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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"social archaeology"”.
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The gaming stones of Arediou-Vouppes : exploring the past and creating identity through material remains
… study on material culture from the background of social archaeology, which will focus on the Cypriot site of Arediou-Vouppes, a Late Bronze Age production settlement at the foothills of the Troodos Massif. Primary attention will be given to the gaming stones discovered on the site during several …
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A gendered analysis of health from the Iron Age to the end of the Romano-British period in Dorset, England (mid to late 8th century B.C. to the end of the 4th century A.D.)
… The data was discussed using a combination of social archaeology and a medical ecology approach, which enabled the evidence for health and well being to be understood in terms of society and environment, and how these changed over time. The approach also permitted comparison to national and …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
… material constitution of European slave traders' social life in the last years of existence of the Spanish colonial city of Panama, burnt down to the ashes following a piratic attack in 1671. It is based on the well-established and widely recognized premise that African captives played a …
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Narrativizing Difference in Earlier Bronze Age Society: a comparative analysis of age and gender ideologies in the burials of Ireland and Scotland
A feminist-inspired gender archaeology promised to revolutionise how archaeologists talk about people in the past – to take us from what Ruth Tringham (1991: 94) memorably called “faceless blobs” to the kind of messy and complicated lives which we know that real people live. However, this has …
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Objects for the Dead, Practices of the Living: Chamber tombs, burial assemblages, and social dynamics at Ialysos on Rhodes and in the islands of the south-east Aegean
… I go back to the very foundations of ‘Mycenaean’ archaeology by re-examining the material from the first systematic excavations of a Late Bronze Age chamber tomb cemetery in the Aegean, Sir Alfred Biliotti’s exploration of Ialysos on Rhodes (1868-71). Combining this legacy data with evidence from …