Overview

This volume brings together two Graduate Archaeology at Oxford (GAO) conferences held in 2015-2016 to present the work of early-career researchers from across the globe. The papers cover a range of periods and regions, but all share the focus of bridging boundaries, whether these are theoretical, methodological or geographic. Some contributors traverse traditional divisions between subjects by integrating computational approaches with early excavation data or archaeology with historical sources to produce 'thick interpretations' of the past. Several papers approach the past as a bilateral process, examining how people shaped and were in return shaped by their interactions with the world around them. In addition, many authors have directly tackled the modern political divides that influence our research. Building on a strong tradition of novel approaches and interdisciplinary methods, these proceedings present current research on directly tackling issues of division head on.

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Author:   Rebecca O'Sullivan ,  Christina Marini ,  Julia Binnberg
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Weight:   1.360kg
ISBN:  

9781407315133

ISBN 10:   1407315137
Pages:   341
Publication Date:   29 September 2017
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors INTRODUCTION Rebecca O'Sullivan, Christina Marini, and Julia Binnberg Alternative Views in Archaeology MIDDLE BRONZE AGE WEAPONRY IN SCOTLAND: A CASE STUDY IN APPLIED QUEER THEORY Rachel Faulkner-Jones THE GREEK 'COLONISATION' OF MAGNA GRAECIA. MODERN DIVIDES, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND ARCHAEOLOGY Panagiotis Georgopoulos AGE, SEX, AND KINSHIP IN THE YOUNGER MORAVIAN ÚNETICE CULTURE: COMBINING ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA TO RECONSTRUCT SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND IDENTITY Markus Dürr NATURE, COSMOS, AND SOCIETY IN PREDYNASTIC EGYPT Emanuele Prezioso Bridging Modern Borders ANIMAL AND MEAT EXPLOITATION STRATEGIES IN THE CELTIC WORLD DURING THE LATE IRON AGE: A CROSS-CHANNEL APPROACH TO FAUNAL REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN/CENTRAL ENGLAND AND NORTHERN FRANCE Pierre-Emmanuel Paris ASTRAL ASPECTS OF MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN RELIGION: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MINOAN GODDESS, HATHOR, AND THEIR ASTRAL MANIFESTATIONS Nasser B. Ayash AN EARLY ANGLO-SAXON NETWORK: LONG DISTANCE CONTACTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN HAMPSHIRE AND IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT Irene Bavuso ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE: CROSSING PROFESSIONAL AND DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES IN THE LAND OF BOUDICA Natasha Harlow Change Through Time MUMMIFIED CROCODILES: FROM DEITY TO COMMODITY? James Ian Craston ABORIGINAL MATERIAL CULTURE ADAPTATIONS IN RESPONSE TO CANADIAN MARITIME COLONIALISM: BRIDGING A HERMENEUTIC DIVIDE Jordan Graham MISREADING THE MARSHES: PAST AND PRESENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE EAST ANGLIAN FENS, UK Floor Huisman SUSTAINABLE ROMANS? EXPLORING THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE URBAN WATER CYCLE IN ROMAN OSTIA Mark A. Locicero Text and Archaeology NAVAL WARFARE OF THE MING DYNASTY (1368-1644): A COMPARISON BETWEEN CHINESE MILITARY TEXTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCES Elke Papelitzky THE EARLY HISTORY OF NAUKRATIS: TEXT, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY Kira Hopkins INSCRIPTIONS AND THEIR OBJECTS: APPROACHING AN ARTEFACT TYPE IN MULTIPLE TIMES AND PLACES Federica Scicolone AN ANTIQUARIAN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE ROMAN PORT OF RAVENNA Federico Ugolini Computational Methods COUNTING HECTARES: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL AGRICULTURAL ESTATES IN SOUTHERN SCOTLAND Christoph Otte A METHOD TO DETERMINE PORTAGE ROUTES: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SAÔNE AND MOSELLE RIVERS (FRANCE) IN ROMAN GAUL Béline Pasquini APPROACHING MULTI-SIDED AEGEAN SEALS WITH MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES Martina Trognitz FORAGING RHYTHMS: MODELLING HUMAN MOBILITY AND ECODYNAMICS IN THE CARIBBEAN ARCHAIC AGE Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OLD EXCAVATIONS: THE CASE OF BYBLOS Marwan Kilani Environment GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT? ISSUES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR SMALL VERTEBRATE ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL DATABASES Jacqueline Pitt and John R. Stewart THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOLOGY TO THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL DISASTERS Peter J. Brown SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF A LOST NICHE: THE FLOURISHING PAST OF A MODERN SOUTHWEST IRANIAN BADLAND Elnaz Rashidian LAND-USE AND MEDIEVAL AGRARIAN SOCIETIES: BREAKING THE DICHOTOMY OF PERIPHERY AND CORE IN APULIA, SOUTHERN ITALY Giovanni Stranieri PEOPLE, FIELDS, AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE PREHISPANIC PERIOD. A GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH IN THE ZACAPU REGION, MICHOACÁN, MEXICO, BETWEEN THE SEVENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES AD Antoine Dorison Art and the Wider World ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION IN ICONOGRAPHY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH COMBINING ZOOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ARCHAEOLOGY Julia Binnberg THERAN DEPICTIONS OF NATURE AND THE PHENOMENON OF MINOANISATION Andriana Drossou 'FROM THE SEA TO THE MOON': MARITIME INFLUENCE ON CHIMÚ ICONOGRAPHY (AD 900-1470), NORTH COAST OF PERU Céline Mahé IDEAL, REAL, AND IMAGINED - GENERATING VALUE AND IDENTITY: BOTANIC MOTIFS OF THE BRONZE AGE CYCLADIC ISLANDS Marcia Nugent

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'The myriad range of topics covered here ensures that there is something interesting and outside of a usual reading list for the interested archaeologist.' Peer Reviewer

Author Information

Rebecca O'Sullivan is a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford specialising in the rock art of Eurasia, specifically Mongolia, northern China, and southern Siberia. Her research focuses on prehistoric animal iconography in rock art and portable art. She conducted her fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, and Mongolia. Christina Marini is studying for a DPhil in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on Achaea, Western Greece, from the 12th to the 8th century BC, and her interests include issues of identity, social change and connectivity throughout the Bronze-Iron Age transition in the Aegean. Julia Binnberg is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. She has specialised in Aegean Bronze Age studies and human-nature interactions. She has written on triton shells in the Minoan culture and her current interdisciplinary project focuses on the significance of bird depictions in Minoan, Cycladic and Mycenaean art. Contributors: Nasser B. Ayash, Irene Bavuso, Julia Binnberg, Peter J. Brown, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, James Ian Craston, Antoine Dorison, Andriana Drossou, Markus Dürr, Rachel Faulkner- Jones, Panagiotis Georgopoulos, Jordan Graham, Natasha Harlow, Kira Hopkins, Floor Huisman, Marwan Kilani, Mark A. Locicero, Céline Mahé, Christina Marini, Marcia Nugent, Rebecca O'Sullivan, Christoph Otte, Elke Papelitzky, Béline Pasquini, Pierre-Emmanuel Paris, Jacqueline Pitt, Emanuele Prezioso, Elnaz Rashidian, Federica Scicolone, John R. Stewart, Giovanni Stranieri, Martina Trognitz, Federico Ugolini

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