A Companion to Archaeology (eBook)

John Bintliff, Timothu Earle, Christopher Peebles (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
568 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-99860-1 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Archaeology features essays from 27 of the world's leading authorities on different types of archaeology that aim to define the field and describe what it means to be an archaeologist.

* Shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies.

* Includes essays by experts in reading the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment, and by professionals who present the past through heritage management and museums.

* Introduces the reader to a range of archaeologists: those who devote themselves to the philosophy of archaeology, those who see archaeology as politics or anthropology, and those who contend that the essence of the discipline is a hard science.

Autor

John Bintliff is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors xii

Preface xx

List of Abbreviations xxiii

Maps xxiv

Part I Introduction 1

1 The Historiography of Archaic Greece 3

John K. Davies

2 The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age 22

Carol G. Thomas

Part II Histories 41

3 The Early Iron Age 43

Catherine Morgan

4 The Eighth-century Revolution 64

Ian Morris

5 The World of Homer and Hesiod 81

Christoph Ulf

6 The Tyrants 100

Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp

7 Sparta 117

Massimo Nafissi

8 Athens 138

Michael Stahl and Uwe Walter

9 Greeks and Persians 162

Josef Wiesehöfer

Part III Regions 187

10 Attica: A View from the Sea 189

Sanne Houby-Nielsen

11 The Aegean 212

Alexander Mazarakis Ainian and Iphigenia Leventi

12 Laconia and Messenia 239

Nigel Kennell and Nino Luraghi

13 The Peloponnese 255

Thomas Heine Nielsen and James Roy

14 Crete 273

James Whitley

15 Northern Greece 294

Zosia Halina Archibald

16 The Western Mediterranean 314

Carla M. Antonaccio

17 The Black Sea 330

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze

Part IV Themes 347

18 Cities 349

Jan Paul Crielaard

19 Foundations 373

Irad Malkin

20 States 395

Hans-Joachim Gehrke

21 Charismatic Leaders 411

Robert W. Wallace

22 Sanctuaries and Festivals 427

François de Polignac

23 The Economy 444

Hans van Wees

24 Class 468

Peter W. Rose

25 Gender 483

Lin Foxhall

26 The Culture of the Symposion 508

Oswyn Murray

27 The Culture of Competition 524

Nick Fisher

28 Literacy 542

John-Paul Wilson

29 Intellectual Achievements 564

Kurt A. Raaflaub

30 War and International Relations 585

Henk Singor

31 Ethnicity and Cultural Exchange 604

Jonathan M. Hall

Bibliography 618

Indices 713

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Archäologie • archaeology • Archäologie • Classical Studies • Humanistische Studien
• ISBN-10: 0-470-99860-1 / 0470998601
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-99860-1 / 9780470998601