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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"History of Archaeology"”.
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Towards A Cultural History of Archaeology: British Archaeology Between the Wars
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Unruly Landscapes: The Making Of 1St Millennium Bce Polities On Cyprus
This dissertation is an examination of emerging landscape practices in one region of Cyprus during the early 1st millennium BCE (ca. 1100-700 BCE). The work argues that shifting environmental contexts and social practices co-constituted a re-investment in this region, the Vasilikos and Maroni …
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The politics and policies of repatriating archaeological skeletal material : a case study into South Africa's indigenous past
… thesis has two aims. The first is to examine the history of archaeology in southern· Africa and to trace the development of calls for the repatriation and return of skeletal material to indigenous groups. The second examines indigenous group claims for the repatriation and return of skeletal …
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Encounters with Londinium: Nineteenth-Century Responses to London’s Roman Past
… archaeological remains infiltrated the lives of Londoners, playing a part in shaping ideas, identities, and livelihoods in a shifting modern city. Based on new archival research and neglected popular and antiquarian publications, it reveals how Londinium became embedded in contemporary London …
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Rajgir and Its Hinterland
This thesis is based on an archaeological survey of Rajgir, onetime capital of Magadha and one of the most important Early Historic urban sites. Its principal conclusions are: 1. The "walls" are more walkways than defensive structures and it's clear they were used as such during the first …
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Victorian Egyptology and the Making of a Colonial Field Science, 1850-1906
This dissertation provides a new account of the origins of archaeological fieldwork in the Nile Delta. It considers how practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds circulated knowledge about the built environment of pharaonic ruins: monuments, architecture, burials, and soil mounds that …