Cobble Circles and Standing Stones
Title | Cobble Circles and Standing Stones PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Quilter |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2004-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1587294842 |
In this first-person tale of archaeological adventure in the tropical forest, Jeffrey Quilter tells the story of his excavation of Rivas, a great ceremonial center at the foot of the Talamanca Mountain range, which flourished between A.D. 900 and 1300, and its fabled gold-filled cemetery, the Panteón de La Reina. Beginning with the 1992 field season and ending with the last excavations in 1998, Quilter discusses Rivas’ builders and users, theories on chiefdom societies, and the daily interactions and surprises of modern archaeological fieldwork. Writing in the first person with a balance between informal language and academic theory, Quilter concludes that Rivas was a ceremonial center for mortuary rituals to bury chiefly elite on the Panteón. Through use of his narrative technique, he provides the reader with accounts of discoveries as they occurred in fieldwork and the development of interpretations to explain the ancient refuse and cobble architecture his team uncovered. As his story progresses amid the enchantment of the Costa Rican landscape, research plans are adjusted and sometimes completely overturned as new discoveries, often serendipitous ones, are made. Such changing circumstances lead to new insights into the rise and fall of the people who built the cobble circles and raised the standing stones at Rivas, a thousand years ago. The only book in English that focuses on a single archaeological site in Costa Rica, which continues to develop as a destination for archaeological tourism, Cobble Stones and Standing Circles will appeal to laypeople and professionals alike.
The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians
Title | The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Chacon |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 2007-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0387483039 |
This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence. This book fills the gap in literature on this subject.
Circles and Standing Stones
Title | Circles and Standing Stones PDF eBook |
Author | Evan Hadingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Great Britain, Stonehenge, Avebury |
ISBN |
A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
Title | A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany PDF eBook |
Author | Aubrey Burl |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780300114065 |
This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. This new edition includes a section on "Druidical" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company."--Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology "This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic."--Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland
Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland
Title | Signalling and Performance: Ancient Rock Art in Britain and Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Aron Mazel |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2022-08-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 180327252X |
This lavishly illustrated volume presents a state of the art survey of the ancient rock art of Britain and Ireland. Bringing together new discoveries and new interpretations, it enhances our understanding and further establishes ancient British and Irish rock art as a significant archaeological assemblage worthy of attention and additional study.
Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas
Title | Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Lucas C. Kellett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317369661 |
In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology, anthropology, economics and archaeology, this diverse collection showcases successful applications of the settlement ecology approach in archaeological studies and also discusses associated techniques such as GIS, remote sensing and statistical and modeling applications. Using these methodological advancements the contributors investigate the specific social, cultural and environmental factors which mediated the placement and arrangement of different sites. Of particular relevance to scholars of landscape and settlement archaeology, Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas provides fresh insights not only into past societies, but also present and future populations in a rapidly changing world.
Rock Art Studies: News of the World V
Title | Rock Art Studies: News of the World V PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bahn |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2016-05-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784913545 |
This is the fifth volume in the series Rock Art Studies: News of the World. Like the previous editions, it covers rock art research and management across the globe over a five-year period, in this case the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive.