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Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)

1 review
Colin Renfrew

Duckworth Publishers, 2007

A well thought-out position on this tricky issue.
I think a reader must approach all books on the issue of cultural patrimony with careful deference to differing sensibilities that exist on the issue. This book is presented from the standpoint of a very aggressive, European concept of patrimony, focusing (as its title implies) on the illicit looting of antiquities and their summary introduction into the free market antiquities trade (a practice ...

Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation (Mcdonald Institute Monographs) ...

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc, 2007

The dawn of art is sometimes equated with the birth of the human spirit. But when and how did figuration - sculpture, painting, drawing - actually begin? And did these first figurative creations coincide with the emergence of our own species, Homo sapiens? Is figuration a general and fundamental feature of the human condition? In this challenging volume, leading experts review the evidence now available from the worldwide practice of prehistoric ...

Keros, Dhaskalio Kavos: The Investigations of 1987-88 (Mcdonald Institute Monographs) (Mcdonald Institute ...

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc, 2007

The site of Dhaskalio Kavos, on the remote Cycladic island of Keros, was extensively looted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Investigations starting in1963 then revealed large quantities of fractured marble bowls, broken marble figures and smashed pottery of the Early Cycladic period from around 2500 BC. This report of the subsequent survey and rescue excavations of 1987-88 reveals the extraordinary richness of the site, now confirmed as one ...

Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice

12 reviews
Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn

Thames & Hudson, 2004

Excellent catalogue of just about anything in archaeolgy
Renfrew and Bahn have set up great book, almost a catalogue, about archaeological practice. Fairly every subject they mention is laid out with great precision, and the accompanying schemes and pictures couldn't have been chosen better. If you like to dive into the subject of archaeology, whether it concerns its history, their dating methods, excavation practices, the goals archaeology pursues or ...

Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Modern Library Chronicles)

1 review
Colin Renfrew

Modern Library, 2008

Building a new mind
Combining a long career in the field with a fine narrative style, Renfrew provides a succinct summary of human origins. In a brief overview, the author manages to trace the beginnings of humanity in Africa and how we learned to follow its track across the planet. Well formulated for the reader new to the various research tools that have helped this process, it's also an excellent reference for ...

Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages)

1 review
A.Colin Renfrew, Daniel Nettle, ...

Mcdonald Inst of Archeological, 1999

Interesting information among the technical details
This book contains papers presented at a Nostratic Symposium in Cambridge England during July of 1998 at The MacDonald Institute for Archeological Research. The focus of the symposium was, "The Nostratic Macrofamily and Linguistic Paleontology", Aharon Dolgopolsky, 1998. Dolgopolsky's book attempts to deduce the location of the Nostratic speakers' homeland, their cultural characteristics and ...

Simulations, Genetics and Human Prehistory (Mcdonald Institute Monographs) (Mcdonald Institute Monographs)

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc, 2008

Data from molecular genetics have changed our views on the origin, spread and timescale of our species across this planet. But how can we reveal more detail about the demography of ancient human populations? For example, is it possible to determine when and how many people arrived at a certain continent, and which route they took from a choice of geographically plausible options? One of the most promising tools for such investigation is computer ...

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, Fifth Edition
Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn

Thames & Hudson, 2008

"Sets the new standard for excellence in this field."? Antiquity This best-selling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it has now been completely revised. Structured according to the key questions that archaeologists ask themselves, it provides coverage of all the major developments in methods, science, technology, and theory. For the fifth edition, the voices of indigenous archaeologists have been included, and there is ...

Proto Indo European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem : Studies in Honor of Marija Gimbutas

2 reviews
Wolfgang P. Schmidt, Colin Renfrew, ...

Inst for the Study of Man, 1987

Contents of Book
A. Richard Diebold, Jr.: Linguistic Ways to Prehistory; Winfred P. Lehmann: Linguistic and Archaeological Data for Handbooks of Proto-Languages; János Nemeskéri and László Szathmáry: An Anthropological Evaluation of the IE Problem; Nikolai Ja. Merpert: Ethnocultural Change in the Balkans in the Eneolithic; Sándor Bökönyi: Horses and Sheep in the Copper and Bronze Ages; Homer L. Thomas: The ...

Archaeology: the Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

1 review
Colin Renfrew

Routledge, 2004

A useful book of short explanations
Modern archaeology is fill of terms that can seem mysterious to technician and laymen alike. Archaeology: the Key Concepts gives concise explanations to many things that a modern archaeologist is expected to know. Most of these concepts are buried in books or in journal articles. Archaeology: the Key Concepts provides a quick, easy reference so that can be the beginning of deeper research.

Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins

16 reviews
Colin Renfrew

Cambridge University Press, 1990

Reason vs. Dogma
This is an excellent iconoclastic overview of an often maligned people who were to provide the basis for western civilization. Although Mr. Renfrew comes across as a reasonable scholar - often noting the tenuousness of his own conclusions and fairly articulating opposing views - he is vilified by the old guard - the Gimbutas gang of western-bashing renown. Another reviewer cites Mallory's ...

Centuries of Darkness: A Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of Old World Archaeology

5 reviews
Peter James, Nikos Kokkinos, ...

Rutgers University Press, 1993

Centuries of Darkness
Centuries of Darkness is, to me, an unusual work, in that the authors seem to be serious historians, who are still willing to stand up and point out the emperor's got no clothes. In this case, the emperor is the convoluted house of cards made up of middle eastern chronology which has been developing, in good faith, for over a century, and the fact that there appear to be flaws in this ...

Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods and Practice, Abridged Edition
Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn

Thames & Hudson, 2007

An abridged version of the bestselling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it. This new volume has all the authority of Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn's groundbreaking guide to all aspects of archaeology, but it has been carefully rewritten to provide a readable and compact introduction to archaeology for those new to the field. No other book of this length can match its range of essential information and explanation. ...

Figuring It Out
Colin Renfrew

Thames & Hudson, 2003

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These questions were posed by Paul Gauguin in a famous canvas painted in Tahiti that heralded the beginning of the modernist era. But they are also the questions asked by modern prehistorians in their quest to reconstruct the human story. In Figuring It Out, Colin Renfrew investigates the profound convergence between the two disciplines, drawing illuminating parallels between the way the ...

Man Environment Energy: The Past (ENI)
Folco Quilici, Paolo Galluzzi, ...

ENI, 1987

Large hardcover. Illustrated with color photographs.

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