Andreas Ersson Library

By Tomás Martínez Rodríguez

Un recorrido por los lugares y yacimientos arqueológicos más insólitos del planeta. Un viaje en el tiempo desde el génesis de nuestra especie hasta l. a. extinción de las grandes civilizaciones de l. a. antigüedad.

Los vestigios y lugares misteriosos que aparecen en las páginas de Civilizaciones perdidas inspiran los angeles imaginación, producen admiración y hasta temor. Su existencia plantea interrogantes sobre sus avanzados conocimientos en astronomía, matemáticas, ingeniería e incluso su abnormal visión de l. a. historia y su forma de entender los angeles religión. Estas evidencias siguen desafiando el pensamiento moderno. Grandes culturas cuya desaparición comienza, tras décadas de estudio, a ser comprendida.

Tomé Martínez analiza en l. a. obra ciudades milenarias, lugares de poder, objetos imposibles, tumbas, momias, reliquias sagradas, naciones desaparecidas cuyo nombre apenas resuena en los mitos y leyendas de los angeles antigüedad... las huellas dejadas por nuestros ancestros son numerosas y no dejan de aparecer nuevos testimonios de viejas y olvidadas presencias. Todos estos testimonios y monumentos sirvieron para expresar l. a. conexión entre los hombres y las fuerzas invisibles del Cosmos.

Razones para comprar l. a. obra:

• Muestra los datos más actuales y también los más sorprendentes; aquellos que cambiarán para siempre nuestra concepción del pasado remoto de l. a. humanidad.
• Presenta nuevas evidencias que constatan asombrosos conocimientos científicos por parte de las antiguas civilizaciones.
• Descubre las inteligentes y sutiles fórmulas que idearon los pueblos de los angeles antigüedad para proteger los asombrosos conocimientos técnicos y científicos que poseían así como los fraudes arqueológicos que hacen tambalear nuestra visión de importantes facetas de los angeles historia.
• Un libro que muestra una visión revolucionaria de nuestra manera de interpretar los tiempos remotos en los que los angeles humanidad construyó l. a. frágil ilusión de l. a. civilización con lo que todo eso comporta.

Tras décadas de estudio resulta evidente que muchos de estos enigmas jamás serán resueltos. No pasa lo mismo con las causas que propiciaron el declive y extinción de muchas de estas grandes culturas.

By Julian Thomas

The increase to prominence of pits inside narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in fresh literature. Pits were cropping up in excavations for hundreds of years, leading to a really vast spectrum of interpretations yet 3 major components have ended in the hot switch in our notion and illustration of those positive factors: a huge shift in people's expectancies as to what a Neolithic payment will be; the improvement of the idea that of 'structured deposition', during which pits have performed a key position; and a dramatic upward push within the variety of pits really identified approximately. Development-led archaeology, and the customarily very huge parts its excavations disclose, has easily published many extra pits. The 15 papers during this quantity discover those inter-related components and current new ideas and interpretations bobbing up from new research of Neolithic pits and their contents.

By Sharon Macdonald

Memorylands is an unique and interesting research of the character of historical past, reminiscence and understandings of the previous in Europe this present day. It seems at how Europe has develop into a ’memoryland’ – suffering from fabric reminders of the earlier, comparable to museums, background websites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is expounded to the altering nature of identities – specifically eu, nationwide and cosmopolitan. In doing so, it presents new insights into how reminiscence and the previous are being played and reconfigured in Europe – and with what results.

Drawing specially, although no longer completely, on circumstances, options and arguments from social and cultural anthropology, Memorylands argues for a deeper and extra nuanced figuring out of the cultural assumptions focused on on the subject of the prior. It theorizes some of the ways that ‘materializations’ of identification paintings and relates those to various types of id inside of Europe. The booklet additionally addresses questions of method, together with dialogue of ancient, ethnographic, interdisciplinary and cutting edge equipment. via a wide-range of case-studies from throughout Europe, Sharon Macdonald argues that Europe is domestic to a miles higher variety of how of creating the prior current than is mostly learned – and a better diversity of types of ‘historical consciousness’. while, in spite of the fact that, she seeks to spotlight what she calls ‘the ecu reminiscence complicated’ – a repertoire of ordinary styles in types of recollection and ‘past presencing’.

The examples in Memorylands are drawn from either the margins and metropolitan centres, from the rather small-scale and native, the nationwide and the avant-garde. The e-book seems at pasts which are probably identity-disrupting – or ‘difficult’ – in addition to those who verify identities or supply chances for transcending nationwide identities or articulating extra cosmopolitan futures. issues lined contain authenticity, temporalities, embodiment, commodification, nostalgia and Ostalgie, the musealization of daily and folk-life, Holocaust commemoration and tourism, narratives of conflict, the background of Islam, transnationalism, and the way forward for the previous.

Memorylands is engagingly written and available to normal readers in addition to delivering a brand new synthesis for complex researchers in reminiscence and background reviews. it's crucial studying for these attracted to identities, reminiscence, fabric tradition, Europe, tourism and heritage.

By Anne Porter

During this booklet, Anne Porter explores the concept cellular and sedentary contributors of the traditional global have been necessary components of a similar social and political teams in better Mesopotamia in the course of the interval 4000 to 1500 BCE. She attracts on quite a lot of archaeological and cuneiform assets to teach how networks of social constitution, political and non secular ideology, and daily in addition to ritual perform, labored to take care of the integrity of these teams whilst the pursuit of alternative subsistence actions dispersed them over house. those networks have been dynamic, shaping a number of the key occasions and concepts of the time, together with the Uruk growth and the advent of writing, so-called secondary nation formation and the association and operation of presidency, the literary creation of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur and the 1st tales of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites within the moment millennium BCE.

By Robert Chadwick

First Civilizations is the second one version of a favored pupil textual content first released in 1996 in Montreal via Les variations Champ Fleury. This a lot up-to-date and increased version presents an introductory evaluate of the civilizations of historical Mesopotamia and historical Egypt. It was once conceived basically for college kids who've very little wisdom of old heritage or archaeology.

The e-book starts with the function of historical past and archaeology in realizing the prior, and keeps with the origins of agriculture and the formation of the Sumerian city-states in Mesopotamia. 3 next chapters pay attention to Assyrian and Babylonian background and tradition. the second one half the ebook specializes in Egypt, begining with the actual surroundings of the Nile, the formation of the Egyptian kingdom and the previous state. next chapters talk about the center state, the Hyksos period,and the 18th Dynasty, with house dedicated to Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, the Ramesside interval. The textual content ends with the Persian conquest of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

First Civilizations additionally includes sections on astronomy, drugs, structure, eschatology, faith, burial practices and mummification, and discusses the myths of Gilgamesh, Isis and Osiris. each one bankruptcy has a easy bibliography which emphasizes English language encyclopedias, books and journals focusing on the traditional close to East.

By Felipe Martinez Arango

By Denise Schmandt-Besserat

In 1992, the collage of Texas Press released ahead of Writing, quantity I: From Counting to Cuneiform and ahead of Writing, quantity II: A Catalog of close to jap Tokens. In those volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking concept that the cuneiform script invented within the close to East within the overdue fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest identified procedure of writing--derived from an archaic counting equipment. How Writing happened attracts fabric from either volumes to provide Schmandt-Besserat's concept for a large public and school room viewers. according to the research and interpretation of a range of 8,000 tokens or counters from 116 websites in Iran, Iraq, the Levant, and Turkey, it records the speedy precursor of the cuneiform script.

By Al Oswald, Stewart Ainsworth, Trevor Pearson, Paul Frodsham

Iron Age hillforts in Northumberland nationwide Park are terribly good preserved, rivalling whatever to be discovered somewhere else in Europe. whereas the interiors of such a lot hillforts in southern England were hidden or disfigured through later land use, such a lot of these in Northumberland nationwide park were left fairly untouched in in view that they have been final occupied, within the Roman Iron Age, round 1,500 years in the past. in lots of circumstances, even the rules of timber-built roundhouses over 2,000 years outdated can nonetheless be obvious as shallow trenches within the turf. What did hillforts seem like after they have been first outfitted? Why have been they outfitted? What used to be lifelike for his or her population? This publication - aimed basically at walkers and different viewers to the nationwide Park - offers the result of a key component to Northumberland nationwide Park Authority's studying our Hillfort history undertaking; specific and wide archaeological panorama surveys conducted through English history. just like the top detective paintings, those investigations have mixed the precision of the microscope with and appreciation of the massive photograph. The authors - all Archaeological Investigators with English history - have, jointly, spent approximately a century exploring England's historical websites walking.

By Alejandro Haber, Nick Shepherd

While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent times, few try to circulate past a traditional discourse on ethics to contemplate how a dialogue of the social and political implications of archaeological perform may be conceptualized in a different way. The conceptual rules approximately ethics posited during this quantity make it of curiosity to readers open air of the self-discipline; in truth, to someone attracted to modern debates round the probabilities and barriers of a discourse on ethics. The authors during this quantity got down to do 3 issues. the 1st is to trace the ancient improvement of a dialogue round ethics, in tandem with the improvement and “disciplining” of archaeology. the second one is to envision the meanings, outcomes and efficacies of a discourse on ethics in modern worlds of perform in archaeology. The 3rd is to push past the language of ethics to contemplate alternative routes of framing a suite of issues round rights, accountabilities and meanings when it comes to practitioners, descendent and affected groups, websites, fabric cultures, the ancestors and so on.

By Christopher N. Matthews

As the principles of the trendy global have been being laid at first of the nineteenth century, Annapolis, Maryland, pointed out itself because the historical urban. This strange appellation has served Annapolis into the current as a urban that has always outlined and redefined for itself what being historical capability. the method of old acceptance and upkeep that has performed out in Annapolis presents worthwhile insights into the best way glossy americans quite often have come to understand and use the previous.

Though usually conceived to be in competition, modernity and culture may be paired as cultural recommendations that let the trendy global to be articulated with the culture it was hoping to interchange. The a number of histories and historical landscapes derived from archaeological investigations in Annapolis are awarded to teach that the actual international lower than the outside of the town has been outlined by means of buildings of modernity in tandem with the survival of convinced traditions.