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Encyclopedia of Archaeology / Efthymia Nikita and Thilo Rehren, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (3776 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, [2024]
- Summary:
- Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Second Edition, Three Volume Set covers the standing of archaeology as a scientific discipline, how archaeology is practiced, both in the field and in the lab, provides an archaeological geographical overview encompassing all continents and time periods, and covers the role of archaeology in the modern world.
- Contents:
- 9780323918565v1_WEB
- Front Cover
- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARCHAEOLOGY
- Copyright
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1
- CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 1
- EDITOR BIOGRAPHIES
- Editors in Chief
- Editors
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Cultural Ecology
- Introduction
- Overview
- Basic Definitions
- Basic Principles
- Beginnings
- Key Issues
- Culture as an Adaptive Mechanism
- Traditional Knowledge Systems
- Controlling the Environment
- Cultural Ecology and Archaeology
- Summary and Future Directions
- References
- Global Theories of Archaeology
- Overview: Global Theories in Archaeology
- Evolutionism
- Structuralism
- Marxism
- Systems Theory
- Historic Roots of Archaeology
- Overview and Key Issues
- The Ancient World
- Directions From the European Renaissance
- Exploration and Observation
- Stirrings of Archaeology
- History of Archaeology: The Last Few Centuries
- Precedents
- Antiquities and the Emergence of the Modern State (1789-1870s)
- Archaeology and Nationalism (1870s-1945)
- The Archaeology of the Cold War (1945-1989)
- The Archaeology of Neoliberalism (1989-Today)
- Further Reading
- Afro-Brazilian Archaeology
- African Slavery in Brazil
- Spiritual Practices and Rituals
- Interpretive Streams
- Afro-Catholicism
- The Living World of Spirits
- Cultural Creativity
- Material Culture Studies
- Material Culture Studies in the History of the Discipline
- Processual Archaeology.
- Material Culture Studies in France
- Post-processual Archaeology
- Material Culture Studies Today
- Material Culture and Symmetrical Archaeology
- Material Culture and Assemblages
- Material Culture and Materiality
- New Materialism
- Things and People in Entanglements
- Material Culture, Body, and Gender
- Ontologies of Material Culture
- Philosophy of Archaeology
- Concepts
- Confirmation
- Explanation
- Ethics
- Summary
- Funding Statement
- Processual Archaeology
- Contextual History
- The Philosophical Underpinnings
- The New Archaeologist
- What are the Tenets of Processual Archaeology?
- The Importance of Classical Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnography and Experimental Archaeology in the New Archae ...
- The Role of Systems Theory
- The Role of Statistics, Simulation, Mathematics, and Databases
- The Role of Environment and Ecology
- The Contribution of Paleodemography and Networks
- Archaeometry-The Hard End of Science
- Dating
- Material Science and Characterization
- Sampling and Prospecting
- Conservation and Museums
- Role of Biological, Palynological, and Paleogenetic Data
- Role of Geoarchaeology
- Cognitive Archaeology
- Summary and Future Directions: What Happened, Where Did It Happen, What is Happening, and What Will Happen
- References1111The publisher's editorial policy limited the number of bibliographic citations. The interested reader will fi ...
- Post-Processual Archaeology
- Overview: Modern, Post-modern, and Post-processual Archaeology/Archaeologies
- The "Post-modern Shifts" and Post-processual Archaeologies.
- Shift to the Contingency-Complexity Concept/Theory-Based Ontology
- Active Individuals
- Giddensian Practice Theory and Its Implications
- Archaeologies Emerged From the Shift to the Contingency-Complexity-Based Ontology/The Introduction of Giddensian Practice T ...
- Shift to the Hermeneutical Epistemology
- Archaeology as a Situated Field of Practice in the Present
- Inevitability of Hermeneutical-Interpretative Acts
- Consequences of the "Hermeneutical Turn"
- Shift to the Relativist-Anti-evolutionary-Minority-Oriented Worldviews
- The Realization of Inevitable Plurality and Multi-Vocality and the Recognition of the Significance and Validity of Indigeno ...
- Minorities, Power, and Resistance
- Deconstruction of Evolutionary Thinking
- Intended and Unintended Consequences of Post-processual Archaeology
- The Geography of Post-processual Archaeology
- Acknowledgments
- Social Theory in Archaeology
- Social Archaeology and Social Theory
- Social Theory as Praxis
- A Pragmatist Perspective on Social Theory in Archaeology
- Beginning
- Purpose and Project
- Legacies
- Orientations
- Metanarrative Frames
- Brief
- Deliverable
- Project Management
- Method
- Social Theory and Modernity
- Concepts in Archaeological Social Theory
- Society and Culture
- Social Organization and Social Order
- Social Complexity
- Looking Forward
- Conclusion
- World-Systems Analysis: Traditions and Schools of Thought
- Origins of the World-Systems Approach
- Recent Developments in World-Systems Analysis
- Agency in Archaeology
- Overview and Key Issues.
- Before Agency-Processual Archaeology
- The Golden Age of Agency-Postprocessual Archaeology
- Beyond Human Agency-Posthumanist Archaeology
- Anthropological Archaeology
- Relevant Websites
- Archaeoastronomy
- Measuring Orientations: The Basics
- Interpreting Orientations: The Connection Between Astronomy, Power and Architecture
- Key Issues and Examples
- Orientation of Temples
- Orientation of Tombs
- Urban Layouts
- Single-Case Hierophanies
- Archaeological Science
- Spatial Analysis and Sedimentology
- Environmental Archaeology
- Archaeobotany
- Zooarchaeology
- Geoarchaeology
- Human Osteoarchaeology
- Archaeological Materials Science
- Lithics and Other Stones
- Plaster and Mortar
- Ceramics
- Metals and Alloys
- Glass and Glazes
- Absolute Dating Methods
- Provenance Determination
- Data Integration, Discipline Formation, and Canonization of Practices
- Data Sharing and Compatibility
- Archaeological Science and Archaeological Theory
- Sample Archives and Preservation
- Geographic and Financial Inequality, Export Issues and Brain Drain
- One Science
- Opportunity Sharing
- Data Integration, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Web Links
- Archaeology of Childhood
- Ethnoarchaeology/Ethnography
- Apprenticeship and Learning
- Toys and Play
- Artistic Representation
- Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Studies
- References.
- Archaeology of Cult and Religion
- Rituals and Religion
- From Burial to Transaction
- Burials
- The Divine
- Fear, Ritual, Belief and Power
- Omens, Oracles and Magic
- Architecture
- The Iconography of Attributes
- Transactions: Political Power and the Divine
- The Spread of Sumerian Influence
- Commercialization of Faith
- Myth
- The Other Tradition of the Major Religions
- Symbolicity
- Archaeology and Study of Religion
- Divergent Approaches to Origins
- Conceptual Problems
- The Components of Ritual
- Religion and Ideology
- Rationality and Religion
- Cognitive Approaches
- The Social Nature of Religion and the Concepts of Justice, Inequality and Theodicy
- Diffusion and History
- Counter-Intuitive Ideas vs. Rational Explanations
- An Opportunity and Challenge for Archaeology
- Anthropology and Archaeology
- Hinduism
- Death and the Beyond
- Religion and Science
- Digital Sources
- Archaeology of Enslavement
- Strategies of Enslavement
- Maintaining Identity and Cultural Practice
- Resistance
- The Enslaved Community
- Archaeology of Food
- Beyond Subsistence
- Finding Foods
- Multi-disciplinary Approaches
- Archaeology and the New Materialisms
- Overview of the New Materialisms: Key Concepts
- Materiality and Matter
- Vibrant Matter
- Agency
- Relationality
- Assemblages/Agencement
- Agential Realism
- Key Issues: Archaeological Applications of New Materialisms
- Vital Materialisms
- Assemblages
- Further Reading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nikita, Efthymia Encyclopedia of Archaeology
- ISBN:
- 0-323-91856-5
- OCLC:
- 1409705819
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