Archaeology of the night : life after dark in ancient world /
"A diverse team of experienced scholars used a variety of methods and resources to reconstruct how ancient peoples experienced the night, their views of the dark, their portrayals of the night, and how people in everyday life adapted to the night "--Provided by publisher
| Other Authors / Creators: | Gonlin, Nancy, editor. Nowell, April, 1969- editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2018] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "A diverse team of experienced scholars used a variety of methods and resources to reconstruct how ancient peoples experienced the night, their views of the dark, their portrayals of the night, and how people in everyday life adapted to the night "--Provided by publisher No detailed description available for "Archaeology of the Night". |
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| Item Description: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 13, 2017) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781607326786 1607326787 |
| Author Notes: | Nancy Gonlin is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who specializes in daily and nightly practices, household studies, and inequality. She serves as co-editor of the Cambridge journal Ancient Mesoamerica . Her publications include the co-edited volumes Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica , Ancient Households of the Americas, and Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica . She is co-author of Copán: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom . Watch her TEDx talk "Life After Dark in the Ancient World" here . April Nowell is a Paleolithic archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria. She directs an international team of researchers in the study of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Jordan and is known for her publications on cognitive archaeology, the archaeology of children, Paleolithic art, and the relationship between science, pop culture, and the media. She is the author of Growing Up in the Ice Age: Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children and coeditor of Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition . Watch her TEDx talk "Paleo Porn" here . |