em artefactos e estruturas, em paisagens construídas e vivenciadas deixadas ao devir do tempo. Mais do que um contributo sobre uma temática que explora caminhos divergentes, o livro pretende ser, também, um desafio, incitando os investigadores a darem continuidade a um tema repleto de potencial e relevância num mundo, nunca como hoje, em movimento.
