Archaeological approaches to dance performance
By: edited by Kathryn Soar, Christina Aamodt
Contributors: European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 2622; BAR international series -- 2622.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781407312576
Subjects: Dance; Congresses; History; Ethnoarchaeology
Notes: "The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 15th European Archaeological Association conference at Lake Garda in Italy, in September 2009"--p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Archaeological approaches to dance performance: an introduction / Kathryn Soar and Christina Aamodt; title: Archaeology of dance / Yosef Garfinkel; title: Who is the ancient Egyptian dancer? / Batyah Schachter; title: Dance dating in the Old Kingdom; formal rules, step 1: know thy dances. Establishing a typology of Old Kingdom dance / Lesley J. Kinney; title: Dance in the prehistoric Aegean / Christina Aamodt; title: The dance of death: dancing in Athenian funerary rituals / Hugh Thomas; title: Dancers' representations and the function of dance in Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) Chinese society / Marta Zuchowska; title: Warrior dance, social ordering and the process of polis formation in early iron age Crete / Anna Lucia D'Agata; title: Revel without a cause? Dance, performance and Greek vase-painting / Tyler Jo Smith.