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From Stonehenge to Mycenae: The Challenges of Archaeological Interpretation (Debates in Archaeology) by Barrett, John C. ;Carman, John ;Cummings, Vicki ;Carman, John ;Insoll, Timothy ;Breen, Colin ;Routledge, Bruce ;Moreland, John ;O’Keeffe, Tadhg ;Wells, Peter S. ;Randsborg, Klavs ;Rhodes, Daniel T. ;Decker, Michael J. ;Finlayson, Bill ;Schofield, John ;Skeates, Robin ;Creighton, Oliver H. ;Walmsley, Alan ;Gould, Peter G. ;Sayer, Duncan ;Chapman, Robert ;Kingsley, Sean A. ;Edgeworth, Matthew ;Kennedy, David ;Smith, Laurajane ;Bowes, Kim ;Wells, Peter S. ;Tomber, Roberta ;Renfrew, Colin ;Boone, James L. ;Whitehead, Christopher ;Higham, Charles F. W. ;Hills, Catherine ;Petts, David ;Leary, Jim ;Noort, Robert Van de ;Dyson, Stephen L. ;Randsborg, Klavs ;Marlowe, Elizabeth ;Kingsley, Sean A. ;Pluciennik, Mark ;Liu, Li ;Hodges, Richard ;Oosthuizen, Susan ;Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge ;Francovich, Riccardo ;Boyd, Michael J. ;Rhodes, Daniel ;Warren, Graeme M. ;Wylie, Alison ;Waterton, Emma ;O’Sullivan, Aidan ;Chen, Xingcan ;Hodges, Richard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the worlds that made great projects like the building of Stonehenge or Mycenae possible. The radiocarbon revolution made the old view that the architecture of Mycenae influenced the building of Stonehenge untenable. But the recent use of ‘big data’ and of genetic histories have led archaeology back to a worldview where ‘big problems’ are assumed to require ‘big solutions’. Making an animated plea for bottom-up rather than top-down solutions, the authors consider how life was made possible by living in the local and materially distinct worlds of the period. By considering how people once built connections between each other through their production and use of things, their movement between and occupancy of places, and their treatment of the dead, we learn about the kinds of identities that people constructed for themselves. Stonehenge did not require an architect from Mycenae for it to be built, but the builders of Stonehen

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Author

Barrett, John C. ;Carman, John ;Cummings, Vicki ;Carman, John ;Insoll, Timothy ;Breen, Colin ;Routledge, Bruce ;Moreland, John ;O’Keeffe, Tadhg ;Wells, Peter S. ;Randsborg, Klavs ;Rhodes, Daniel T. ;Decker, Michael J. ;Finlayson, Bill ;Schofield, John ;Skeates, Robin ;Creighton, Oliver H. ;Walmsley, Alan ;Gould, Peter G. ;Sayer, Duncan ;Chapman, Robert ;Kingsley, Sean A. ;Edgeworth, Matthew ;Kennedy, David ;Smith, Laurajane ;Bowes, Kim ;Wells, Peter S. ;Tomber, Roberta ;Renfrew, Colin ;Boone, James L. ;Whitehead, Christopher ;Higham, Charles F. W. ;Hills, Catherine ;Petts, David ;Leary, Jim ;Noort, Robert Van de ;Dyson, Stephen L. ;Randsborg, Klavs ;Marlowe, Elizabeth ;Kingsley, Sean A. ;Pluciennik, Mark ;Liu, Li ;Hodges, Richard ;Oosthuizen, Susan ;Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge ;Francovich, Riccardo ;Boyd, Michael J. ;Rhodes, Daniel ;Warren, Graeme M. ;Wylie, Alison ;Waterton, Emma ;O’Sullivan, Aidan ;Chen, Xingcan ;Hodges, Richard

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474291897

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Western