Archaeology of the Night Life After Dark in the Ancient World / edited by Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nowell, April, 1969- editor.

Gonlin, Nancy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Night--Religious aspects.

Night.

Night--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]

Summary:

"A diverse team of experienced scholars used a variety of methods and resources to reconstruct how ancient peoples experienced the night, their views of the dark, their portrayals of the night, and how people in everyday life adapted to the night "--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Paleolithic soundscape and the resonance of nighttime / April Nowell

Classic Maya nights at Copán, Honduras and El Ceren, El Salvador / Nancy Gonlin and Christine C. Dixon

The night is different : sensescapes and affordances / Kathryn Kamp and John C. Whittaker

"La luz de aceite es triste" : nighttime, community, and memory along the Santa Fe Trail / Minette Church

Nighttime sky and early urbanism in the high Andes : architecture and ritual in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Formative and Tiwanaku / Alexei Vranich and Scott C. Smith

Night in day : contrasting ancient and contemporary Hindu and Maya responses to total solar eclipses / Anthony F. Aveni

In the sea of night : ancient Polynesia and the dark / Cynthia van Gilder

Night moon rituals : the effects of darkness and prolonged ritual on Chilean Mapuche / Tom Dillehay

Where night reigns eternal : darkness and deep time among the ancient Maya / Jeremy D. Coltman

The Emerald site, Mississippian women, and the moon / Susan M. Alt

A great secret of the West : transformative aspects of artificial light in New Kingdom Egypt / Meghan E. Strong

Burning the midnight oil : archaeological experiments with Viking lamps / Erin Halstad McGuire

Engineering feats and consequences : workers in the night / Rita P. Wright and Zenobie S. Garrett

Midnight at the oasis : past and present agricultural activities in Oman / Smith Nathan

All Rome is at my bedside : nightlife in the Roman Empire / Glenn Reed Storey

Fluid spaces and fluid objects : nocturnal material culture in sub-Saharan Africa with special reference to the Iron Age (CE 200/1900) in southern Africa / Shadreck Chirikure and Abigail Moffett

The freedom that nighttime brings : privacy and cultural creativity among enslaved peoples at 18th-19th century Bahamian plantations / Jane Eva Baxter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607326786

1607326787

OCLC:

1015859644