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Architectural energetics in archaeology : analytical expansions and global explorations / edited by Leah McCurdy and Elliot M. Abrams.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Ancient.
- Architecture, Prehistoric.
- Social archaeology.
- Archaeology--Methodology.
- Archaeology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 300 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Leah McCurdy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art& Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and a Research Associate with The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Leah earned her PhD from UTSA in 2016 with her dissertation focused on the application of energetics and labor analysis to the ancient Maya site of Xunantunich, Belize. Leah has been excavating at Xunantunich since 2008 to collect data relevant to her research interests in ancient construction practices, cooperative labor, the intersections of monumentality and community, as well as the meaning of the ancient built environment. Elliot M. Abrams is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University. He refined and promoted the methodology of architectural energetics in How the Maya Built Their World (1994). In addition to his archaeological research in Mesoamerica, he has conducted excavations in the Ohio Valley for over three decades. He coedited (with AnnCorinne Freter) The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio (2005), which outlines the formation of sedentary tribal communities. He also studies environmental change, economic institutions, and social power through the lens of anthropological archaeology.
- Contents:
- Massive assumptions and moundbuilders : the history, method, and relevance of architectural energetics / Elliot M. Abrams and Leah McCurdy
- Built environments and social organizations : a comparative view from Asia / Nam C. Kim and Jina Heo
- Pharaonic power and architectural labor investment at the Karnak Temple complex, Egypt / Megan Drennan and Michael J. Kolb
- An energetics approach to the construction of the Heuneburg : thoughts on Celtic labor cost choices / Francçois Remise
- To house and defend : the application of architectural energetics to southeast Archaic Greek Sicily / Jerrad Lancaster
- Labor mobilization and medieval castle construction in at Salemi, Western Sicily / Michael J. Kolb, Scott Detrich Kirk, and William M. Balco
- Labor recruitment among tribal societies : an architectural energetic analysis of Serpent Mound, Ohio / Jamie L. Davis, Jarrod Burks, and Elliot M. Abrams
- The energetics of earthen landscape modification : an assessment of an emerging Mississippian polity / Cameron H. Lacquement
- Dual labor organization models for the construction of monumental architecture in a corporate society / Anthony James DeLuca
- Peopling monuments : virtual energetics and labor impact analysis of monumental construction at Xunantunich, Belize / Leah McCurdy
- A construction management approach to building the monumental adobe ciudadelas at Chan Chan, Peru / Richard L. Smailes
- Towards a multiscalar comparative approach to power relations : political dimensions of urban construction at Teotihuacan and Copan / Tatsuya Murakami
- The future of architectural energetics in 2D and 3D / Leah McCurdy and Elliot M. Abrams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 04, 2019).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Architectural energetics in archaeology
- ISBN:
- 1315109794
- 9781351614146
- 1351614142
- 9781351614153
- 1351614150
- 9781315109794
- Publisher Number:
- 99980038437
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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