Zoekfilters
Geen verdere filters gevondenResultaten (4)
Empire and excavation
Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960
2025 || Paperback || Thomas Kiely e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating example of how archaeology was practiced and developed in a specific colonial context. This volume explores the mechanisms, the institutions and the characters who contributed to the development of Cypriot archaeology, often within a fraught political environment.
The 23 papers in this volume addre...
Spaces and Meaning
Multimodal Communication in Ancient Egypt
2025 || Paperback || Silvia Kutscher e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
Multimodality – the integration of different semiotic resources in communication – plays a key role in the way people convey meaning. While much of the research has focused on multimodal communication in modern European and Anglo-Saxon cultures, the diverse visual and textual compositions of ancient civilizations have been less explored.
This book presents the findings of a working group on multimodal communication in Ancient Egypt and explores the multimodal nature of Egyptian artifacts...
The Late Roman Settlement of Umm al-Dabadib
A Remote Investigation
2025 || Paperback || Corinna Rossi || Sidestone Press Academics
How to investigate an archaeological site that became inaccessible? When the Egyptian Western Desert was closed for security reasons in 2016 just before the start of the first archaeological excavation at Umm al-Dabadib, in the Kharga Oasis, this question became the starting point for an unexpected journey in search of an alternative methodology.
Our multidisciplinary team, including Egyptologists, archaeologists, architects, historians, engineers, mathematicians, IT experts, botanists and hy...
Beyond heterogeneities
New perspectives on social and cultural diversity from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin
2025 || Paperback || Kata Furholt e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics