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The Monumental Challenge of Preservation
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II. In The Monumental Challenge of Preservation Michèle Cloonan makes the case that, at this critical juncture, we must consider preservation in the broadest possible contexts. Preservation requires the efforts of an increasing number of stakeholders. In order to explore the cultural, political, technol...
Underground
This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. Underground details how developers and municipal officials have invested tremendous sums of money to gentrify and expand Bucharest’s constellation of subterranean Metro stations and pedestrian pathways, basements and cellars, bunkers and crypts to provide upwardly mobile residents with space to live, work, and play in an overcrowded and increasingly unaffordable ...
Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean
Case studies examining the archaeological record of an overlooked mineral Salt, once a highly prized trade commodity essential for human survival, is often overlooked in research because it is invisible in the archaeological record. Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology brings salt back into archaeology, showing that it was valued as a dietary additive, had curative powers, and was a substance of political power and religious significance for Native Americans. Major salines were embedded in collective memories and oral traditions for thousands of years as places where physical and spiritual needs could be met. Ethnohistoric documents for many Indian culture...
An overview of the Exploitation of hard animal materials during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic / O privire asupra exploatării materiilor dure animale de-a lungul Neoliticului și Calcoliticului
Proceedings of the GDRE Prehistos work-session in Târgoviște, Romania, November 2013 Bilingual English-Romanian edited by Monica Mărgărit, Gaëlle Le Dosseur and Aline Averbouh Trecerea comunităților umane de la stadiul de vânători-culegători, la cel de agricultori și crescători de animale, sub impulsul procesului de neolitizare, venit din Orientul Apropiat și, apoi, folosirea primelor metale – aur și cupru – în calcolitic, au determinat aceste comunități să facă alegeri care, implicit, au generat numeroase mutații la nivel social, tehnologic sau spiritual. În cadrul acestui nou sistem economic, industria materiilor dure animale joacă un rol important, aceasta reflec...
Anthropomorphic Representations in the Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture
This book applies the view of Dan Monah (1943-2013) to the analysis of the Cucuteni-Tripolye anthropomorphic representations.
Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt
The study of salt from an anthropological perspective provides a holistic view of its role in the evolution of human communities. Studies from around the world, ranging from prehistory to modern times, are here organized into 6 sections: theory, archaeology, history, ethnography/ ethnoarchaeology/ethnohistory, linguistics, and literature.
Conservation Practices at Foreign-run Archaeological Excavations in Turkey
This book makes a systematic appraisal of site conservation work as it has been practiced at foreign-run archaeological excavations in Turkey over the past few decades (1979-2014), including technical, socio-political and economic dimensions in a way that reflects developing trends in heritage conservation.
Archaeology of Salt
Salt is an invisible object for research in archaeology. However, ancient writings, ethnographic studies and the evidence of archaeological exploitation highlight it as an essential reference for humanity. Both an edible product and a crucial element for food preservation, it has been used by the first human settlements as soon as food storage appeared (Neolithic).As far as the history of food habits (both nutrition and preservation) is concerned, the identification and the use of that resource certainly proves a revolution as meaningful as the domestication of plants and wild animals. On a global scale, the development of new economic forms based on the management of food surplus went along...
The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the Importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco-Roman World (7th century BC-5th century AD): 20 Years On (1997-2017)
The proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constanţa, 2017) is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception. The central theme returns to that considered 20 years earlier: the importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco-Roman World.
