Suchergebnisse

Mountain landscapes : the archaeological perspective / Arnau Garcia-Molsosa -- Steps lost : mountains as sacred topographies? / Felipe Criado-Boado -- The sacred mount : toward an anthropology of sacred mountains / Phillips Stevens, Jr. -- An integrated approach to the archaeology of a sacred mountain : heritage, sacred geography, mobile pastoralism, and longue durée in the Mongolian Altai Mountains / Cecilia Dal Zovo -- The mountainscape of the peak sanctuary at Leska on Kythera / Mercourios Georgiadis -- Exploring seasonal transhumance of hunter-gatherers and neolithic pastoralists in Poland's high Tatras and foothill lowlands : applying landscape archaeology methodologies from the Colorado Rockies to the Western Carpathians / Robert H. Brunswig and Pawel Valde-Nowak -- The onset of alpine pastoral systems in the eastern Alps / Klaus D. Oeggl, Daniela Festi and Andreas Putzer -- Central alpine environments as mountain cultural landscapes from prehistory to contemporary past / Franco Nicolis -- Mountain archaeology of the Bronze Age Caucasus : from vertical pastoralism to combined mountain economy and mountain farming / Sabine Reinhold, Andrey B. Belinskiy and Dmitrij S. Korobov -- Landscape archaeology in eastern Pyrenees high mountain areas (Segre & Ter valleys, NE Iberian Peninsula) : human activities in the shaping of mountain cultural landscapes / Josep M. Palet, Hèctor A. Orengo, Arnau Garcia, Tania Polonio, Ana Ejarque, Yannick Miras, Santiago Riera --

Introduction: Children as archaeological enigma / Güner Coskunsu -- Section 1. Theorizing (in)visbility, legitimacy, and biases in archaeological approaches to children and childhood -- The devil's advocate or our worst case scenario : the archaeology of childhood without any children / Jane Eva Baxter -- Making children legitimate : negotiating the place of children and childhoods in archaeological theory / Kathryn Kamp -- Considerations for method and theory in the archaeology of age / Scott Hutson -- Bodies and encounters : seeing invisible children in archaeology / Joanna Sofaer -- Modern biases, hunter-gatherers' children : on the visibility of children in other cultures / Nurit-Bird-David -- Section 2. Interdisciplinary and archaeological approaches to studying children and childhood in the past -- Grown up : adult height dimorphism as an archive of living conditions of boys and girls in prehistory / Eva Rosenstock -- Placing children in society : using ancient DNA to identify sex and kinship of child skeletal remains, and implications for gender and social organisation / Keri Brown -- Metaphors for understanding children and their role in culture / Jack Meacham -- Section 3. Case studies in the archaeology of childhood -- Children of the Ice Age / Paul Bahn -- Children in the anthropomorphic imagery of the European and Near Eastern Neolithic / Peter Biehl -- From playthings to sacred objects? : household enculturation rituals, figurines and plastering activities at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- The ends and means of childhood : mourning children in early Greece / Susan Langdon -- The Children's Cemetery of Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria : hierarchy, magic and malaria / David Soren -- Ethnicity and sexuality in Roman imperial relief : reconstructing the pederastic gaze / Jeannine Diddle Uzzi -- "A place for everything and everything in its place" : the cultural context of late Victorian toys / Kyle Somerville -- Section 4commentaries -- Theoretical issues in investigating childhood / Frank Hole -- Grubby little fingerprints : a commentary on the visibility of childhood / Traci Ardren

"Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. The term 'sacrifice' belies what is a complex and varied transhistorical and transcultural phenomenon. Bringing together scholars from such diverse fields as anthropology, archaeology, epigraphy, literature, and theology, Diversity of Sacrifice explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present. Incorporating theory, material culture, and textual evidence, the volume seeks to consider new and divergent data related to contexts of sacrifice that can help broaden our field of vision while raising new questions. The essays contributed here move beyond reductive and simple explanations to explore complex areas of social interaction. Sacrifice plays a key role in the overlapping sacred and secular spheres for a number of societies in the past and present. How religious beliefs and practices can be integral parts of life on individual and community levels is of fundamental importance to understanding the past and present. In addition to aiding scholarly research, Diversity of Sacrifice enables students to explore this rich theme across Europe and the Mediterranean with clear discussions of theory and data"--From publisher's website