Search results for 'mobility, meaning and transformations of things'

ISBN: 9781842175255
Published by : Oxbow Books
Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521110426
Published by : Cambridge University Press
By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, Mark Bradley reinstates colour as an essential informative unit for the classification and evaluation of the Roman world. He also de... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407304618
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAr
The aim of this thesis is to determine the nature of pre-contact settlement patterns and subsistence strategies on the lower Adelaide River against the backdrop of the dramatic environmental change that took place on the coastal plains of Aust... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305134
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar
Using Gerasa and Dura Europos as case studies this book analyses changes in spatial patterns in the Late Antique polis. It seeks to determine how much spatial change should be linked to religious change, as opposed, say to the decline of civic ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407304458
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This monograph explores the many ways in which stone artefact reduction can be measured and used to discern prehistoric changes in artefact technology and land use from two sites in arid Australia. Several empirical techniques are used to inves... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780748637980
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic view of the gods as they functioned in Greek culture until the triumph of Christianity. It looks at individual gods, but also asks to what extent cult, myth and literary genre determine the nature ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521762397
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul, Allen Jones explores the situation of the non-elite living in Gaul during the late fifth and sixth centuries. Drawing especially on evidence from Gregory of Tours's writings, he formulates a social model... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789639776364
Published by : Central European University Press
This book contains three lectures on the Virgin Mary in medieval culture and devotion, also drawing out themes in medieval historiography. The first chapter, "The Global 'Middle Ages'," considers the current historiographical frame for the stu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407303178
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The Archaeology of Semiotics and the social order of things is edited by George Nash and George Children and brings together 15 thought-provoking chapters from contributors around the world. A sequel to an earlier volume published in 1997, it t... .... Learn More