Archaeologies of Text
Subtitle: Archaeology, Technology and Ethics
By: edited by Matthew T. Rutz and Morag M. Kersel
Series: Joukowsky Institute publication -- 6
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781782977667; 9781782977674
Subjects: Archaeology; Case studies; Research; Ancient Inscriptions; Discourse analysis; Methodology; Data processing; Archaeologists; Professional ethics
Description: "Examining the archaeology-text nexus from multiple perspectives, contributors to this volume discuss current theoretical and practical problems that have grown out of their work at the boundary of the division between archaeology and the study of early inscriptions. In 12 representative case-studies drawn from research in Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesoamerica, scholars use various lenses to critically examine the interface between archaeology and the study of ancient texts, rethink the fragmentation of their various specialized disciplines, and illustrate the best in current approaches to contextual analysis"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: No discipline is an island / Morag M. Kersel and Matthew T. Rutz; title: Case in point : the Persepolis Fortification Archive / Matthew W. Stolper; title: Space, time, and texts : a landscape approach to the classic Maya hieroglyphic record / Nicholas P. Carter; title: Now you see it, now you don't : the dynamics of archaeological and epigraphic landscapes from Coptic Egypt / Scott Bucking; title: Articulating Neo-Assyrian imperialism at Tell Tayinat / Timothy P. Harrison; title: The archaeology of Mesopotamian extispicy : modeling divination in the Old Babylonian Period / Matthew T. Rutz; title: The Ernest K. Smith Collection of Shang divination inscriptions at Columbia University and the evidence for scribal training at Anyang / Adam Smith; title: Tracing networks of cuneiform scholarship with Oracc, GKAB, and Google Earth / Eleanor Robson; title: Ancient relationships, modern intellectual horizons : the practical challenges and possibilities of encoding Greek and Latin inscriptions / Lisa Anderson and Heidi Wendt; title: Forging history : from antiquity to the modern period / Christopher A. Rollston; title: Wikileaks, text, and archaeology : the case of the Schøyen incantation bowls / Neil J. Brodie and Morag M. Kersel; title: Do restrictions on publication of undocumented texts promote legitimacy? / Patty Gerstenblith; title: Publishing undocumented texts : editorial perspectives / John F. Cherry.