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In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention to protect the intangible heritage of cultures, and that posed new challenges for scholars and archaeologists. This volume draws on case studies to examine the problems and possibilities of implementing UNESCO's convention.
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This book is a groundbreaking attempt to address questions of non-human and material agency from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines: archaeology, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, philosophy, and economics.
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Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture.
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Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past.
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In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values.
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Discoveries of the sources of alien objects surpass archaeological expectations of exchange and geographic distance, revealing... Læs mere
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Digging, recording, and writing are the three main processes that archaeologists undertake to analyze a site, yet the relationships between these processes is rarely considered critically.
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This book offers interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, emphasizing problems involved with presenting fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities.
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This book offers a complete guide to the study of ancient metals in their social and cultural contexts, covering methodologies including slag analysis, smelting processes, chemical analysis and provenance studies, technical ceramics, ethnoarcheology and more.
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The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place investigates variations in social identity among the ancient Maya by focusing on individuals and small groups identified archaeologically by their inclusion in specific, discrete mortuary contexts or by unusual mortuary treatments.
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They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that give meanings to symbols)... Læs mere