Of rocks and water : towards an archaeology of place / edited by Ömür Harmanșah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harmanşah, Ömür, editor.

Series:

Joukowsky Institute publication ; 5.

Joukowsky Institute Publication ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology.

Landscape archaeology--Philosophy.

Place (Philosophy).

Rocks--Social aspects--History.

Rocks.

Water--Social aspects--History.

Water.

Human ecology--History.

Human ecology.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with the mine

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Contributor Addresses; Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards an Archaeology of Place; Chapter 2: A Place for Pilgrimage: The Ancient Maya Sacred Landscape of Cara Blanca, Belize; Chapter 3: On Ancient Placemaking; Chapter 4: Origins and Fertility: Mesoamerican Caves in Deep Time; Chapter 5: Topographies of Power: Theorizing the Visual, Spatial and Ritual Contexts of Rock Reliefs in Ancient Iran; Chapter 6: Other Monumental Lessons; Chapter 7: Rock-Reliefs of Ancient Iran: Notes and Remarks

Chapter 8: The Significance of Place: Rethinking Hittite Rock Reliefs in Relation to the Topography of the Land of HattiChapter 9: Places in the Political Landscape of Late Bronze Age Anatolia; Chapter 10: Living Rock and Transformed Space; Chapter 11: Event, Place, Performance: Rock Reliefs and Spring Monuments in Anatolia; Chapter 12: Ruins within Ruins: Site Environmental History and Landscape Biography; Chapter 13: Archaeological Landscapes, Pushed Towards Ruination; Chapter 14: (Dis)Continuous Domains: A Case of "Multi-Sited Archaeology" from the Peloponnesus, Greece

Chapter 15: Moving On: A Conversation with Chris WitmoreIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782976721

1782976728

9781782976745

1782976744

OCLC:

880672278