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Methods in the Mediterranean : historical and archaeological views on texts and archaeology / edited by David B. Small

Contributor(s): Small, David BMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 135.Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1995Description: 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004095810; 9789004095816Subject(s): Classical antiquities | Archaeology and history -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- HistoriographyOnline resources: Table of contents | Table of contents Also issued online
Contents:
Is there a text in this site? / Stephen Dyson -- Thucydides and the beginnings of archaeology / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Greek horoi: artifactual texts and the contigency of meaning / Josiah Ober -- Historical text and archaeological context in Roman North Africa: the Albertini Tablets and Kasserine survey / R. Bruce Hitchner -- Monuments, laws, and analysis: combining archaeology and text in ancient Athens / David B. Small -- Epistemic independence between textual and material evidence / Peter Kosso -- Husbandry, dietary taboos and the bones of the ancient Near East: zooarchaeology in the post-processual world / Brian Hesse -- Towards establishing a conceptual basis for animal categories in archaeology / Paula Wapnish
Summary: This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean. After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts. This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-292) and index

Is there a text in this site? / Stephen Dyson -- Thucydides and the beginnings of archaeology / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Greek horoi: artifactual texts and the contigency of meaning / Josiah Ober -- Historical text and archaeological context in Roman North Africa: the Albertini Tablets and Kasserine survey / R. Bruce Hitchner -- Monuments, laws, and analysis: combining archaeology and text in ancient Athens / David B. Small -- Epistemic independence between textual and material evidence / Peter Kosso -- Husbandry, dietary taboos and the bones of the ancient Near East: zooarchaeology in the post-processual world / Brian Hesse -- Towards establishing a conceptual basis for animal categories in archaeology / Paula Wapnish

This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean. After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts. This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general

Also issued online