Pottery, Peoples and Places

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...

Abstract For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially places, have special fascination. Sometimes such a visit raises new questio...

This chapter focuses on indigenous peoples, but will also seek to address the other significant minorities in contemporary New Zealand. The chapter proceeds as follows. Section 3.1...

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which ...

Two views of the nature of holiness are outlined in this chapter. According to one, which we may call ontological or essentialist, holy places, persons, times, and objects are onto...

Inferences regarding pre-colonial southwestern cooking are limited by preservation and the ambiguity of multiple-use features. Documented techniques are stone boiling, pit roasting...