Experimental Archaeology
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Experimental Archaeology
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Author : John M. Coles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Experimental Archaeology written by John M. Coles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Social Science categories.
The first chapter is an historical treatment of experimental archaeology, questioning the evidence and devising new approaches. The following chapters look at ocean voyages, the production of food and the building of houses, the manufacture and use of tools and weapons, achievements in arts and music, the erection of monumental struc¬tures for the dead and, finally, modern attempts to experience 'life in the past'. The conclusion sums up the achievements and the potential of experimental archaeology and stresses the great opportunities that exist for future work. Anyone, from the amateur to the professional archaeologist or ethno¬grapher, will find this book stimulating and enlightening, and it will be invaluable to all students and teachers. It provides an approach which helps archaeologists tackle the perennial problem - how the surviving relics can throw light on the life of the past. Professor John Coles has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1978, and until 1986 was Professor of European Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. Dr. Coles is best known in British archaeology for his work in three fields; first in the archaeology of the Bronze Age, both in this country and in Europe; second, for his remarkably percipient and pioneering work on experimental archaeology; third, for his work with his wife Bryony on the wetland sites of the British Isles, and particularly in the Somerset Levels. John Coles is the best type of humane archaeologist; a scholar who understands both the scientific and theoretical complexities of his discipline without having succumbed to the many pseudo-scientific interpretations of the subject which have so bedeviled it over the last thirty years.
Archaeology By Experiment
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Author : John Coles
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-24
Archaeology By Experiment written by John Coles and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-24 with Social Science categories.
Experimental archaeology is a new approach to the study of early man. By reconstructing and testing models of ancient equipment with the techniques available to early man, we learn how he lived, hunted, fought and built. What did early man eat? How did he store and cook his food? How did he make his tools and weapons and pottery? Such everyday questions, besides the more dramatic mysteries associated with the monuments of Easter Island and Stonehenge and the colonization of Polynesia, can all be explored by experiment.
Designing Experimental Research In Archaeology
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Author : Jeffrey R. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2010-05-15
Designing Experimental Research In Archaeology written by Jeffrey R. Ferguson and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-15 with Social Science categories.
Each chapter addresses a particular classification of material culture---ceramics, stone tools, perishable materials, composite hunting technology, butchering practices and bone tools, and experimental zooarchaeology---detailing issues that must be considered in the development of experimental archaeology projects and discussing potential pitfalls. The experiments follow coherent and consistent research designs and procedures that are given theoretical context. Contributors outline methods that will serve as a guide in future experiments. This degree of standardization is uncommon in traditional archaeological research but is essential to experimental archaeology. --
Experimental Archaeology Making Understanding Story Telling
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Author : Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Experimental Archaeology Making Understanding Story Telling written by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Social Science categories.
In this book, based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
Experimentation And Interpretation
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Author : Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2011
Experimentation And Interpretation written by Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
Experimental archaeology is today forging new links between archaeological scientists and theorists. Many of the best archaeological projects today are those which use methodology and interpretation from both the sciences and the arts. The papers presented here reflect this interdisciplinary approach and focus on sites and material culture spanning from the Mesolithic to the Late Medieval periods. They range from the history of experimentation in archaeology and its place within the field today, to the theory behind `the experiment', to several projects which have used controlled experimentation to test hypotheses about archaeological remains, past actions, and the scientific processes we use. Now that archaeology has moved beyond the focus of the Processual/Post-Processual debates of the 1970s and 80s, which pitted science against the arts, archaeologists have more freedom to choose how to `do archaeology'. The contributions to this book reflect this as problems are approached in --
Egyptology In The Present
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Author : Carolyn Graves-Brown
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2015-06-01
Egyptology In The Present written by Carolyn Graves-Brown and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with History categories.
This volume builds bridges between usually-separate social groups, between different methodologies and even between disciplines. It is the result of an innovative conference held at Swansea University in 2010, which brought together leading craftspeople and academics to explore the all-too-often opposed practices of experimental and experiential archaeology. The focus is upon Egyptology, but the volume has a wider importance. The experimental method is privileged in academic institutions and thus perhaps is subject to clear definitions. It tends to be associated with the scientific and technological. In opposition, the experiential is more rarely defined and is usually associated with schoolchildren, museums and heritage centres; it is often criticised for being unscientific. The introductory chapter of this volume examines the development of these traditionally-assumed differences, giving for the first time a critical and careful definition of the experiential in relation to the experimental. The two are seen as points on a continuum with much common ground. This claim is borne out by succeeding chapters, which cover such topics as textiles, woodworking and stoneworking. And Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, here demonstrates remarkably that our understanding of the classic Egyptian funerary practice of mummification benefits from both 'scientific' experimental and sensual experiential approaches. The volume, however, is important not only for Egyptology but for archaeological method more generally. The papers illuminate the pioneering of individuals who founded modern archaeological practice. Several papers are truly groundbreaking and deserve to circulate far beyond Egyptology. Thus the archaeologist Marquardt Lund tackles the problem of understanding the earliest known depictions of flint knife manufacture, those from an Egyptian tomb dated around 1900 BC. He shows the importance of thinking outside 'traditional', i.e. modern, knapping practice. Lund's knapping method, guided by the tomb depictions, is surprising but effective, and very different from that presented in manuals of lithic technology or taught in academic institutions.
Experiments Past
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Author : Jodi Reeves Flores
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Experiments Past written by Jodi Reeves Flores and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Archaeology categories.
With Experiments Past the important role that experimental archaeology has played in the development of archaeology is finally uncovered and understood. Experimental archaeology is a method to attempt to replicate archaeological artefacts and/or processes to test certain hypotheses or discover information about those artefacts and/or processes. It has been a key part of archaeology for well over a century, but such experiments are often embedded in wider research, conducted in isolation or never published or reported. Experiments Pasts provides readers with a glimpse of experimental work and experience that was previously inaccessible due to language, geographic and documentation barriers, while establishing a historical context for the issues confronting experimental archaeology today. This volume contains formal papers on the history of experimental methodologies in archaeology, as well as personal experiences of the development of experimental archaeology from early leaders in the field, such as Hans-Ole Hansen. Also represented in these chapters are the histories of experimental approaches to taphonomy, the archaeology of boats, building structures and agricultural practices, as well as narratives on how experimental archaeology has developed on a national level in several European countries and its role in encouraging a wide-scale interest and engagement with the past.
The Constructed Past
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Author : Philippe Planel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
The Constructed Past written by Philippe Planel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education. Using various case studies, the contributors frankly discuss the aims, problems and mistakes experienced with reconstruction. They encourage the need for on-going experimentation and examine the various uses of the sites; political, economical and educational.
Experimental Archaeology
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Author : Daniel Ingersoll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Experimental Archaeology written by Daniel Ingersoll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Archaeology categories.
The Life Cycle Of Structures In Experimental Archaeology
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Author : Linda M. Hurcombe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Life Cycle Of Structures In Experimental Archaeology written by Linda M. Hurcombe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Archaeology categories.
This volume on experimental archaeology focusses on the life cycles structures such as houses, boats, forges, etc. Key themes are the birth, life and death of structures.