Investigative Design and Statistics

Wright, George

Fowler, Chris

Literature & Fiction

Pelican

The Emergent Past approaches archaeological research as an engagement within an assemblage - a particular configuration of materials, things, places, humans, animals, plants, techniques, technologies, forces, and ideas. Fowler develops a new interpretative method for that engagement, exploring how archaeological research can, and does, reconfigure each assemblage. Recognising the successive relationships that give rise to and reshaped assemblages over time, he proposes a relational realist understanding of archaeological evidence based on a reading of relational and non-representational theories, such as those presented by Karen Barad, Tim Ingold, and Bruno Latour. The volume explores this new approach through the first ever synthesis of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in Northeast England (c.2500-1500 BC), taking into account how different concepts and practices have changed the assemblage of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in the past 200 years. Fowler argues that it is vital to retain the most valuable archaeological tools, such as typology, while developing an approach that focuses on the contingent, specific, and historical emergence of past phenomena. His study moves from analyses of changing types of mortuary practices and associated things and places, to a vivid discussion of how past relationships unfolded over time and gave rise to specific patterns in the material remains we have today.

The Emergent Past: A Relational Realist Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices

History

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past Applying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts. The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture.

The Archaeology of Personhood: An Anthropological Approach (Themes in Archaeology Series)

Routledge

Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past Applying an anthropological approach to detailed case studies from European prehistoric archaeology, the book explores the connection between people, animals, objects, their societies and environments and investigates the relationship that jointly produces bodies, persons, communities and artefacts. The Archaeology of Personhood examines the characteristics that define a person as a category of being, highlights how definitions of personhood are culturally variable and explores how that variation is connected to human uses of material culture.

23-year-old Martyn has a dead-end job, a miserable family, few friends, and no love life. Then he meets a Spancialosaphus Lacrimosae, his own personal demon. Spanky's friendship brings confidence, the good life, a better job, a girlfriend. But Spanky is a demon, and Martyn has a price to pay.

Spanky

Genre Fiction

Little, Brown Book Group

The Archaeology of Personhood: An Anthropological Approach

This collection of 24 papers aims to reconsider the nature and significance of the Irish Sea as an area of cultural interaction during the Neolithic period. The traditional character of work across this region has emphasized the existence of prehistoric contact, with sea routes crisscrossing between Ireland, the Isle of Man, Anglesey and the British mainland. A parallel course of investigation, however, has demonstrated that the British and Irish Neolithics were in many ways different, with distinct indigenous patterns of activity and social practices. The recent emphasis on regional studies has further produced evidence for parallel yet different processes of cultural change taking place throughout the British Isles as a whole. This volume brings together some of these regional perspectives and compares them across the Irish Sea area. The authors consider new ways to explain regional patterning in the use of material objects and relate them to past practices and social strategies. Were there practices that were shared across the Irish Sea area linking different styles of monuments and material culture, or were the media intrinsic to the message? The volume is based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Manchester in 2002.Table of Contents1. Introduction: locating The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice (Vicki Cummings and Chris Fowler) 2. Neolithic connections along and across the Irish Sea (Alison Sheridan) 3. An Irish sea change: some implications for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition (Rick Schulting) 4. Connecting the mountains and sea: the monuments of the eastern Irish Sea zone (Vicki Cummings) 5. The searchers: the quest for causewayed enclosures in the Irish Sea (Kenneth Brophy) 6. Tales of the land, tales of the sea: people and presence in the Neolithic of Man and beyond (Timothy Darvill) 7. Fluid horizons (Aaron Watson) 8. Falling off the edge of the Irish Sea: Clettraval and the two-faced Neolithic of the Outer Hebrides (Cole Henley) 9. Labouring with monuments: constructing the dolmen at Carreg Samson, south-west Wales (Colin Richards) 10. Stones that float to the sky: portal dolmens and their landscape of memory and myth (Alasdair Whittle) 11. In touch with the past? Monuments, bodies and the sacred in the Manx Neolithic and beyond (Chris Fowler) 12. Rock art, identity and death in the early Bronze Age of Ireland and Britain (Edward Evans and Thomas A. Dowson) 13. The setting and form of Manx chambered cairns: cultural comparisons and social interpretations (Vicki Cummings and Chris Fowler) 14. Where is the Cumbrian Neolithic? (Helen Evans) 15. The Isle of Man: central or marginal in the Neolithic of the Irish Sea? (Peter Davey) 16. Neolithic worlds: islands in the Irish Sea (Gabriel Cooney) 17. Axes, kula, and things that were 'good to think' in the Neolithic of the Irish Sea regions (Keith Ray) 18. Materiality and traditions of practice in Neolithic south-west Scotland (Julian Thomas) 19. Evidence of absence? The Neolithic of the Cheshire Basin (David Mullin) 20. Away from the numbers: diversity and invisibility in late Neolithic Wales (Rick Petersen) 21. By way of illustration: art, memory and materiality in the Irish Sea and beyond (Andrew Jones) 22. The early Bronze Age on the Isle of Man: back into the mainstream? (Jenny Woodcock) 23. Layers of Life and Death: aspects of monumentality in the early Bronze Age of Wales (Marcus Brittain) 24. Memory, tradition and materiality: the Isles of Scilly in context (Trevor Kirk)

The Neolithic of the Irish Sea (Cardiff Studies in Archaeology)

Europe

Oxbow Books

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