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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459230103321

Autore

Steponaitis Vincas P

Titolo

Ceramics, chronology, and community patterns [[electronic resource] ] : an archaeological study at Moundville / / Vincas P. Steponaitis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8173-8250-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Disciplina

976.1/43

Soggetti

Mississippian culture - Alabama - Black Warrior River Valley

Mississippian pottery - Alabama - Black Warrior River Valley

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Alabama - Black Warrior River Valley

Electronic books.

Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.)

Black Warrior River Valley (Ala.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-368)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Ceramic Technology; 3 Classification of Moundville Ceramics; 4 Ceramic Chronology; 5 Community Patterns At Moundville; 6 Conclusion: A Regional Perspective; Vessels and Shred Illustrations; Appendix A Individual Vessel Descriptions; Appendix B Vessels Indexed by Burial Number; Appendix C Stratigraphic Level Descriptions; Appedix D Shred Frequencies by Level; Appendix E Methods for Measuring Physical Properties; Appendix F Type- Variety Descriptions; Appendix G Vessels indexed by Type and Variety

Appendix H Vessels Indexed by Dimesions Other Than by Type and VarietyReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Moundville, located on the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama, is one of the best known and most intensively studied archaeological sites in North America. Yet, in spite of all these investigations, many aspects of the site's internal chronology remained unknown until the original 1983 publication of this volume. The author embarked on a detailed study of Moundville ceramics housed in museums and



collections, and hammered out a new chronology for Moundville.This volume is a clearly written description of the analytical procedures employed on these ceramic samples and the ne

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910772095203321

Autore

Flemming Rebecca

Titolo

Bodily fluids in antiquity / / edited by Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2021

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-429-79859-8

0-429-79860-1

0-429-43897-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (453 pages)

Disciplina

612.01522

Soggetti

Body fluids - History - To 1500

Civilization, Classical

Civilization, Western - Classical influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin -- Fluid vocabulary : flux in the lexicon of bodily emissions / Amy Coker -- A valid excuse for a day off work : menstruation in an ancient Egyptian village / Rosalind Janssen -- Uterine bleeding, knowledge and emotion in ancient Greek medical and magical representations / Irene Salvo -- Puellae gently glow : scent, sweat and the real in Latin love elegy and Ovid's didactic works / Jane Burkowski -- Overflowing bodies and a pandora of ivory : the pure humours of an erotic surrogate / Catalina Popescu -- The eyes have it : from generative fluids to vision rays / Julie Laskaris -- 'Infertile' and 'sub-fertile' semen in the Hippocratic corpus and the biological works of Aristotle / Rebecca Fallas -- Say it with fluids : what the body exudes and retains when



Juvenal's couple relationships go awry / Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet -- Flabby flesh and foetal formation : body fluidity and foetal sex differentiation in Ancient Greek medicine / Tara Mulder -- One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation / Rebecca Flemming -- Phalli fighting with fluids : approaching images of ejaculating phalli in the Roman world / Adam Parker -- A natural symbol? The (un)importance of blood in early Greek literature and religious contexts / Emily Kearns -- Taste and the senses: Galen's humours clarified / John Wilkins -- Breastmilk, breastfeeding and the female body in early Imperial Rome / Thea Lawrence -- Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena : early Christian stories of lactation in context / Laurence Totelin -- Tears and the leaky vessel : permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius / Peter Kelly -- Seneca's Corpus : a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations / Michael Goyette -- Bodily fluids, grotesque imagery, and poetics in Persius' Satires / Andreas Gavrielatos -- 'Efflux is my manifestation' : positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts / Tasha Dobbin-Bennett -- The physiology of matricide : revenge and metabolism imagery in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Goran Vidović -- Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting selves in early imperial Latin literature / Assaf Krebs -- The reception of classical constructions of blood in medieval and early modern martyrologies / Anastasia Stylianou -- 'Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel' : the menstruation debate in Book 2 of Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1662) / Caroline Spearing -- Opening the body of fluids : taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of classical women / Helen King -- Envoi / Mark Bradley and Victoria Leonard.

Sommario/riassunto

"From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 25 chapters across seven key themes - language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife - this volume investigates bodily fluids in the context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their appearance? Why were some fluids taboo, and others cherished? In what ways were bodily fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging study of bodily fluids in the ancient world. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to early modern history. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and history of medicine"--