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The archaeology of islands /
Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Topics in contemporary archaeology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. A Consciousness of the Earth and Ocean: The Creation of Islands
- 'Full fathom five': islands in Western history
- Suffering a seachange: islands in popular literature
- Imaginary islands
- Islands of the dead
- Prison and plantation islands
- Insiders and outsiders
- Shores and lines on a map
- boundaries and scale
- Islands in a world of perceptions
- 2. Seas of Islands: Anthropology, Biogeography, Archaeology and Postcolonialism
- Islands and anthropology
- Islands and biogeography
- Archaeology and island biogeography
- Islands and the postcolonial critique
- Small worlds and big issues
- microcosms
- 3. An Archaeology of the Sea
- Maritime cultural landscapes
- Mariners and maritime communities
- Being on the seas
- The sea(s) and phenomenology
- Material culture, gender and practical experience
- Intimate relations
- Archaeologies of the sea(s)
- Facing the sea
- 4. The Mediterranean: Malta
- Malta
- Seas within seas
- Back to Malta
- 5. Oceania: Pohnpei and the Eastern Carolines
- Island histories in Oceania
- Micronesia
- Polynesia
- Fusion
- 6. The Baltic: Gotland
- Gotland
- Mesolithic Gotland
- Pigs on Gotland
- Pitted Ware period
- Bronze Age Gotland
- Ship-settings
- Iron Age Gotland
- The Baltic Sea
- 7. Atlantic Archipelago: The Western Seaways of Europe
- Western seaways
- Mesolithic prelude?
- Arrivals (and departures?)
- 'Attention all shipping'- Bronze Age boats
- Iron Age seasiders
- Irish Sea/Mediterranean Sea
- 8. Conclusion-Islands and Histories of the Sea
- Communities in the field
- The archaeology of islands
- The archaeologies of the seas.