Michael Parker Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 81642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Parker Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Parker |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | PEARSON M P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stonehenge
Megalith construction is invariably associated with complex exchange networks, and this is undoubtedly the case with Stonehenge (Figure 3.1), built and rebuilt in five stages over a period of c. 1,300 years during the transition from stone to bronze (Darvill et al. 2012). Ethnographies living traditions of megalith building, such as in southern Madagascar, reveal exchanges between wife-giving and wife-taking lineages, between women of different l…
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
The origins of Stonehenge
Pastoralists, Warriors and Colonists
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a synthesis of the region's archaeology. Madagascar is an island with many unique species of fauna and flora; its extreme south is a semi-arid region with remarkable vegetational adaptations. Before the arrival of humans, there were many species of megafauna of which the most extraordinary were the flightless elephant b…
From Stonehenge to the Baltic
Collaboration by the universities of Sheffield and Kalmar and Stockholm in Sweden led to two conferences being held. The second, held at Sheffield in 2006, sought collaboration and the sharing of information on archaeological data and theoretical thought on material culture diversity in the third millennium BC. Nineteen papers are presented in this volume arranged under three headings: material culture diversity in the Baltic; British Beaker buri…
Lecture Summaries 2002-2003
Three lecture summaries:The making of classical EdinburghBodies under the floor: prehistoric roundhouse life at Cladh Hallan, South UistNew work on the origins of the Scots of Dál Riata
Architecture and Order
Architecture and Order
Architecture and Order
Matérialité et rituel. L'origine des tombeaux en pierre du sud de Madagascar
Matérialité et rituel L'origine des tombeaux en pierre du sud de Madagascar Pourquoi certaines sociétés s'adonnent-elles à la construction de tombeaux monumentaux en pierre alors qu'elles résident dans de petites structures éphémères ? Qui est responsable de la construction de ces tombeaux en pierre ? Quelles furent les conditions sociales et géopolitiques à l'origine des traditions de complexes funéraires monumentaux ? Les changements apportés a…
Architecture and Order
Three men and a boat
In August 1939 I drove from Cambridge with Hector and Nora Chadwick to see the Sutton Hoo dig. Phillips and Chadwick had never met and both were slightly apprehensive. The encounter turned out to be a great success. As we were leaving Chadwick said to Charles ‘It's the grave of King Rædwald you know. I've no doubt of that.’ Glyn Daniel (address given at the funeral of Charles Phillips at Teddington on 2 October 1985)
Reading Material Culture
Part 1 Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss - structuralism and beyond, Christopher Tilley. Part 2 Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur - action, meaning and Henrietta L.Moore Clifford Geertz - toward a more thick understanding?, Eric Kline Silverman. Part 3 Post-structuralism: Roland Barthes - from sign to Bjornar Olsen Jacques Derrida - There is nothing outside of the text, Timothy Yates Michel Foucault - towards an archaeology of archaeology, Christopher …
Economic and ideological change
A comparison of the ritual and profane aspects of Germanic society in Jutland, Denmark, from 500 BC to AD 600, as interpreted from funerary, votive and settlement contexts, highlights the accumulation of worldly power through the sacrifice of precious goods to the supernatural. The whole period was one of increasing wealth-destruction which halted abruptly in the seventh century AD. Agricultural production expanded until the fifth century when th…
Mortuary practices, society and ideology
Recent accounts of the investigation of social organisation as reflected in mortuary practices have been based on role theory. If the notion of roles is deemed to be part of an inadequate conception of social systems, then it is necessary to reconsider existing archaeological approaches to burial data. Burial ritual is susceptible to ideological manipulation within the construction of social strategies. An analysis of mortuary practices in modern…
Architecture and Order
Reading Material Culture
Part 1 Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss - structuralism and beyond, Christopher Tilley. Part 2 Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur - action, meaning and Henrietta L.Moore Clifford Geertz - toward a more thick understanding?, Eric Kline Silverman. Part 3 Post-structuralism: Roland Barthes - from sign to Bjornar Olsen Jacques Derrida - There is nothing outside of the text, Timothy Yates Michel Foucault - towards an archaeology of archaeology, Christopher …
Three men and a boat
In August 1939 I drove from Cambridge with Hector and Nora Chadwick to see the Sutton Hoo dig. Phillips and Chadwick had never met and both were slightly apprehensive. The encounter turned out to be a great success. As we were leaving Chadwick said to Charles ‘It's the grave of King Rædwald you know. I've no doubt of that.’ Glyn Daniel (address given at the funeral of Charles Phillips at Teddington on 2 October 1985)
Matérialité et rituel. L'origine des tombeaux en pierre du sud de Madagascar
Matérialité et rituel L'origine des tombeaux en pierre du sud de Madagascar Pourquoi certaines sociétés s'adonnent-elles à la construction de tombeaux monumentaux en pierre alors qu'elles résident dans de petites structures éphémères ? Qui est responsable de la construction de ces tombeaux en pierre ? Quelles furent les conditions sociales et géopolitiques à l'origine des traditions de complexes funéraires monumentaux ? Les changements apportés a…
Architecture and Order
Mortuary practices, society and ideology
Recent accounts of the investigation of social organisation as reflected in mortuary practices have been based on role theory. If the notion of roles is deemed to be part of an inadequate conception of social systems, then it is necessary to reconsider existing archaeological approaches to burial data. Burial ritual is susceptible to ideological manipulation within the construction of social strategies. An analysis of mortuary practices in modern…
Economic and ideological change
A comparison of the ritual and profane aspects of Germanic society in Jutland, Denmark, from 500 BC to AD 600, as interpreted from funerary, votive and settlement contexts, highlights the accumulation of worldly power through the sacrifice of precious goods to the supernatural. The whole period was one of increasing wealth-destruction which halted abruptly in the seventh century AD. Agricultural production expanded until the fifth century when th…
Reading Material Culture
Part 1 Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss - structuralism and beyond, Christopher Tilley. Part 2 Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur - action, meaning and Henrietta L.Moore Clifford Geertz - toward a more thick understanding?, Eric Kline Silverman. Part 3 Post-structuralism: Roland Barthes - from sign to Bjornar Olsen Jacques Derrida - There is nothing outside of the text, Timothy Yates Michel Foucault - towards an archaeology of archaeology, Christopher …
Three men and a boat
In August 1939 I drove from Cambridge with Hector and Nora Chadwick to see the Sutton Hoo dig. Phillips and Chadwick had never met and both were slightly apprehensive. The encounter turned out to be a great success. As we were leaving Chadwick said to Charles ‘It's the grave of King Rædwald you know. I've no doubt of that.’ Glyn Daniel (address given at the funeral of Charles Phillips at Teddington on 2 October 1985)
Architecture and Order
Architecture and Order
Architecture and Order
Architecture and Order
Matérialité et rituel. L'origine des tombeaux en pierre du sud de Madagascar
Matérialité et rituel L'origine des tombeaux en pierre du sud de Madagascar Pourquoi certaines sociétés s'adonnent-elles à la construction de tombeaux monumentaux en pierre alors qu'elles résident dans de petites structures éphémères ? Qui est responsable de la construction de ces tombeaux en pierre ? Quelles furent les conditions sociales et géopolitiques à l'origine des traditions de complexes funéraires monumentaux ? Les changements apportés a…
Lecture Summaries 2002-2003
Three lecture summaries:The making of classical EdinburghBodies under the floor: prehistoric roundhouse life at Cladh Hallan, South UistNew work on the origins of the Scots of Dál Riata
From Stonehenge to the Baltic
Collaboration by the universities of Sheffield and Kalmar and Stockholm in Sweden led to two conferences being held. The second, held at Sheffield in 2006, sought collaboration and the sharing of information on archaeological data and theoretical thought on material culture diversity in the third millennium BC. Nineteen papers are presented in this volume arranged under three headings: material culture diversity in the Baltic; British Beaker buri…
Pastoralists, Warriors and Colonists
This book presents the results of archaeological research in the extreme south of Madagascar between 1991 and 2003, and provides a synthesis of the region's archaeology. Madagascar is an island with many unique species of fauna and flora; its extreme south is a semi-arid region with remarkable vegetational adaptations. Before the arrival of humans, there were many species of megafauna of which the most extraordinary were the flightless elephant b…
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
The origins of Stonehenge
Stonehenge
Megalith construction is invariably associated with complex exchange networks, and this is undoubtedly the case with Stonehenge (Figure 3.1), built and rebuilt in five stages over a period of c. 1,300 years during the transition from stone to bronze (Darvill et al. 2012). Ethnographies living traditions of megalith building, such as in southern Madagascar, reveal exchanges between wife-giving and wife-taking lineages, between women of different l…
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