Ancient Glass of South Asia: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connection, Kanungo Alok Kumar, Dussubieux Laure
Автор: Dodson Aidan Название: Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife ISBN: 9774168860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789774168864 Издательство: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES UK Рейтинг: Цена: 6334.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi, and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a critical point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and heralding the last phase of Egypt’s imperial splendor. As the second scion of a wholly new royal family, his reign did much to set the agenda for the coming decades, both at home and abroad. Sethy was also a great builder, apparently with exquisite artistic taste, to judge from the unique quality of the decoration of his celebrated monuments at Abydos and Thebes. This richly illustrated book tells the story of Sethy's career and monuments, not only in his own era, but also in more recent times, and the impact of his legacy on today’s understanding and appreciation of ancient Egypt.
Автор: Kozloff Название: Amenhotep III ISBN: 1107638542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107638549 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book follows the life story of Amenhotep III, one of the most important rulers of ancient Egypt, from his birth and into the afterlife. Amenhotep III ruled for thirty-eight years, from c.1391-1353 BC, during the apex of Egypt`s international and artistic power.
Автор: Yumi Park Huntington, Dean E. Arnold, Johanna Minich Название: Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches ISBN: 0813056063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813056067 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley ""Great Serpent"" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches?methods that track change over time?to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies.This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture.
Автор: Lawrence Waldron Название: Handbook of Ceramic Animal Symbols in the Ancient Lesser Antilles ISBN: 1683400011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781683400011 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20513.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focuses on the cultural significance of nearly two dozen animal and bird representations found in Saladoid-era ceramics, surveying zoomorphic iconography in over twenty major collections. Lawrence Waldron integrates ethnozoology and ethology with traditional narratives and demonstrates that different animal representations dominated on particular islands.
Описание: A richly empirical discussion of ethnic identity formation in the period 400 BCE-50 CE. Erica Fox Brindley presents a meticulous new study of the ancient Chinese textual record in an attempt to understand the Yue peoples of China`s southern frontier and how they were perceived by the Chinese elite.
Автор: Walker Debra S. Название: Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay ISBN: 0813062799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062792 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11280.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Brings novel, synthetic insight to understanding a region that was a hub of waterborne trade and an important locus of production for some of the Maya's most valued crops."--Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan "This one of a kind volume shows us how important this region was to the ancient Maya with detailed and vivid descriptions of sociopolitical and economic organization and their relation to the unique landscape and geography of Chetumal Bay."--Laura J. Kosakowsky, author of Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize Chetumal Bay is central to discussions of ancient Maya politics, warfare, economy, exchange and communication because of its unique location. Although the ancient Maya invested prodigious amounts of labor in the construction of road systems called sacbeob for communication and trade, recent archaeological discoveries around Chetumal Bay in both Belize and Mexico reveal an economic alternative to these roads: an extensive network of riverine and maritime waterways. Focusing on sites ringing the bay such as Cerro Maya, Oxtankah, and Santa Rita Corozal, the contributors to this volume explore how the bay and its feeder rivers affected all aspects of Maya culture from settlement, food production, and the production and use of special goods to political relationships and social organization. Besides being a nexus for long distance exchange in valuable materials such as jade and obsidian, the region was recognized for its high quality agricultural produce, including cacao, achiote, vanilla, local fruits, honey, and salt, and for its rich marine environment. The Maya living on the fringes of the bay perceived the entire region as a single resource procurement zone. Waterborne trade brought the world to them, providing a wider horizon than would have been available to inland cities dependent only on Maya roads for news of the world. The research reveals that trade relations played a central role in the organization of human social life on Chetumal Bay. Contributors James Aimers - Timothy Beach - Clifford Brown - Beverly A. Chiarulli - Lisa G. Duffy - Dori Farthing - David A. Freidel - Elizabeth Graham - Thomas Guderjan - Elizabeth Haussner - Linda Howie - Samantha Krause - Javier Lopez Camacho - Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach - Marc D. Marino - Lucas R. Martindale Johnson - Heather McKillop - Nathan J. Meissner - Emiliano Ricardo Melgar Tisoc - Susan Milbrath - Satoru Murata - Maxine Oland - Terry Powis - Kathryn Reese-Taylor - Robin Robertson - Luis A. Torres Diaz - Araceli Vazquez Villegas - Debra S. Walker A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Автор: Flad Название: Ancient Central China ISBN: 0521727669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521727662 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is an archaeological study of regional landscape in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of Central China. The book reviews anthropological perspectives on interregional interaction and landscape and provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the region, including the recently flooded Three Gorges Dam area.
Описание: The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts address art historical, historical, cultural and museological issues raised by one of two surviving intact statues of the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 C.E.). Contributions focus on the creation of a 3D-digital model of the statue and the search for traces of its original polychromy; the history of the statue from its creation to the present, including its rediscovery at a Julio-Claudian sanctuary at Bovillae; aspects of Caligula’s literary and visual portrayal in antiquity and modern historiography (including questions concerning the destruction of his portraits and the implications of Jewish sources for the study of Caligula); and the emperor’s image in popular culture.
Автор: Brindley Название: Ancient China and the Yue ISBN: 1107084784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107084780 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A richly empirical discussion of ethnic identity formation in the period 400 BCE-50 CE. Erica Fox Brindley presents a meticulous new study of the ancient Chinese textual record in an attempt to understand the Yue peoples of China`s southern frontier and how they were perceived by the Chinese elite.
Автор: Scott M. Fitzpatrick Название: Ancient Psychoactive Substances ISBN: 0813068185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813068183 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mind-altering substances have been used by humans for thousands of years. In fact, ancient societies sometimes encouraged the consumption of drugs. Focusing on the archaeological study of how various entheogens have been used in the past, this volume examines why humans have social and psychological needs for these substances. Contributors trace the long-term use of drugs in ancient cultures and highlight the ways they evolved from being sacred to recreational in more modern times. By analyzing evidence of these substances across a diverse range of ancient cultures, the contributors explore how and why past civilizations harvested, manufactured, and consumed drugs. Case studies examine the use of stimulants, narcotics, and depressants by hunter-gatherers who roamed Africa and Eurasia, prehistoric communities in North and South America, and Maya kings and queens. Offering perspectives from many different fields of study, contributors illustrate the wide variety of sources and techniques that can provide information about materials that are often invisible to archaeologists. They use advanced biomolecular procedures to identify alkaloids and resins on cups, pipes, and other artifacts. They interpret paintings on vases and discuss excavations of breweries and similar sites. Uncovering signs of drugs, including ayahuasca, peyote, ephedra, cannabis, tobacco, yaupon, vilca, and maize and molle beer, they explain how psychoactive substances were integral to interpersonal relationships, religious practices, and social cohesion in antiquity.
Описание: This book examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife. It offers a unique lens into one of Africa`s most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity.
