Anthropology Archive
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Family matters, Economy, culture and biology: fertility and its constraints in Roman Italy
Posted on June 5, 2013 | No CommentsHowever, the theory concerning fertility behaviour during the Late Roman Republic that has been put forward by Brunt depends largely on such viewpoints as have become controversial in the discipline of demography. Rather than purely economic and rational in scope, decision making processes - such as those concerning marriage and procreation - are embedded in specific cultural and social settings that affect outcomes through the creation or upholding of practical, structural, normative or perceived constraints. -
Tomb and social status: The textual evidence
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIn archaeological theoretical literature it has been stressed that tombs might rather show the status of the living persons who organized the burial than the status of the buried person. This is of course an important argument but in Ancient Egypt we have the anthropologically quite exceptional situation that the tomb-owner already began the construction of his tomb and the organisation of his burial equipment when he was still alive. -
Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsWhat we need to do. Doctoral research involving artefact corpora appears to be unfashionable. However the compilation of such works for Food Vessels, accessory vessels and the Late Bronze Age styles is desperately needed; and the studies of Biconical Urns and MBA pottery (see above) need to be published. -
Hierarchy of Women within Elite Families. Iconographic Data from the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsWhen the hierarchy of women is concerned, the range of data is limited, since women were virtually excluded from the bureaucracy, and the number of their own tombs is relatively low. In spite of this, over recent decades the studies focusing on women have been steadily increasing our knowledge on the position and roles of women in the Egyptian society of the Old Kingdom -
Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe following thesis developed out of a desire to understand the process behind identity formation in the ancient world. -
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves -
Symbolic Perceptions of New Kingdom Watercraft: Building Boats from Gods
Posted on January 7, 2013 | No CommentsI contribute an anthropological perspective to the well attested association between Egyptian watercraft and interment, illuminating the use of symbolic watercraft by the deceased. -
Housekeeping, Neandertal-Style: Hearth Placement and Midden Formation in Kebara Cave (Israel)
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe interpretation of Neandertal life ways has probably never been as polarized as it is today. At one extreme are many archaeologists and biological anthropologists, and quite a few geneticists, who see Neandertals as belonging to a species other than our own, most often a decidedly inferior one in terms of both behavior and cognitive wherewithal -
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis in itself is not surprising, but Grossschmidt -
The Face of the Mummy: The Social Impact of Mummy
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsWith the onslaught of Egyptian mania, came the nineteenth century obsession with mummies and the fad of unrolling them in front of intimate and grand audiences alike.
