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Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key relationships between heritage conservation, city space design, and tourism development in historic cities, linking theory and practice in a unique way

In an examination for a wide array of ships from the 11th to the 19th century and from China, Korea, and Japan, Kimura extrapolates in three detailed case studies, how ships of the Yellow Sea were constructed. Chinese junks and Japanese dhows were known throughout the world, and this work will show why this innovative design has survived the century

"Small finds--the stuff of everyday life--offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks, hobnails, figurines, needles, and other 'mundane' artefacts, these 12 papers use small finds to reconstruct social lives and practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. Taking social life broadly, the various contributions offer insights into the everyday use of objects to express social identities, Roman religious practices in the provinces, and life in military communities. By integrating small finds from the Northwest provinces with material, iconographic, and textual evidence from the whole Roman empire, contributors seek to demystify Roman magic and Mithraic religion, discover the latest trends in ancient fashion (socks with sandals!), explore Roman interactions with Neolithic monuments, and explain unusual finds in unexpected places. Throughout, the authors strive to maintain a critical awareness of archaeological contexts and site formation processes to offer interpretations of past peoples and behaviours that most likely reflect the lived reality of the Romans. While the range of topics in this volume gives it wide appeal, scholars working with small finds, religion, dress, and life in the Northwest provinces will find it especially of interest. Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices grew out of a session at the 2014 Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference"--From publisher's website

"Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. An anthropological reading of the textual and epigraphic remains of the time allows us to see how power was constructed and political subordination was practised and expressed. Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age identifies a particular political ontology, native to ancient Syro-Palestinian societies, which informs and constitutes their social worlds. This political ontology, based on patronage relationships, provides a way of understanding the political culture and the social dynamics of ancient Levantine peoples. It also illuminates the historical processes taking place in the region, processes based on patrimonial social structures and articulated through patron-client bonds"--Provided by publisher

"Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal transformations of this interval occurred approximately two-thousand years ago and over a millennium before Mexico's best known early civilization, the Aztecs. David M. Carballo presents a synthesis of data from regional archaeological projects and key sites such as Teotihuacan and Cuicuilco, while relying on the author's own excavations at the site of La Laguna as the central case study. A principal argument is that cities and states developed hand in hand with elements of a religious tradition of remarkable endurance and that these processes were fundamentally entangled. Prevalent religious beliefs and ritual practices created a cultural logic for urbanism, and as populations urbanized they became socially integrated and differentiated following this logic. Nevertheless, religion was used differently over time and by groups and individuals across the spectra of urbanity and social status. This book calls for a materially informed history of religion, with the temporal depth that archaeology can provide, and an archaeology of cities that considers religion seriously as a generative force in societal change"--

Die Finanzierung archäologischer Forschung, Denkmalpflege und Museumspraxis variiert seit jeher erheblich und reicht von Einzelspenden interessierter Laien über Ausgrabungsbudgets wissenschaftlicher Institute und Denkmalämter bis hin zu staatlichen Großforschungsprogrammen. Jedoch stellt sich nicht nur bei privaten Mäzenen oder politischen Akteuren, sondern bei jeder Förderung von Wissenschaft die Frage nach der Motivation der Fördernden. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen exemplarisch, welche Ziele mit der Finanzierung und anderweitigen Unterstützung der Archäologie im 20. Jahrhundert verfolgt wurden und wie sich das auf die geförderten Projekte und beteiligten Forscher und Forscherinnen auswirkte

The contributors to Things in Motion, collectively, demonstrate the dynamic capacity of things in motion, from the point where things emerge from source material, to their circulation in the contemporary world, including their extended circulation through reproduction in other media. The various chapters show that examining the itineraries of things multiplies the assemblages things form and multiplies the sites at which we can recognize things in motion. None of the things discussed seem to ever have died. Their itineraries are continued by their movement in and out of museums and curation facilities, where many of them have come to rest temporarily, the circulation of their images, and their adaptation in sometimes unexpected contemporary material culture. Their itineraries also include the scholarship about them, to which this volume contributes, making it another site assembled by these active things--Provided by publisher

Keiki o ka ʻaina: "Child of the land" (Oʻahu, 1950-63) -- An apprenticeship in science (1963-68) -- Molokaʻi-nui-a-hina (Halawa Valley, 1969-70) -- The smallest Polynesian island (Kolombangara and Anuta, 1971) -- Lux et veritas (Yale, 1972-75) -- Of pigs and pondfields (Futuna and ʻUvea, 1974) -- The isle of sacred coconuts (Niuatoputapu, 1976) -- Matou, nga Tikopia (Tikopia, 1977) -- The ghost of Sinapupu (Tikopia and Vanikoro, 1978) -- Aloha ʻaina (Hawaiʻi, 1979-84) -- The Anahulu Valley (Kawailoa, Oʻahu, 1982) -- "Looking for the lion" (Seattle and the Burke Museum, 1984-88) -- The search for the Lapita homeland (Mussau 1985) -- The secrets of Talepakemalai (Mussau 1986-88) -- Hawaiki, the Polynesian homeland (Manuʻa islands, 1986-89) -- Fiat lux (Berkeley, California, 1989- ) -- The gathering place of men (Mangaia, Cook Islands, 1989-91) -- Kahikinui: "great Tahiti" (Kahikinui, Maui, 1995-1999) -- Forbidden peninsula (Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi, 2000) -- Belly of the stone fish (Moʻorea, Society Islands, 1996-2010) -- Roots of conflict (Hawaiʻi and Maui, 2001-2009) -- The sun sets at Ana Tetea (Mangareva Islands, 2001-2014) -- Kekaulike's kingdom (Kaupo, Maui, 2003-2013) -- Reflections.

"Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia--much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords--have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society. In this book, Doug Price provides an archaeological history of Scandinavia--a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway-from the arrival of the first humans after the last Ice Age to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. Constructed similarly to the author's previous book, Europe before Rome, Ancient Scandinavia provides overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by detailed, illustrative examples from the archaeological record. An engrossing and comprehensive picture emerges of change across the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter--gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings. The material evidence of these past societies--arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships--give vivid testimony to the ancient humans who once called home this often unforgiving edge of the inhabitable world"--