Archaeology of the Night : Life After Dark in the Ancient World /: Life After Dark in the Ancient World. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nancy Gonlin, April Nowell.
• Editors: Gonlin, Nancy; Nowell, April
• Contents: <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-vii' class='sequence-1'>Contents <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xi' class='sequence-2'>List of Figures <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xv' class='sequence-3'>List of Tables <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xvii' class='sequence-4'>Foreword / Jerry D. Moore <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xxix' class='sequence-5'>Preface / Nancy Gonlin <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-3' class='sequence-6'>Section I: Introduction <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-5' class='sequence-7'>1. Introduction to the Archaeology of the Night / Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-25' class='sequence-8'>Section II: Nightscapes <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-27' class='sequence-9'>2. Upper Paleolithic Soundscapes and the Emotional Resonance of Nighttime / April Nowell <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-45' class='sequence-10'>3. Classic Maya Nights at Copan, Honduras, and El Cerén, El Salvador / Nancy Gonlin and Christine C. Dixon <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-77' class='sequence-11'>4. The Night Is Different: Sensescapes and Affordances in Ancient Arizona / Kathryn Kamp and John C. Whittaker <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-95' class='sequence-12'>5. 'La Luz de Aceite es Triste': Nighttime, Community, and Memory in the Colorado–New Mexico Borderlands / Minette C. Church <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-119' class='sequence-13'>Section III: The Night Sky <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-121' class='sequence-14'>6. Nighttime Sky and Early Urbanism in the High Andes: Architecture and Ritual in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Formative and Tiwanaku Periods / Alexei Vranich and Scott C. Smith <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-139' class='sequence-15'>7. Night in Day: Contrasting Ancient and Contemporary Maya and Hindu Responses to Total Solar Eclipses / Anthony F. Aveni <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-155' class='sequence-16'>8. In the Sea of Night: Ancient Polynesia and the Dark / Cynthia L. Van Gilder <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-177' class='sequence-17'>Section IV: Nocturnal Ritual and Ideology <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-179' class='sequence-18'>9. Night Moon Rituals: The Effects of Darkness and Prolonged Ritual on Chilean Mapuche Participants / Tom D. Dillehay <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-201' class='sequence-19'>10. Where Night Reigns Eternal: Darkness and Deep Time among the Ancient Maya / Jeremy D. Coltman <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-223' class='sequence-20'>11. The Emerald Site, Mississippian Women, and the Moon / Susan M. Alt <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-247' class='sequence-21'>Section V: Illuminating the Night <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-249' class='sequence-22'>12. A Great Secret of the West: Transformative Aspects of Artificial Light in New Kingdom Egypt / Meghan E. Strong <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-265' class='sequence-23'>13. Burning the Midnight Oil: Archaeological Experiments with Early Medieval Viking Lamps / Erin Halstad McGuire <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-285' class='sequence-24'>Section VI: Nighttime Practices <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-287' class='sequence-25'>14. Engineering Feats and Consequences: Workers in the Night and the Indus Civilization / Rita P. Wright and Zenobie S. Garrett <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-307' class='sequence-26'>15. All Rome Is at My Bedside: Nightlife in the Roman Empire / Glenn Reed Storey <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-333' class='sequence-27'>16. Midnight at the Oasis: Past and Present Agricultural Activities in Oman / Smiti Nathan <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-353' class='sequence-28'>17. Fluid Spaces and Fluid Objects: Nocturnal Material Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa with Special Reference to the Iron Age in Southern Africa / Shadreck Chirikure and Abigail Joy Moffett <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-369' class='sequence-29'>18. The Freedom that Nighttime Brings: Privacy and Cultural Creativity among Enslaved Peoples at Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Bahamian Plantations / Jane Eva Baxter <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-385' class='sequence-30'>Section VII: Concluding the Night <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-387' class='sequence-31'>Afterword: A Portal to a More Imaginative Archaeology / Margaret Conkey <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-391' class='sequence-32'>List of Contributors <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-397' class='sequence-33'>Index.
• Publisher Details: Louisville : University Press of Colorado
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (442 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Archaeology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781607326786
• Related ISBNs: 9781607326779; 9781646421244
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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