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Language | EnglishCategory | CivilizationDescription: The only book of its kind to cover both the Achaemenid period and the thousand years following Alexander's conquest, The Persians explores the period from the seventh century BC, to the seventh century AD, and presents a comprehensive introduction to ancient Persia.
Incorporating recent research, and translated sources from a wide range of corpus material, Maria Brosius explores the history of Persia, and brings a new understanding of Persian society and culture and the structures on which these empires were built: the king and his court; religion and culture; art and architecture.From the lands of Egypt to the Indus River, from the Russian Steppes to the Indian Ocean, Brosius has provided an up-to-date account of the three empires of pre-Islamic Iran, and discussing key topics such as women, religion and art and architecture, she presents a clear survey of the history of these empires.Providing additional reading references along with frequent source citations, students of ancient Persia will find this an invaluable addition to their course studies. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | CivilizationDescription: In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse.
He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men anywhere - whether in the Near East and the Aegean or on the steppes of Asia - were proficient enough to handle a bow, sword or spear while on horseback.After establishing when, where, and most importantly why good riding began, Drews goes on to show how riding raiders terrorized the civilized world in the seventh century BC, and how central cavalry was to the success of the Median and Persian empires. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | CultureDescription: An informative introduction to making wood self bows and Amerindian style sinew-backed bows. Includes information on arrow making with an emphasis on usable equipment.
Almost every culture in human history invented the bow and arrow \Why not try making one the way your great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather would have done it? It will be a rewarding experience and get you away from the computer for a while. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
File Format | PDFFile Size | 7.40 MBPages | 337
Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: This text reviews the theory, concepts, and basic methods involved in archaeological analysis with the aim of familiarizing both students and professionals with its underlying principles.
Topics covered include the nature and presentation of data; database and research design; sampling and quantification; analyzing lithics, pottery, faunal, and botanical remains; interpreting dates; and archaeological illustration. A glossary of key terms completes the book. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: This volume draws together a series of new studies into various aspects of the archaeology of conflict. Part of the volume focuses on conflict in the twentienth century, with several papers dealing with the growing field of First World War archaeology, which is also the main theme of the extended editorial.
Further contributions focus on a variety of subjects, including the use of historic maps in locating the remains of 16th century sieges, the impact of disease on a 17th century army and a discussion of the political context of cultural research heritage in Ireland with respect to battlefield heritage. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: Archaeologies of the Middle East provides an innovative introduction to the archaeology of this fascinating region and a window on both its past and present.
1. Written by some of the top archaeologists of the Middle East: scholars from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of interests and intellectual approaches .2. Coverage spans 100,000 years: from the Paleolithic to Hellenistic times .3. Explores the connections between modern-day politics and the social context of archaeological practice and various underutilized approaches to archaeological interpretation .4. Designed for student use. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: This engaging work uses key discoveries, events, people, techniques, and controversies to give the general reader a rich history of archaeology from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present.
Treasures, temples, and tombs; pyramids, pots, and projectile points - the stuff of archaeology has captured people's imagination since the first digs in the 16th century. Although humans have always been fascinated with the past, the formal discipline of archaeology has existed for only 500 years.This book details the surprisingly controversial course of those five centuries. The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods - Birth of Archaeology (16th-18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). - Download | FreeAbout The File:
File Format | PDFFile Size | 2.87 MBPages | 274
Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: In this book, Andrew Jones argues that the material world offers a vital framework for the formation of collective memory.
He uses the topic of memory to critique the treatment of artifacts as symbols by interpretative archaeologists and artifacts as units of information (or memes) by behavioral archaeologists, instead arguing for a treatment of artifacts as forms of mnemonic trace that have an impact on the senses.Using detailed case studies from prehistoric Europe, he further argues that archaeologists can study the relationship between mnemonic traces in the form of networks of reference in artefactual and architectural forms. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: his is the first reference work to cover the archaeology of all of medieval Europe from Ireland to Russia and from Scandinavia to Italy. Entries span the entire medieval period from the fall of the western Roman Empire (5th century AD) to the end of the high Middle Ages (c 1500 AD). Medieval Archaeology is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to a rapidly changing field, spurred in many countries by urban development which has led to the discovery of medieval ruins.
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner.
Much of what is visible today in Britain's landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents.Michael Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own explanations for how our landscape has evolved. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
File Format | PDFFile Size | 9.66 MBPages | 363
Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: This volume begins a discourse on the implications of performing archaeology in a world dominated by modern trends of mass production, mass replication and representation of cultural forms, and mass consumption of images of the past.
The contributors explore the extent to which contemporary consumption of mass-produced replicas, simulations, images and experiences of the past cause a crisis of representation of the past. Eschewing romantic beliefs, it discusses what archaeology can do. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
File Format | PDFFile Size | 9.94 MBPages | 528
Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: In this book an internationally distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the discipline of archaeology at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future.
The chapters address a wide range of topics including, paradigms, practice, and relevance of the discipline; paleoanthropology; fully modern humans; holocene hunter-gatherers; the transition to food and craft production; social inequality; warfare; state and empire formation; and the uneasy relationship between classical and anthropological archaeology. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: In this collection of 29 articles, leading researchers and a generation of new scholars join together in questioning the dominant opposing dichotomy in Eurasian archaeology of the 'steppe and sown,' while forging new approaches which integrate local and global visions of ancient culture and society in the steppe, mountain, desert and maritime coastal regions of Eurasia.
This ground-breaking volume demonstrates the success of recently established international research programs and challenges readers with a wide variety of fresh new perspectives. The articles are conveniently divided into four sections on Local and Global Perspectives, Regional Studies, New Directions in Theory and Practice, and Paleoecology and Environment, and cover a broad period from the Copper Age to early Mediaeval times in the Independent States of the former USSR, as well as Turkey, China and Mongolia. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: Many books have been written on particular aspects of medieval archaeology, or on particular parts of the period, but synthesis across the whole spectrum has not been attempted before. The aim of this book is to examine the contribution that archaeology can make to an understanding of the social, economic, religious and other developments that took place in England from the migrations of the fifth and sixth centuries to the beginning of the Renaissance, showing how society and economy evolved in that time-span.
Drawing on the latest available material, the book takes a chronological approach to the archaeological material of the post-Roman period in order to emphasize the changes that can be observed in the physical evidence and some of the reasons for them that can be suggested. The environment in which people functioned and how they expressed themselves - for example in their houses and burial practices, their pottery and their clothes - show how they were constrained by social customs and economic pressures. - Download | FreeAbout The File:
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Language | EnglishCategory | ArchaeologyDescription: Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries explores the archaeologists, sites, debates, techniques, methods, and issues that are central to the global practice of archaeology. Three richly illustrated volumes trace the development of the field from the ancient Greeks to the present day.
Through detailed tours of major excavation sites from all over the world--Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Ephesus, Pompeii, the tomb of Tutankhamun--as well as more obscure sites like Brzesc Kujawski in Poland, readers gain an appreciation for the inherent challenges all archeologists share in locating, recovering and making sense of evidence of past human lives.The "Histories and Discoveries" volumes profile significant archaeologists, such as the indefatigable Gertrude Bell, an expert on Arab affairs during World War I and IraQ's director of antiquities in the 1920s. Additional entries ranging from the Dead Sea scrolls and rock art to techniques like dating and remote sensing round out this watershed in the history of archaeology.
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