Tough times : the archaeology of crisis and recovery : proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford conferences in 2010 and 2011 / edited by Elsbeth M. van der Wilt, Javier Martinez Jimenez ; with help from Guido Petruccioli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van der Wilt, Elsbeth M., editor.

Petruccioli, Guido, editor.

Martínez Jiménez, Javier (Archaeologist), editor.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2478.

BAR international thesis ; 2478.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history--Congresses.

Archaeology and history.

Crises--History--Congresses.

Crises.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (i, 170 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

British Archaeological Reports.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Archaeopess, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction

Crisis? What crisis? / Peter Mitchell

Parables of decline: popular fears and the use of crises in Aegean archaeological interpretation / Stephen O'Brien

'Five feet high and rising': environmental crises and the art of prehistoric Scandinavia / Courtney Nimura

Collapse, climate change and conflict: a profile of crisis and response in late Andean highland prehistory / Lucas C. Kellett

People under siege in the fourth-century polis: Aeneas the Tactician applied to Olynthos, 348 BC / Joo-Rak Son

Crisis or not? Living conditions in Pompeii in ad 79

Insula ix. 3 as a case study / Heini Ynnilä

Crisis or crises? The end of Roman towns in Iberia, between the late Roman and the early Umayyad Periods / Javier Martínez Jiménez

A combined approach coupling direct and indirect methods for tracing malaria in past populations / Natacha Jacquemard

Engraving social values: neo-palatial glyptic cult-scenes as indicators of social instability? / Céline Murphy

Warfare and the recovery from palatial collapse in the 12th century BC: a case study of the Argolid and Achaea / Matthew Lloyd

The late prehistoric 'dark age' in Ireland and climate fluctuation: buffering strategies and the agency of the environment / Philip Stastneyʹ

Bronze age hoarding in the Thames Valley: a response to crisis? / Camille Shepherd

Iranian metallurgy and disruptions in trade routes at the end of the second millennium BC / Aurélie Cuénod

Painted politics: ambiguity as social strategy in first century BCE Pompeii / Lynley McAlpine

The impact of late antique crises in Noricum Ripense: depopulation vs. invisible people / Barbara Hausmair

Old and new elites in the Visigothic Kingdom (AD 550-650) / Aitor Fernández Delgado, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Carlos Tejerizo García.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

Print version: Tough times

ISBN:

9781407340609

1407340603

OCLC:

1198082967

Publisher Number:

S2478 BAR Publishing

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