The Archaeology of Measurement Paperback: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies - Softcover

Morley, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521135885 ISBN 13: 9780521135887

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The Archaeology of Measurement explores the archaeological evidence for the development of measuring activities in numerous ancient societies. Featuring contributions from a cast of internationally renowned scholars, it analyses the relationship between measurement, economy, architecture, symbolism, time, cosmology, ritual, and religion among prehistoric and early historic societies throughout the world.

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"In summary, scholars and students of archaeology alike will welcome the comprehensive and balanced approach to such an ambitious topic of measurement."
--Kiara Beaulieu, Journal Canadien D'Archeologie 36

Biografía del autor

Iain Morley is a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Research Fellow of Darwin College at Cambridge University. A scholar of Palaeolithic archaeology and the evolution of human cognition, he is also co-editor, with Colin Renfrew, of Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric Material and Spiritual Culture and Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation.

Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) is Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University, where he is a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He is author of many influential books on archaeology and prehistory, including, with Paul Bahn, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice, which is one of the standard textbooks on the subject.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521135885
• ISBN 13: 9780521135887
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286