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Cultural Heritage
Human heritage is an endless mine of knowledge, skills, ethos and accomplishments, which visualize and examine the power of human creativity and innovation throughout the history. The contributions cast an insight into the human psyche to perceive its Weltanschauung, and its way of thinking and making artefacts associated with knowledge, existence and identity in the context of other existing systems in the world. They demonstrate the diversity of topics as well as the state-of-the art of interdisciplinary approaches that participants of the Humboldt-Kolleg use in their research on cultural heritage, and confirm, once again, that the strengths of the Alexander von Humboldt Network should be celebrated and honoured. The present volume invites us to seek more novel research approaches that aim towards an understanding of the complex nature of human inheritance.
Klänge der Archäologie
Ricardo Eichmann prägte als Erster Direktor die wissenschaftliche Ausrichtung der Orient-Abteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts über einen langen Zeitraum und dies in inhaltlich sehr vielfältiger Weise. Den 65. Geburtstag und das Ausscheiden aus dem aktiven Dienst nehmen 53 Kolleginnen und Kollegen zum Anlass, ihre langjährige Verbundenheit mit Ricardo Eichmann in Gestalt einer Festschrift auszudrücken. Die Beiträge zu dieser Festschrift spiegeln genau diese Vielfalt und die persönlichen Interessen wider. Sie stammen aus ganz unterschiedlichen Bereichen: der Archäologie Vorderasiens mit allen von der Orient-Abteilung und ihren Kooperationspartnern vertretenen Regionen, der Musikarchäologie, der Altorientalistik und altsüdarabischen Epigrafik, der Baugeschichtsforschung, dem Kulturgüterschutz, der Forschungsgeschichte, der Ägyptologie und der Archäohydrologie. Die Aufsätze sind von Autorinnen und Autoren verfasst, die die Forschungsinteressen und die Arbeit der Orient-Abteilung über viele Jahre begleitet und/oder mitgestaltet haben.
Material Culture and Mental Spheres
This volume is contains the contributions held at the international symposium in honor of Prof. H.J. Nissen's retirement concerning the topics "Settlement Patterns and the Study of Irrigation in Southern Mesopotamia," "Ecological Determinism," "Political History and Conflict Management," "The Development of Urbanisation and the Uruk Period," "Economy and Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East," "The Neolithic and Theories on the Neolithisation in the Levant and Anatolia," and " Iran between East and West."
SpatioTemporalities on the Line
Lines are omnipresent in our everyday experience and language. They reflect and influence the spatial and temporal structures of our world view. Taking Tim Ingold’s cultural history of the line as a starting-point, this book understands lines as expressions that allow insights into cultural theoretical phenomena and thus go beyond their mere form. The essays will investigate this premise from various disciplines (architecture, art, cartography, film, literature and philosophy).
Human Iconography and Symbolic Meaning in Near Eastern Prehistory
Human iconography in Near Eastern prehistory has so far only examined specific themes. Iconographic research has mainly focused on aspects of fertility cults and images of the divine, both of which are strongly correlated with the beginning of sedentism in the Early Neolithic. Fieldwork over the last 30 years in South-west Asia has significantly expanded the spectrum of prehistoric anthropomorphic representations. This not only requires a re-evaluation of hitherto standard interpretation models, but also new approaches towards research on themes such as self-perception and self-expression of the human. The contributions in this volume will present a new and comprehensive understanding of pre...
Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE)
New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 BCE) presents select essays originating in a two-year research collaboration between New York University and Paris Sciences et Lettres. The contributions here offer new results and interpretations of the processes and outcomes of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in three broad regions: Anatolia, northern Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Together, these challenge the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, fol...
Settlement and Society
This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays written by his students and disciples focus on issues in Near Eastern archaeology but range as far afield as the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica. They are also concentrate on aspects of early complex society, but some refer back to the late Neolithic and others forward to Islamic times. The key foci of Adams' work are reflected in this collection: ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. Yet in spite of the breadth of the scope of this volume, the various intellectual threads pioneered by Adams serve to tie the volume together. These include the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems, the use of a comparative approach - including the use of ethnographic analogy-as a means of understanding the development of early states, the importance of the continuum of settlement between city dwellers, farmers, marsh dwellers and pastoralists, and an overall appreciation of cultural ecology.
My Nine Lives
Experience a lifetime of adventure This autobiography of prominent American archaeologist William G. Dever is unabashedly his story, in which he offers candid, often brutally honest, reflections on his life and sixty-five-year career. Dever places himself in the midst of a remarkable generation of giants in archaeology in Israel during a period when the fields of biblical and Israeli archaeology were evolving. With technical expertise developed over a lifetime of working alongside four generations of Israeli and foreign excavators, he recalls their exploits and shares numerous personal stories that few others would know. His memoir concludes with a postscript on the likely future of biblical archaeology and an annotated bibliography for serious readers who wish to explore some of the scholarly literature to flesh out Dever’s narrative.
