[PDF] Architecture Paleoesquimaude eBook

Author : Brian G. Redmond
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813055091

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The study of ancient architecture reveals much about the social constructs and culture of the architects, builders, and inhabitants of the structures, but few studies bridge the gap between architecture and archaeology. This comprehensive examination of sites in the Ohio Valley, going as far north as Ontario, integrates structural engineering and wood science technology into the toolkit of archaeologists. Presenting the most current research on structures from pre-European contact, Building the Past allows archaeologists to expand their interpretations from simply describing postmold patterns to more fully envisioning the complex architecture of critical locations like Hopewell, Moorehead Circle, and Brown’s Bottom.

Author : Joachim Bretschneider
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789042918313

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The idea that societies and rulers express their power through monumental architecture is not a new one, but this collection of essays, the result of a 2002 conference in Leuven, takes the arguement back to the very beginnings of monumental architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean, to ask if this process can be linked to a particular ...

Author : Enrico Guidoni
Publisher : New York : H. N. Abrams
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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The latest volume in Abram's History of World Architecture series, Primitive Architecture is a uniquely conceived investigation of the way primitive societies shape their environments. Considering architecture as including not only buildings but also every kind of physical alteration of the landscape, the author investigates the structure, purpose, and interpretation of campsites, architectural sculpture, ritual itineraries of nomadic peoples, sacred centers, and territory and village layouts. Moving from hunting and gathering societies, for whom the territory itself is architecture, through sedentary populations, for whom the relationship between agriculture, dwelling, and village is highly charged with significance, to the peoples in social transit between village and modern urban life, the author firmly establishes the widely unrecognized fact that architecture plays a central role in the economic, social, and cultural life of populations not yet part of the modern world. This volume is a pioneering exploration in an immeasurably rich field and will capture the interest of architect, anthropologist and general reader alike. Almost 500 illustrations, which include plans and drawings as well as photographs; an exhaustive bibliography; and an appendix that offers thumbnail descriptions of the architecture of almost 200 primitive societies in all the major geographical areas of the world - all these help to make this volume an invaluable reference tool as well as an innovative and pioneering study. -- Book Jacket

Author : Roscoe Wilmeth
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772820369

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In 1974, the Salvage Section, Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, instituted nine archaeological salvage projects across the country. These ranged from a brief survey of one portion of the Mackenzie Highway to the extensive survey and excavations on the Suffield Military Reserve in southeastern Alberta. This volume contains summary articles describing these projects.