Bruce Routledge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186460 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bruce Routledge |
| PRENOMES | Bruce |
| SOBRENOME | Routledge |
| ASSINATURA | ROUTLEDGE B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6926-3728 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Visual affordances and social interactions at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʽAliya, Jordan
Social archaeology of the early Iron Age southern Levant has tended to work from the top-down, using abstract models of social organization, collective identity and subsistence economies to interpret archaeological remains. In this paper a bottom-up approach that uses the visual affordances of the built environment of Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʽAliya, an Iron Age IB site on Jordan’s eastern Karak Plateau is proposed. Four different methods of visibil…
Professor Alan Millard
An Archaeology of Traces
Archaeology is centrally concerned with the tension between material remains in the present and a reconstructed past. This tension is captured by the concept of a trace, namely a contemporary phenomenon that references the past through some sort of epistemic intervention. Traces are deceptively complex in terms of both their epistemology and their ontology and hence worthy of detailed exploration. In particular, archaeological traces not only con…
Stable isotopes of archaeological and modern semi-terrestrial crabs (Potamon potamios) provide paleoecological insights into brachyuran ecology and human resource acquisition in late Holocene Jordan
Archaeological remains of brachyurans (e.g. crabs) are often overlooked as potential paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatical proxies in contrast to other marine and terrestrial invertebrates such as mollusks and landsnails. The potential for fine-scale regional paleoclimate reconstruction based upon these organisms' behavioral ecology has yet to be examined. We present novel isotopic analyses of the remains of a semiterrestrial freshwater crab (Po…
Scaffolding and Concept-Metaphors
Between Rocks and 'High Places
In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining 'religious architecture' do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed. We focus on religious architecture from the Iron Age Southern Levant highlighting certain sites that 'fall through the cracks' of current taxonomies. We propose a different way of approaching evidence for religious practice in the archaeological record, viewing relig…
Early Islamic North Africa
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Household Archaeology in the Levant
On Water Management in the Mesha Inscription and Moab
Measuring Local Diversity in Early Iron Age Animal Economies
We use faunal evidence from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, an agropastoral settlement located in west-central Jordan, to examine early Iron Age subsistence regimes. Analysis of faunal evidence reveals a low-intensity, nonspecialized animal economy dependent on both domesticated and wild species, including freshwater crabs. The subsistence economy of the settlement, we argue, was structured so as to take maximum advantage of its location overlookin…
The antiquity of the nation? Critical reflections from the ancient Near East
Debates over the antiquity/modernity of the nation have often made use of evidence from the ancient Near East. In doing so, these debates employ the distant past principally as a ‘mirror’ of the present, using contrast or similitude to argue for a particular understanding of nations and nationalism since the eighteenth century. In this manner, both ‘Modernist’ and ‘Perennialist’ approaches incorporate pre‐modern contexts into the categories and p…
East of the Jordan
Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan
Thirteen essays on the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan, covering settlement patterns, iconography, cult, palaeography and the archaeology of certain key sites. This volume offers an exceptionally informed update in a fast-moving area of discovery and interpretation. The first section deals with spatial archaeology and settlement patterns, all the papers based on the fieldwork by A. Zertal in Samaria, A. Ofer in Judah, G. Lehmann in the Akko Plain, …
The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond
Ancient Ammon
A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures
Seeing Through Walls
Iron Age I architectural remains at Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan, show the use of two distinct forms of pillared houses (four-room and L-plan) and an elaborate casemate fortification system. Interpreting this evidence in light of previous literature, I conclude that (1) Kh. al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya was an agropastoral village, rather than a fortress or a settlement of sedentarizing pastoral nomads; (2) there is no evidence for multihouse comp…
The Politics of Mesha
The Mesha Inscription (ca. 850 B.C.) is the longest and most informative document from Iron Age Jordan. A close reading of this text shows that it is thematically and syntactically structured in terms of a series of territorially-based social units related to one another in a segmentary manner. This segmentary structure highlights the state-forming strategies of political incorporation pursued by Mesha, the inscription's putative author. It also …
Hazor V
The Cambridge History of Archaeology
The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land
Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine
For the Sake of Argument’
Remarques epistemologiques a propos des methodes d'argumentation employees dans l'archeologie syro-palestinienne, en particulier autour du debat sur les structures dites bâtiments tripartites a piliers de l'Age du Fer
The Politics of Mesha
The Mesha Inscription (ca. 850 B.C.) is the longest and most informative document from Iron Age Jordan. A close reading of this text shows that it is thematically and syntactically structured in terms of a series of territorially-based social units related to one another in a segmentary manner. This segmentary structure highlights the state-forming strategies of political incorporation pursued by Mesha, the inscription's putative author. It also …
The antiquity of the nation? Critical reflections from the ancient Near East
Debates over the antiquity/modernity of the nation have often made use of evidence from the ancient Near East. In doing so, these debates employ the distant past principally as a ‘mirror’ of the present, using contrast or similitude to argue for a particular understanding of nations and nationalism since the eighteenth century. In this manner, both ‘Modernist’ and ‘Perennialist’ approaches incorporate pre‐modern contexts into the categories and p…
An Archaeology of Traces
Archaeology is centrally concerned with the tension between material remains in the present and a reconstructed past. This tension is captured by the concept of a trace, namely a contemporary phenomenon that references the past through some sort of epistemic intervention. Traces are deceptively complex in terms of both their epistemology and their ontology and hence worthy of detailed exploration. In particular, archaeological traces not only con…
Between Rocks and 'High Places
In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining 'religious architecture' do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed. We focus on religious architecture from the Iron Age Southern Levant highlighting certain sites that 'fall through the cracks' of current taxonomies. We propose a different way of approaching evidence for religious practice in the archaeological record, viewing relig…
On Water Management in the Mesha Inscription and Moab
For the Sake of Argument’
Remarques epistemologiques a propos des methodes d'argumentation employees dans l'archeologie syro-palestinienne, en particulier autour du debat sur les structures dites bâtiments tripartites a piliers de l'Age du Fer
For the Sake of Argument’
Remarques epistemologiques a propos des methodes d'argumentation employees dans l'archeologie syro-palestinienne, en particulier autour du debat sur les structures dites bâtiments tripartites a piliers de l'Age du Fer
Hazor V
The Cambridge History of Archaeology
The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land
Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine
Seeing Through Walls
Iron Age I architectural remains at Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, Jordan, show the use of two distinct forms of pillared houses (four-room and L-plan) and an elaborate casemate fortification system. Interpreting this evidence in light of previous literature, I conclude that (1) Kh. al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya was an agropastoral village, rather than a fortress or a settlement of sedentarizing pastoral nomads; (2) there is no evidence for multihouse comp…
The Politics of Mesha
The Mesha Inscription (ca. 850 B.C.) is the longest and most informative document from Iron Age Jordan. A close reading of this text shows that it is thematically and syntactically structured in terms of a series of territorially-based social units related to one another in a segmentary manner. This segmentary structure highlights the state-forming strategies of political incorporation pursued by Mesha, the inscription's putative author. It also …
Ancient Ammon
A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures
The Archaeology of Jordan and Beyond
The antiquity of the nation? Critical reflections from the ancient Near East
Debates over the antiquity/modernity of the nation have often made use of evidence from the ancient Near East. In doing so, these debates employ the distant past principally as a ‘mirror’ of the present, using contrast or similitude to argue for a particular understanding of nations and nationalism since the eighteenth century. In this manner, both ‘Modernist’ and ‘Perennialist’ approaches incorporate pre‐modern contexts into the categories and p…
East of the Jordan
Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan
Thirteen essays on the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan, covering settlement patterns, iconography, cult, palaeography and the archaeology of certain key sites. This volume offers an exceptionally informed update in a fast-moving area of discovery and interpretation. The first section deals with spatial archaeology and settlement patterns, all the papers based on the fieldwork by A. Zertal in Samaria, A. Ofer in Judah, G. Lehmann in the Akko Plain, …
Measuring Local Diversity in Early Iron Age Animal Economies
We use faunal evidence from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʿAliya, an agropastoral settlement located in west-central Jordan, to examine early Iron Age subsistence regimes. Analysis of faunal evidence reveals a low-intensity, nonspecialized animal economy dependent on both domesticated and wild species, including freshwater crabs. The subsistence economy of the settlement, we argue, was structured so as to take maximum advantage of its location overlookin…
Household Archaeology in the Levant
On Water Management in the Mesha Inscription and Moab
Early Islamic North Africa
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
Scaffolding and Concept-Metaphors
Between Rocks and 'High Places
In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining 'religious architecture' do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed. We focus on religious architecture from the Iron Age Southern Levant highlighting certain sites that 'fall through the cracks' of current taxonomies. We propose a different way of approaching evidence for religious practice in the archaeological record, viewing relig…
Stable isotopes of archaeological and modern semi-terrestrial crabs (Potamon potamios) provide paleoecological insights into brachyuran ecology and human resource acquisition in late Holocene Jordan
Archaeological remains of brachyurans (e.g. crabs) are often overlooked as potential paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatical proxies in contrast to other marine and terrestrial invertebrates such as mollusks and landsnails. The potential for fine-scale regional paleoclimate reconstruction based upon these organisms' behavioral ecology has yet to be examined. We present novel isotopic analyses of the remains of a semiterrestrial freshwater crab (Po…
Visual affordances and social interactions at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʽAliya, Jordan
Social archaeology of the early Iron Age southern Levant has tended to work from the top-down, using abstract models of social organization, collective identity and subsistence economies to interpret archaeological remains. In this paper a bottom-up approach that uses the visual affordances of the built environment of Khirbat al-Mudayna al-ʽAliya, an Iron Age IB site on Jordan’s eastern Karak Plateau is proposed. Four different methods of visibil…
Professor Alan Millard
An Archaeology of Traces
Archaeology is centrally concerned with the tension between material remains in the present and a reconstructed past. This tension is captured by the concept of a trace, namely a contemporary phenomenon that references the past through some sort of epistemic intervention. Traces are deceptively complex in terms of both their epistemology and their ontology and hence worthy of detailed exploration. In particular, archaeological traces not only con…
History (18 obras) · Archaeology (16 obras) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (13 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Ancient history (7 obras) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (6 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Archaeological Research and Protection (5 obras)