Of Rocks and Water : An Archaeology of Place.

Of Rocks and Water : An Archaeology of Place.

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People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices....

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Author / Creator: Harmanşah, Ömür.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2014.
Series:Joukowsky Institute Publication
Subjects:
Rocks - Social aspects - History.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Contributor Addresses
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards an Archaeology of Place
  • Chapter 2: A Place for Pilgrimage: The Ancient Maya Sacred Landscape of Cara Blanca, Belize
  • Chapter 3: On Ancient Placemaking
  • Chapter 4: Origins and Fertility: Mesoamerican Caves in Deep Time
  • Chapter 5: Topographies of Power: Theorizing the Visual, Spatial and Ritual Contexts of Rock Reliefs in Ancient Iran
  • Chapter 6: Other Monumental Lessons
  • Chapter 7: Rock-Reliefs of Ancient Iran: Notes and Remarks
  • Chapter 8: The Significance of Place: Rethinking Hittite Rock Reliefs in Relation to the Topography of the Land of Hatti
  • Chapter 9: Places in the Political Landscape of Late Bronze Age Anatolia
  • Chapter 10: Living Rock and Transformed Space
  • Chapter 11: Event, Place, Performance: Rock Reliefs and Spring Monuments in Anatolia
  • Chapter 12: Ruins within Ruins: Site Environmental History and Landscape Biography
  • Chapter 13: Archaeological Landscapes, Pushed Towards Ruination
  • Chapter 14: (Dis)Continuous Domains: A Case of "Multi-Sited Archaeology" from the Peloponnesus, Greece
  • Chapter 15: Moving On: A Conversation with Chris Witmore
  • Index.

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