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• 1. El yacimiento galaico-romano de Agro de Ouzande (Silleda, Pontevedra)
• 2. El área arqueológica de O Peto (Vedra, A Coruña).

• Toward a study of the mind in the past in relation to developments in archaeological theory
• Archaeological perspectives on the mind and associated approaches for studying the mind in the past
• Concepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology
• Percepts and their reconstruction in cognitive archaeology
• Reasoning and its role in the reconstruction of conceptual products and thought processes in cognitive archaeology
• An introduction to the evolution of the mind
• An introduction to the emergence of the modern human mind
• A vision for an ongoing discipline.

In The Foundations of Cognitive Archaeology, Marc Abramiuk proposes a multidisciplinary basis for the study of the mind in the past, arguing that archaeology and the cognitive sciences have much to offer one another. Abramiuk draws on relevant topics from philosophy, biological anthropology, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, and archaeology to establish theoretically founded and empirically substantiated principles of a discipline that integrates different approaches to mind-related archaeological research. Abramiuk discusses the two ways that archaeologists have traditionally viewed the human mind: as a universal or as a relative interface with the environment. He argues that neither view by itself can satisfactorily serve as a basis for gleaning insight into all aspects of the mind in the past and, therefore, the mind is more appropriately studied using multiple approaches. He explains the rationale for using these approaches in mind-related archaeological research, reviewing the literature in both cognitive psychology and cognitive anthropology on human memory, perception, and reasoning. Drawing on archaeological and genetic evidence, Abramiuk investigates the evolution of the mind through the Upper Paleolithic era -- when the ancient mind became functionally comparable to the modern human mind. Finally, Abramiuk offers a model for the establishment of a discipline dealing with the study of the mind in the past that integrates all the approaches discussed.
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• Part 1. A Foundation for Research
• 1. The Groundwork
• Determining Function
• Laying a Foundation for Analysis
• Classifying Ground Stone
• 2. Grinding Technology and Technological Analysis
• Design and Manufacture
• Use
• Wear
• Use-Wear Analysis
• Kinematics
• Disuse or the Afterlife
• Data Collection
• Answering Research Questions
• Analysis Strategy
• 3. Resources for Modeling Tool Use and Technological Behavior
• Photographs
• Ethnography
• Experimental Replication
• Designing Experimental Research
• Part 2. Artifact Descriptions
• 4. Abrading, Smoothing, and Polishing Tools
• Abraders and Smoothers
• Polishers
• Hide-Processing Stones
• 5. Grinding and Pulverizing Tools
• Manos and Metates
• Mortars
• Pitted and Cupped Stones
• Pestles
• Handstones
• Netherstones
• Grinding Slabs
• Lapstones
• Palettes
• 6. Percussion Tools
• Hammerstones
• Pecking Stones
• Choppers
• Chisels
• Crushers and Fergoliths
• Pottery Anvils
• Lithic Anvils
• 7. Hafted Percussion Tools
• Axes
• Mauls
• Picks
• Adzes
• Mattocks
• Hoes
• Tchamahias
• 8. Spinning Tools
• Fire-Drill Hearths
• Spindle Bases
• Whorls
• 9. Perforating, Cutting, and Scraping Tools
• Awls
• Reamers
• Tabular Tools
• Saws and Files
• Planes
• Tabular Tools
• 10. Paraphernalia
• Atlatl Parts
• Balls
• Bell Stones
• Cruciforms
• Cylinders and Medicine Stones
• Plummets and Weights
• Disks
• Lightning Stones
• Pipes and Tubes
• Shaped Stones
• Pigments
• Personal Ornaments
• Figurines
• Ecofacts
• 11. Containers and Container Closures
• Bowls and Censers
• Trays
• Closures
• 12. Structural Stones
• Loomblocks
• Cooking Stones
• Trivets
• Fire-Cracked Rock
• Appendix A: General Artifact Form
• Appendix B: Handstone Form
• Appendix C: Netherstone Form
• Appendix D: Hafted Tool Form
• Appendix E: Grooved Artifact Form
• Appendix F: Perforated Artifact Form
• Glossary.

Archaeologists define stone artifacts that are altered by or used to alter other items through abrasion, pecking, or polishing as "ground stone". This includes mortars and pestles, abraders, polishers stones, and hammerstones, and artifacts shaped by abrasion or pecking, such as axes, pipes, figurines, ornaments, and architectural pieces. The first edition of Ground Stone Analysis sparked interest around the world. In the decade following its publication, there have been many advances in scientific technology and developments in ethnographic and experimental research. The second edition incorporates these advances, including examples of international research that have utilized a technological approach to ground stone analysis. This study presents a flexible yet structured method for analysing and classifying stone artifacts. These techniques record important attributes based on design, manufacturing, and use and are applicable to any collection in the world. The methods presented guide quantitative and qualitative assessments of artifacts and assemblages. Recording forms and instructions for completing them will be available on the University of Utah Press's open access portal at www.UofUpress.com. Ground Stone Analysis is an important, useful reference for any archaeological field worker or student who encounters ground stone artifacts and is interested in learning more about the people who used them.
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Archaeologists Refer to Stone artifacts that are altered or used to alter other items through abrasion, pecking, or polishing as "ground stone." This includes mortars and pestles used to process vegetal materials, pigments, clays, and tempers; abraders, polishing stones, and hammerstones for manufacturing other artifacts; and artifacts shaped by abrasion or pecking, such as axes, pipes, figurines, ornaments, and architectural pieces. Because there is a fuzzy set between flaked and ground stone artifacts, some analysts state that ground stone includes any stone item not considered flaked. This manual presents a flexible yet structured method for analyzing stone artifacts and classifying them in meaningful categories. The analysis techniques record important attributes based on design, manufacture, and use. Part I contains discussions on determining function, classification, attributes of grinding technology, use-wear analysis, modeling tool use, utilization of ethnographic and experimental resources, and research suggestions. Part II contains definitions and descriptions of artifact types. Here the author also seeks to unravel the knot that has developed around conflicting application of terms. Ground Stone Analysis will be a significant reference for any archaeological fieldworker or student who encounters such artifacts.
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• Part 1. A Foundation for Research
• 1. The Groundwork
• Determining Function
• Laying a Foundation for Analysis
• Classifying Ground Stone
• 2. Grinding Technology and Technological Analysis
• Design and Manufacture
• Use
• Wear
• Use-Wear Analysis
• Kinematics
• Disuse or the Afterlife
• Data Collection
• Answering Research Questions
• Analysis Strategy
• 3. Resources for Modeling Tool Use and Technological Behavior
• Photographs
• Ethnography
• Experimental Replication
• Designing Experimental Research
• Part 2. Artifact Descriptions
• 4. Abrading, Smoothing, and Polishing Tools
• Abraders and Smoothers
• Polishers
• Hide-Processing Stones
• 5. Grinding and Pulverizing Tools
• Manos and Metates
• Mortars
• Pitted and Cupped Stones
• Pestles
• Handstones
• Netherstones
• Grinding Slabs
• Lapstones
• Palettes
• 6. Percussion Tools
• Hammerstones
• Pecking Stones
• Choppers
• Chisels
• Crushers and Fergoliths
• Pottery Anvils
• Lithic Anvils
• 7. Hafted Percussion Tools
• Axes
• Mauls
• Picks
• Adzes
• Mattocks
• Hoes
• Tchamahias
• 8. Spinning Tools
• Fire-Drill Hearths
• Spindle Bases
• Whorls
• 9. Perforating, Cutting, and Scraping Tools
• Awls
• Reamers
• Tabular Tools
• Saws and Files
• Planes
• Tabular Tools
• 10. Paraphernalia
• Atlatl Parts
• Balls
• Bell Stones
• Cruciforms
• Cylinders and Medicine Stones
• Plummets and Weights
• Disks
• Lightning Stones
• Pipes and Tubes
• Shaped Stones
• Pigments
• Personal Ornaments
• Figurines
• Ecofacts
• 11. Containers and Container Closures
• Bowls and Censers
• Trays
• Closures
• 12. Structural Stones
• Loomblocks
• Cooking Stones
• Trivets
• Fire-Cracked Rock
• Appendix A: General Artifact Form
• Appendix B: Handstone Form
• Appendix C: Netherstone Form
• Appendix D: Hafted Tool Form
• Appendix E: Grooved Artifact Form
• Appendix F: Perforated Artifact Form
• Glossary.

Archaeologists define stone artifacts that are altered by or used to alter other items through abrasion, pecking, or polishing as "ground stone". This includes mortars and pestles, abraders, polishers stones, and hammerstones, and artifacts shaped by abrasion or pecking, such as axes, pipes, figurines, ornaments, and architectural pieces. The first edition of Ground Stone Analysis sparked interest around the world. In the decade following its publication, there have been many advances in scientific technology and developments in ethnographic and experimental research. The second edition incorporates these advances, including examples of international research that have utilized a technological approach to ground stone analysis. This study presents a flexible yet structured method for analysing and classifying stone artifacts. These techniques record important attributes based on design, manufacturing, and use and are applicable to any collection in the world. The methods presented guide quantitative and qualitative assessments of artifacts and assemblages. Recording forms and instructions for completing them will be available on the University of Utah Press's open access portal at www.UofUpress.com. Ground Stone Analysis is an important, useful reference for any archaeological field worker or student who encounters ground stone artifacts and is interested in learning more about the people who used them.
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• List of figures
• List of tables
• The archaeologist's preface
• The philosopher's preface
• Part I. Introductory: 1. Beginning points
• 2. Introductory theses
• Part II. The Nature of Types and Typologies: 3. Dimensions and elements of 'typehood'
• 4. Perceptual and conceptual foundations
• 5. The dialectics of type formulation
• 6. The nature of types
• 7. The structure of typologies
• 8. A synthetic definition of typology and type
• Part III. Typology in Action: The Medieval Nubian Pottery Typology: 9. Origin and development of the Nubian typology
• 10. Basic features of the Nubian typology
• 11. The uses of the Nubian Typology
• 12. Philosophical implications
• Part IV. Pragmatics of Archaeological Typology: 13. The starting point: purpose
• 14. The determinants of types: variables and attributes
• 15. The making of types: formulation, designation and description
• 16. The uses of type: typing and sorting
• 17. The ordering of types: taxonomy and seriation
• 18. Variation and variability in archaeological classifications
• 19. The bottom line: practicality
• 20. Principles of practical typology
• 21. Information-theoretic formulations
• Part V. Classification, Explanation and Theory: 22. The Typological Debate
• 23. Issues and non-issues in the Typological Debate
• 24. Conceptual problems
• 25. The use and abuse of theory
• 26. Paradigms and progress
• Appendices
• References
• Index.
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Classifications are central to archaeology. Yet the theoretical literature on the subject, both in archaeology and the philosophy of science, bears very little relationship to what actually occurs in practice. This problem has long interested William Adams, a field archaeologist, and Ernest Adams, a philosopher of science, who describe their book as an ethnography of archaeological classification. It is a study of the various ways in which field archaeologists set about making and using classifications to meet a variety of practical needs. The authors first discuss how humans form concepts. They then describe and analyse in detail a specific example of an archaeological classification, and go on to consider what theoretical generalizations can be derived from the study of actual in-use classifications. Throughout the book, they stress the importance of having a clearly defined purpose and practical procedures when developing and applying classifications.
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• 1. An introduction to archaeological illustration
• 2. Equipment
• 3. Techniques of drawing
• 4. Drawing in the field
• 5. Recording buildings
• 6. Drawing in the office
• 7. Drawing reconstructions
• 8. Drawing finds
• 9. Drawing for reproduction
• 10. Computer graphics.
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This volume, originally published in 1989, is intended as a practical guide to archaeological illustration, from drawing finds in the field to technical studio drawing for publication. It is also an invaluable reference tool for the interpretation of illustrations and their status as archaeological evidence. The book's ten chapters start from first principles and guide the illustrator through the historical development of archaeological illustration and basic skills. Each chapter then deals with a different illustrative technique - drawing in the field during survey work and excavation, drawing artefacts, buildings and reconstructions, producing artwork for publication and the early uses of computer graphics. Information about appropriate equipment, as well as a guide to manufacturers, is also supplied. An obvious and important feature of Archaeological Illustration is the 120 line drawings and half-tones which show the right - and the wrong - way of producing drawings. This volume will therefore be of interest to amateur and professional archaeologists alike.
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From 1827 Henry Rawlinson, fearless soldier, sportsman and imperial adventurer of the first rank, spent twenty-five years in India, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the East India Company. During this time he survived the dangers of disease and warfare, including the disastrous First Anglo-Afghan War. A gifted linguist, fascinated by history and exploration, he became obsessed with cuneiform, the world's earliest writing. An immense inscription high on a sheer rock face at Bisitun in the mountains of western Iran, carved on the orders of King Darius the Great of Persia over 2,000 years ago, was the key to understanding the many cuneiform scripts and languages. Only Rawlinson had the physical and intellectual skills, courage, self-motivation and opportunity to make the perilous ascent and copy the monument. Here, Lesley Adkins relates the story of Rawlinson's life and how he triumphed in deciphering the lost languages of Persia and Babylonia, overcoming his brilliant but bitter rival, Edward Hincks. While based in Baghdad, Rawlinson became involved in the very first excavations of the ancient mounds of Mesopotamia, from Nineveh to Babylon, an area that had been fought over by so many powerful empires. His decipherment of the inscriptions resurrected unsuspected civilizations, revealing intriguing details of everyday life and forgotten historical events. By proving to the astonished Victorian public that people and places in the Old Testament really existed (and, furthermore, that documents and chronicles had survived from well before the writing of the Bible), Rawlinson became a celebrity and assured his own place in history.
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