Ancient Ryukyu: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities, Richard Pearson

Автор: Price T. Douglas
Название: Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings
ISBN: 0190231971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190231972
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Описание: Ancient Scandinavia provides a comprehensive overview of the archaeological history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Автор: Elizabeth Fentress, Hassan Limane
Название: Volubilis apres Rome: Les fouilles UCL/INSAP, 2000-2005
ISBN: 9004371494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004371491
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Le site arch ologique le plus visit au Maroc, Volubilis est connu depuis longtemps pour ses mosa ques spectaculaires. Ce livre traite de ce qui est arriv la ville apr s le retrait de l'administration romaine la fin du troisi me si cle. Les fouilles publi es ici montrent comment la ville a continu survivre jusqu'au cinqui me si cle, avec des maisons d' lite commandant encore des mosa ques l gantes, et comment cette occupation a pris fin dans un s isme brutal. La ville rena t au sixi me si cle avec de nouveaux occupants, la tribu berb re des Awraba. Au VIIIe si cle, il devint le si ge de l'homme qui unit la plus grande partie du Maroc la t te de l'Awraba, Idris I, descendant du proph te Mahomet.

The most-visited archaeological site in Morocco, Volubilis has long been known for its spectacular mosaics. Instead, this book deals with what happened to the town after the Roman administration was withdrawn at the end of the third century. The excavations published here show how the town continued to survive into the fifth century, with lite houses still commissioning elegant and witty mosaics, and how this occupation came to an end in a brutal earthquake. The town revived in the sixth century with new occupants, the Berber Awraba tribe. In the eighth century, it became the headquarters of the man who united most of Morocco at the head of the Awraba, Idris I, a descendant of the prophet Mohammed.

Contributeurs/Contributors: Ali A t Kaci, Victoria Amoros-Ruiz, Mustafa Atki, Amira K. Bennison, Helen Dawson, Fatima-Zohra El-Harrif, Hafsa El Hassani, Abdallah Fili, Dorian Fuller, Guy Hunt, Anthony King, Tarik Moujoud, Gaetano Palumbo, Ruth Pelling, Susan Walker, Mark Wilson Jones.

Автор: Bettini Maurizio
Название: World through Roman Eyes
ISBN: 1107157617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107157613
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Описание: Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. Allows the texts of ancient culture to speak in their own terms and privileges the experience of the natives (rather than the horizon of the observer).

Автор: Creekmore, III
Название: Making Ancient Cities
ISBN: 110766070X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107660700
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Описание: This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities.

Автор: David
Название: Egyptian Mummies and Modern Science
ISBN: 1107662621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107662629
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Описание: A team of long-established scientists describe how their cutting-edge investigative methods and the unique resource of the Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank are being used for the new major international investigations of disease evolution and ancient Egyptian pharmacy and pharmacology. Their research gives us new insight into ancient Egypt.

Автор: Henderson
Название: Ancient Glass
ISBN: 1107551900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107551909
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Описание: This book provides a detailed interdisciplinary exploration of ancient glass from its invention some 4,500 years ago to the seventeenth century AD. Using a wide a range of sources, it examines why and how glass was invented, and the ritual, social, economic and political contexts of its subsequent development.

Автор: Rebecca Scott, Andrew Shaw
Название: Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on Neanderthal Lifeways from La Cotte de St Brelade
ISBN: 1789251524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789251524
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Описание: The current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long-term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gatherers for large parts of the 0.5 million years since the English Channel’s formation. While much of this record is now inaccessible to systematic archaeological investigation it is critical that we consider past human societies in the region in terms of access to, inhabitation in, and exploitation of this landscape. This latest volume of the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers provides a starting point for approaching the Middle Palaeolithic record of the English Channel region and considering the ecological opportunities and behavioural constraints this landscape offered to Neanderthal groups in north-west Europe. The volume reviews the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record along the fringes of La Manche in northern France and southern Britain. It examines this record in light of recent advances in quaternary stratigraphy, science-based dating, and palaeoecology and explores how Palaeolithic archaeology in the region has developed in an interdisciplinary way to transform our understanding of Neanderthal behaviour. Focusing in detail on a particular sub-region of this landscape, the Normano-Breton Gulf, the volume presents the results of recent research focused on exceptionally productive coastal capture points for Neanderthal archaeology. In turn the long-term behavioural record of La Cotte de St Brelade is presented and explored, offering a key to changing Neanderthal behaviour. Aspects of movement into and through these landscapes, changing technological and raw material procurement strategies, hunting patterns and site structures, are presented as accessible behaviours that change at site and landscape scales in response to changing climate, sea level and ecology over the last 250,000 years.

Автор: Creekmore, III
Название: Making Ancient Cities
ISBN: 1107046521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107046528
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Описание: This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities.

Автор: Gregory Smits
Название: Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650
ISBN: 0824873378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824873370
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Описание: Conventional portrayals of early Ryukyu are based on official histories written between 1650 and 1750. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro soshi (a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu.

Автор: Akamine, Mamoru
Название: Ryukyu kingdom
ISBN: 0824879325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824879327
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Описание: Presents a translation of a key work by one of Okinawa`s most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine. The book provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the history of East Asia.

Автор: Gregory Smits
Название: Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics
ISBN: 0824873793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824873790
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Описание: Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered the kingdom in 1609, resulting in its partial incorporation into Tokugawa Japan's bakuhan state. Given Ryukyu's long-standing ties with China and East Asian foreign relations following the rise of the Qing dynasty, however, the bakufu maintained only an indirect link with Ryukyu from the mid-seventeenth century onward. Thus Ryukyu was able to exist as a quasi-independent kingdom for more than two centuries-albeit amidst a complex web of trade and diplomatic agreements involving the bakufu, Satsuma, Fujian, and Beijing. During this time, Ryukyu's ambiguous position relative to China and Japan prompted its elites to fashion their own visions of Ryukyuan identity. Created in a dialogic relationship to both a Chinese and Japanese Other, these visions informed political programs intended to remake Ryukyu.In this innovative and provocative study, Gregory Smits explores early-modern perceptions of Ryukyu and their effect on its political culture and institutions. He describes the major historical circumstances that informed early-modern discourses of Ryukyuan identity and examines the strategies used by leading intellectual and political figures to fashion, promote, and implement their visions of Ryukyu. Early-modern visions of Ryukyu were based on Confucianism, Buddhism, and other ideologies of the time. Eventually one vision prevailed, becoming the theoretical basis of the early-modern state by the middle of the eighteenth century. Employing elements of Confucianism, the scholar and government official Sai On (1682-1761) argued that the kingdom's destiny lay primarily with Ryukyuans themselves and that moral parity with Japan and China was within its grasp. Despite Satsuma's control over its diplomatic and economic affairs, Sai envisioned Ryukyu as an ideal Confucian state with government and state rituals based on the Chinese model. In examining Sai's thought and political program, this volume sheds new light on Confucian praxis and, conversely, uncovers one variety of an East Asian ""prenational"" imagined political/cultural community.

Автор: Mamoru Akamine
Название: The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia
ISBN: 0824855175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824855178
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Описание: This English translation of a key work by one of Okinawa’s most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine, provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the history of East Asia. Okinawa Island, from which the present-day Japanese prefecture derives its name, is the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, an archipelago that stretches between Japan and Taiwan. In the present volume, Akamine chronicles the rise of the Ryukyu Kingdom in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when it played a major part in East Asian trade and diplomacy. Then Ryukyu was indeed the cornerstone in a vibrant East Asian trade sphere centered on Ming China, linking what we now call Japan, Korea, and China to Southeast Asia. With historical and cultural connections to both Japan and China, Ryukyu also mediated diplomatically between the two nations, whose leaders more often than not refused to deal with each other directly. But eventually the kingdom became a victim of its own success. Political developments in China and Japan starting in the sixteenth century brought great changes to the region, and in 1609 Ryukyu was invaded by Satsuma, Japan’s southernmost domain. The China-Japan geopolitical rivalry would in time be acted out within Ryukyu itself, as one faction strove to maintainties with China while another supported union with rapidly modernizing Japan.Throughout the work Akamine’s approach to Ryukyu history is distinguished by his expert use of Chinese and Korean sources, which allows him to examine events from several different angles. This contributes to a broad, sweeping narrative, revealing an East Asia made up of many shifting and interrelated parts—not just nation states pursuing their own interests. Akamine’s facility with Chinese texts in particular uncovers telling details that add considerably to the historical record. His meticulous account of one of Ryukyu’s tribute missions to China, for example, or the role of feng shui in the design of Shuri Castle, the royal and administrative center of the kingdom, is detailed without being pedantic. As a result, readers will come away with a broader, more informed understanding of Ryukyu’s significance in the region and the complexity of its relations with its neighbors.