university of texas press reclaiming a plundered past archaeology and nation building in modern iraq jan 2006
university of texas press reclaiming a plundered past archaeology and nation building in modern iraq jan 2006
... bears the inscription in honor of Akkadian King Naram-Sin, and the famed Warka mask. It was not only the National Museum that was plundered. The Iraqi National Library and Archives (Dar al-Katub ... homeland was exposed to a hateful attack by the Persian Elamites. . . . And when Iraq rose again and Sargon the Akkadian arose as the leader who united Iraq, the black Persian lu...
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university of texas press negotiating for the past archaeology nationalism and diplomacy in the middle east 1919-1941 jul 2007
... Turks near Adana, abandoned most of its territorial claims in southeastern Anatolia to safeguard its mandate in neighboring Syria. Its withdrawal left Britain and Greece to deal with the nationalist ... national interests via the medium of archaeology. Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888–1918) proved a firm advocate, having participated in excavations in Germany and later on the island...
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university of texas press before the volcano erupted the ancient cerén village in central america mar 2002
... guajava fruit casts guava, guayaba P. guajava stem cast guava, guayaba P. guajava leaf guava, guayaba Rosaceae Prunus cf. brachybotrya charcoal escobo Rubiaceae stem Sapindaceae Cupania ... Lauraceae Nectandra sp. charcoal aguacatillo Persea americana leaf impression avocado, aguacate P. americana cotyledon avocado, aguacate Malpigiaceae Byrsonima crassifolia fr...
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university of texas press espíritu santo de zúñiga a frontier mission in south texas apr 2007
... Recent linguistic and archaeological research indicates that there were several distinct languages (including Coahuilteco, Comecrudo, Cotoname, Tonkawa, Solano, Karankawa, and Aranama) and varying ... (Fagan 2006) . Block excavations focus on exposing large horizontal areas that allow the archaeologist to ‘‘ob- tain a larger (and more meaningful) sample of artifacts, features, act...
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university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007
... formation of Pitt’s star image to explore a historical shift in thinking about masculinity, changing structures of sexualization and ob- jectification, and female agency and volition. In addition ... created and not an organic part of the film. The space opened by awareness of the “image as still” cre- ates distance from narrative and character. Rather than seeing this i...
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university of texas press death and the classic maya kings jan 2009
... Karla Davis-Salazar, Barbara Fash, R. Jeff rey Frost, Ian Graham, Takeshi Inomata, Rosemary Joyce, George Lau, Patricia McAnany, Gordon Rakita, Nora Reber, Izumi Shimada, and Karl Taube have, ... the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, devoted to the recording and dissemination of information about all known ancient Maya inscriptions and their a...
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university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
... that its interdisciplinary content was in large part a product of my own undergraduate and graduate educa- tion, particularly my graduate training at Yale University. At Yale I was encouraged ... Comenda and Farisoa, Portugal, both began as a passage grave (anta in Portuguese) and later had a tholos annexed (Leisner and Leisner : Est. X and XIV; Gonçalves a: ...
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university of texas press in the maw of the earth monster studies of mesoamerican ritual cave use feb 2005
... fundamental social feature in traditional societies and proposes that archaeological data can inform uson the types of actors involved in ceremonial caveactivities in the past. Drawing on data ... City. Aveleyra Arroyo de Anda, Luis; Manuel Maldonado-Koerdell; and Pablo Martínez del Río 1956 La Cueva de la Candelaria. In Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Antropolog a e Histo...
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university of texas press signs of the inka khipu binary coding in the andean knotted-string records aug 2003
... certain string configuration a specific combination of spinning, plying, knotting, and dyeing strings and assigned it the value of (or made it ‘‘stand for’’) a certain place-name, or age grade, ... Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Urton, Gary, date Signs of the Inka Khipu : binary coding in the Andean knotted-string records / Gary Urton. p. cm. — (The Linda Schele series...
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university of texas press the religion of the etruscans feb 2006
... clen ce a munis en ca eluruve itruta: ala alpnina luθs inpa ulχn Luθs may also be the name of a god, and ala alpnina may be compared to alpan turce, ‘‘gladly gave’’ (Latin: libens dedit). 29 A sanctuary ... Underworld and the intriguing demons inhabiting that part of the cosmos. Jean MacIntosh Turfa reviews the fas- cinating range of votive objects found in Etruscan sanctu-...
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