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Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites
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The Realities of Life project on Elephantine Island as discussed by the authors investigated the daily life of people to ensure their bodily and general well-being, occurring mainly within their homes and the directly surrounding areas.Abstract:
Daily life is understood as being marked by the actions of people to ensure their bodily and general well-being, occurring mainly within their homes and the directly surrounding areas. On Elephantine Island such activities are grouped, within the scope of the project ‘Realities of Life’, into three major foci that may be studied through material culture: a) food and drink, b) production of inedible items and c) living environment. Excavations in Middle Kingdom houses reveal a variety of production activities intended to either provision the townspeople (most likely) or for trade. The use of both standard archaeological and archaeometric methods provide new insight into jewellery and bread production, demands for cleanliness and (supra-)regional connections of the inhabitants of the island city.read more
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Archaeological Theory: An Introduction
TL;DR: Johnson et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an Introduction to Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 1999. 240 pp., ISBN 978-0.
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Le geste et la parole.
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K A Ericsson,A C Lehmann +1 more
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The social life of things: The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the production of commodities is also a cultural and cognitive process: commodities must be not only produced materially as things, but also culturally marked as being a certain kind of thing.
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The temporality of the landscape
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Material Culture and Mass Consumption
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of mass consumption is proposed, with a focus on consumption object domains, ideology and interests towards the theory of consumption, and material culture: material culture artefacts in their contexts.