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Of rocks and water : towards an archaeology of place /

"This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harmanşah, Ömür
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Colección:Joukowsky Institute publication ; 5.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Towards an archaeology of place / Ömür Harmansah
  • A place for pilgrimage : the ancient Maya sacred landscape of Cara Blanca, Belize / Lisa J. Lucero and Andrew Kinkella
  • On ancient placemaking / Wendy Ashmore
  • Origins and fertility : Mesoamerican caves in deep time / Thomas G. Garrison
  • Topographies of power : theorizing the visual, spatial and ritual contexts of rock reliefs in ancient Iran / Matthew Canepa
  • Other monumental lessons / Ian Straughn
  • Rock reliefs of ancient Iran : notes and remarks / Ali Mousavi
  • The significance of place : rethinking Hittite rock reliefs in relation to the topography of the land of Hatti / Lee Ullmann
  • Places in the political landscape of Late Bronze age Anatolia / Claudia Glatz
  • Living rock and transformed space / Betsey A. Robinson
  • Event, place, performance : rock reliefs and spring monuments in Anatolia / Ömür Harmansah
  • Ruins within ruins : site environmental history and landscape biography / Ben Marsh and Janet Jones
  • Archaeological landscapes, pushed towards ruination / John F. Cherry
  • (Dis)continuous domains : a case of "multi-sited archaeology" from the Peloponnesus, Greece / Christopher L. Witmore
  • Moving on : a conversation with Chris Witmore / Gavin Lucas.