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  • Archaeology in the Humanities

  • Norman Yoffee, Severin Fowles
  • Journal:
    Diogenes / Volume 58 / Issue 1-2 / May 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2024, pp. 35-52
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  • Since archaeology is fundamentally the study of the human past, which is what the word “archaeology” connotes according to its Greek etymology, it is part of the humanities. However, archaeologists work in teams with scientists and employ quantitative techniques and comparative methods of the social sciences; archaeologists are thus an academic hybrid and are pleased to live in the interstices of many disciplines. In this article we review the history of archaeology in the humanities and explore some new directions in archaeological research. We discuss the enduring questions of origins of the antiquity of humanity, religion and art, the first agricultural villages, and the earliest cities, states, and civilizations. We also consider new agendas in archaeology: historical archaeology, landscapes in the past and present, material studies of the present, and how archaeologists are engaged in modern politics.

  • Chapter Eleven - Experimental Cities?

  • Edited by Michael Love, California State University, Northridge, Julia Guernsey, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    Early Mesoamerican Cities
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 238-246

  • Summary

    Although this was not the first symposium for which I discussed papers whose topics are remote from any pretended expertise of mine – I once discussed at the AAA (Australian Archaeological Association) a panel on “Trends towards social complexity in Prehistoric Australia and Papua New Guinea” – the resulting chapters in this volume present special challenges. That is, I’ve been thinking a lot about early cities in connection with a book that I’ve recently edited, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CE (Yoffee 2015).

  • 1 - Introduction: a history of the study of early cities

  • Edited by Norman Yoffee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History
    Published online:
    05 March 2015
    Print publication:
    12 March 2015, pp 1-24

  • Summary

    This introduction presents a brief history of the study of early cities, archaeological research on the nature of ancient cities. It also provides an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapter of this book. The book delineates some distinctive features of ancient cities and then compares these features. It first concerns early cities as arenas of performance, which includes studies of Egyptian, Maya, and Southeast Asian cities. Next, the book analyzes early cities and information technologies. Then, early urban landscapes are explained. The book also considers cities in the Harappan tradition and their successors in South Asia, and explains the rise and fall of Cahokia. Finally, the book focuses on Rome in the early centuries CE, the capital cities of imperial Assyria in the early to middle centuries BCE, and Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries CE.

  • 27 - Conclusion: the meanings of early cities

  • from Part VI - Early imperial cities
  • Edited by Norman Yoffee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History
    Published online:
    05 March 2015
    Print publication:
    12 March 2015, pp 546-557

  • Summary

    Jerusalem, in stone and imagination, is unique as a holy city of the world's three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The most relevant primary texts describing the physical features of Jerusalem's cities include the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Roman and Late Antique Jewish sources and Christian writings. Jerusalem dramatically changed during the eighth century BCE, coinciding with abundant archaeological and textual evidence testifying to its significance as a major cultic and urban center with a large residential population, perhaps for the first time in the city's history. More recently, salvage excavations have uncovered additional impressive remains dating to the late Second Temple period. Herod's monumental buildings have left their imprint on Jerusalem's landscape and topography; remnants are still visible today. First and foremost Byzantine Jerusalem was a city of pilgrimage, whose main function was devoted to the cult of holy places.

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