| Neolithic and Chalcolithic Architecture in Eurasia: Building Techniques and Spatial Organisation Contributor(s): Gheorghiu, Dragoş (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1407305735 ISBN-13: 9781407305738 Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 939.4 |
| LCCN: 2010444611 |
| Series: BAR International |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (1.34 lbs) 172 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume, containing a selection of nineteen papersfrom a session at the 15th UISPP congress, tries to approach some of the building techniques, methods, and spatial organization of early architecture in Eurasia. Its goal is not to present this subject as a grand narrative of an evolutionary process of Eurasian architecture, but as a series of semiotic case studies of the building process (i.e. as studies of the geometrical forms, in two dimensions or spatial, and of the materials employed), to help the readerunderstand the importance of the materiality of the geographic formative contexts, together with the influence of social changes upon the built forms. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gheorghiu, Dragos: - Dragoş Gheorghiu is a cultural anthropologist and an experimental archaeologist, currently teaching at the Doctoral School of the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His approach to the European Chalcolithic uses semiotics and rhetoric to interpret the material culture and the landscapes of the past. Another main research area is the rituality of prehistoric technologies and places. |