Introducing Bronze Age warfare

This is the introduction to the edited volume «Warfare in Bronze Age society» published by Cambridge University Press. The introduction present the premise of the volume, an overview of past and current research, and introduces the articles of the volume. The book and ebook can be purchased here: http://www.cambridge.org/core_title/gb/500176

С. В. Иванова, Д.В. Киосак, Е.И. Виноградова Модели жизнедеятельности населения Северо-Западного Причерноморья и климатические аномалии (6200—2000 лет до н.э.)\S. V! Ivanova, D. V. Kiosok, О. I. Vinogradova. Subsistence Patterns in North-Western Pontic Area and Rapid Climate Changes (6200— 2000 BC)

Subsistence Patterns in North-Western Pontic Area and Rapid Climate Changes (6200— 2000 BC). The paper treats the issue o f correlation o f rapid climatic events, Black Sea level changes and revolutionary alterations o f the local populations subsistence patterns on the calendar chronological scale in the North-Western Pontic Area. Authors discuss the methodological issues for synchronization quests in prehistory, being extremely cautious about “migrationists’ reasoning”. Attantion is focused on the three historical situations during rapid climate change: events 8200 cal. BP, 5300 cal. BP…

Файзуллин А А Погребения вождей в ямной культуре Волго-Уралья Burials of leaders in the Pit-Grave culture of Volga-Ural region.

В статье исследуются погребальные комплексы ямной культуры Волго-Уральского междуречья, содержащие вождескую символику. Основными показателями таких захоронений в ямной культуре Волго-Уралья, являются высокие трудовые затраты на строительство курганов и погребальных камер, а также наличие престижного инвентаря. Анализ погребальных комплексов позволяет сделать вывод, что в ямном обществе сложилась специфическая система управления, где лидеры племен сочетали различные административные и жреческие функции. Предпосылками для сложения власти данного типа, видимо, являлись подвижное…

Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology

All things archaeological — from archaeological method, the connections between archaeology and modernity, through a process-relational paradigm, to the heritage industry and archaeology as a mode of cultural production, with an outline of archaeology as craft. Overall it is an exploration of the archaeological imagination, as I called it when I was at University Wales Lampeter, with archaeology a relationship between the remains of the past and present interests. I wrote this book while still making my way into archaeology — it brought together what I had been saying with Chris Tilley in…

PETREQUIN P., CHASTEL J., GILIGNY F., PETREQUIN A.M. et SAINTOT S., 1987-1988.- Réinterprétation de la Civilisation Saône-Rhône (C.S.R.), Une approche des tendances culturelles du Néolithique final, Gallia-Préhistoire, 30, Paris, CNRS : 1-89

On the base of a long chronological sequence of stratified lake-dwellings, in Clairvaux-les-Lacs (Jura, France), the authors propose an analysis of cultural trends which govern the transition between Middel Neolithic II and Late Neolithic, in the N.W. of the Alps. Organizing into a hierarchy the evolution of artefacts (pottery, stone, bone and wood), one has tried to differentiate chrono-cultural indicators of regional evolutions (the part of techniques and of environment transformations), of more general evolutions (beads, shapes and decoration of ceramics) and long distance transfers…

Obsah vytvářený komunitou / Community-Generated Content

The level of scientific research and care for cultural heritage in archeology are fundamentally dependent on the information that is effectively available to the discipline. The volume of information is still growing at a dizzying pace and is no longer manageable without technologies from the “digital humanities”. Information systems in archeology today, in our opinion, must have two basic features: on one hand they must have a sophisticated theoretical rationale and a functional data model, on the other hand they must show the practical efforts of the entire professional community in the…

PHRASE » SHOULD A CLAIMANT RAISE A CLAIM, HE WILL PAY … » IN THE DIVISION OF AN INHERITANCE FROM OLD BABYLONIA TELL HARMAL

I investigate the raison d’ȇtre of an irregular clause in two inheritance divisions from Old Babylonia Tell Harmal. The free rendering of the clause reads that if a family member to the division transgresses with a claim, a certain monetary reward – measured in units of silver – needs to be paid. Is the payment clause a precautionary measure ensuring adherence to the execution of the division’s terms; similar to the payment clause in sales and adoptions? Or does the clause serve another function? I show that the choices of the involved family members within their family relationship, as…

The Authority to Assert the Order of Things in the City

This is a draft of a piece I am developing for CITY—all forms of editorial commentary (other than the absurd pretensions of Modernist dogmas concerning ‘proper academic writing’ as simple, scientific and lifeless…) are welcome. Catterall’s (2018) editorial note for issue 22.2 of CITY, like the final footnote in Barnesmoore’s (2018a) editorial for the same issue, raises the question of ‘what/whose order is to be asserted in the city’. This question leads us back to the age old question of authority in social, political, economic, religious, etc. systems—who or what has the authority to…

(29th June 2018, NIT Istanbul) What is prehistory? Gordon Childe, prehistory and politics

Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957) is widely credited for laying the foundations of European prehistory. More a political activist than a prehistorian at the beginning of his career, Childe started off as a man without affiliation, an Australian in Europe, in search of this once barbarous continent. Although he conducted excavations at Skara Brae and even had a brief spell as trench director at Mersin-Yumuktepe under Garstang, his method was primarily to read books, visit museums and archaeological collections, travel incessantly in Europe and correspond with leading anthropologists and…

Review of the festschrift for Jana Součková-Siegelová. in: Archiv orientální 85 (2017), 338f.

Šárka Velhartická (ed.), Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová (CHANE 79), Leiden — Boston: Brill, 2016.