UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Susanna Harris, Laurence Douny
October 14, 2024
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile ...
Mediterranean Voyages: The Archaeology of Island Colonisation and Abandonment
1st Edition
By Helen Dawson
February 16, 2023
Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation, abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies display different attitudes toward the land and the sea, which in turn cast light on group identities. This volume ...
Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East: Production, Use, and Social Significance
1st Edition
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By Claudia Glatz
February 16, 2023
The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to ...
The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe
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By Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning, Stephen Shennan
February 16, 2023
This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesizes of our current knowledge ...
Archaeology of African Plant Use
1st Edition
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By Chris J Stevens, Sam Nixon, Mary Anne Murray, Dorian Q Fuller
January 30, 2023
The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book focuses on Paleolithic archaeobotany and the relationship between agriculture and social complexity. It explores the effects that plant life has had on humans as they evolved from primates through the complex societies of ...
Becoming Roman?: Diverging Identities and Experiences in Ancient Northwest Italy
1st Edition
By Ralph Haeussler
August 26, 2022
Few empires had such an impact on the conquered peoples as did the Roman empire, creating social, economic, and cultural changes that erased long-standing differences in material culture, languages, cults, rituals and identities. But even Rome could not create a single unified culture. Individual ...
Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces
1st Edition
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By Andrew Bevan, Mark Lake
April 29, 2022
This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. It focuses on the continuing importance of spatial and ...
Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa
1st Edition
By Sada Mire
September 30, 2021
This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant ...
Ethnic Ambiguity and the African Past: Materiality, History, and the Shaping of Cultural Identities
1st Edition
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By Francois G Richard, Kevin C MacDonald
June 30, 2021
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have asked of identities in Africa? Eleven ...
Living in a Landscape of Scarcity: Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa
1st Edition
By Laurence Douny
June 30, 2021
In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items ...
Reanimating Industrial Spaces: Conducting Memory Work in Post-industrial Societies
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By Hilary Orange
June 30, 2021
Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches that incorporate and critique memory-work. The chapters in this volume consider four broad questions: What is the relationship between industrial heritage and memory? How is ...
Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies
1st Edition
By Jill Goulder
June 30, 2021
Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies is a reassessment of the role and impact of working-animal adoption in antiquity, focusing on 4th-3rd millennium BC Mesopotamia but applicable to other periods and regions.This book is driven by a novel ...