Émile durkheim and the collective consciousness of society

This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’. 

Policing the beats

A bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music.The emergence of UK drill music made headline news, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre, however, is neither the first, nor the only Black music to be targeted this w...

The new refugees: crime and forced displacement in latin america

In Latin America, recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee from their homes due to the activities of organised criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how...

Local childhoods in global times

Presents perspectives of childhood from around the world. Each chapter presents a different focus on early childhood showing the diversity and complexity across multiple countries. Issues emerge around multi-language development, nationalism and multiculturalism and cultural theories of every-day...

Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations

This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities...

Challenging misrepresentations of black womanhood

"Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood" investigates the stereotyping of Black womanhood and the larger sociological impact on Black women. The text details the historical and contemporary use of stereotypes against Black women and how Black women work to challenge and dispel false pe...

W. e. b. du bois’ africa

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism.

A marxist archaeology

This book applies Marxist theory to archaeology, explores long-term historical change and cultural evolution, and advocates a dialectical and historical approach to the study of the past.  Originally published by Academic Press in 1992, this edition features a new prologue by the author.

Agricultural sustainability and environmental change at ancient gordion

Presents findings from botanical samples excavated during the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations. Analyzes agricultural decisions, revealing impact of political and economic systems on environmental practices, contributing to understanding agricultural and environmental changes, making Gordion a signi...

Settlement pattern studies in the americas

Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in...

Changing social identity with the spread of islam

Looks at the spread of Islam throughout the medieval world and the process of conversion to this religion and adoption of its cultural life. The evidence is presented in a series of essay reports on archaeological approaches in current Islamic Archaeology.

Agricultural strategies

Includes chapters on the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, South America. Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management. An invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification ...

Our work

Catalogue for exhibit showing many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a manicurist, brewer, boat builder, judge and others. The portraits are accompanied by commentary and will be of interest to educators, histor...

The south american camelids

Bonavia's landmark study of the South American camelids. This first English edition includes an updated analysis and comprehensive bibliography. The Ayacucho's Project's faunal analysts, Elizabeth S. Wing and Kent V. Flannery, have added appendices on the Ayacucho results to this English edition.

Empires and diversity

For more than 4,000 years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth. The case studies demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions.

The wide lens in archaeology

Brian Hesse was Professor of Jewish Studies, Anthropology and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a leading specialist on ancient animal bones and the zooarchaeology of the Levant.  This volume honours his memory and reflects the wide range of his interests.

Hunter-gatherer foraging

Designed as an introduction to undergraduate and graduate students new to the subject Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Five Simple Models presents the five foraging models that lend themselves best to hunter-gatherer application: diet breadth, linear programming, front- versus back-loaded resources, tec...

Pleistocene and holocene hunter-gatherers in iberia and the gibraltar strait

A guide to the early prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula, updated with the basic data furnished by the main sites for human evolution in Spain and Gibraltar. Includes noteworthy information from the key sites: their stratigraphy, the essential discoveries, the research topics and the main archaeo...

Applied zooarchaeology

Zooarchaeologists increasingly focus onconservation biology.  This book uses a series of case studies explore the types of interdisciplinary challenges that zooarchaeologists face when crossing into the world of environmental management and animal conservation.

The archaeology of mesoamerican animals

This volume presents current research from across the many cultures and regions of Mesoamerica, dealing specifically with the most current issues in zooarchaeological literature. The book's chapters provide important general background on the domestic and ritual use of animals in early and classi...

A critical study of the temple scroll from qumran cave 11

A study of one of the Qumran texts, examining its characteristics and authorship. The author concludes that the Temple Scroll was an eschatalogical law book, composed around 150 BC by `The Teacher of Righteousness' and not a product of the Qumran community.

Ayla

Featured are thirty-seven illustrations that highlight the magnificence that was the great Islamic port of Ayla on the Gulf of Aqaba. The site is located in modern Aqaba, Jordan and has been excavated by the Oriental Institute under the directorship of Donald Whitcomb since 1986.

The mithraeum at caesarea maritima

The Caesarea Mithraeum (sanctuary or temple of the god Mithras) is only one of two excavated from eastern half of the Empire. Includes new photographs, plans and section drawings; catalogues the small finds from the vault, technical details about the recovery of information about frescoes and how...

Mochlos iva. 2-volume set

This is an excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete; each building is described with its stratigraphy, architecture, small finds, ecofactual materials, function, and room use. This is a two volume set. Volume 1 contains the text and Volume 2 contains the...

Sargonic texts in the ashmolean museum, oxford

Transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. The majority of the tablets are standard administrative texts, with a small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. 113 tablets are pres...

Landscape archaeology of the western nile delta

Different ideas of what constitutes an archaeological site have developed over two centuries of scholarship and heritage law in Egypt, with sites often (unconsciously) conceived as lands with museum-quality pieces and striking monumental, mortuary, and/or epigraphic remains.

Life in a cave in petra with the bdoul

For extended periods between 1981 and 1986 the archaeologist Judith McKenzie lived in a cave at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan in order to survey and measure architectural mouldings on the rock-cut monuments. This book is an important and essential volume on the archaeology and history of on...

54 souidias

Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the oldest American overseas research institute. This book traces the growth of this academic facility, which sponsors the long-term excavations of ancient Corinth and the Athenian Agora as well as one of the most important la...

Potters at work in ancient corinth

An unparalleled assemblage of Archaic black-figure painted pinakes (plaques) was uncovered near Penteskouphia, a village west of ancient Corinth, over a century ago. In this volume the findspot of the pinakes is identified and the assemblage as a whole is fully contextualized within the Archaic w...

The athenian agora museum guide (text in modern greek)

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora - the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly ope...

The gymnasium area

This work presents the marble sculpture found in the Gymnasium Area at Corinth, dating between the C6th B.C. and C5th A.D. It provides insight into sculptural practices after the founding of the Roman colony at Corinth, and knowledge of display context and reuse of sculpture at a gymnasium in a l...

Temple university aegean symposium

Each year, the symposium focused on a specific theme in Aegean Bronze Age art and archaeology. This book is a collection of the tenvolumes of articles that were published from The Temple University Aegean Symposia between 1976 and 1986. The articles are unchanged from the original publications; a...

The hilprecht collection of greek, italic, and roman bronzes in the university of pennsylvania museum

Hilprecht's collection is important because it was put together at the turn of the century by one of the great names in Near Eastern archaeology, because he had documented the provenance and nature of the pieces, and because so many of the objects were from Anatolia, thus providing evidence for p...

Ancient portraits from the athenian agora

Although the famous bronze statues seen by the Roman tourist Pausanias have been melted down, the Agora preserves a number of fine portraits in stone. While a few of these are named, most of the portraits in this booklet represent ordinary men and women; priests, athletes, and officials.

Corpus vasorum antiquorum, 2

Akrotiri thera

The present book is an attempt to provide the reader with an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Eastern turkey vol. iv

Eastern Turkey is a rich tapestry of diverse civilizations, from Hittite to Ottoman. Its historical sites, including fortifications and monasteries, offer a fascinating blend for archaeological and art-historical research. These four volumes form a comprehensive guide, detailing each site's histo...

Miscellaneous investigations in central tikal--structures in and around the lost world plaza

Book on Tikal's Maya center in Guatemala details six partially collapsed structures under "standing architecture." Surveyed without extensive excavation, it offers accessible insights for Mayanists, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, urbanists, and those intrigued by Maya construct...

The sanctuary of athena nike in athens

Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), this volume presents a detailed architectural study of the building's chronology and history.

A commentary on the architecture of the north acropolis, tikal, guatemala--additions and alterations

3D reconstructions in original colors depict Acropolis stages from 330 BCE to 600 CE. CD-ROM has 112 color plates with structures and excavation photos. Text explains Maya architectural evolution, revealing insights into rulership and monumental design.

Samothrace

The island of Samothrace in the north Aegean was home to one of the most famous panhellenic sanctuaries in the ancient world, the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. This official guide to the site was revised and updated by its longtime excavation director, and is copiously illustrated and includes fou...

Marbleworkers in the athenian agora

This full-colour guide sheds new light on the marble industry in and around the Agora, including rich evidence for sculptors' workshops, their tools, and techniques. The text discusses the works of both famous and anonymous artists.

Miniature sculpture from the athenian agora

Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the Agora, ranging in date from the earliest occupation of Athens to the end of the Late Roman period. This booklet presents a representative sample of these carvings, ranging from elegant ivory figures of Apollo to small toy...

Agora excavations, 1931-2006

A pictorial history of the archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic centre of classical Athens, illustrated with many archival photographs and primary documents. It focuses on some key moments in the Agora's history including the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos and the restorati...

Concluding the neolithic

The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life end. The significant social and economic transformations of local communities, as shown in new patterns of architecture and burial practices, and in pottery manufacture. Sets the changes in ...

Town and country in southeastern anatolia, volume 1

This is a report on a detailed survey conducted within an area of 100 km2 along the south (left) bank of the River Euphrates (Firat Nehri) in southeastern Turkey. The survey provided a fourteen period sequence of settlement covering a span of 8,000 years.

Bismaya

This monograph presents this large and significant corpus of unpublished material and includes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions of chronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practices during t...

Iconoclasm and text destruction in the ancient near east and beyond

The eighth in the Oriental Institute Seminar Series. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the cases of and reasons for mutilation of texts and images in Near Eastern antiquity. Explores iconoclasm and text destruction through examination of the anthropological, cultural, historical, and p...

The oriental institute 2000-2001 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

Excavations at nippur

Second of the preliminary reports on work at Nippur, this volume gives details of the remains of a series of temples in Area WA and the administrative and residential buildings in Area WB. Includes important treatments of the pottery of the Old Babylonian and Kassite periods, as well as hoards of...

Prehistoric archaeology along the zagros flanks

Braidwood set out in 1948 to explore the field evidence for the transition from hunter-gatherer way of life to sedentary food production in the region surrounding the Mesopotamian Plain. This volume is the final report on the Braidwoods' initial phase of exploration from 1948 to 1955 in the Chemc...

Materials and studies for kassite history volume 1

Kassite kings (1595-1155 b.c.) reigned longer than any other dynasty in Babylonian history. From their time, more than twelve thousand cuneiform documents have survived. This volume catalogues all dated texts of the dynasty, including extensive unpublished materials in museums in Asia, Europe, an...

The holmes expedition to luristan

This two-volume account of archaeological investigations in central and eastern Luristan reflects work carried out over 50 years in the remote area of western Iran, north of the Zagros Mountains. Included are excavation reports on the Chalcolithic site of Kamtarlan and on an Iron Age shrine on th...

Aramaic ritual texts from persepolis

Long awaited edition of the Aramaic texts from Persepolis, unearthed during the expedition by the University of Chicago under Erich F. Schmidt between 1936 and 1938. He has assembled important data on the chronology of Persepolis during the first half of the fifth century B.C. from personal names...

Old babylonian public buildings in the diyala region. part one

The ninth published volume of twelve, presenting the whole work off the Oriental Institute's Iraq Expedition in the Diyala region. This volume focuses on Ishchali (usually identified as ancient Nêribtum), which belonged to the independent kingdom of Eshnunna. The bulk of the report is devoted to ...

Figurines and other clay objects from sarab and cayonue

Human and animal figurines and other clay objects from the Oriental Institute's continuing work on Neolithic sites in Turkey and Iran.

Inscriptions from tell abu salabikh

Includes all the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965 with the exception of a very few illegible fragments. All other tablets are represented by a copy, by a photograph, or by both. Except for the copies of especially fragile tablets made in the field, preliminary cop...

Uch tepe i

This volume is the first of three final reports on the joint expedition of the Oriental Institute and the University of Copenhagen in the Hamrin Salvage project of Iraq. The main focus is on the Early Dynastic I round fortress of Uch Tepe.

Nippur iv

Inscriptions on the remains of 128 inscribed clay tablets found at Nippur in south central Iraq turned out to be written in a previously unknown early Neo-Babylonian script dating back to the middle of the eighth century b.c. Includes copies, transliterations, and translations of all the document...

Excavations at nippur

The first results of a program of research at Nippur, the holy city of Mesopotamia. This program, bringing together an interdisciplinary team to work on a historical site in Mesopotamia, focuses on the entire city, not just the sacred aspects.

Letters from turkey, 1939-1946

When Georgianna Maynard went to Turkey in 1939 with her husband, Dick Maynard, she expected romance but found reality. The expected five year stay was extended to seven with the outbreak of World War II. The day-to-day struggle to cope with life as a young, married couple trapped in a foreign cou...

Cuneiform texts from the ur iii period in the oriental institute, volume 1

The first publication of all 499 cuneiform tablets in the Asiatic Collection of the Oriental Institute Museum that come from the ancient administrative center of Puzrish-Dagan (modern Drehem) and date to the reign of Shulgi, the second ruler of the Ur III Dynasty (ca. 2094-2047 b.c.).

The oriental institute 2010-2011 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions. The reports are complimentary to Members and Donors of the Oriental Institute.

Town and country in southeastern anatolia, volume ii

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago conducted excavations at Kurban Höyük, along with surveys of its immediate environs. Located in the lower portion of the Karababa reservoir area, it is one of several sites crucial to understanding the archaeological sequence of the lower portio...

Soundings at tell fakhariyah

An imposing array of scholars have united to pay a debt of piety to the late C. W. McEwan, whose untimely death in 1950 forestalled the publication of his campaign at Tell Fakhariyah, which took place in 1940.

Excavations in the plain of antioch volume ii

The second volume of The Excavations in the Plain of Antioch describes a series of excavations in the Syro-Palestinian region. The three sites included in the report are Çatal Hueyuek, Tell al-Judaidah and Tell Tayinat, all situated in the central part of the Amuq valley around the city of Rihani...

The oriental institute 2009-2010 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

The oriental institute 2011-2012 annual report

Reports on the work of the Oriental Institute during the academic year (July 2011-June 2012), including twenty project, seven research support, eleven museum, seven public education and volunteer, and five development and membership reports.

Nippur ii

A report on the excavation during the 1950s of an Early Dynastic Temple discovered in the northwestern part of the Religious Quarter of Nippur. The volume includes reports on the structural remains, the burials and the finds, such as pottery, tablets, seals, ornaments and figurines.

The oriental institute 2004-2005 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

Settlement and society

Essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflecting his research and themes. Ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. The intellectual threads Adams pioneered tie the volume together, incl. the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems and use of a compara...

The oriental institute 2001-2002 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

The oriental institute 1999-2000 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

Excavations at the cappadocia gate

The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later 7th century BC, it was burned in the mid sixth century and then abandoned. Between 1999 and 2011 one of the seven city gates was excavated in its entirety and ...

The oriental institute 2005-2006 annual report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

Earliest land tenure systems in the near east

This two volume set offers the first complete edition of the ancient 'kudurrus' (Uruk III-Sargonic land grant contracts) combined with detailed discussion of the social and legal aspects of the documents. All 57 'kudurrus' are presented as photographs with transliterations, translations and full ...

The countryside of aphrodisias

Presents the archaeological remains of the countryside of Aphrodisias, one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods in Turkey, excavated by New York University.  115 col illus, 21 b/w illus.

New insights into the iron age archaeology of edom, southern jordan

Challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbors, such as ancient Israel. Excavations and radiometric dating establish a new chronology for Edom, adding almost 500 more years to the Iron Age, incl...

Kataret es-samra, jordan

Presents the results of a programme of survey and excavation conducted under the directorship of the author at the site of Kataret es-Samra, strategically located at the interface of the ghor and the zor of the Eastern Jordan Valley, to the north of the confluence of the Wadi Zarqa (Biblical Jabb...

Rural archaeology in early urban northern mesopotamia

Reports on the architecture, pottery, animal bones, plant remains, and other varieties of artifacts and ecofacts enhance our understanding of the role of villages in the formation of urban societies, the economic relationship between small rural sites and urban centers, and status and economic di...

Uch tepe ii

Second of three final reports on the joint expedition of the Oriental Institute and the Carsten Niebuhr Institute in the Hamrin Salvage project of Iraq. The technical reports consist of neutron activation and chemical studies on pottery and mudbrick, and a discussion of the function of the Round ...

Chogha mish. volume 1

Nearly 28 years after the completion of the first five seasons at the Chogha Mish site in Iran, the first of the final reports is now available. The site turned out to be highly significant for the wide range of protoliterate and prehistoric artifacts found there. These volumes examine and lavish...

Archive of thotsutmis, son of panouphis

The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. They were excavated at the site of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city o...

Household studies in complex societies

Scholars specialising in the Old and New World from Europe and the US came together to find new approaches in the study of households in complex societies. Presents case studies from the Near East, Egypt and Nubia, the Classical World, and Mesoamerica, including three comparative responses from t...

A gem of a small nabataean temple

Khirbet et-Tannur was a religious sanctuary of the Nabataeans, ancient Arabs whose capital was Petra in Jordan. Nelson Glueck’s 1937 excavation revealed fascinating finds of cult offerings and equipment; new research on those discoveries by a team of experts led by Judith McKenzie illuminates the...

The sinai peninsula

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 7.1 (2015) contributes to a greater understanding and appreciation of the rich heritage of the Sinai Peninsula in its role as a key land bridge Africa and Asia and as a region important in its own right.

Feasts and fights

Standing as a summary of Spalinger's ideas at the time of the Yale lectures in 2012, this study covers two research sides of modern Egyptological research by a life-long student of ancient Egyptian calendrics and the Egyptian military. 10 b&w illus.

The desert fayum reinvestigated

Suggests an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.

Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 8

This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern end of Egyptian Nubia.

Reliefs and inscriptions at luxor temple, volume 1

Field work of the Epigraphic Survey on the walls of the temples and tombs of Luxor, recording the inscriptions and reliefs in facsimile for posterity.The portfolio of large drawings is accompanied by a text booklet, which has a list of plates, transliterations and translations of the texts, comme...

Excavations between abu simbel and the sudan frontier, part 9

The excavations at these cemeteries provide a full range of X-Group objects, dated to the fourth through sixth centuries a.d. Of special interest is the military equipment, including many decorated quivers, parts of several unusual light composite bows, and a saddle date to the late fourth century.

The oriental institute hawara papyri

The papyri published here form part of a large family archive in the Egyptian Fayum. Written in Demotic and Greek, they are an excellent source of information about the Egypt of the fourth to third century b.c. Of interest to Egyptologists, Hellenists, and all those interested in the economic and...