Crossing Frontiers

by Hannes Schroeder (Editor), P. Gardner (Editor), Peter J. Bray (Editor)

Overview

It is difficult to imagine modern archaeology without radio-carbon dating, geophysics, analytical chemistry, or the input of the social and historical sources. Archaeology is inevitably an interdisciplinary enterprise, perhaps more so than any other field. But with the ever-increasing specialisation of modern research in general, it becomes more and more difficult to communicate across disciplinary doundaries; this is one of the major challenges modern archaeology faces today. This volume is the outcome of a two-day conference held at the University of Oxford that focused on the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780954962777
Publisher:	Oxford University School of Archaeology
Publication date:	12/28/2007
Series:	Oxford University School Of Archaeology Monograph Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

List of Figures     7
Acknowledgements     9
The opportunities and challenges of crossing disciplinary frontiers in archaeological research   Hannes Schroeder   Peter J. Bray     11
Continuity and change in funerary behaviour in Britain, 16000-6000 cal BP   Stella M. Blockley     17
The eyes of a stranger: Using other disciplines to construct an archaeological model   Deborah E.S. Lamb     29
Breaking down Walls: Cross-disciplinary approaches to castle destruction   Lila Rakoczy     45
Boundaries aren't a problem; it just depends on what you do with them   Simon P.E. Blockley     55
Integrating quaternary geological dating methods and archaeological questions   Christine S. Lane     59
Isotopic analysis at the molecular level: A frontier in palaeodietary reconstruction   James S.O. McCullagh     73
Science and identity in the archaeological record   Lucy J.E. Cramp     85
Boundaries: an archaeological science perspective   Robert E.M. Hedges     95
The comparative and interdisciplinary approach and Romanisation studies   Ursula M. Rothe     99
Ethnicity and funerary practice in Hellenistic Bactria   Rachel R. Mairs     111
Whose Monument? AncientEgyptian votive stelae as markers of identity   Karen Exell     125
Boundary conflicts: archaeology and politics in the Middle East and beyond   Eleanor Robson     139
Ethics in archaeology: Paradigm or platitude   Dimitris Grigoropoulos   Andreas Pantazatos     143
Contentious past, contested future: Long Kesh/Maze prison site, Northern Ireland   Laura McAtackney     153