This book is part of a series resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense. It emphasised that archaeology is much more than the mere recording of specific cultural events. It embraces the study of social and cultural change in its entirety. The authors set out to examine the nature of social hierarchies and political centralization in a specifically chosen set. Their material embraces what would traditionally be called "ranked" societies - chiefdoms, ancient "civilizations", European colonial states and a modern national state from the Third World. In all these cases it is clear that without the sophisticated understanding and use of terminolology and concepts deriving primarily from sociology and social anthropology, archaeologists must inevitably be guilty of the most gross oversimplifications in their treatment of other (past) societies. The findings demonstrate the inter-disciplinary nature of archaeological, sociological and anthropological investigation and interpretation epitomizing the indivisible nature of past and present.

State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization (One World Archaeology, Vol 4)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gledhill, John

Bender, Barbara

Anthropology

Unwin Hyman

Farming in prehistory: From hunter-gatherer to food-producer

History

Ancient Civilizations

J. Baker

Physical description; 254 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm. Subjects; Britanny - Antiquities. Normandy - Antiquities. Channel Islands - Antiquities. Antiquities, Prehistoric - France - Brittany.

The Archaeology of Brittany, Normandy and the Channel Islands: An Introduction and Guide

Cailland, Robert

Archaeology

Faber&Faber

Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications)

This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor―both ancient and modern―using a large number of literary genres and academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of archaeology.

Tilley, Christopher

Hamilton, Sue

Routledge

This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor―both ancient and modern―using a large number of literary genres and academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of archaeology.

This book is an imaginative exploration of a place that has fascinated, intrigued and perplexed visitors for centuries. Instead of seeing Stonehenge as an isolated site, the author sets the stones within a wider landscape and explores how use and meaning have changed from prehistoric times right through to the present. Throughout the millennia, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to myths and stories. The author creatively explores how the landscape has been appropriated and contested, and invokes the debates and experiences of people who have very different and often conflicting experiences of the same place. Today, heritage managers, archaeologists, local people, free festivallers, and druids come to the place with entirely different understandings and agendas. The book demonstrates that the creation of spaces and places for people to express divergent viewpoints is powerfully constrained by social and political forces that allow some voices to be heard while others are marginalized. With dialogues and illustrations that range from the conventional to the cartoon strip, this multi-vocal book not only presents a wide range of views in an innovative way, but provides important new insights on how people shape and are shaped by landscape.

Stonehenge: Making Space (Materializing Culture)

Berg Publishers

This book is an imaginative exploration of a place that has fascinated, intrigued and perplexed visitors for centuries. Instead of seeing Stonehenge as an isolated site, the author sets the stones within a wider landscape and explores how use and meaning have changed from prehistoric times right through to the present. Throughout the millennia, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to myths and stories. The author creatively explores how the landscape has been appropriated and contested, and invokes the debates and experiences of people who have very different and often conflicting experiences of the same place. Today, heritage managers, archaeologists, local people, free festivallers, and druids come to the place with entirely different understandings and agendas. The book demonstrates that the creation of spaces and places for people to express divergent viewpoints is powerfully constrained by social and political forces that allow some voices to be heard while others are marginalized. With dialogues and illustrations that range from the conventional to the cartoon strip, this multi-vocal book not only presents a wide range of views in an innovative way, but provides important new insights on how people shape and are shaped by landscape.

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State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization (One World Archaeology, Vol 4)

Farming in prehistory: From hunter-gatherer to food-producer

The Archaeology of Brittany, Normandy and the Channel Islands: An Introduction and Guide

Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications)

Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications)

Stonehenge: Making Space (Materializing Culture)

Stonehenge: Making Space (Materializing Culture)