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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists and historians from all over the world, it covers a wide range of themes and debates, including biographical accounts of key figures, scientific techniques and archaeological fieldwork practices, institutional contexts, and the effects of religion, nationalism, and colonialism on the development of archaeology.
Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context
This interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions. While giving priority to figurines originating from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, the volume explores the influences of Egyptian, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Mediterranean (particularly Cypriot) iconography on Levantine pictorial material.
Figurines in Achaemenid Period Yehud
Were there figurines in Yehud during the Achaemenid period, and in particular in Jerusalem? A positive answer to this question disproves the general consensus about the absence of figurines in Yehud, which is built on the assumption that the figurines excavated in Judah/Yehud are chronologically indicative for Iron Age II in this area (aside from a few typological exceptions). Ephraim Stern and others have taken this alleged absence of figurines as indicative of Jewish monotheism's rise. Izaak J. de Hulster refutes this `no figurines -> monotheism' paradigm by detailed study of the figurines from Yigal Shiloh's excavation in the 'City of David' (especially their contexts in Stratum 9), providing ample evidence for the presence of figurines in post-587/586 Jerusalem. The author further reflects on the paradigm's premises in archaeology, history, the history of religion, theology, and biblical studies, and particularly in coroplastics (figurine studies).
The Farm as a Social Arena
'The Farm as a Social Arena' focusses on the social life of farms from prehistory until c. 1700 AD, based mainly, but not exclusively, on archaeological sources. All over Europe people have lived on farms, at least from the Bronze Age onwards. The papers presented here discuss farms in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Germany. Whether isolated or in hamlets or villages, farms have been important elements of the social structure for thousands of years. Farms were workplace and home for their inhabitants, women, men and children, and perhaps extended families - frequently sharing their space with domestic animals. Sometimes important events such as feasts, religious services and funerals also took ...
TRAC 2012
The twenty-second Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main in spring 2012. During the three-day conference fifty papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. An equally wide selection of subjects was presented: sessions looked at Greek art and philhellenism in the Roman world, the validity of the concept of ‘Romanisation’, change and continuity in Roman religion, urban neighbourhood relations in Pompeii and Ostia, the transformation of objects in and from the Roman world, frontier markets and Roman archaeology in the Provinces. In addition, two general sessions covered single topics such as the ‘transvestite of Catterick’, metal recycling or Egyptian funeral practice in the Roman period. This volume contains a selection of papers from all these sessions.
Ausgräberinnen, Forscherinnen, Pionierinnen
Die ersten Archäologinnen waren im doppelten Sinne Pionierinnen. Sie leisteten wichtige Anteile an der Entwicklung ihrer akademischen Fächer und übernahmen zudem auf Ausgrabungen, in Museen und Universitäten für Frauen in der damaligen Zeit ganz ungewöhnliche Aufgaben. Im zehnten Band der Reihe Frauen - Forschung - Archäologie wird plastisch dargestellt, was es für Frauen ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts hieß, Archäologin zu sein. Die Haltungen von Familien und sozialem Umfeld zu den grabenden und forschenden Frauen werden ebenso geschildert wie Förderung und Behinderung durch eine männlich geprägte Fachwelt, die Schwierigkeiten, die es den Frauen bereitete, Archäologie und Famili...
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Von wirtschaftlicher Macht und militärischer Stärke. Beiträge zur archäologischen Geschlechterforschung
Die wirtschaftlichen und militärischen Rollen von Frauen in Antike und Prähistorie sind vielfältig: Das Spektrum reicht von neolithischen Bäuerinnen bis zu hellenistischen Königinnen, von Gastwirtinnen aus Pompeji bis zu Jägerinnen aus Australien, von antiken Feldherrinnen bis zu einheimischen Frauen, die römische Soldaten geheiratet haben. In diesem Band der Reihe Frauen – Forschung – Archäologie geht es um zwei Themen, die auf den ersten Blick nicht viel miteinander zu tun haben. Doch ohne wirtschaftliche Macht auch keine militärische Stärke. Von wirtschaftlicher Macht und militärischer Stärke. Beiträge zur archäologischen Geschlechterforschung ist aus den Vorträgen der 4. Sitzung der AG Geschlechterforschung hervorgegangen, die auf der Tagung des Nordwestdeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung e.V. in Detmold 2009 stattfand. Mit Beiträgen von Jochen Brandt, Peter Emberger, Dorit Engster, Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, Sibylle Kästner, Tim Kerig, Anna Kieburg, Sabine Müller und Yvonne Schmuhl.
Religion in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.
