Archaeology as Cultural History Words and Things in Iron Age Greece

by Morris, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780631196020
• ISBN10: 0631196021
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book shows the reader how much archaeologists can learn from recent developments in cultural history.

Author Biography

Ian Morris is Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology, and is Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University. He was previously Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Chicago. His previous books include Burial and Ancient Society (1987), Death Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (1992), Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies (ed., 1994), A New Companion to Homer (ed. with Barry Powell, 1997). and Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges (ed. with Barry Powell, 1997). He has carried out extensive excavation in Britain and Greece and is currently publishing Iron Age remains from Lerna, Greece.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Preface and Acknowledgments	x
Journal Abbreviations	xiii
Part I
Archaeology as Cultural History	3	(34)
Part II
Archaeologies of Greece	37	(40)
Inventing a Dark Age	77	(32)
Part III
Equality for Men	109	(46)
Antithetical Cultures	155	(40)
Part IV
The Past, the East, and the Hero of Lefkandi	195	(62)
Rethinking Time and Space	257	(52)
Part V
Conclusions	309	(4)
Notes	313	(10)
References	323	(26)
Index	349