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Author |
: Richard K. Morriss |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556033044256 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Archaeology of Buildings by : Richard K. Morriss
The study of buildings--whether out of sheer interest or to assist planning decisions--is a branch of archaeology which is distinct from both archaeology and architectural history, yet allied to both. This book begins by providing background information about studying the basic materials used in a building's construction, such as stone, brick, or timber-framing. The author explains how various clues left by the builders can add to the historic background and use of the site, and explains how all these strands of information can be woven together to produce a detailed understanding of how any building has developed over the years. Over 100 illustrations and two invaluable appendices--typical examples of buildings and an illustrated glossary of terms--complete a handbook that has long been needed by professionals and amateurs alike.
Author |
: Mikkel Bille |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 463 |
Release |
: 2016-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317279228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317279220 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elements of Architecture by : Mikkel Bille
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical environment, considering how people in the past have not just dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things, to understand humans they must also address the performances, as well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains. The contributions in this volume investigate the way time, performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a book about the constellations of people, places and things that emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal engagements. This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category of material objects that have defined much research into what it means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the lives and interactions of past societies.
Author |
: Dan Hicks |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 615 |
Release |
: 2006-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107495173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107495172 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology by : Dan Hicks
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.
Author |
: Gunilla Malm |
Publisher |
: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015052982041 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward an Archaeology of Buildings by : Gunilla Malm
This volume is an expos of building archaeological research works and building restorations. It is well known that buildings and their restorations mirror the dynamics of societies. Whether as a single monument, clustered in villages, towns, or cities, or even as single rooms or spaces, buildings and restorations result from socio-economic, political, or ideological power or expressions. But there are many different ways of looking at buildings and restorations in this respect, as the authors of this volume show. The 10 papers are presented in chronological order from ancient to modern times and the sites and areas under discussion include Crete, Mycenae, Pompeii, Scandinavia, Jamaica (Spanish Town) and Tongaat, South Africa.
Author |
: Jerry D. Moore |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 1996-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521553636 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521553636 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes by : Jerry D. Moore
An innovative 1996 discussion of architecture and its role in the culture of the ancient Andes.
Author |
: Edgar Knobloch |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing (SC) |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015055912433 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Archaeology & Architecture of Afghanistan by : Edgar Knobloch
The archaeology and architecture of Afghanistan
Author |
: Dr Mathias Piana |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2014-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472423368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472423364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders by : Dr Mathias Piana
As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition, residential and representational purposes. Growing affluence and an international orientation provided a wide range of development potential. That this potential was in fact exploited may be exemplified by the advanced fortifications erected by Templars and Hospitallers in the Levant. Although the history of the Military Orders has been the subject of research for a long time, their material legacy has attracted less attention. In recent years, however, a vast range of topics concerning the Orders’ building activities has become the object of investigation, primarily with the help of archaeology. They comprise the choice of sites and building materials, provision and storage of food and water, aspects of the daily life, the design and layout of commanderies, churches and fortifications, their spatial arrangement, and the role these buildings played in their environmental context. This volume contains ten articles discussing the archaeology and architecture of buildings erected by the three major Military Orders in different geographical regions. They cover most countries of Western Europe and include a number of important fortifications in the Levant. These studies break new ground in the investigation of the built fabric of the Military Orders. Written by noted international scholars this publication is an important contribution to modern research on these institutions, which, in their association of monasticism and knighthood, were so typical for the Middle Ages.
Author |
: Adolf Max Vogt |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262720337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262720335 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage by : Adolf Max Vogt
Vogt's investigation of LC's early life and education not only reveals important, previously unacknowledged influences on specific projects such as the League of Nations headquarters and the Villa Savoye, but also suggests why LC throughout his career preferred to lift buildings above the ground, to give them the appearance of "floating." This tendency had decisive consequences for buildings associated with the modern movement and continues to influence architecture today.
Author |
: Stefano Anastasio |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Archaeology |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2020-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1789696038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781789696035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building Between the Two Rivers: An Introduction to the Building Archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia by : Stefano Anastasio
This volume introduces university students and scholars of Near Eastern archaeology to 'Building archaeology' methods as applied to the context of Ancient Mesopotamia. It helps the reader understand the principles underlying this discipline and to realise what knowledge and skills are needed, beyond those that are specific to archaeologists.
Author |
: Ann Brysbaert |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2018-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9088906971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789088906978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building by : Ann Brysbaert
In many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio-economic and political processes that these societies underwent and/or instrumentalised. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such constructions form an useful research target in order to investigate both their associated societies as well as the underlying processes that generated differential construction levels. Monumental constructions may physically remain the same for some time but certainly not forever. The actual meaning, too, that people associate with these may change regularly due to changing contexts in which people perceived, assessed, and interacted with such constructions.These changes of meaning may occur diachronically, geographically but also socially. Realising that such shifts may occur forces us to rethink the meaning and the roles that past technologies may play in constructing, consuming and perceiving something monumental. In fact, it is through investigating the processes, the practices of building and crafting, and selecting the specific locales in which these activities took place, that we can argue convincingly that meaning may already become formulated while the form itself is still being created. As such, meaning-making and -giving may also influence the shaping of the monument in each of its facets: spatially, materially, technologically, socially and diachronically.This volume varies widely in regional and chronological focus and forms a useful manual to studying both the acts of building and the constructions themselves across cultural contexts. A range of theoretical and practical methods are discussed, and papers illustrate that these are applicable to both small or large architectural expressions, making it useful for scholars investigating urban, architectural, landscape and human resources in archaeological and historical contexts. The ultimate goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people's interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.