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Ñuu Savi: Pasado, Presente, Futuro
Descolonización, Continuidad Cultural y Re-apropiación de los Códices Mixtecos en el Pueblo de la Lluvia
2020 || Paperback || Omar Aguilar Sánchez || Leiden University Press
Este trabajo es un estudio decolonial de los manuscritos pictóricos del Ñuu Savi (Pueblo de la Lluvia), México, y busca el entendimiento de sus valores culturales a través del estudio holístico y diacrónico de su herencia viva y patrimonio histórico-cultural, teniendo como base la reintegración de la memoria cultural con fundamento en la continuidad cultural, vinculando el pasado y el presente a través de la lengua de la lluvia (Sahan Savi) y desde la perspectiva del propio Ñuu Savi...
Grave Reminders
Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory
2020 || Paperback || Daniel Turner || Sidestone Press Dissertations
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, filling with the remains of funerals forgotten over generations of reuse. In rare cases, the tombs were used once or seemingly not at all, cleaned thoroughly or sealed and abandoned entirely. Rather than focus on the missing or muddled record of funeral and post-funeral ...
Liquid Footprints
Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia
2020 || Paperback || Mark A. Locicero || Leiden University Press
This publication examines the archaeological evidence from three city blocks in Ostia, focusing on elements of the water systems identified by past excavations and within unpublished archival material. Inspired by the diversity of research approaches currently used to assess the sustainability of water in contemporary cities, this study presents the Roman Water Footprint, which diachronically assesses changes to all parts of a hydraulic system (supply, usage, drainage). At the same time, the ...
Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management
A Study of Dutch Fort at Galle, Sri Lanka
2020 || Paperback || Uditha Jinadasa || Leiden University Press
This 47th volume of the ASLU series focuses on the practical challenges of managing a World Heritage listed historic city in a South Asian context. The Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort, a walled town, identified as the best-preserved colonial fort in South Asia, is the subject of this study. The book analyses the costs and benefits of the fort’s World Heritage recognition to its local urban community and to the colonial fort itself, as a monument. It shows how thirty years of...
The potters’ perspectives
A vibrant chronological narrative of ceramic manufacturing practices in the valley of Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua (cal 300 CE-present)
2020 || Paperback || Natalia R. Donner || Leiden University Press
The work of Fernand Braudel (1949) should have revolutionized the way archaeology conceptualizes temporal scales and builds chronological narratives. Even though Braudel’s general views did impact archaeological theory deeply, his three different time-scales, together with insights into duration as the inner dialectic between different temporalities, remain neglected in archaeological practice.
Nowadays, ceramic chronology building in archaeology still relies on two main variables: time-spa...
Stereotype
The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices
2020 || Paperback || Karsten Wentink || Sidestone Press Dissertations
Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set of grave goods. This practice continued in the second half of the third millennium BCE with the start of the Bell Beaker phenomenon. In large parts of Europe, a ‘typical’ set of objects was placed in graves, known as the ‘Bell Beaker package’.
This book ...
Designating Place
Archaeological Perspectives on Built Environments in Ostia and Pompeii
2020 || Paperback || Hans Kamermans e.a. || Leiden University Press
Spatial analysis on the basis of material culture has always been one of the mayor topics in archaeological research. Designating place analyses the urban space of Roman Ostia and Pompeii in different ways: geophysical analysis, spatial analysis, iconographic analysis and epigraphic analysis. This book is based on the work of Hanna Stöger, the Leiden scholar who died in 2018. Hanna’s work in Ostia was not finished and this book contains contributions from people who inspired her, people sh...
Archaeology in the Žitava valley I
The LBK and Želiezovce settlement site of Vráble
2021 || Paperback || Martin Furholt e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into three contemporary neighbourhoods, one of which is delineated by a complex ditched enclosure system. This enclosure is associated with a large number of human remains, which reveal new patterns of burial and deposition practices. This volume presents the...
Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory
2020 || Paperback || Michela Spataro e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
Technology refers to any set of standardised procedures for transforming raw materials into finished products. Innovation consists of any change in technology which has tangible and lasting effect on human practices, whether or not it provides utilitarian advantages. Prehistoric societies were never static, but the tempo of innovation occasionally increased to the point that we can refer to transformation taking place. Prehistorians must therefore identify factors promoting or hindering innov...
Insights into Social Inequality
A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany
2020 || Paperback || Ralph Grossmann || Sidestone Press Academics
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are almost universal. Accordingly, inequality was also inherent in past societies and archaeologists have continually examined and interpreted social inequalities in sources such as burial grounds.
This book continues such analyse...