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"""Pathbreaking. This work is full of useful knowledge."" --David B. Small, Lehigh University ""This innovative and engaging collection explores the global experiences and diverse creations of landscapes of the night in the ancient world. Covering topics ranging from nightscapes to nocturnal processions, the authors document the diverse strategies and technologies used to resist and adapt to darkness from fire beacons in Mesopotamia to the flickering oil lamps at the Sanctuary of Samothrace. The scope is global: Ur to Chaco Canyon, Deir el-Medina to Tiwanaku, Cahokia to Conchapata, and beyond.The archaeological implications are widely significant. The essays are always enlightening in this stimulating, illuminating volume."" --Jerry D. Moore, California State University, Dominguez Hills, author of Incidence of Travel ""This volume is an excellent introduction explaining how to incorporate the dimension of darkness into research questions in order to widen the scope of the results. . . It should inspire many more scholars to venture down similar dimly lit paths."" --Antiquity"

“Pathbreaking. This work is full of useful knowledge.” —David B. Small, Lehigh University   “This innovative and engaging collection explores the global experiences and diverse creations of landscapes of the night in the ancient world. Covering topics ranging from nightscapes to nocturnal processions, the authors document the diverse strategies and technologies used to resist and adapt to darkness from fire beacons in Mesopotamia to the flickering oil lamps at the Sanctuary of Samothrace. The scope is global: Ur to Chaco Canyon, Deir el-Medina to Tiwanaku, Cahokia to Conchapata, and beyond.The archaeological implications are widely significant. The essays are always enlightening in this stimulating, illuminating volume.” —Jerry D. Moore, California State University, Dominguez Hills, author of Incidence of Travel ""This volume is an excellent introduction explaining how to incorporate the dimension of darkness into research questions in order to widen the scope of the results. . . It should inspire many more scholars to venture down similar dimly lit paths."" —Antiquity ""The volume succeeds in 'throwing down the gauntlet' to scholars focused on ancient cities who have not asked what the urban world was like at night and how the archaeological record shows nighttime activities."" —American Anthropolgy  

Path-breaking. This work is full of useful knowledge, and it is very interesting. --David B. Small, Lehigh University This innovative and engaging collection explores the global experiences and diverse creations of landscapes of the night in the ancient world. Covering topics ranging from nightscapes to nocturnal processions, the authors document the diverse strategies and technologies used to resist and adapt to darkness from fire beacons in Mesopotamia to the flickering oil lamps at the Sanctuary of Samothrace. The scope is global: Ur to Chaco Canyon, Deir el-Medina to Tiwanaku, Cahokia to Conchapata, and beyond.The archaeological implications are widely significant. The essays are always enlightening in this stimulating, illuminating volume. --Jerry D. Moore, California State University, Dominguez Hills, author of Incidence of Travel

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Nancy Gonlin is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who specializes in daily and nightly practices, household studies, and inequality. She is coeditor of Ancient Mesoamerica, and her publications include the coedited volumes Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica, Ancient Households of the Americas, Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica, and Archaeology of the Night. She is coauthor of Copán: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom and The Archaeology of Native North America, 2nd ed., and a professor of anthropology at Bellevue College in Washington.   Meghan E. Strong is adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University and research associate at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. An archaeologist and art historian, she specializes in sensory archaeology, performance, and perception within the cultures of ancient Egypt and the Near East. She is the author of Sacred Flames: The Power of Artificial Light in Ancient Egypt.  

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